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Hugo Erfurth - Portrait der Käthe Kollwitz, 1927

Hugo Erfurth

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Women Artists: Their Inspirations and Influence

8-weeks | Available (Membership Required)

9/22/2026-11/10/2026
1:45 PM-3:00 PM EDT on Tue
11/13/2026

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Women Artists: Their Inspirations and Influence

8-weeks | Available (Membership Required)

From the Baroque era to the contemporary era, there has been an incredibly diverse group of women artists working across genres and media to create a large body of visual images that live at the heart of our culture and reflect our sense of values and identity. Looking across 400 years of Western art making, from Artemisia Gentileschi and Kathe Kollwitz to living artists like Sally Mann and Wangechi Mutu, we will look at where these women have found their inspirations and what have been their influence on their time.

  • Materials: Links to relevant video and text will be provided a couple of days prior to each class meeting.
John McGiff

John McGiff has been an artist and teacher for over 40 years. He was an adjunct at Drexel and Temple Universities in Philadelphia and was Chair of the Arts Department at St. Andrew's School, an independent boarding school in Delaware, for more than 20 years. He taught studio arts courses and art history and has shown his paintings at numerous venues across the mid-Atlantic region. He and his wife, “The Salt-Point Potter,” live in Dutchess County, New York.