For college graduates interested in an in-depth introduction to the field while designing and facilitating interpretive programs for diverse audiences. Join a dynamic group of other emerging arts ...

The Feminist Art Base is a digital archive dedicated solely to feminist art, offering profiles of some of the most prominent and promising contributors to the field. This digital resource was created ...

Frances Power Cobbe, feminist journalist and pioneer of animal rights activism, founded two major groups: first, in 1875, the Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection (SPALV), the ...

Christine de Pisan (Christine de Pizan) was a medieval writer and historiographer who advocated for women’s equality. Her works, considered to be some of the earliest feminist writings, include poetry ...

The Brooklyn Museum stands on land that is part of the unceded, ancestral homeland of the Lenape (Delaware) people.

In 1849, the Philadelphia daguerreotypists William and Frederick Langenheim introduced the lantern slide: a transparent image on glass that could be projected, in magnified form, onto a surface using ...

Emily Dickinson is considered one of the most famous poets in the history of American literature. Though socially shy, she was outspoken and emotional in her lyric poetry (short poems with one speaker ...

Luisa Moreno was a labor organizer and civil rights activist in the United States for two decades. Born Blanca Rosa López Rodríguez to a prominent Guatemalan family, she changed her name to spare them ...

In Christianity, Mary is the virgin mother of Jesus Christ who is venerated in several different roles, including that of protector of women and children. Some scholars believe that she was one of ...

Anne Marbury Hutchinson was a Puritan, who held discussions in her home in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, critiquing the Bible and Puritan laws. These sessions, which were in opposition to society’s ...

Jacobe Felicie, more commonly called Jacoba, was a Parisian physician, successful despite a lack of formal training. She was summoned to court in 1322 on the charge of practicing medicine without a ...

Artemisia Gentileschi was an early Italian Baroque painter, and the only female follower of Caravaggio, whom she worked with in Italy in the early 17th century. Her innovative compositions and focus ...