Tilly Aston
Tilly Aston, ‘Australia’s Own Helen Keller’ was a blind writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers and later went on to establish and become secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.
Category Archives: Writer
Continue reading
Marianne Roland Michel
Scholar and catalogues raisonnés compiler; dealer of eighteenth-century French art; director of the Galerie Cailleux from 1982-1996
Aleida Betsy Loosjes-Terpstra
Modernist art historian
Ada Louise Huxtable
Architectural historian and first permanent architecture critic for the New York Times.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)
Aenne Liebreich
Academic specialist in medieval Burgundian sculpture, particularly Claus Sluter, as well as medieval painting and illumination and costume studies.
Dr Agnes Rindge Claflin
Vassar Professor of Art and Director of the Vassar Art Gallery.
Jessie Ackermann
Jessie Ackermann was an American advocate of temperance and women’s rights, who as an international missionary for the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) spent a number of years in Australia as an organiser and social reformer. She wrote the first book-length study of Australian women.
Lorraine Hansberry
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway—A Raisin in the Sun. As a playwright, feminist, and racial justice activist, Hansberry never shied away from tough topics during her short and extraordinary life. an American artists. Her commitment to racial justice inspired countless more.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist