Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered landscapes #WomensArt
#summer

#Summer panel (detail), 1904 designed and made by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt

Artwork by stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott. Her work is inspired by folklore and nature.
#Beltane #WomensArt

#Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival marking the beginning of #summer
'Passage” (2007) by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart

Tina Modotti's photograph of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with members of the Artists' Union, on the May Day March, Mexico City, 1929 #womensart
#Mayday is International Workers' Day or #LabourDay2024 a celebration of the working classes by the international labour movement.

Poster by Favianna Rodriguez, US artist of Afro-Peruvian heritage #womensart #MayDay is International Workers' Day, aka Labour Day, a celebration of the working classes

Traditionally #Beltane , an ancient celebration at the start of May, began when the Hawthorn, the May, blossomed and was associated with fertility. 'May Blossom' by painter Alice Robertson #WomensArt #May1st

'Tiny Pricks Project' curated by Diana Weymar. Contributors globally are stitching Donald Trump’s words into textiles, such as the examples here #WomensArt

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Painter Shani Rhys James – States of Mind
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Portrait of Lydia Cassatt, 1880 by painter Mary Cassatt #WomensArt

'Drawer’, 2022 photomontage, lithograph, by English singer, songwriter, artist, Alison Moyet #WomensArt

Alison Gates, Bayeux Tapestry inspired embroidery with a mock-Latin aphorism meaning 'Don't let the bastards grind you down', from Exquisite Uterus Project: The Art of Resistance, on women's reproductive rights #womensart .

Tradition of African-American quilt-making of Gee's Bend community, Alabama, classed as creating some of the finest US folk art #WomensArt

Portrait by contemporary needle artist Emily Tull #WomensArt

Planes, rockets and the spaces in between (2018) by US artist Amy Sherald #womensart

'The #Flower Maiden' by Annie French (1872-1965), Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator and designer associated with the Glasgow School of Art #WomensArt #April #Spring

Portrait of the first UK woman to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Dorothy Hodgkin, 1985 by artist Maggi Hambling, showing the subject and a structural model of insulin in the foreground #WomensArt #womeninSTEM

A cub getting weighed at Bifengxia Giant Panda Base, China by photographer Ami Vitale for National Geographic #womensart

Spanish artist Maruja Mallo, Ciclista (1927) #WomensArt

Electric prisms, 1914, by pioneering Ukrainian-French artist Sonia Delaunay #WomensArt