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“Greetings” from the Archive

Posted: December 1, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
Between the years 1910 and 1915, American painter, illustrator, and printmaker Dulah Evans Krehbiel, along with artisans called the “Ridge Craft Girls,” designed a line of greeting cards.
A bookshelf packed with colorful books about women artists.

Graphic Novels to Watch Out For: “Marbles” by Ellen Forney

Posted: November 5, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
Alongside the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s current exhibition, The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, the library’s display shelves currently feature fantastic contemporary graphic novels by women....
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Images that Tell a Story: The First Woman Graphic Novelist

Posted: September 29, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Graphic Novels to Watch Out For: “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel

Posted: September 23, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
Alongside the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s current exhibition, The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, the library’s display shelves currently feature fantastic contemporary graphic novels by women....
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Isabella d’Este: Trend-Setter

Posted: June 13, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

LRC Book Review: Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1880

Posted: May 29, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
A recent acquisition at the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, this compilation includes 46 biographical narratives written by the artists’ contemporaries, more than half of which are newly...
A detailed engraving portrays a large, black and tan lizard with a white belly in precise detail. Facing right and positioned over a green surface and a hatching egg, the reptile bites a long, red and black snake attacking another egg and curling around the lizard's tail.

Controversial Representations of Sexuality in Feminist Art

Posted: April 18, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
Judy Chicago’s installation The Dinner Party premiered in San Francisco on March 1979. Soon after, it received backlash from the public because the recurring “butterfly” motif in Chicago’s dinner plates...
Installation view of a gallery space with purple walls. Several colorful art pieces are hanging on the wall. On one wall, the text says: Judy Chicago, circa '75.

Including the Excluded: NMWA’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Posted: March 25, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
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Anita Steckel: Fighting Censorship and Double Standards

Posted: January 28, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
According to materials from the archive of artist Anita Steckel, before she revealed her solo exhibition The Sexual Politics of Feminist Art at Rockville Community College in 1973, a female...
A book is lying in a glass case. The book shows text and a black-and-white photographic portrait of a woman's face.

Anita Steckel: Equal Exposure

Posted: January 13, 2014
Category: Library And Research Center
In the 1960s and 1970s, Anita Steckel fought for the public acceptance of explicitly sexual art made by women, as part of the broader feminist art movement that was pushing...
A book is lying in a glass case. The book shows text and a black-and-white photographic portrait of a woman's face.