Clark Art Institute, Talk

Exhibition Tour: A Room of Her Own

Special Exhibition Galleries

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Learn more about women artists and the artworks they created in Great Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discover how these artists defied social expectations by establishing spaces to make art and nurture their artistic lives during a time when it was difficult for female artists to secure training, gain access to professional art societies, exhibit their work, and be taken seriously by art critics and collectors. With the help of a Clark educator, understand how these professional women artists’ activism extended beyond the art world and included other social issues of their time.

Free with gallery admission. Capacity is limited. Pick up a ticket at the Clark Center admissions desk, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Meet in the Clark Center lower lobby.

Image: Nina Hamnett, Portrait of a Woman (detail), 1917, oil on canvas. Private collection