Show & Tell at Art+Feminism CT

Though Art+Feminism is a virtual event, we want to ground it in local and community spaces and organizations. In that vein we invited the submission of brief videos in which partners share an item in their collections that speaks to the themes of this event. These videos are displayed as part of a “show and tell” playlist below.

1. The Sacrifice (1922) by Kathe Kollwitz

The William Benton Museum of Art, located at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, shares a woodcut by the German artist Kathe Kollwitz.



2. Eric Johnson-Debaufre highlights three books by female artists

Special Collections Librarian Eric Johnson-Debaufre shares three groundbreaking books by female artists from the Watkinson Library’s collection.
Highlighted items include:
  • Meija, Carmen. A Feminist Introduction to Data Structures. Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2017. TC – Watkinson Library Stacks Private Press N7433.4.S36 F45 2017
  • Wilson, Martha. Autobiography . Chicago, Ill: [Chicago Books], 1979. Print. TC – Watkinson Library Stacks N7433.4.W45 A8 1979
  • Sligh, Clarissa T. Wrongly Bodied : Documenting Transition from Female to Male Philadelphia, PA: Leeway Foundation, 2009. TC – Watkinson Library Stacks N7433.4.S427 W76 2009
 

3. Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library Collection Highlight

Nike Desis, Young Adult Librarian at the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme, speaks about Kimberley Drew’s “This is what I know about Art” and her other new title “Black Futures.”

 

4. Irene Rice Pereira’s “Spirit of Space” *(1957)

Tanya Pohrt from Lyman Allyn Art Museum shares an important work from the collection.

Irene Rice Pereira (American, 1902–1971)
Spirit of Space, ca. 1957
Oil on canvas
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Gift of N.J. Leigh, 1964.172

 

 

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