One of Lotte Reiniger's favorite folktales was The Grasshopper and the Ant. I think she considered herself a grasshopper in this world. The fate of the artist/grasshopper varies within culture and time period depending on who was telling the tale. #FolkloreThursday#lottereiniger
@ShantellMartin is a @BCWYSK. She is a British visual artist best known for her stream-of-consciousness drawings and light projections. Martin lives and works in New York, although engages on commercial, private and public projects internationally. #artist#creative#badasswomen
Happy #MuseumSelfieDay! We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate than w/#YayoiKusama inside her Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, one of the most photographed spaces at The Broad.
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Visitor info at https://t.co/8GRDyAFOzX. 📸 Hope Dickens
#DianeArbus is a #BCWYSK. An American #photographer, she was noted for #photographs of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers—and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal. #ChicagoMuseumWeek#art
#GeorgiaOKeeffe is a #BCWYSK. An American artist, she was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism". #ChicagoMuseumWeek#artist#CreativeWomen
#ZahaHadid is a #BCWYSK. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received the UK's most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. #creativewomen#artists#architecture#painters
#ZahaHadid is a #BCWYSK. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received the UK's most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. #creativewomen#artists#architecture#painters
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky is a #BCWYSK and the first female Austrian architect and a communist activist in the German resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered today for designing the so-called Frankfurt kitchen. #creativewomen#architecture
#VirginiaWoolf born 25 January 1882. Here's her writing shed, apple trees, and garden at Monk's House, Rodmell
"My head is a hive of words that won't settle."