by Amy Land | 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.
by Amy Land | Dec 13, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C., contains 100 statues – two from each state. Of that total, nine (9%) are women – Helen Keller (Alabama), Dr. Florence Sabin (Colorado), Frances Willard (Illinois), Maria Sanford (Minnesota), Jeannette Rankin (Montana), Sarah Winnemucca (Nevada), Sakakawea (North Dakota), Mother Joseph (Washington), and Esther Hobart Morris (Wyoming). In this month’s ENewsletter, we feature two of these outstanding women – Sakakawea and Sarah Winnemucca, both of whom have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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by Amy Land | Nov 8, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
November ENewsletter
Nobel Laureates
Very exciting news came in October 2018 – women were going to share the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physics! Donna Strickland, one of the trio to be awarded the
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics works at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her prize is being
awarded for discovering how to amplify the intensity of laser light in ever-briefer pulses. This work
paved the way for precision eye surgery and cancer therapy, among other advances. Dr.
Strickland becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics since American Maria
Goeppert-Mayer in 1963. Fran Arnold will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on
the directed evolution of enzymes.
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by Amy Land | Oct 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, honoring composer, musician, and singer Carole King, is currently playing on Broadway. This month’s e-newsletter not only features Carole King but another musical sensation as well, Hazel Harrison. Enjoy reading about these two amazing musical women.
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by Amy Land | Sep 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
Ella Brennan, a well-known, well respected New Orleans restaurant owner, nurtured celebrity
chefs, but didn’t believe it appropriate to worship them, “A restaurant is not a church, where you
have to be quiet and kneel,” she said. Brennan, whose family owned more than a dozen different
restaurants, died earlier this year. Thinking of her reminded us to share the story of two other
remarkable women in the food business: Romana Bañuelos and Ruth Fertel.
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by Amy Land | Aug 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
Young Jean Lee is the first Asian-American woman to have her play performed on Broadway.
This occurred in July when Straight White Men opened. Lorraine Hansberry was the first AfricanAmerican
woman author with a play on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun opened in 1959. We
featured Lorraine Hansberry and another playwright, Clare Boothe Luce, in enewsletters during
2017, after the announcement that they would both be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of
Fame. In honor of Young Jean Lee, this month we feature playwrights Anita Loos and Wendy
Wasserstein. Let’s learn more about these remarkable women.
Author, playwright and screenwriter Anita Loos is probably best known for her novel, then
Broadway play, then movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She started as a scriptwriter in the silent
film industry in the early 1910s. Her script for The New York Hat earned her $25; it was a short
film starring Mary Pickford and featuring Lionel Barrymore in his film debut. Called by film director
D.W. Griffith “the most brilliant woman in the world,” Loos’s intertitles grace his 1916 epic movie
Intolerance.
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