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.
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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
Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher was the first female director of the National Gallery of Australia.
Susan Waters
Susan C. Waters painted in the region around the New York-Pennsylvania border in the 1800s.
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.
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.