Recognizing Wealth of Women Artists
By Sally Slattery
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Door
County boasts a thriving visual arts scene - potters, painters,
photographers and everything in between. I believe that I interview just
as many female artists as I do male artists here in Door County - but
gender bias in the visual arts world still exists.
Check out this article from truth-out.org, "Women Artists Still Face Discrimination," by Eleanor J. Bader. She writes, "A
2011 Guerrilla Girls survey investigated New York museums and found
just four percent of the artists in the Metropolitan Museum's
contemporary section were female. MOMA and the Guggenheim fared somewhat
better, with 26 and 23 percent respectively.
"What's more, it's not only a New York phenomenon. In fact, the National Museum of Women in the Arts
estimates that five percent of art currently on display in US museums
was made by women. From the newly opened Broad Contemporary Art Museum
in Los Angeles - where 87 percent of the work was created by men - to
the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn in Washington, DC, the
story is identical."
I
am pleased and proud, in recognition of Women's History Month, to
highlight just a few of the many Door County female artists I've had the
great opportunity to profile in the pages of the Pulse.
* Paper cut artist Martha Aurelius. * Fiber artist Lynn Schuster. * Fashion designer and artist Dawn Patel. * Watercolor artist Beverly Hart Branson. * Photographer Rachel Slepekis. * Painter Bonnie Seaquist. * Glass artist Deanna Clayton.
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