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This is a list of women artists who were born in Jamaica or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Specifically Valerie Facey founded the Mill Press, which has 'produced memorable, award-winning books' about Jamaican art, poetry, biography, cuisine, history, and so much more. [1] Laura Facey's family continues to instill the importance of representing their home country and giving a voice to the unheard, which is a central theme within Laura ...
Edna Swithenbank Manley, OM (28 February 1900 – 9 February 1987) [1] is considered one of the most important artists and arts educators in Jamaica.She was known primarily as a sculptor, although her oeuvre included significant drawings and paintings. [2]
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator.Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language"), [2] establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression.
Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War; Jean Springer, Jamaican mathematics professor; Garth Taylor, Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian; Manley West, Jamaican pharmacologist who developed a treatment for glaucoma
A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women, a review of Lucille Mathurin Mair's A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp., ISBN 978-976-640-166-5 (cloth); ISBN 978-976-640-178-8 (paper). RECONSTRUCTING BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE CARIBBEAN, JSTOR.org.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Jamaican artists. It includes artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for women artists from Jamaica .
Mary Jane Seacole was born Mary Jane Grant on 23 November 1805 in Kingston, in the Colony of Jamaica, as a member of the community of free black people in Jamaica. [8] [9] She was the daughter of James Grant, a Scottish [10] Lieutenant in the British Army. [11]