Lilly Martin Spencer
One of the most popular American painters of the mid-19th century.
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Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville
Aristocrat and painter; after the French Revolution, she saved her royalist husband’s life by securing him safe passage, by traveling alone across Europe to intercede with Napoleon.
Betty Blayton
Betty Blayton (1937-2016) was an illustrator, painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
Marie Johnson-Calloway
Marie Johnson Calloway (1920-2018) was a mixed-media artist from Baltimore.
Kelly Church
Native American basketmaker
Etel Adnan
Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist
Eva Mirabal
Entitled G.I. Gertie, her comic strips appeared in a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) publication and featured the hijinks of a young woman soldier.
Pablita Velarde
Prominent Native American painter
Ailsa O’Connor
Ailsa O’Connor linked her art to society, both the themes she developed in her art and in the essays she wrote to explain the role of art in society.
Ann Sonia Medalie
Latvian-American muralist known as the “queen of fish” for making the mural fish shimmer with metallic powders and transparent glazes.