Lubaina Himid
In 2017, 63-year-old Tanzanian-British artist Lubaina Himid became the oldest artist to win the acclaimed Turner Prize, as well as the first woman of African descent.
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Hilde Reiss
Bauhaus-trained architect Hilde Reiss was among the émigrés who served as ambassadors for the new style in the United States. In 1946, she was hired by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to serve as the curator of its new Everyday Art Gallery, one of the first museum spaces in the country devoted to modern design.
Beth Takekawa
Former executive director of the Wing Luke Museum
Bess Bolden Walcott
American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist who helped establish the historical significance of the Tuskegee University.
Elfrida De Renne Barrow
American historian and poet
Jo Thorpe
South African curator and advocate for the arts
Anne Crookshank
Irish art historian
Sue Williamson
English-South African artist and activist
Elizabeth Carrington Pope
Elizabeth Pope was an Australian marine zoologist highly-regarded for her research on the effect of sea temperatures and latitude on the distribution and abundance of intertidal organisms on rocky shores.
Jeanette Covacevich
Jeanette Covacevich was a herpetologist whose research interests were mainly in the taxonomy, zoogeography and conservation of Australo-Papuan reptiles, especially those from rainforests, deserts and heaths. Her research also included Aboriginal history, envenomation, and documenting the range and status of the Queensland fauna, particularly endangered vertebrates.