Activism Archives - Page 87 of 158

Concepción Arenal

Spanish publicist and social worker

Anna Hierta-Retzius

Swedish women’s rights activist and philanthropist

Florine Stettheimer

A pioneer artist from early twentieth-century New York, Florine Stettheimer advanced new possibilities in painting for women artists.

Judy Chicago was one of the pioneers of Feminist art in the 1970s, a movement that endeavored to reflect women’s lives, call attention to women’s roles as artists, and alter the conditions under which contemporary art was produced and received.

Laura Aguilar

Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.

Carrie Mae Weems

Decades before the #BlackLivesMatter movement stamped itself into our collective psyche, Carrie Mae Weems was living its message by example through provocative artwork about racial representation.

Doris Salcedo

For decades, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory.

Evelyn De Morgan

Evelyn De Morgan used her oil paintings to engage with the political, social and moral issues of 19th century England including prison reform and suffrage.

Pat Turner

Aboriginal Australian feminist and indigenous rights activist

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman appointed to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continues to fight for DC statehood in her third decade as a congresswoman.