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This is an exhibit created by Judith Unger, an international artist, to raise awareness about women artists who were unrecognized in their time. It discusses various women artists who faced challenges and were not widely recognized until after their deaths. It emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and celebrating the work of women artists throughout history. Judith Unger herself is a passionate sculptor who finds inspiration in both Venice and Vermont. Sculpting and drawing are essential to her existence. Hi, I'm Judith Unger, international artist. I created this exhibit to raise awareness and encourage past, current, and future women artists unrecognized in their time. Where are all the women artists? Women artists were not recognized in major art history anthologies until 1989. Let's sing to courageous women artists painting nude self-portraits when they were not allowed to draw from nude models. Let's sing about Frida Kahlo, 1907 through 1954, Mexican painter, only widely recognized after her death. A 1933 Detroit News article describes Frida Kahlo as wife of the master mural painter who gleefully dabbles in art. Let's sing about Judith Leister, 1609 through 1660, Dutch painter whose painting signatures were replaced with the signature of Franz Halls by art dealers. Let's sing about Artemisia Gentilsky, 1593 through 1653, Italian Baroque painter. In 1616, a portrait of a female painting was commissioned by Michelangelo's nephew for the ceiling of Casa Buonarroti. In 1684, Michelangelo's great nephew added drapery and veils to Gentilsky's work to preserve modesty of the female inhabitants of the house. Let's sing to Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815 through 1879, Indian photographer. Critics derided her softly focused and unrefined images considering her avant-garde photographs amateurish. She is credited with producing the first art photos in the history of photography. Let's sing to Lee Krasner, 1908 through 1984, United States painter. Overshadowed by husband Jackson Pollock, Krasner was an established abstract artist well before she met him. Signing much of her work as LK or not at all, Krasner attempted to escape presumptions about femininity in the work of women artists and their ties to Pollock. Let's sing to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1875 through 1942, United States sculptor and philanthropist who co-founded the Whitney Museum of Art in 1930. She was aware of the marginal position of women artists and organized women's only exhibitions and ensured female artists were included in mixed shows. Let's sing to Emma Sandys, 1841 through 1877, English painter, part of the groundbreaking Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, a rare act of feminism for the time. Elizabeth Predijon writes in the art of the Pre-Raphaelites, it is a matter of writing a wholly new different story about Pre-Raphaelites, a story in which the activities of women are no longer incidental but necessary to the plot. Let's sing to Judith Unger, 1947 United States artist. I fell in love with sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design. Clay felt so right. The fluid sensuality in my hands, both Venice and Vermont, magnify the intensity of my work. I returned to my Vermont studio in an explosion of creativity. I need to sculpt and draw. It is essential to my existence.