Edith Head
Costume designer Edith Head’s career in Hollywood spanned over five decades, earning her eight Academy Awards for Costume Design, the most any woman had received.
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Josephine Lobato
For decades, Josephine Lobato has created embroidered renditions of cultural memories, enactments, and folk histories.
Eva Mirabal
Entitled G.I. Gertie, her comic strips appeared in a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) publication and featured the hijinks of a young woman soldier.
Annie Klaney
Chilkat blanket weaver
Georgia Harris
Over the course of her life, Harris worked to preserve the Catawba pottery tradition that originated centuries ago.
Gladys Kukana Grace
Gladys Kukana Grace learned the art of weaving lauhala (lau = leaf, hala = pandanus tree) from her maternal grandmother, Kukana, through a longstanding oral tradition.
Grace Henderson Nez
Grace Henderson Nez lived her entire life in a hogan at the base of Ganado Mesa on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. For more than seven decades, she raised and sheared sheep, carded and dyed the wool, and wove intricate and distinctive Navajo rugs.
Gussie Wells
Like other quilters in the region, Wells and Williams tended to emphasize design, bright colors, and vivid contrasts in their quilts. They played endlessly with the form of the square and the straightforward strip, disguising and exploding these essential design elements in myriad ways.
Herminia Albarrán Romero
Herminia Albarrán Romero learned the art of papel picado (Mexican paper cutting) as a child growing up in the small Mexican village of San Francisco de Asís, south of Mexico City.
Hystercine Rankin
Because of the utilitarian nature of her quilting, Rankin never thought of herself as an artist. That began to change in 1981 when she was invited to be a resident artist at the junior high school in her hometown of Lorman, Mississippi.