Marina Nuñez Del Prado
Marina Núñez del Prado was one of the most widely acclaimed sculptors of Latin America.
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Etel Adnan
Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist
Pablita Velarde
Prominent Native American painter
Edith Head
Costume designer Edith Head’s career in Hollywood spanned over five decades, earning her eight Academy Awards for Costume Design, the most any woman had received.
Josephine Lobato
For decades, Josephine Lobato has created embroidered renditions of cultural memories, enactments, and folk histories.
Eva Mirabal
Entitled G.I. Gertie, her comic strips appeared in a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) publication and featured the hijinks of a young woman soldier.
Annie Klaney
Chilkat blanket weaver
Georgia Harris
Over the course of her life, Harris worked to preserve the Catawba pottery tradition that originated centuries ago.
Gladys Kukana Grace
Gladys Kukana Grace learned the art of weaving lauhala (lau = leaf, hala = pandanus tree) from her maternal grandmother, Kukana, through a longstanding oral tradition.
Grace Henderson Nez
Grace Henderson Nez lived her entire life in a hogan at the base of Ganado Mesa on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. For more than seven decades, she raised and sheared sheep, carded and dyed the wool, and wove intricate and distinctive Navajo rugs.