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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

US artist Hillary Waters Fayle, known for creating fine embroideries on real leaves #womensart #AutumnWeek 🍂

A photo of a line of the same species of green leaf each with a botanical embroidery of the same flowering plant

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Alexander Calder Two Black Branches, 1972 gouache and ink on paper 57.8 x 78.1 cm #AlexanderCalder

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Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Léonie & Charles-Eduoard Geisendorf’s S’s Görans gymnasium, Stockholm (1960). A masterpiece.

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Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A day teaching in Carlo Scarpa’s Castelvecchio. Magic.

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Winged Monkeys were more frightening to 5 year old me than the witch...and that's saying a lot. (I still tense up thinking about the image of the witch on her broom outside Dorothy's window...)

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Matisse

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Matisse working in bed along with one of his cats, 1949

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Matisse in his studio 1949, Nice, France. Photo by Robert Capa.

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bonnie Hopper Artist who lives and works in Washington State Remember When, 2021 arge scale collage on yupo paper oil paints/oil stick with resin overlay 48x36 #BonnieHopper #Americanart

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Charles Sheeler American artist Red Against the White, 1957 #CharlesSheeler

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shufu Miyamoto Japanese printmaker b 1950 woodblock print #woodblock

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Martin Wickström Swedish artist, b. 1957 October, 2023 Oil on canvas , 200 x 160 cm. #Swedishart

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shin Noguchi A Story in White and Yellow from Shinjuku. Tokyo, Japan, 2016 #Streetphotography

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ollie LeBroq Contemporary British artist Yucca in Sunlight 50 x 50 cm Acrylic on panel #Britishart

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Georgia O'Keeffe @gokeeffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Blue and Green Music www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe…

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Biscuit flavour: Almond & rose (inspired by marchpane, a historical form of marzipan). Designs painted onto royal icing by hand using food colouring gels and vodka. This research is supported by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Programme (@britishacademy.bsky.social).

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Together with historian Dr Anouska Lester, I’m trawling through documents like the ones biscuified here to show how integral tradespeople were to the early modern theatre industry. The project is titled ‘Shakespeare’s Makers’. Stay tuned for our findings!

A bullet-point list of the sources used to create this biscuit set. The text reads as follows:

The items depicted in this biscuit set include:

Top row (from left to right)
- The parish register for Saint Mary Magdalen, Milk Street (1559-1653)
- The Agas Map of London (1561)
- John Stow’s 'Survey of London' (1633)
- The Fishmongers’ Funeral Pall (c.1512-38), a richly embroidered textile piece used to adorn the coffins of members of the Fishmongers’ livery company

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- An anonymous 1809 engraving depicting Cheapside c.1547
- A receipt documenting the sale of clothing to Elizabethan theatre impresario Philip Henslowe
- A portrait of Dame Barbara Stone (c.1605), wife of Sir William Stone, Clothworker
- The will of Jane Heath (1638), wife of Richard Heath, Mercer

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Félix Vallotton

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lucy Ogden, ceramic artist living and working in Shoreham by Sea on the south coast of the UK #WomensArt (via Instagram)

Four white plates with angular images of black birds all against a wood backdrop

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On short lifespans

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The name alone conjures visions of delectable treats, Poiret’s 1912/13 Sorbet gown. It offered a new silhouette that reimagined womenswear at this transitional time, illustrated too by George’s Lepape’s drawings @chicagomuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin posed in Poiret’s distinctive sorbet gown consisting of black and white satin in panels embroidered with stylised floral motifs around the bell shaped bodice. It has a pink silk sash and a draped asymmetric skirt

A fashion drawing of the Poiret Sorbet gown with the figure striking the same pose as the mannequin wearing the striking black, white and floral dress

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rodmickleburgh.bsky.social @rodmickleburgh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Takao Tanabe, BC’s most renowned living artist, is 100 years old today. There is an outstanding retrospective of his long career at the Audain Gallery in Whistler. As a youth, Takao, along with his family, was forcibly uprooted and interned at Lemon Creek during WW II.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gerald A. Cooper (1896-1975) ~ Sunflower Seeds

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Edward Hopper House on the shore, 1924

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Frank Johnston Canadian artist 1888-1949 September Clouds, Georgian Bay oil on paperboard 15.4 x 20.3 cm #Canadianart

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Charles E. Burchfield September Wind, 1955 watercolour on paper 14 x 20 in #CharlesBurchfield

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

N. C. Wyeth 1882-1945 Island Funeral, 1939 Egg tempera and oil on a hardboard panel #Americanart

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An absolute #1920s favourite by Madeleine Vionnet, creating a cascade of different shades of green in every increasingly loops of colour. The vermicelli style embroidery and jeweled trim is the icing on the tippity top #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of a loose sleeveless dress in shades of green from emerald in the centre to pale at the outer edge. It has a long curved train and is trimmed with green gems and metallic embroidery

Front view of the 1920s loose sleeveless dress with scoops of metallic embroidery and gems decorating the different shades of green

Fabric detail of the loose sleeveless dress in different shades of green. It highlights the jewelled embellishment and metallic embroidery

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This Surrealist creation is definitely unsettling!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Lucienne Day 1917-2010, influential mid 20thc British textile designer #womensart

Textile design with vertical rows of yellow circles and inner individual motifs inside against a white background

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Feels like it is right above Mount Pleasant

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Alan Collier Canadian artist From the High Hill, Across Sproat Lake to Port Alberni 24 x 32 in. #Canadianart

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Jack Leonard Shadbolt Canadian artist 1909-1998 Summer Sea & Rocks, 1946 oil on board 18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. #JackShadbolt #Canadianart

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Janet Fish American artist, b. 1938 - Pears and Autumn Leaves, 1988 Lithograph , ed. 60 97.8 x 73.7 cm #Americanart #JanetFish

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Stacey Lynn Durand Enfield, Milton and Portsmouth, 2015 Acrylic collage and graphite on panel #Americanart #StaceyLynnDurand

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lois Dodd American artist Door Staircase, 1981 Oil on linen #Americanart #LoisDodd

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Clarence A. Porter Canadian artist b. 1960 The Reaching No 5 Pastel ‐ Paper 33.25" x 46.75" #Canadianart

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

For once Chancleta doesn't look like he sees a ghost over your shoulder. I'm reassured.

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Karin Franzen art quilt Her work combines silk dyeing, collage, screen printing, painting, piecing and appliqué. #KarinFranzen #Artquilt

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Pekka Halonen Finnish artist 1865-1933 Hiekkaranta, 1896 #Finnishart

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Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

John Sloan American painter and etcher A Gloucester Day, 1915 1871-1951 #Americanart

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