Friends of the Collection Program with Katy Siegel, September 23, 2021

For a long time it’s been taken for granted that social systems contain and diminish women. And yet against great odds, women do achieve their ambitions—but even then, we often simply fail to recognize the scale and glory of what they have done. Why is this so hard to see? This talk with Katy Siegel, scholar and curator at Stony Brook University and the Baltimore Museum of Art, explores the extraordinary achievements of women artists and also the terms of greatness itself and how women have redefined it for themselves.

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