Augusta Saint-Gaudens
American painter overshadowed by her husband
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Estelle Ishigo
Artist and musician Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899–1990), a white woman who married a Nisei man, is best known for chronicling life at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, concentration camp through her drawings and paintings.
Royal Alley-Barnes
An accomplished painter and muralist, her background in the arts framed her response to problems as varied as how to reduce youth violence, protect the environmental quality of the Mercer Island Slough, and improve the financial viability of Seattle city-owned arts facilities.
Barbara Earl Thomas
The former Executive Director of Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum, Barbara Earl Thomas is far more than an institutional administrator. She is also an inspiring lecturer on the topics of art and culture and — as the University of Washington Press notes — a “painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility.”
Edna Andrade
Edna knew from a very early age that art and design was her life’s passion.
Doris Ulmann
American photojournalist.
Patti Warashina
American ceramicist internationally recognized for her technically refined, figurative sculptures that helped expand the boundaries of clay as a medium.
Emme Gerhard
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.
Mayme Gerhard
When the Gerhard sisters opened their own photographic studio in St. Louis, Missouri in 1903, newspapers and magazines rarely hired women as staff photographers to capture late breaking news. But photographs by Emme and Mayme Gerhard appeared frequently in local and national media.
Jessie Tarbox Beals
America’s first female news photographer; The Buffalo Inquirer and The Courier hired her as a staff photographer in 1902.