The Female Gaze 
Michele Clapton is an Emmy and BAFTA award-winning costume designer. Based in the UK, Michele has worked on numerous high profile projects including Game of Thrones, The Crown, Sense and Sensibility, and The Devil’s Whore. You can see more of her life and work on her Instagram and website. We sat down to talk to […]Read Post ›
Diana Zeng, also known as Zen She, is an artist based in St. Louis. On May 21st, she left her job to start her own painting studio. This is a story about cancer and painting and don’t worry! It has a happy ending. But Diana’s journey is about what really matters, in the end.
Monica Sklar is the Assistant Professor and Liaison to the Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection, University of Georgia. Based in Athens, she is also the former founder & editor of WornThrough.com. Interview conducted by Tiffany Chan Edited by Kathryn Griffith and Tiffany Chan Q: What is your story? How did you fall in love with […]Read Post ›
Jean Wang is the founder of Extrapetite.com, a blog that started as a resource for a consumer base typically outside the focus of the fashion houses and designers. Based in Boston, Jean has been writing about fashion, lifestyle and travel for over seven years. She sat down with us to talk about her transition from […]Read Post ›
Katherine Parr has worked as a model, a teacher and a social entrepreneur. She now is the Owner and Creative Director of her NYC-based eponymous jewelry line and collaborates with artisans in Kabul and Afghanistan to created hand-crafted, sustainable pieces. See more of her work here and you can follow her on Twitter here. Interview conducted […]Read Post ›
Moira Ratchford is Maryland-based graphic designer and artist. She addresses a variety of subjects in her work, from war in the Syrian refugee crisis to climate change. You can find her portfolio and other work here. Q: What is your story? How did you fall in love with your current field of work/study? I’ve always […]Read Post ›
Zubeida Agha is a member of the Guerrilla Girls, a feminist arts collective based in New York City. And before you get confused about why we are interviewing a late Modernist painter from Pakistan-that isn’t her real name. Founded in the late 1980’s, the Guerrilla Girls are a group of artist and art professionals from […]Read Post ›
Rebecca Bedell is an Associate Professor of the Art of the United States, Art Department, Wellesley College. Professor Bedell is author of The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875 and the soon to be published Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States. She is also much beloved […]Read Post ›
Maybe you’ve seen our series “Profiles in Art” , which follows female professionals in the visual arts. But were you ever curious about the writers here at the Female Gaze? Wonder no more because this week we’re sitting down and answering the questions we’ve sent out to our interviewees. We are feminist scholars that all came […]Read Post ›
Patricia Berman is the Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA. She researches the visual culture of art from the late 19th century through present-day with a focus on European and Scandinavian art at the turn of the century. Q: What is your story? How did you […]Read Post ›
