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Pioneering Women Engineers | Women's Engineering Society

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Women have been doing it for decades, some people just haven't noticed.

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Close your eyes and picture the stereotypical graphic designer: cool shoes, square glasses, maybe a tattoo or two... and probably a man. Although 54% of designers in the the US are women, the ones we know and talk about are often men.

So in honor of International Women's Day, we've pulled together some of the great women designers of the past and present to give them the recognition they deserve!

Let's add these 13 leading women to the list of designers you need to know.

1. Carolyn Davidson
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If there ever was a surprising "secret" in the design world, it's that perhaps one of the most famous logos of all time, the Nike logo, was designed by a woman that no one knows - Carolyn Davidson. It was originally contracted for a mere $35 dollars (roughly $200 today).

2. Paula Scher
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Paula Scher, partner and first female principle of Pentagram, was an innovator of typography, layout and color in graphic design. Note her bold and powerful style which displays firm control and intention regarding color and typography.

3. Kelli Anderson
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Current designer Kelli Anderson is one of the modern masters of digital typography. Notice the attention to detail, color, and light in these custom letterforms!

4. Susan Kare
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Susan Kare is a hugely significant figure in icon design, having designed internationally recognizable symbols for Apple, Microsoft, and PayPal. You'd be surprised about how many icons you'd recognize on her website!

5. Candy Chang
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Taiwanese-American artist Candy Chang enters the public sphere with her designs. In the example above she creates a masterful composition displaying deep understanding of proportion and public space.

6. Melissa Buchanan
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Coming from the world of silkscreen and the inherent qualities within, Melissa Buchanan specializes in colorful creature compositions which carry a style that is unmistakably hers.

7. Scarlett Duba
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Scarlett Duba, senior designer at Pirtle Design, is a force in the print design world. Among other clients, she has done countless covers for Vassar, which feature concise and well executed concepts.

8. Teresa Sdralevich
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Teresa Sdralevich, freelance poster cover designer from Brussels, perhaps could be said to have picked up where Saul Bass left off, using bold shapes and color pallets that are imperfect and carry a human element.

9. Fanette Mellier
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Fanette Mellier is another female designer coming from the realm of silk screen. As you can see above, her prints are immaculate, and quite simply mind blowing. The sheer intention and perfection in execution is jaw dropping and deeply inspiring. I highly recommend thoroughly exploring her website! You won't regret it.

10. Mercedes Bazan
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Mercedes Bazan of San Francisco is a true master of Feng Shui when it comes to print design and layout. The example above is just one display of her ability to tap into a visceral flow of typography that feels natural and just so right.

11. Sue Doeksen
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Sus Doeksen of Amsterdam is a true sight for sore eyes in that she is perhaps one of the few prominent designers today still working in the wonderful medium of cut paper. Mind you, this was the medium that design heavyweight Paul Rand used in nearly all his designs, and is also a medium that was sadly lost for the most part in the coming of digital tools. There is something that can't quite be replicated about it on a computer and for that reason I highly recommend checking out Sue Doeksen's portfolio.

12. Laura Pol
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Creator of her own visual language, Laura Pol is a true perfectionist in the realm of print design and layout. Notice her sideways captions penetrating into the geometric images; a unique and excellent touch.

13. Marta Veludo
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Marta Veludo is another female designer who has put a strong footprint in the world of print design, revolutionizing many subtleties of print making, including the wonderful neon gradients featured above.

Women in design... and beyond?
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Bet you didn't know women are such a force in the design world! The women featured above are not the only female designers out there, either, but they are certainly some of the pioneers. And in many ways, the design industry is ahead of the curve in terms of gender equality. Rock on, awesome lady designers! Keep on making the world a more beautiful and equitable place.

What other famous women designers do you want to add to the list? Share below in the comments!

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This article was originally published in 2016 and has been refreshed and updated.

