Results for "Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dorothy Moss
- Date: March 7, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator of painting & sculpture, Dr. Dorothy Moss, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, directs the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and curates the museum’s first-ever performance art series, IDENTIFY. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Brandon Fortune
- Date: May 2, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Brandon Fortune, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, organized the first two Outwin Boochever Portrait Competitions and researches women portraitists of the later nineteenth century. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Virginia Outwin Boochever
- Date: July 11, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the National Portrait Gallery's portrait competition, became one of the first female commissioned officers in the Navy WAVES, and was a volunteer at the gallery for 19 years bringing the museum experience to retirement homes. #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 3/18/2016
- Date: March 18, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Spring edition! British Library is digitizing the last surviving play script by William Shakespeare pleading for the humane treatment of refugees. [via The Guardian]Why Ben Franklin would hang out at libraries today. [via the Atlantic]Wall of Birds, a new interactive from artist Jane Kim and Cornell Lab ornithologists. A local wins the National Portrait Gallery's 2016 Outwin