Junctures in Women's Leadership: the Arts
Judith K. Brodsky (Author), Ferris Olin (Author)
9780813576251
Paperback / softback, published 20 September 2018
322 pages, 12 color and 6 b-w photos
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.399 kg
“There will never be too many books teaching Women’s Herstory. Brodsky and Olin’s case studies describe the outrageous and humiliating strangleholds all women have endured and continue to face. Brodsky and Olin champion us to reach our goals.”
- Elizabeth A. Sackler, PhD (Founder, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum) “New histories need to be written. Preserving stories that complicate and enrich mainstream narratives is vitally important, and the inspired and inspiring contributions groundbreaking women have made to our cultural world deserve to be celebrated. In addition to leading this charge themselves in their own remarkable careers, with the publication of Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts, Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin have given us the gift of expanding the canon through these remarkable case studies in creative leadership in the arts.”
- Catherine Morris (Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum) “Here's a round of applause for Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin, founders of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (now the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, the first feminist art center on a university campus) and heartfelt thanks for Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts, their rich insights into generations of women leaders in the arts on the global stage. As arts leaders in their own right and as historians of the rich tradition to which they belong, Brodsky and Olin document feminist cultural history as, just as importantly, they continue to make it. We are doubly in their debt.”
- Nell Irvin Painter (Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, author of The History of White) (Town Topics) " Recommended."
(Choice) "This much-needed volume, with its primary focus on visual arts professionals, brings attention to a group of women whose biographies have not been joined before....[Brodsky and Olin's] sound scholarship is essential to advancing the understanding about the contributions of these women as well as the general contributions of women in the arts. No similar books offer case studies on women leaders across different professions with this focus. Hopefully, more such accessible tomes will follow."
(Woman's art Journal) (Hyperallergic)
In this third volume of the series Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin profile female leaders in music, theater, dance, and visual art. The diverse women included in Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts have made their mark by serving as executives or founders of art organizations, by working as activists to support the arts, or by challenging stereotypes about women in the arts. The contributors explore several important themes, such as the role of feminist leadership in changing cultural values regarding inclusivity and gender parity, as well as the feminization of the arts and the power of the arts as cultural institutions.
Amongst the women discussed are Bertha HonorÉ Palmer, Louise Noun, Samella Lewis, Julia Miles, Miriam ColÓn, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Bernice Steinbaum, Anne d’Harnoncourt, Martha Wilson, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Kim Berman, Gilane Tawadros, Joanna Smith, and Veomanee Douangdala.
1 Bertha HonorÉ
Palmer (1849-1918)
Philanthropist, president of the Board of Lady Managers, Woman’
s Building, World’
s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893
2 Louise Noun (1908 –
2002)
Philanthropist, art collector, scholar
3 Samella Lewis (1924-)
Artist, art historian, arts administrator
4 Julia Miles (1930-)
Theater director and producer
founder, Women’
s Project Theater
5 Miriam ColÓ
n (1936-2017)
Broadway and Hollywood film actress
founder, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
6 Jaune Quick-To-See Smith (1940-)
Artist and activist
7 Bernice Steinbaum (1941-)
Gallerist and advocate for diversity
8 Anne d’
Harnoncourt (1943-2008)
Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art
9 Martha Wilson (1947-)
Artist, activist, archivist
founder, Franklin Furnace Archive
10 Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (1950-)
Choreographer
founder of the dance company, Urban Bush Women
11 Kim Berman (1960-)
Artist, activist
founder, Artist Proof Studio and Phumani Paper, South Africa
12 Gilane Tawadros (1965-)
Arts administrator
founding director, Institute for International Visual Arts (InIVA), United Kingdom
13 Veomanee Douangdala (1976-) and Joanne Smith (1976-)
Social and cultural entrepreneurs, Laos