Author Bridget Quinn Explores ’15 Women Who Made Art & Made History’  – O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 7/21

In 2017, San Francisco artist and author Bridget Quinn sought to celebrate female artists, many of whom “have been lost to history.” She did just that with Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art And Made History (In That Order), and she brings the book to the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts on Saturday, July 21 at 7pm.

With the help of visual aids, Quinn will delve into some important women in the history of art and drill down on one story in particular that gives a sense of how it is women artists. She’ll participate in Q&A and have books available for purchase and signing.

Quinn’s book centers on the idea that major female artists have historically been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers a corrective to that omission.

​Quinn, who has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught art history and architecture at Portland State University, delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe. The tome also features reproductions of the artists’ works and contemporary portraits of each artist by illustrator Lisa Congdon – “art history from the Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism for the modern art lover, reader, and feminist.”

The 411: San Francisco artist and author Bridget Quinn brings her book Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art And Made History (In That Order) to the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave., on Saturday, July 21 at 7pm. $10.

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