Women Poets and Lyricists in History – Kalon Women column February 2019

by | Feb 1, 2019 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine

Over the course of our lives, we learn poems, songs, and hymns without thinking about the authorship or wondering about which ones were written by women. Mary Had a Little Lamb, Over the River and Through the Wood, Battle Hymn of the Republic, America the Beautiful, and many others that are famous and well-loved hymns were written by women.

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Judges – February 2019 ENewsletter

by | Feb 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters

The recent movies RBG and On the Basis of Sex demonstrate some of the hurdles U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome. In this month’s ENewsletter, we profile two other legal pioneers: Florence Allen and Constance Baker Motley.

A woman of many firsts, Florence Allen did her undergraduate work (Phi Beta Kappa) at Case Western University. Since the law school at Case Western did not admit women, she began her law education at the University of Chicago in 1909, the only woman in a class of 100 students. Having to pay for her education, she moved to New York City, worked with immigrants and as a lecturer before enrolling at the New York University Law School. Although second in her class when she graduated in 1913, she did not receive any job offers from the New York legal firms (the same situation faced decades later by RBG) so she moved back to Cleveland, Ohio.

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Women, Art and Museums – January 2019 ENewsletter

by | Feb 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters

Women artists, like women in every endeavor, have been overlooked throughout history. In this month’s ENewsletter we feature two women whose contributions to the arts and culture are enduring: Georgia O’Keeffe and Wilhemina Holladay, both of whom have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

 

The “Mother of American modernism” artist Georgia O’Keeffe is famously remembered for her paintings of large flowers and depictions of landscapes – particularly those of New Mexico and New York City. O’Keeffe felt constrained during her initial years of art education but during her summer art studies between her years of teaching, she began to develop her own personal style. By 1915, that style was emerging and her first solo commercial exhibition was held in New York City in 1917. In 1929, she began spending part of her year in the Southwest and painting evocations of that area. After her husband died, she lived permanently in New Mexico.