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A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making

San Francisco Center for the Book 375 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco

In her seminal 1971 essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (link is external)Art historian Linda Nochlin examines the conditions of art-making that have prevented women and BIPOC artists from achieving the status of artistic “greatness” that has long been exclusively reserved for white male artists. Written at the height of the second-wave Feminist movement […]

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Frank Ingerson and George Dennison: A Bay Area Love Story in Arts & Crafts (1910-1966)

The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco

The Splendid Disarray of Beauty (2023) tells two intertwined stories, one of love, the other of art. In 1910, the San Franciscans Frank Ingerson and George Dennison became permanently paired in life and love. Known among their friends and in their community as the Boys, they remained in a de facto common law marriage for […]