Acknowledgments, About the Team, & Further Reading
The contributors of this exhibit would like to acknowledge Cornell University and the Johnson Museum of Art for their support of this project. We would like to recognize and thank Nancy Elizabeth Green and Dr. Shirley R. Samuels for their continued support as instructors and mentors. It has been a pleasure working with and learning from each instructor, as our class made many surprising discoveries throughout the course of organizing the project. Creating this online exhibition was a concerted effort between instructors and students alike, and we would also like to thank each and every guest lecturer for their key technical and curatorial advice on how to structure the works in this exhibition. Our sincere thanks go to: Elaine Engst and Carol Kammen, curatorial archivists from Cornell’s Rare and Manuscripts Collection; Dr. Allison K. Lange, Assistant Professor of History at Wentworth Institute of Technology; Dr. Susette Newberry Head of Research & Learning Services, Olin & Uris Libraries and Fine Arts Librarian; Katherine Reagan, Ernest L. Stern Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts from Cornell’s Kroch Library; Marcie Farwell, from the Gordon & Marjorie Osborne Textile Industry Curator at Cornell’s Kheel Center; Eliza Bettinger, Cornell’s Lead Librarian for Digital Scholarship; Dr. Mary Chapman, Professor of English and Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada; and Dr. Kate Lemay, head curator from the National Portrait Gallery. We truly appreciate all of the support and dedication put towards the completion of this project and of each of the women depicted and for the artists chosen for this exhibition.
Victoria Baugh is a Ph.D. student in the Cornell University English Department. Her research currently focuses on women writers from the Victorian era, both British and African American women, and how African American women in the late 19th century conceptualized themselves as citizens in America through literature and photography.
Victoria Corwin is a Ph.D. student in Literatures in English at Cornell University, and a member of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. Her work focuses on nineteenth century women writers, Classical reception, and how women use art, archaeology, and mythology in order to build their own identities and narratives.
Skye Levy is an undergraduate at Cornell University double majoring in Art History and Economics and minoring in Business. Her interests lie in the intersection of finance and the arts and she is beginning her career working in trading distressed products with the hopes to one day apply these concepts to the art world.
Paloma Vianey is an MFA in Visual Arts student especializing in Painting. Her artwork has a focus on her experience crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on a daily basis and the border itself.
Isabelle McDonald is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Art History and Fine Arts with a minor in Media Studies at Cornell University. Her studies focus on the significance of art and visual media in society, and plans to pursue a career in art conservation and curation.
Catherine Rucker is a Ph.D. student in Cornell University's History of Art and Visual Studies program. Her interests lie in studying African American Art History and concepts centered on the construction of identity and the maintenance of subjectivity and selfhood.
Further Reading:
[1] Botelho, Lynn. "Old women and sex: Fear, fantasy, and a defining life course in Early Modern Europe." Clio. Women, Gender, History, No.42 (2015): 189-199.
[2] Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. London: Hogarth Press, 1929.
[3] Lange, Allison K. “Competing Visual Campaigns.” In Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement, 125–58. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.