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The Feminist Archive North (FAN) houses collections on women’s movements, organisations and campaigns. Its initial focus was the North of England, but its collections now cover the rest of the United Kingdom, parts of Europe and the wider world.
The material, which dates back to 1969, covers a variety of topics including:
the family
health
employment and other social Read More
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)—the world’s first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists—reopened on October 21, 2023, after a two-year renovation, revealing a transformed building, powerful exhibitions and engaging public programs. NMWA reimagined its historic home at 1250 New York Avenue in Washington, D.C., to offer flexible exhibition spaces Read More
Home Sweet Home is a research and publication platform to investigate independent, artist-led and, curatorial projects in India that exist on the fringes of the mainstream art market occupying non-commercial spaces, to enable artistic engagements.
Home Sweet Home started as an exhibition series in 2015 and occupied domestic spaces to exhibit works of art. It focuses Read More
Celebrate the launch of the Women Alternative Photography Group with Founder and Director Elizabeth Ransom, Gül Cevikoglu and Megan Ringrose on the 25 March 6pm (GMT).
Women Alternative Photography Group is a feminist research project celebrating women, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, and gender-diverse artists from all backgrounds working with alternative photographic processes. Women Alternative Photography Group aims to Read More
Black Women Photographers disrupts the notion that it is difficult to discover and commission Black creatives. Dedicated to providing a resource for the industry’s gatekeepers.
Established in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, Black Women Photographers (BWP) is a global community, directory, and hub of over 1,200 Black women and non-binary identifying photographers, spanning over 50 countries Read More
The following guidance was developed by VocalEyes with the Inclusive AD forum set up as part of the IDEA project, a collaboration of Royal Holloway University of London with VocalEyes. Download the guidance as a Word document.
Introduction
At the start of meetings, presentations and panel discussions, people introduce themselves. People who are not blind Read More
Ryesrson Image Centre has acquired a collection of works by two Canadian female photographers.
This exceptional collection of photographs, negatives, publications, and ephemera represents two generations of work by Canadians Minna Keene (1861–1943) and her daughter Violet Keene Perinchief (1893–1987).
Donated to the RIC by their family descendants, the archive illustrates the unique phenomenon of a professional Read More
Cecilia’ed looks at disrupting normative notions of gender in public spaces by working with neighbourhood spaces that are marked ‘unsafe’ for women, using the politics of herd mentality and celebrity culture.
Taking Bangalore as the locus of the project, she has identified obsolete spaces like salons and bars, gendered spaces specifically, and intends to reopen Read More
OUR STREETS NOW is a campaign demanding the right of women and girls to feel and be safe in public space.
It started with a conversation. Two sisters, 15 and 21, spoke about how they experience the world as young women. How they feel scared walking home at night. How they feel anxious in Read More
HUNDRED HEROINES
Nomination for Heroines 2021 – Now Open
One of the exciting ways in which we learn about Heroines is from you! There are so many fantastic heroines working in photography and related media out there – from those yet to be internationally discovered, to those whose contributions are underacknowledged, to others whose universal recognition deserves Read More
WOMEN PHOTO GR, the first community in Greece dedicated to female, LGBT+ and non-binary photographers proudly presents WOMANHOOD IS, a virtual photography exhibition featuring artworks by 20 artists based permanently or temporarily in Greece.
20 artists / photographers explore views of womanhood.
For more information about the collective and the artists, please go to the direct link.
Collective art production and writing
Maternal Fantasies is an interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin. They shape the discourse on motherhood through collective artistic processes while enhancing the visibility of contemporary feminist positions addressing motherhood(s) in the arts. From writing autobiographical responses to classic feminist texts to devising performances using Read More
Work Show Grow is an educational online community for creatives from all levels, stages and entry points, which supports your growth through school membership, mentorship, workshops and events.
Work Show Grow was founded in 2018 by Natasha Caruana, an award-winning and internationally recognised artist and educator. Art education has changed a lot in the past two Read More
National Museum of Women in the Arts (USA) presents data on gender inequality in the arts
The Numbers Don’t Lie
The truth is that women have never been treated equally in the art world, and today they remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses. Counting and quantifying won’t solve discrimination, but statistics are Read More
Foto Femme United is an international women’s photography collective and community established and based in Paris, France. Our mission is multi-layered. To start, we believe that empowering women in photography around the world is vital. The ratio of successful male photographers to female photographers is 3:1. We challenge the white male gaze that exists in Read More
A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers.
You don’t have to apply. It doesn’t cost anything, it’s fully customisable, and you can be in residence for as long as you choose. You don’t even have to travel, the residency takes place entirely inside your own home and everyday life. An Artist Residency in Motherhood is Read More
Phase One of the V&A Photography Centre is now open. To mark this occasion, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge undertook her first visit to the V&A as Royal Patron on October 10, ahead of the Centre’s public opening on October 12.
More information about Phase One and the inaugural display in the Photography Read More
We believe in changing the lives of women, one camera at a time.
Women whose voices are rarely if ever heard, from domestic helpers in Hong Kong to children of sex workers in Pakistan, are taking photos thanks to Lensational’s photography training. These photos reflect their thoughts, emotions and dreams. At Lensational, we imagine a world Read More
Launched in June 2008, Women in Photography is an innovative website founded by artists Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips that showcases the work of women artists. The internet-based project focuses on exhibiting work outside of the traditional model of the commercial art world, allowing it to reach a global audience and to provide opportunities at Read More
A catalyst and umbrella for cultural projects and advocacy where female equality provides the contextual backbone.
A Woman’s Place Project CIC:
A catalyst and umbrella for cultural projects and advocacy where female equality provides the contextual backbone.
Working with artists, heritage, education, environmental and community partners to nurture ambitious high quality projects
Supporting women and people who identify as women who work Read More
MODEL
The Mother House,started the 5th of September 2016 at the IKLECTIK Art Lab. The model provides the freedom to work independently or alongside your children and it encouraged opportunities to work in collaboration with other artists creating a supportive and inspiring network.
The Mother House idea is born in response to the urge Read More
The Zimbabwe Association of Female Photographers was launched in 2013 as a voluntary organisation that strives to raise the standard of professionalism in the industry through project-based training, networking and the promotion of our members’ work.
The ZAFP believes that as women we have a different story to tell and that our perspective is missing. Our Read More
Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora is an exclusive and commemorative bi-annual journal committed to establishing and representing a collective voice of women photographers of African descent. The inaugural issue of Mfon features 100 women photographers across the Diaspora. This iconic issue features an introduction by Dr. Deborah Willis, MacArthur Fellow and Chair of Read More
In his 1938 novel Enemies of Promise Cyril Connolly asserted that ‘there is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall’. Since April 2009 Enemies of Good Art has debated the issues arising from this infamous quote.
Enemies of Good Art seeks to investigate the possibilities of combining art practice and Read More
“Mothers in Arts is a small initiative founded by Csilla Klenyanszki, who lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Mothers in Arts supports women artists who are also mothers and shines a light on the mother-shaped blindspot within the art world.
It puts forward a discussion about a problem that affects many young artist women when they Read More
Committed to Supporting Women in Photography.
The OGC is the brain child of Kate O’Neill and Alice Widger, born after noticing there was a lack of support or connections solely aimed for women in photography.
The OGC (a tongue n’ cheek poke at the industries’ ‘mythical’ Old Boys Club) hopes to help women within the photography industry connect, exhibit, promote Read More
