The former Executive Director of Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum, Barbara Earl Thomas is far more than an institutional administrator. She is also an inspiring lecturer on the topics of art and culture and — as the University of Washington Press notes — a “painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility.”
Edna knew from a very early age that art and design was her life’s passion.
American photojournalist.
American ceramicist internationally recognized for her technically refined, figurative sculptures that helped expand the boundaries of clay as a medium.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Gertrude Käsebier was one of the best known photographers in the United States.
Marion Post Wolcott is best known for the more than 9,000 photographs she produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1938 to 1942.
Frances Carpenter co-authored a number of anthropology books including The Clothes We Wear (1926) and The Foods We Eat (1926).
American photographer
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.