women in art


March 2024 public tour resource page

Our public tour for March 2024 is Women in Art, and it is an in-gallery tour (Cross Currents).

Self-guided tour flyer (contains Myrlande Constant, Elisabeth Osborne, Yayoi Kusama):

Women’s History Self Guided Tour_2024

 

General resources about women artists and contemporary art:

From Khan Academy: Where are the women artists?

Introduction to Contemporary Art

 

Gallery 255:

Check out Valeria Piccoli’s training on G255

Website for Myrlande Constant

From the Indigo Arts Gallery, a bio and more information on vodou flags: Myrlande Constant artist

Graciela Iturbide: Artist Profile

From the Guardian: Mexico’s poetic gaze: Graciela Iturbide at 80 – in pictures

Elsa Gramcko: Hyperallergic review of an exhibition, The Gap Between Things and Their Names

ELSA GRAMCKO: THE INVISIBLE PLOT OF THINGS (in this article, check out the photo of Gramcko with her painting, No. 6!)

More information on No. 6, by Gramcko

Sonia Gomes, interview in Frieze: Sonia Gomes Responds to Her Materials

From the Pace Gallery, a video: Of Seams and Stories: The Art of Sonia Gomes

From the Guggenheim, a description of a similar work from the Torções (Twistings) series by Sonia Gomes.

From the National Museum of Women in the Arts: Fabric of History: Sonia Gomes

 

Gallery 236/250:

Magdalene Odundo_notes_DH

From your colleague Ramaa Bhasin, Odundo’s “A Dialogue with Objects

Article about Odundo’s work: The Shifting Resonances of Magdalene Odundo’s Vessels on the Global Stage

Wodaabe Tunic

Article about Wodaabe Embroidery

Amazigh (Berber) carpet (G250)

Ait Ouagharda, Berber carpet (G250)

Regions and Types of Moroccan carpets

Bamana mudcloth

Bamana mudcloth Metropolitan Museum

Bamana mudcloth UW Milwaukee

From Rose Stanley Gilbert, a video: How Rug Weavers In Morocco Are Working Together To Fight For A Fair Wage 

 

Gallery 303:

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Video: Nora Naranjo-Morse: Potter & Poet

Dyani White Hawk: Essay from the MacArthur Foundation

Dyani White Hawk: “Takes Care of Them” by Dyani White Hawk, 2019 – Press Process video from Highpoint

Hearts of Our People — Artist Profile: Dyani White Hawk

Sheila Hicks: Video from MoMA: Sheila Hicks: Pillar of Inquiry | ARTIST STORIES

Sheila Hicks: From the NYT, A Career Woven From Life

Aliza Nisenbaum: From Mia website, a video: A Place We Share, Aliza Nisenbaum

Aliza Nisenbaum: From ArtForum, a video discussing work at Mia: ALIZA NISENBAUM TALKS ABOUT HER WORK

Mimi Gross: The Radiant Fearlessness of Mimi Gross

Mimi Gross at Eric Firestone Gallery

Critical Eye: Mimi Gross in Her World

 

Gallery 375–and also feel free to walk into G374, with the new reinstallation:

Yayoi Kusama notes_DH

From the Tate: An Introduction to Yayoi Kusama

Elizabeth Osborne

A bio of artist Elizabeth Osborne, written by Curator Bob Cozzolino.

Louise Nevelson

Wangechi Mutu (G374): Essay on the artist from Khan Academy

Shinique Smith (G374): Shinique Smith and the Politics of Fabric