Elaine maria upton biography sampler
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"Women's Work" at Lyndhurst
From May 26 to September 26, 2022, National Trust Historic Site Lyndhurst is presenting “Women’s Work,” an exhibition that marks the evolution of women artists—from the domestic handcraft tradition of the 18th and 19th centuries to the practice of many contemporary artists. Curated by Lyndhurst’s Executive Director Howard Zar, Nancy Carlisle of Historic New England, and Rebecca R. Hart, an independent contemporary art curator, “Women’s Work” is—in Zar’s words—“ultimately about ownership of identity.”
A 19th-century home whose history is shaped by three different families and their staff, Lyndhurst has, in recent years, focused more on sharing women’s history—a key part of the National Trust program Where Women Made History, which identifies, honors, and elevates places across the country where women have changed their communities and the world. Within both the mansion and the Lyndhurst gallery space, visitors to “Women’s Work” encounter more than 125 objects and art pieces all produced by an inclusive group of women artists.
The intent behind this exhibition was one of celebration, providing an opportunity for visitors to engage with hundreds of years of artwork by women artists. It’s not every day that needlepoints by First Ladie
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Other Web Sites Devoted to DC-Area Poets
Gaston Neal
Bio and tributes to the co-founder of Washington's New School for Afro-American Thought and the Drum and Spear Bookstore, who served as artist-in-residence at the DC Jail and Eastern HS.
http://www.interchange.org/Gaston/
Larry Neal
Bio, photo, bibliography on the former DC resident, active in the Black Arts Movement, and author of Black Boogaloo and Hoodoo Hollerin' Bebop Ghosts. 1st site sponsored by Chicken Bones, second is a Wikipedia page with links.
http://www.nathanielturner.com/larryneal.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Neal
Howard Nemerov
Photo, bio, and 16 poems, by the former Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress (1963-64 and 1988-90), sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=4968
Poems and bio by the author of The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn, hosted by the Poetry Foundation. Second site includes photo, bio, and ordering information for A Bracelet of Lies, sponsored by Washington Writers Publishing House.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jean-nordhaus
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/authors/nordhaus.shtml
Deanna Nikaido
Poems, bio, upcoming readings, and links by the author of Vibrating With Silen