Articles: Contributed Posts
What Does It Mean to Be a Professional Artist?
Artists and writers often face a major reality check when they leave the confines of academia. It can be a sobering experience to question whether you have the commitment it takes to pursue a career in the creative world. This time can be particularly tough on women, who, as it turns out, represent the majority of […]
Women: A Year in Review, From the Arts and Beyond
The appointment of Marjorie Scardino as the first female board member of Twitter resonates on so many levels — sparking, for me, a year-end look-back at how women fared in 2013. At Pen and Brush, we obviously focus keenly on the status of women in the visual and literary arts. But art is almost always a reflection of the […]
From The Boardroom to the Gallery, Women Shut Out
Nicholas D. Kristof wrote in his recent New York Times “Twitter, Women and Power”, that, on the eve of Twitter’s IPO, it has become abundantly clear that the organization’s board suffers from a huge gender imbalance. Not a single woman sits on Twitter’s board — an all too familiar trend, as Kristof points out, as women comprise […]