Reframing History: a Symposium on Women Artists

Celebrate International Women’s Day at the New Mexico Museum of Art with the opening of the exhibition Eugenie Shonnard: Breaking the Mold and a series of talks on women artists you may not know. Presentations by scholars Marcy Botwick, Amy Von Lintel and Kate Ware.

March 8, 2025 10:00-12:30

St. Francis Auditorium

New Mexico Museum of Art on the Plaza

107 W. Palace Ave.

Amy Von Lintel, Professor of Art History, Director of Gender Studies Program, West Texas A&M University Women Artists of the Southwest
Focusing on four themes—out, open, healing, and art–Amy Von Lintel will discuss a medley of artists, style, media, and subject matter. Von Lintel will explore the complicated “outness” of escape and living away from the mainstream, the “openness” of the wide-open spaces of the region and the relative freedom of that isolation and breadth, the “healing” artists often found in the southwest region, and how the art of women working in the southwest has been excitingly place-based.

Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art  The Many Faces of Anne Noggle
After a career as a captain in the U.S. Air Force and as a freelance pilot, Illinois-born Anne Noggle was grounded by illness and enrolled as a freshman in the Art Department of the University of New Mexico at age 38. She later earned her M.A. degree and embarked on a fruitful career as a photographer and curator. Characteristic of her work are portraits of older women, asserting their strength and unconventional beauty, and her frank and inventive use of herself as a model.

Marcy Botwick, Southwest Librarian, New Mexico State Library Inside Outsider in Taos: Mary Greene Blumenschein, Identity and Legacy
Mary Greene Blumenschein pursued a career as an artist in Paris before careers for women were common or commonly accepted. She illustrated magazines and books while raising her daughter as a single parent in New York. She blended family life and career in ways that provide an historical mirror to many families today. In this talk, Botwick rereads the Blumenschein papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and the New Mexico History Museum to center Mary’s life as a working artist and reconsider Ernest Blumenschein’s role as a father and husband. This work explores the experiences of women artists around the turn of the twentieth century and the Blumenscheins’ domestic life.

FREE to attend!

This program is funded by the generous support of Pat and Jim Hall and The Tishman Foundation.

St. Francis Auditorium is equipped with an audio loop assisted listening device.

image: Eugenie Shonnard in her studio with Indian Bust, ca. 1950, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Courtesy of the New Mexico Museum of Art Archives (NMMOA/DCA) Eugenie Shonnard Collection 0029