The Female Gaze 
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 ›
Colleen Hill is a fashion historian, author, and Curator of Costume and Accessories at The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). She is currently based in New York City. Q: What is your story? How did you fall in love with your current field of work/study? I’ve loved fashion since childhood, and my earliest […]Read Post ›
Susan Champeny is an artist, sculptor and muralist. Formerly of Worcester, MA and now based in Pahoa, Hawaii, she is the maker of strange sculptures, odd mosaics and magical murals. Q: What is your story? How did you fall in love with your current field of work/study? I always loved art, especially typography and publications, […]Read Post ›
Julia Makivic is a Boston-based artist and web designer. She creates web-based interactive narratives that aim to fully immerse readers in the story. Julia also has a background in illustration and have experimented with data art, printmaking and 3D modeling. You can view her work here: http://cargocollective.com/juliamakivic
Dahlia Al-Habieli is a scenic designer, visual designer and instructor currently based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Born and raised in Abu-Dhabi, Dahlia has credited the city for fostering her love of storytelling and focused her work on building connections between languages, cultures and genders. She has won numerous awards for her work including the Independent […]Read Post ›
REBECCA DANOS (Wellesley College ’98) was an astrophysics major and was awarded an MS in theoretical high energy physics at UCLA and a PhD in theoretical cosmology at McGill University. She is passionate about theoretical physics, mathematics, writing, and performing classical music. She is currently working on three novels and a blog titled A Harmonic Analysis. She […]Read Post ›
How did we begin? In the months following college graduation, Tiffany was very homesick for her art history classes. She missed her professors, she missed the conversations in classes and she missed her friends. She worried that she didn’t appreciate what a privilege those classes were until it was too late and might never get […]Read Post ›
As 2016 draws to a close, we find ourselves looking not only towards a brighter 2017 but also upon that progress that we have made this year as writers, as a team and as human beings. Below are our reflections. Claire: Dealing with the classism that I used to perpetuate while also barely making rent. […]Read Post ›
