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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt

Photo of a small standing girl facing forwardsl in a purple dress with colourful embroidered details and an embroidered cap

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

Blue Butterflies and Star Burst Navajo Basket, by Native American master weaver Elsie Holiday #WomensArt

Photo looking down on a circular woven basket with a cental blue and white star motif with a circular border of repeated stylised angular blue butterflies

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

No AI on this account, real art by real artists :)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt

Textile artworks show in a grid of sixteen squares all reflecting different embroidered garden flowers and plants

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750), still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands who specialized in flowers, achieving international fame in her lifetime #WomensArt

Painting of a busy bouquet of flowers on a surface with different blossoms one above the other against a black background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 6

'Hector' linocut by UK contemporary artist and #printmaker Vanessa Lubach #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a sitting black cat against a blue and white floral pattern background

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Kaz @breakbeatreads.bsky.social · 7d

I recently read Reframing Women Printmakers and can only describe it as essential reading, wish I’d had something like that as an undergrad

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11d

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Three individual book covers with different images and colours

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

Victo Ngai, award winning illustrator and artist from Hong Kong #womensart #Autumn #Fall

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Olek's huge crochet murals, temporary installations honouring various women including Harriet Tubman, Nina Simone and here Marian Anderson, as part of the series 'Love Across the USA' #womensart

Photo of a large crocheted mural in purple and yellow showing the upper half of a woman nect to text 'You lose a lot of time hating people', by the mural sits a person on a wall showing the huge scale of the work

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

The People of Pattern Project, 2016 by Yemeni-Bosnian-US artist Alia Ali, on textile, culture and identity #womensar

Photo of a crouching person covered in striped blue and white material from head to toe, the subject is in front of a diamond patterned blue and white background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Kimika Hara, contemporary embroiderer from Japan #WomensArt

Pictorial embroidery of a stylised hedgehog fzcing left looking outwards with vivid green spikes, pink ears and yellow face

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Sumida Hokusai Museum, Tokyo, Japan by architect Kazuyo Sejima, known for her designs with clean modernist elements #womensart

Photo of a modern building with mirrored front and angular shapes set at unusual angles

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with a Child in her Arms, (Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm), 1916 #WomensArt

Sketch of a a white woman, upper half. holding her child lovingly smiling, while the child touches the mother's face

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders images of sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #WomensArt

Photo of a white pillow with the head and shoulders of a sleeping woman sewn into the fabric

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt

Painted design with a mass of green leaves and twisting vines as well as pink and white blossoms, all on a white background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

US painter
Laura Wheeler Waring,
Woman with Bouquet, c.1940 #womensart
#BlackHistoryMonth US

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Artist Maya Gelfman, "Black Birds" installation, created with yarn #WomensArt

Installation with eighteen flying black birds created with yarn, suspended in the air while attached to a ball of black yarn on the floor, all against a white background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

'Blinding Light: Whatever might rise I' by contemporary US painter Beverly McIver, known for her self portraits #WomensArt #Monday

Painting featuring the head and shoulders of a Black women facing forwards with eyes closed and with stripes of shadow and light across her face and body

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Michelle Kingdom, fine artist based in California, specializing in embroidery #WomensArt

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Female workers in US steel mills, WW2 (c.1942) were a subject for photographer Margaret Bourke-White. They were known as 'Rosies' based on the 'Rosie the Riveter' icon, which represented women who worked in factories and shipyards when men were absent in war #WomrnsArt

Monochrome photograph featuring two white woman workers,upper half, while welding, both wearing goggles and with scarfs covering their hair

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

The work of contemporary Northumberland artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a view over a colourful furrowed field landscape to a flat horizon on which a single windblown tree grows under a sunset pinky blue sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Australian printmaker Rachel Newling is inspired by the floral and fauna of her homeland.
'Grey Headed Flying Fox', hand coloured linocut #ReframjngWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bats hanging upside-down in branches of a tree with green leaves and orange blossoms

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 1

'Reframing Women Printmakers' discusses the significant and vital history of African American women printmakers, from Elizabeth Catlett and Margaret Taylor Burroughs to the contemporary US group Black Women of Print.

Three prints with images refecting portraits of Black people in various styles

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