Lilly Martin Spencer
One of the most popular American painters of the mid-19th century.
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Gillian Laura Condie Falconer
Passionate about art and design, she was skilled at screen printing, some of her designs taken by Liberty and the National Trust.
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.
Ofelia Esparza
Mexican-American altar maker, or Chicana altarista, whose work is informed by a deep spiritual belief in the traditional process, which pays homage and evokes memory of people, events, or places through multilevel structures embellished with photos, traditional foods, flowers, and handmade and found adornments.
Nora Thompson Dean
Nora Dean Thompson was one of the last fluent speakers of the Unami dialect in the Lenape language. She grew up a traditionalist learning the culture of her people and began to spread the knowledge to the younger generations.
Nora Ezell
Ezell is a master of embroidery and appliqué, the process of fastening one piece of fabric to a ground fabric with tiny stitches.
Nettie Kuneki Jackson
Yakama basket weaver
Mone Saenphimmachak
Laotian-American weaver