Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt is one of the most important artists of the Bauhaus School, and by extension, one of the most influential of all early 20th century designers.

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Maya Deren

At a time when American filmmaking fell into the category of either classical Hollywood or realist documentary, Maya Deren conceived of a third, poetic, alternative.

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Mary Vaux Walcott

In 2019, Smithsonian Data Science Lab fellow Tiana Curry found that dozens of botanical samples collected by natural historian, botanist, and artist Mary Vaux Walcott were listed under Mary’s husband’s name in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History database.

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Lynn Goldsmith

Photographer Lynn Goldsmith fought her copyright claim against Warhol’s estate (the Andy Warhol Foundation) all the way to the Supreme Court – and won.

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Barbara Askins

1978 National Inventor of the Year (US) Barbara Askins waited until her children were in school to finish her chemistry Bachelors and Masters degrees, then went on to work for NASA, developing a new way to process film using radioactive materials. The astronomical and geological images she worked on held much more detail, making them significantly more valuable to scientists, and her process was also applied to x-rays and restoration of old photos.

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Wendy Red Star

Wendy Red Star is an Apsáalooke (Crow) artist who through her work explores themes of Native history, resistance, and cultural heritage.

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