Schmucker Art Gallery Opening Reception

Opening Reception: January 28, 4-6pm

Making Her Mark: Fifty Women Artists of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony
January 28– April 11, 2026

This exhibition celebrates the work of 50 women artists who were active in the historic Woodstock art colony. The paintings, drawings and prints are drawn from the permanent collection of the Historical Society of Woodstock, curated by independent scholar Bruce Weber. The display ranges from women who arrived during the first decades of the 20th century as students at the Art Student League’s Woodstock School of Landscape Painting to those who came in the wake of the end of the second World War through the 1970s, with subjects ranging from portraiture, landscapes, and still lifes to abstraction, the exhibition explores the American art colony movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as an alternative space for women who desired a life outside of the mainstream.

Generously co-sponsored by the department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the program in Public History, the Art & Art History department, and the Provost’s Office.

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