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Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) [2] is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.
Member, Ester Hernández, went on to be credited with creating one of the first images to link the plight of farmworkers to the effects on consumers and the environment with her screenprint, Sun Mad, 1981. [4] Groups of women artists of color, like Las Mujeres Muralistas, protested marginalization on the basis of gender, race and ethnicity.
1974 Women's Studio Workshop: Founded Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) was founded in 1974 by Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, Anita Wetzel, and Barbara Leoff Burge as an alternative space for women artists to create new work, gain artistic experience, and develop new skills. To this day, WSW still operates artist residencies and internships for ...
Kelly Wearstler (/ ˈ w ɜːr s l ər /; [5] born November 21, 1967) is an American designer.She founded her own design firm Kelly Wearstler Interior Design (or KWID) in the mid-1990s, serving mainly the hotel industry, and now designs across high-end residential, commercial, retail and hospitality spaces.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 (ECOA), signed by President Gerald Ford 50 years ago on Oct. 28, 1974, changed that. It prevented creditors from discriminating against an applicant ...
Frances Perkins, 1902 graduate of Mount Holyoke College; first woman cabinet member (U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1933–1945, under Franklin D. Roosevelt) Susan Philips, 1967 graduate of Agnes Scott College; first woman to chair a financial regulatory agency (the Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
Key takeaways. Women in the U.S. were not allowed to finance real estate purchases without a husband or male co-signer until the 1970s. More than 60 percent of all Realtors and property managers ...
Cole was the second African-American woman physician in the United States and the first black woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. James B. Dudley: ca. 1870 Graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth around 1875 (now Cheyney University). For college Dudley attended Shaw College in Raleigh, North Carolina.