Rosa Elena Egipciaco
Puerto Rican lacemaker
Puerto Rican lacemaker
Ojibwe elder, storyteller and basketmaker who lived on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in north central North Dakota.
Nez Perce cornhusk weaver
In 1991, she studied and helped revive the making of Wasco sally bags, twined root-digging bags, through the Oregon Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. This launched her on a new career path dedicated to the preservation of her cultural heritage.
Artist, teacher, native-arts conservator, author and storyteller, Pauline Hillaire worked to carry on the heritage of Washington’s Lummi Nation and was one of the most knowledgeable living resources of the Northwest Coast’s arts and culture.
One of the most popular American painters of the mid-19th century.
Passionate about art and design, she was skilled at screen printing, some of her designs taken by Liberty and the National Trust.
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 (1937-2016) was an illustrator, painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
Marie Johnson Calloway (1920-2018) was a mixed-media artist from Baltimore.