How Art Museums Can Engage the Future Female Artists

As an avid visitor of art museums, I find that most visitors who come to art museums are adults-only groups or adults with older children. When researching this article, I found that much of the internet views art museums as less child-friendly. I find this surprising...

Why Art Museums Are Important Spaces For the Young Girls

According to researchers, female artists make up about 13% of the artists featured in art museums (Braz, Camberg, Ellis 2022). This number was not surprising to me. In Washington, D.C., the National Women in the Arts Museum is dedicated to featuring female artists who...

Interactives that (actually) Work at a Smithsonian Museum 

Step Afrika! Interactive. Photo by Lindsay Guarnieri. Throughout this series, I have discussed how one of my biggest issues with the Smithsonian museums in the DC area is that not many interactives engage visitors in the act of play. The act of play is how young...

Let’s Tell and Rewrite the Stories Ourselves

By the end of February, I read somewhere that there was a ‘challenge’ called “Name 5 women artists.” I started thinking about my own list – Abramović, Kusama, Calle, Iturbide and… no-no-no-no, I don’t want to think of...

Valeria Napoleone and the all-female art collection

Valeria Napoleone is one of Britain’s leading buyers of contemporary art. Working in an art world dominated by male owners and collectors, Napoleone has a distinct aesthetic agenda – she only buys work made by women. Spanning a...

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