University of Wyoming

Beyond the Model: Women Artists and Photographers from the Art Museum Collection

Beyond the Model: Women Artists and Photographers from the Art Museum Collectionexplores female artists and photographers who have been influential to art history. The exhibition is the second in a ...
Valley Advocate

The power of women’s hair: Photographer uses 19th-century technique to re-imagine female portraits

Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, ...

If this woman looks familiar, it’s because you’ve seen her in a painting before

Louise Kermode shares the story behind her Kingston Prize-winning portrait of “Canadian art royalty.” The model, Donna Meaney ...
insider.si.edu

National Portrait Gallery Presents “Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits”

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will display photographs of 19th-century activists and professionals in “Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits,” a presentation of 10 daguerreotypes and ...
The Atlantic

A New Exhibition Shows Women as Artists, Not Muses

The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...