Posts by Madeleine Viljoen

Please click the image to view Ambreen Butt's blog about '(Untitled) Dragon Woman' and the importance of giving "a face to the female in the black veil." The exhibition, 'Printing Women' focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection and signals women’s continuing participation in printmaking as well as the Library’s longstanding commitment to acquiring and exhibiting prints made by women from around the world.

Please click the image to view Valerie Hammond's blog about 'Blue Anemone' and "the indefinable boundary between presence and absence." The exhibition, 'Printing Women' focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection and signals women’s continuing participation in printmaking as well as the Library’s longstanding commitment to acquiring and exhibiting prints made by women from around the world.

Please click the image to view Julie Buffalohead's statement about her 'Revisionist History Lesson' and its "reexamination of settler mythology." The exhibition, 'Printing Women' focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection and signals women’s continuing participation in printmaking as well as the Library’s longstanding commitment to acquiring and exhibiting prints made by women from around the world.

Please click the image to view Alyson Shotz's blog post on the process of making her Sequent series. The exhibition, 'Printing Women' focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection and signals women’s continuing participation in printmaking as well as the Library’s longstanding commitment to acquiring and exhibiting prints made by women from around the world.

Please click the image to view the blog post on Diane Victor's work, and its explorations of what she calls, "metaphorical burdens." The exhibition, 'Printing Women' focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection and signals women’s continuing participation in printmaking as well as the Library’s longstanding commitment to acquiring and exhibiting prints made by women from around the world. Working with the Library’s Digital Experience team, the exhibition's curator, Madeleine Viljoen will feature a new artist's work on the exhibition's web page every two weeks 

Please click the image to view Sara Sanders' blog post on her Chairs and their relation to our personal histories. The exhibition, 'Printing Women' focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection and signals women’s continuing participation in printmaking as well as the Library’s longstanding commitment to acquiring and exhibiting prints made by women from around the world. Working with the Library’s Digital Experience team, the exhibition's curator, Madeleine Viljoen will feature a new artist's work on the exhibition's web page every two weeks throughout the 

From the sixteenth century on, men -- rather than women -- developed pattern books on which women based their needlepoint work. This blog explores the works of two late sixteenth and seventeenth-century women, Isabella Parasole and Maria Sibylla Merian, who overthrew these conventions, first by creating textile patterns for women and then by branching out into the study of natural history, a field that was dominated by male explorers and discoverers.

The exhibition, 'Printing Women' focuses on Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s (1830–1881) collection and signals women’s continuing participation in printmaking as well as the Library’s longstanding commitment to acquiring and exhibiting prints made by women from around the world. Working with the Library’s Digital Experience team, the exhibition's curator, Madeleine Viljoen will feature a new artist's work on the exhibition's web page every two weeks throughout the exhibition's run. The features will also connect to blog posts to which several of the artists contributed writing.