When lichenologist and mycologist Annie Lorrain Smith was first hired at London’s Natural History Museum, she had to be paid from a special fund because women could not officially be employed there. Initially brought on to curate a collection of microscopic fungi slides, she soon became responsible for identifying most of the fungi brought to the museum, working there for more than four decades.
Margaret W. Moodey was one of the Smithsonian Institution’s first female staff members. By 1924, an annual report states that she “had the entire responsibility and care of the collection of cut gems.”
Loisette Marsh was one of Australia’s few echinoderm taxonomists.
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.
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.
Former executive director of the Wing Luke Museum
American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist who helped establish the historical significance of the Tuskegee University.
American historian and poet
South African curator and advocate for the arts
Irish art historian