Tag: female artist
-
Minnie Adkins
Minnie Adkins is a Kentucky-born American folk artist known for her playful carvings of animals. For her contributions to folk art, Adkins’ work is displayed in books, music, and several galleries within and across her home state. She also appears in the Day in the Country folk art fair, which she co-founded with her husband…
-
Cassi Nomada
Cassi Nomada is a Mozambican painter currently living and working in Italy. Borrowing from magical realism, folklore, and photographic film-stills, Nomada’s artwork straddles dual ideologies to confront the art historical canon. What is art historical canon? Generally, the canon is the group of artworks, artists, and styles that historians and institutions have traditionally considered the…
-
Lalla Essaydi
Lalla Essadyi is a Moroccan photographer and artist known for her feminist portraits. Essaydi grew up in Morocco, but she currently lives in the United States. Here, she explores her complex identities. Why “identities”? To Essaydi, it’s important to think of identity as a state of being many things at once. Refusing to restrict yourself…
THE LYCEUM 