by Camille Wall | Mar 1, 2023 | AWA Member Articles
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member The New Woman Movement began in the last years of the 19th century and had a profound influence on empowering women’s lives in the early twentieth century. Ironically, Henry James popularized the term when he wrote about...
by Camille Wall | Jan 1, 2023 | AWA Member Articles
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Each November, I am prompted to buy my next year’s calendar as appointments and events begin to pile up for the following year. Like most, I head to an office supply store and purchase the requisite commercially-printed...
by Camille Wall | Oct 29, 2022 | Rediscovered Women Artists
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Anticipation had built for weeks. We arrived at Lois Dodd’s for tea a minute before our predetermined hour of 2 pm. Lois Dodd is an artist who has long painted in Maine and was one of the key women artists working in...
by Camille Wall | Aug 27, 2022 | Rediscovered Women Artists
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Artist Edith Lake Wilkinson (1868-1957) may sound familiar because I wrote about her for my earlier AWA blog in August 2021. She was one of the group of women artists who lived and carved prints in the art colony of... by Camille Wall | Jul 1, 2022 | Rediscovered Women Artists
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Oh my, there are countless stories of talented women artists who devoted their lives to more famous artist husbands and as a result have been largely ignored by the public. A case in point is Sally Michel Avery, wife...