#oppression
There is a quote by artist and professor Joan Semmel that says, '...if there are no great celebrated women artists, that's because the powers have not been celebrating them, but not because they are not there.' Celebrating women artists is more than just about amplifying the voice of the artists themselves, but also about reorienting the way a culture, a community, or a society is perceived and interpreted. The neglect and dismissal of the "woman’s perspective" has been persistent over…