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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 34m

Artist Susanna Bauer adds thread and crochet to dried leaves, creating miniature artworks #womensart #Autumn #Fall

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

Artwork by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart #Caturday

Illustration of a sitting cat facing right with colourful star and flower shapes over its body, a speech bubble above its head reads " Love ya, mean it", the background is orange

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 1

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

Printmakers interviewed for the best WA book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt

Print featuring a curved London Underground station as a train arrives, with a small number of people waiting on the platform

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic and collage artist #womensart

Photo of three birds as if flying left created with fast pieces of patterned paper

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you for following WA!
Have a coool Friday ....🧡

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt
US #BlackHistoryMonth

Textile artwork featuring standing two figures facing forwards, a Black man and woman, the man wears a patterned suit in vivid colours and the woman wears a long coat in similar patterns and colours and she wears a large rounded hat, all against a patterned pink background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement #womensart

Painted artwork of a stylised female figure, a white woman as a queen with a crown and golden robes holding a red rose and surrounded by heart motifs, organic lines and a dashed border

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

The abstract paintings of Korean American contemporary artist Suzanne Song #WomensArt

Photo of a painting hanging on a white wall, the abstract artwork features a series of ´sharp regular interlocking triangles in purple and green

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), US playwright, poet and novelist. Lover of US painter Romaine Brooks among others, she began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900 #WomensArt

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto turns textiles into delicately sculpted orbs that can be worn as jewellery #womensart

Photo of a a number of delicate small transparent fiber orbs with three dimensional fiber creations inside including a red horse and plant like creations

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

Print featuring three stylised black birds with long necks and beaks, grouped together on the right, against a brown background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

'Halcyon Days' by Anna Pugh, contemporary British folk artist #womensart

Painting featuring a white man and woman as if dancing joyfully in a lush garden amongst washing hanging on a clothesline and in front of a small hut and bird houses

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Milk, honey, or Lemon?' by #printmaker Catherine C.E.Walker
#WomensArt

Print in black and white featuring a round boiling kettle on an electric hob next to a number of jars and bottles on a kitchen surface

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Super Sonic Star, 2014 by Zarah Hussain, artist who creates mathematically precise, geometric art inspired by Islamic Geometry #womensart

Sculture, a symmetrical form with twelve points in white with regular pink lines creating flower like patterning

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it

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Kaz @breakbeatreads.bsky.social · 2d

I recently read Reframing Women Printmakers and can only describe it as essential reading, wish I’d had something like that as an undergrad

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

GREAT GIFTS 🧡🎄🎁❣️
As a series or individually...
YOUR choice!!
3 womensart books on your favourite artists,
On textiles, painting & printmaking... 🧡🎄🎁❣️
Via here or your usual bookstore! www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

Three individual book covers with different images and colours

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you :)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Unite (First State), 1969 (screenprint) by artist Barbara Jones-Hogu, a member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) and co-fouder of the artists' collective AfriCOBRA #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Print showing the upper half of a group of Black activists with fists raised against a backdrop of diagonal text with the repeated word 'Unite'

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

GREAT GIFTS 🧡🎄🎁❣️
As a series or individually...
YOUR choice!!
3 womensart books on your favourite artists,
On textiles, painting & printmaking... 🧡🎄🎁❣️
Via here or your usual bookstore! www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Artemesia Gentileschi,
Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #womensart

Painting featuring two white women in the act of beheading a white man with a sword as he lies in his bed

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Alexandra Drenth, Amsterdam based textile artist and designer specializing in hand embroideries and collage techniques #womensart

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