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Artful Insights: Avril Angevine’s Art Lecture Series

Art HerStory: Five Early Practitioners

Learn about five women artists who worked in Europe’s pre-Modern era.

Despite accounting for only seven percent of the holdings of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, artworks by women are finally being celebrated in the art world. Understanding women’s contributions to cultural life is overdue, enriching, and inspiring. Women explore the perennial art subjects: portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, mythology, and religious subjects, but they also bring images found in women’s lives and experiences into art. Learn about five women who worked in Europe’s pre-Modern era: Levina Teerlinc, Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Beale, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Lavinia Fontana.

Avril Angevine is an arts lecturer with a particular interest in modern, contemporary, and California art. She speaks on many subjects at various locations in the Bay Area, including the OLLI programs at Cal State East Bay, Dominican College, San Francisco State, and the Fromm Institute. Avril has a BA in English and an MA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and taught English and Humanities at local colleges. She is also a museum guide at SFMOMA, the Oakland Museum, and the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.

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