Lee Bontecou was an American sculptor and printmaker and a pioneer figure in the New York art world. She kept her work consistently in a recognizable style,and received broad recognition in the 1960s. Bontecou made abstract sculptures in the 1960s and 1970s and created vacuum-formed plastic fish,plants,and flower forms in the 1970s. Rich,organic shapes and powerful energy appear in her drawings,prints,and sculptures. Her work has been shown and collected in many major museums in the United States and in Europe.
Sarah Edwards Charlesworth was an American conceptual artist and photographer. She is considered part of The Pictures Generation,a loose-knit group of artists working in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s,all of whom were concerned with how images shape our everyday lives and society as a whole.
Paul Joseph Sachs was an American investor,businessman and museum director. Sachs served as associate director of the Fogg Art Museum and as a partner in the financial firm Goldman Sachs. He is recognized for having developed one of the earliest museum studies courses in the United States.
Anne Julie d'Harnoncourt was an American curator,museum director,and art historian specializing in modern art. She was the director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA),a post she held from 1982 until her sudden death in 2008. She was also an expert scholar on the works of French artist Marcel Duchamp.
Margaretta M. Lovell is an American art historian who serves as the Jay D. McEvoy,Jr. Professor of the History of Art at the University of California,Berkeley. Her research and teaching center on the art and history of the United States,including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape painting,portraiture,decorative arts,furniture,architecture,food,and forests.
Thomas Browne Cornell was an American artist.
Howardena Pindell is an American artist,curator,and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist,her work explores texture,color,structures,and the process of making art;it is often political,addressing the intersecting issues of racism,feminism,violence,slavery,and exploitation. She is known for the wide variety of techniques and materials used in her artwork;she has created abstract paintings,collages,"video drawings," and "process art."
Jody Mussoff is an American ceramist and artist,living in Virginia.
Yale Union was a nonprofit contemporary art center in southeast Portland,Oregon,United States. Located in the Yale Union Laundry Building built in 1908,the center was founded in 2008. In 2020,the organization announced it would transfer the rights of its building to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF). It dissolved the nonprofit after wrapping up its program in 2021 and completing the building and land transfer. The space is now the Center for Native Arts and Cultures.
Joyce J. Scott is an African-American artist,sculptor,quilter,performance artist,installation artist,print-maker,lecturer and educator. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016,and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019,Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form,off-loom beadweaving techniques,similar to a peyote stitch. Each piece is often constructed using thousands of glass seed beads or pony beads,and sometimes other found objects or materials such as glass,quilting and leather. In 2018,she was hailed for working in new medium —a mixture of soil,clay,straw,and cement —for a sculpture meant to disintegrate and return to the earth. Scott is influenced by a variety of diverse cultures,including Native American and African traditions,Mexican,Czech,and Russian beadwork,illustration and comic books,and pop culture.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Broun is an American art historian and curator. Broun served as the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum from 1989 to 2016,and is the longest-serving female director in the history of the Smithsonian Institution.
Catherine Murphy is an American realist painter whose career began with the inclusion of her work in the 1971 Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A two-time recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts grant,Murphy has received numerous awards and honors for her work,including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982) and most recently the Robert De Niro,Sr. Prize in 2013. She was a Senior Critic at Yale University Graduate School of Art for 22 years and is currently the Tepper Family Endowed Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers.
Alexandra Munroe,Ph.D.,is a curator,Asia scholar,and author focusing on art,culture,and institutional global strategy. She has produced over 40 exhibitions and published pioneering scholarship on modern and contemporary Asian art. She organized the first major North American retrospectives of artists Yayoi Kusama (1989),Daido Moriyama (1999),Yoko Ono (2000),Mu Xin (2001),Cai Guo-Qiang (2008),and Lee Ufan (2011),among others,and has brought such historic avant-garde movements as Gutai,Mono-ha,and Chinese conceptual art,as well as Japanese otaku culture,to international attention. Her project Japanese Art after 1945:Scream Against the Sky (1994) is recognized for initiating the field of postwar Japanese art history in North America. Recently,Munroe was lead curator of the Guggenheim’s exhibition,Art and China after 1989:Theater of the World,which the New York Times named as one of 2017’s top ten exhibitions and ARTnews named as one of the decade’s top 25 most influential shows. Credited for the far-reaching impact of her exhibitions and scholarship bolstering knowledge of postwar Japanese art history in America and Japan,she received the 2017 Japan Foundation Award and the 2018 Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award,both bestowed by the government of Japan.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles,California. Through her art Akunyili Crosby "negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria,creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds". In 2017,Akunyili Crosby was awarded the prestigious Genius Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Susan Hauptman (1947–2015) was an American artist who worked exclusively on paper with charcoal,pastel and,later,other elements,such as gold leaf,wire mesh and thread. She is best known for her stark,enigmatic,often expressionless self-portraits in which she depicted herself with precise and candid detail in ways critics described as strikingly androgynous and that confronted cultural notions of beauty,reality,femininity and masculinity. She has had one-person shows in several museums including the Norton Gallery of Art,West Palm Beach,FL,the Oakland Museum,Oakland,CA and the Corcoran Gallery of Art,Washington,D.C.
Carol Armstrong is an American professor,art historian,art critic,and photographer. Armstrong teaches and writes about 19th-century French art,the history of photography,the history and practice of art criticism,feminist theory and women and gender representation in visual culture.
Charles "Charlie" Child Eldredge is an American art historian,educator,and curator. Eldredge is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture Emeritus at the University of Kansas. He also served as Director of the Spencer Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum during his career.
Elke Solomon is an artist,curator,educator and community worker. She is known for her interdisciplinary practice that combines painting,drawing,object-making,performance and installation. She has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad.
Jill Moser is a New York-based artist whose paintings,drawings,prints,collages and artist's books explore the intersections of painting,writing,and the animated image.
Caroline Thorington is a print maker specializing in lithography. She was born in Winfield,Kansas on March 2,1943 to Frank and Ellen Miller. She received a B.A. from Kansas State University in 1965 and spent the following year on a fellowship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich,Germany,where she learned print making. In 1967 she married zoologist Richard W. Thorington Jr. When he became curator of mammals at the Smithsonian Institution in 1969,she moved with him to the Washington,D.C. area where she has made her home ever since. In 1975 she received a Master of Fine Arts from George Washington University.
