Painting of a sitting white woman painting at an easel, looking outwards, wearing a silk dress, in a dark interior

Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), a highly prolific Italian painter, and respected teacher who founded the first art academy for women outside of a convent. Another pioneering female artist not celebrated enough in Euopean art history #WomensArt

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Collages in patterned paper resembling four different stylised birds two flying, two standing all against a white background

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #WomensArt

17.01.2026 05:58 — 👍 544    🔁 82    💬 0    📌 5

Sqyare quilt with images of Black women dancing on the air above a large netal suspension bridge within the quilt's patterned border

'Dancing on the George Washington Bridge'
quilted artwork
by Faith Ringgold,
US artist #WomensArt

07.11.2025 18:27 — 👍 355    🔁 73    💬 0    📌 3

Dear funding agencies,

I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.

Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.

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across wide expanse of still winter marshland, almost green but not yet so close, a sky of grey and silver and light moves from here to there and back again above and below…arms thrown wide, one close ripple evidencing a reminding touch, a finger of our spring, of life

April’s silvering touch

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