Support Women Artists Now Day (SWAN) occurs on the last Saturday in March, highlighting the power and diversity of women's creativity. One of the five goals for the day is:To shine a spotlight on women artists – especially artists who are often marginalised by mainstream arts and media organisations because of their race, class, sexual preference, gender identity, disability or other issues.
In a school context I think it is just a good excuse to look at some famous female painters because they are often overlooked in favour of well-known male artists such as Monet, Matisse, Picasso, da Vinci, VanGogh etc. There are some wonderful picture book biographies about female artists in our library.
Frida Kahlo (1907 -1954) Mexican
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986) American
Ruth Asawa (1926 - 2013) American
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) French American
Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) American
Yayoi Kusama (1929- ) Japanese
Then also look for these:
Sister Corita Kent
Mary Nohl
Anna Atkins
Alma Thomas
Helen Frankenthaler
Mary Blair
Of course there could be more depending upon your definition of 'artists'. I haven't included architects, photographers, potters...
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