Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
March 24,2025
Ashley Dimmig, Director, Crossman Gallery
This question was famously posed by Linda Nochlin in 1971 in her article by the same. In the throes of second-wave feminism, Nochlin sought to bring to light the fact that — with a few extraordinary exceptions — throughout history women were prevented from becoming artists due to patriarchal norms in the art world and society at large. This talk will highlight some of these exceptional women artists from the medieval period up to the 20th century — including Hildegard of Bingen, Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Rose Bertin, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Edmonia Lewis.
Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public and registration is not required. Lectures may be recorded and posted to our Fairhaven Lecture website and YouTube channel. Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.
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