If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many

If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many people can list five women artists? Throughout March’s Women’s History Month, we will be joining institutions around the world to answer this very question posed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA). We will be featuring a woman artist every day this month, and highlighting artists in our current exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection which explores a wide range of art-making, focusing on enduring political subjects—encompassing gender, race, and class—that remain relevant today. The show is on view until March 31, 2019.Together we hope to draw attention to the gender and race imbalance in the art world, inspire conversation and awareness, and hopefully add a few more women to everyone’s lists.Shan Goshorn’s Color of Conflicting Values combines traditional Cherokee double-weave technique with nontraditional archival references. Here, Goshorn has woven together images of lush greenery, excerpts from the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and hand-painted depictions of the twenty-dollar bill—which celebrates President Andrew Jackson, for whom removal and dispossession of Native Americans was a legislative priority. Goshorn passed away in December of 2018, and we are honored to be featuring this important work in Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection.Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee, born Baltimore, Maryland, 1957) Color of Conflicting Values, 2013. Ink, acrylic, gold foil on Arches watercolor paper. Collection of Edward J. Guarino -- source link

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