For college graduates interested in an in-depth introduction to the field while designing and facilitating interpretive programs for diverse audiences. Join a dynamic group of other emerging arts ...

Scroll down to check out a new learning resource for our exhibition María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold. We are proud to offer a variety of programs for speakers of languages other than English. We ...

Unknown artist. Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, British suffrage leader, and Miss Alice Paul of the National Woman’s Party, Washington, D.C., between 1910 and 1920 ...

Virginia Woolf is a renowned British novelist associated with the modernist movement in literature; her writing is characterized by experiments in language, narrative, and the treatment of time. Woolf ...

Funding for the Brooklyn Museum Conservation department's documentation, cleaning, and remounting of the reliefs was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation ...

Caroline Herschel was a pioneering female astronomer, and the first woman to discover a comet. Her achievements enabled generations of women to develop a career in the sciences, a field that was once ...

Agnes Waterhouse was put on trial in Chelmsford, England, in 1566 for using witchcraft to cause illness; her eighteen-year-old daughter Joan was accused of the same crime. Joan testified against her ...

Hildegarde of Bingen, also known as St. Hildegard and the Sybil of the Rhine, was an enormously influential and spiritual woman, who paved the way for other women to succeed in a number of fields from ...

Luisa Moreno was a labor organizer and civil rights activist in the United States for two decades. Born Blanca Rosa López Rodríguez to a prominent Guatemalan family, she changed her name to spare them ...

Artemisia Gentileschi was an early Italian Baroque painter, and the only female follower of Caravaggio, whom she worked with in Italy in the early 17th century. Her innovative compositions and focus ...

Laura Bassi significantly broadened the horizons of scientific culture in Enlightenment Italy. Her achievements lie less in the publication of landmark theses—in fact, she published very little—but in ...