Hung Liu
Chinese-American artist known for re-working historic Chinese photographs into haunting, visually arresting paintings and mixed media pieces.
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Nina Allender
Nina Allender was a feminist, a suffragist, and an artist with a shrewd sense of humor and an innovative perspective on women. Her drawings changed the course of one of the most important civil rights movements in the history of the United States.
Nellie Mae Rowe
A creative and resourceful self-taught artist, Nellie Mae Rowe gained national recognition for her work during the last decade of her life.
Nancy Azara
American sculptor, painter, and educator
Emily Muir
Emily Lansingh Muir, the first woman to serve on the US Commission of Fine Arts, was a painter who drew her inspiration from the life and landscape of coastal Maine.
Nora Heysen
In 1938, Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize for Portraiture.
Susan Waters
Susan C. Waters painted in the region around the New York-Pennsylvania border in the 1800s.
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Multidisciplinary artist, educator, and member of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Susan Myrick
Despite a journalism career with the Macon Telegraph that spanned half a century, Susan Myrick is best known as the technical advisor for the film Gone With the Wind (1939). She also held many other titles in her long and colorful life—educator, soil conservation advocate, civic leader, amateur theater doyenne, and painter.
Emma Amos
An artist accomplished in several media, Emma Amos explored difficult issues concerning politics, gender, race, and cultural history in her work. Her highly expressive visual art combined printmaking, painting, and textiles with photography and collage. She was also known as a teacher, curator, writer, and activist.