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.Corinne May Botz’s series The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death explores miniature crime scene models from the 1940s and 50s made by the criminologist Frances Glessner Lee (1878 – 1962). Based on actual crimes, the models were used to train detectives to better use visual evidence to solve cases involving deaths. Botz spent years researching Lee and made hundreds of photographs of her models.Posted by Allie RickardCorinne May Botz (American, born 1977). Kitchen - Room from Afar from the series The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, 2004. Photograph. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Anonymous gift, 2017.50. -- source link

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