Our Foremothers Lecture

Deanne Beausoleil and Jane Lieber Mays were on campus today at the Chemeketa Community College Theater 116, located in building 3. Deanne Beausoleil narrated the lecture about five of the women which are depicted in the collection on display in the Chemeketa Community College Art Gallery also located in building 3.
The women discussed in the lecture were artists and mothers in the 16th-18th centuries. The first women talked about was Elisbeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842). The second woman discussed was Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750). The third artist and mother shared was Mary Beale (1642-1697). The fourth woman talked about was Anna Dorothea Therbusch-Lisiewska (1721-1782). The fifth woman discussed was Judith Leyster (1609-1660). After Deanne had finished the lecture the floor was opened for questions about the paintings , the artists, and the lives of the women presented. When the Questions finished Jane Lieber Mays mentioned another women in the show named Maria Sibylla Merian (1647- 1717), who had moved her family to South America to study bugs and a book was published recently and is now available with some of her works in the book.
The presentation ended with a thank you to the director of the Art Gallery, Kay Bunnenberg Boehmer. She was given a copy of the new book that was just released and flowers. Kay Bunnenberg Boehmer stated that she was going to have to go find a copy of the book. Now she has her copy.

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