As we enter International Black Women’s History Month ... Betye Saar (b. 1926) is an African American artist who works in assemblage. Saar’s work is dedicated to undoing racial stereotypes ...

There she majored in design and was mentored by the artist Loïs Mailou ... the everyday life of women of African descent in the United States. “Very few American artists lifted up Black women ...

Western societal beauty standards have long made women believe they had to be super thin to be attractive, especially those of African descent. Case in point: Sarah Baartman. These restrictive ...

This is a small sampling of women artists and their works in the vast visual arts collections of the Smithsonian. American women photographers have also made their mark. The Smithsonian tells the ...

Lois Mailou Jones led a long and prolific life as an artist, capturing an extraordinary range of subjects in her paintings.

NBC News' Zinhle Essamuah spoke to a man who lost his wife to childbirth complications and discussed his artwork commemorating Black women who had also passed during childbirth. IE 11 is not ...