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Wakako Yamauchi

Distinguished playwright, short-story writer, poet and painter.

One of America’s foremost ceramic artists and a highly regarded teacher of ceramics. She was credited with being one of the key figures in the mid-century transformation of ceramics from craft to fine art.

Sueko Kimura

Japanese American Nisei artist and teacher based in Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Maude Kegg

In the 1970s, Maude became concerned that Ojibwe people were forgetting their history and culture. Inspired to make a change, she set out on a mission to lift her memories from her mind and record them on paper. She enlisted the help of scholarly writers and produced several books: When I Was A Little Girl (1976), At The End of the Trail (1978), What My Grandmother Told Me (1983), and Portage Lake (1991).

Alessandra Comini

Scholar of fin-de-siècle Germanic art and music; Southern Methodist University professor of art history.

Alice Van Vechten Brown

Establisher of the first Art History program and Art Museology courses in the United States.

Emily DuBois Butterworth

American suffragist and sculptor

Wanda Gág

Wanda Gág was determined to be an artist from an early age, and ultimately she succeeded. Her talent steered her through family hardship and hesitant early artistic efforts until she created Millions of Cats, her 1928 children’s book. It has never been out of print.

Tracy Rector

Tracy Rector is a storyteller, educator, filmmaker, coordinator, co-founder of Longhouse Media non-profit organization, multi-media artist, and a 2016 Stranger Genius.