Living in downtown DC, not too far from Alma Thomas’s house (and in the neighborhood near Howard University where she taught), made me wonder how many young people knew about this artist’s transformative work. Their stories span a century or more, a variety of media, but are joined together by a glimpse into defining moments in their lives and artmaking.
#New comic collector series
For this series we chose the artists Berenice Abbott, Anni Albers, Romaine Brooks, Maria Oakey Dewing, Carmen Herrera, Corita Kent, Edmonia Lewis, Kay Sekimachi, Alma Thomas, and Mickalene Thomas. We wanted to use a digital format to tell-and show-the stories of ten women artists with work in the museum’s collection who may not have gotten the attention they deserved in their lifetimes. In spring of 2021, the Smithsonian American Art Museum entered a collaboration with the Ringling College of Art and Design to create Drawn to Art: Ten Tales of Inspiring Women Artists, a project informed by graphic novel storytelling. What happens when you pair ten emerging illustrators with ten rule-breaking, visionary women artists in order to tell ten remarkable tales?
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