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Women Artists: Exhibitions
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Newly established in 2006, the Institute for Women & Art brings together Rutgers' faculty, curators, researchers and artists to promote the study of women and art. The Institute supports and sponsors scholarship, research, exhibitions and programming on topics pertaining to women in art, including attention to past inequities, and promotes the transformation of policies, institutions, attitudes and social structures. It acts as a catalyst for creating an intellectual community among scholars and practitioners associated with Rutgers University and cooperates with other feminist, leadership and visual arts organizations. The Institute for Women and Art advances the development of Rutgers University as an internationally-known center for the study of women and art.
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With increasing access to professional training came higher standards or the Society's exhibitions and a name change (in 1869) to the Society of Lady Artists. Appropriately, in the last year of the century, the mid-Victorian persona was discarded and the twentieth century was embraced by the Society with the new name: The Society of Women Artists. The patron is HRH Princess Michael of Kent but the Society has enjoyed Royal patronage since 1865.
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By the late eighteenth century, there were important steps forward for artists who were women. In Paris, the Salon, the exhibition of work founded by the Academy, became open to non-Academic painters in 1791, allowing women to showcase their work in the powerful annual exhibition. Additionally, women were more frequently being accepted as students by famous artists, such as, Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
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