Gail Shaw-Clemons is an American artist and educator known for her printmaking and mixed media art. [1] She was born in Washington, DC and attended the University of Maryland, College Park [2] where her teachers included David Driskell and Martin Puryear. [3] She was an art instructor at the United Nations International School for 24 years. [4] She resides in Washington, DC [5] and is on the board of STABLE, a non-profit organization fostering the arts in Washington. [6]
Shaw-Clemons' work is in the Ballinglen Museum of Art. [7] Her artist's book Old money is in the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), [8]
Shaw-Clemons's work was included in Phase I of the project COVID-19 PAGES: The Influence & Inspiration of Women. [9] The print We Wear the Mask (Female) is in the collection of the Georgetown University Art Collection. [10] Her work was included in the 2023 exhibition INTERLUDE at the Kreeger Museum. [11]
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since opening in 1987, the museum has acquired a collection of more than 6,000 works by more than 1,000 artists, ranging from the 16th century to today. The collection includes works by Mary Cassatt, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, and Amy Sherald. NMWA also holds the only painting by Frida Kahlo in Washington, D.C., Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky.
Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998) was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. She is often associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Faith Ringgold was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.
Grace Thurston Arnold Albee was an American printmaker and wood engraver. During her sixty-year career life, she created more than two hundred and fifty prints from linocuts, woodcuts, and wood engravings. She received over fifty awards and has her works in thirty-three museum collections. She was the first female graphic artist to receive full membership to the National Academy of Design.
Doris Emrick Lee was an American painter known for her figurative painting and printmaking. She won the Logan Medal of the Arts from the Chicago Art Institute in 1935. She is known as one of the most successful female artists of the Depression era in the United States.
Chakaia Booker is an American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces. Booker’s works are contained in more than 40 public collections and have been exhibited across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Booker was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Art in 2001. Booker has lived and worked in New York City’s East Village since the early 1980s and maintains a production studio in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Céline Marie Tabary was an artist and arts professor at Howard University who championed African-American art in 1940s Washington, D.C. She emigrated from France in 1938, teaching and working in Washington, D.C. through the 1950s, before returning to France. Tabary won the Landscape Prize in 1944 from the National Museum, Washington, D.C.
Clarissa T. Sligh is an African-American book artist and photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. At age 15, she was the lead plaintiff in a school desegregation case in Virginia. In 1988, she became a co-founder of Coast-to-Coast: A Women of Color National Artists' Project, which focused on promoting works completed by women of color.
Clarice Smith was an American painter and portraitist whose paintings have appeared in a number of exhibitions in the United States and Europe. With her husband, Robert H. Smith, Clarice Smith engaged in philanthropy, especially at the University of Maryland, where the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is named for her, and at George Washington University, where the couple endowed the Smith Hall of Art. They also initiated a distinguished lecture series at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Georgia Mills Jessup was an American painter, sculptor, ceramicist, muralist, and collage artist.
Alice Acheson was an American painter and printmaker.
Luther McKinley Stovall was an American visual artist who resided in Washington, D.C.
Delita Martin is an American multimedia artist based in Huffman, Texas.
Genie Shenk (1937–2018) was an American artist, editor, and educator known for her work in artist's books and fiber arts.
Julia Kwon (1987–present) is a Korean-American artist best known for her bojagi-inspired artwork. Her work has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper Hewitt Museum and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Priya Pereira is an Indian artist and co-founder of Pixie Bks in Mumbai, India. She has been described as "India's only book artist".
Susan Allix is a British typesetter, bookbinder, and artist known for her work in book arts.
Kerry McAleer-Keeler is an American book artist, printmaker and educator. She attended Mount Holyoke College and George Washington University. Her 2007 artist's book, Gifts from Our Elders, is in the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. She provided illustrations for the collaborative book Uncovering white privilege : a primer which is in the collection of the University of Puget Sound Artists' Books Collection. Her 2011 book [For the birds] is in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Ann Zahn (1931–2020) was an American printmaker and book artist. She is known for her prints as well as her involvement in the printmaking movement in the Washington, D.C. area.
Joyce Wellman is an American artist who specializes in painting and printmaking. Born in Brooklyn, she attended community college before earning a degree at the City College of New York. She would later earn two master's degree, one in education and one in art. She initially focused on printmaking, but later turned her focus to painting. She briefly worked as a teacher before spending a few years on sabbatical. During that time she worked on her art portfolio, receiving help by artists including Valerie Maynard.