Rebecca Buffum Spring
New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a leading advocate for land rights and reconciliation, and in 1964 published the first modern poetry book by an Aboriginal Australian woman.
Rachel Lovell Wells
1700s American wax sculptor and entrepreneur
Nora Heysen
In 1938, Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize for Portraiture.
Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings
Kiowa regalia maker
Susan Waters
Susan C. Waters painted in the region around the New York-Pennsylvania border in the 1800s.
Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher was the first female director of the National Gallery of Australia.
Charlotte Bonaparte
Artist and the niece of Napoleon Bonaparte
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.