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13 influential women designers you need to know - 99designs Blog

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Transgender rights and representation has steadily built momentum over recent years, with public figures like Laverne Cox, Antony Hegarty and Caitlyn Jenner bringing a broader spectrum of gender nonconformity to the public sphere. Los Angeles-based photographer Dave Naz's work revolves around the diversity of identity, and in his recent book Genderqueer (Rare Bird), he documented communities who are "transgender, intersex, pangender, and every shade in between". We spoke to him about the difficulties of handling such a sensitive subject and reaching out to marginalised communities. Why did you decide to make the shift from fetish photography to your recent work on pan-gender identity? I've never considered myself a fetish photographer, although I have covered the subject through the years in my work. The gender identity series came about when Drew Deveaux emailed about modelling for me - he has a look that defies gender. Around this time I found models Jiz Lee and Syd Blakovich online and asked them if I could take their portraits. All three appear on the cover of my book Genderqueer: ...

In the 1950s, André Breton, the anarchic poet-founder of Surrealism reached out to the Bordeaux painter and photographer Pierre Molinier. He had become obsessed with the man's work: sexual, dream-like and utterly transgressive. As it turns out, Molinier was both gay and a transvestite, and through his work employed his body and that of acquaintances to create visions of a hybrid identity, unencumbered by traditional gender notions. Intertwined limbs, many-headed creatures and deformed bodies were not just visual references intended to shock; while Molinier's tended towards the extreme, his exploration of the erotic foreshadowed work by the likes of Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe. Earlier this year, London's Richard Saltoun Gallery played host to the first UK exhibition of his work for over 20 years, and at this year's Paris Photo, Artcurial are presenting a collection of Molinier's work for sale. Nearly 200 works by Molinier, including photographs, drawings and personal correspondences have been compiled for the auction on Friday 13th November by Emmanuelle Arsan, a muse of the artist who drew equal inspiration from him ...

As a child, Álvaro Laiz came to relate photography with travelling, fascinated by the Konica Minolta his dad would carry on holiday. So when he began travelling the world after finishing his studies, it was only fitting he took a camera with him. "I photograph what I do not understand or what scares me," he says. "I can't think of anything more terrifying than the idea that a large part of our identity relies on facts and things we can't control [or] even know exist." His quest took him to Mongolia, a state which lies between the domineering civilisations of Europe, China and Russia and which is in the midst of deep social transformation. Researching the region's nomadic tribes led him to consider the nation's founder, Genghis Khan, who declared homosexuality illegal and punishable by death in a bid to increase the population. Eight hundred years later, little has been done to rehabilitate the community. With Transmongolian, the Secret History of the Mongols, Laiz sheds light on the lives of the country's transgendered population, and ...

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Transgender rights and representation has steadily built momentum over recent years, with public figures like Laverne Cox, Antony Hegarty and Caitlyn Jenner bringing a broader spectrum of gender nonconformity to the public sphere. Los Angeles-based photographer Dave Naz's work revolves around the diversity of identity, and in his recent book Genderqueer (Rare Bird), he documented communities who are "transgender, intersex, pangender, and every shade in between".

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Höch was an unlikely addition to the early 20th-century group - which favored the irrational, nihilistic, collaborative, and spontaneous - namely, because Höch was a woman. One of the group's pioneering photomontage artists, Höch critiqued the role of women, beauty standards, marriage, the politics of her home country, Germany, and the oft-misogynist Dada group itself. Take Höch's 1919 work Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, for instance. The title says it all.

In honor of Höch, we're highlighting other pioneering women in the art world. Their photos are largely absent in the history books, but we hope to put faces (and their words) to the names too often said in passing - if at all.
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" I didn't have time to be anyone's muse . . . I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist."

The consistent element was her art: wonderful paintings in which mingle the fantasies of Bosch, the elegance and spatial understanding of the quattrocento and her own personal mythology (drawing on Catholicism, Jewish mysticism and Celtic elements to create an utterly individual and at times impenetrable symbology). And yet, despite their fantastical elements, when you encounter them they seem natural and familiar: they might be the paintings of one's own dreams. As Luis Buñuel once wrote of her work, it "liberates us from the miserable reality of our days."

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20 Pioneering Female Artists You Should Know

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Höch was an unlikely addition to the early 20th-century group - which favored the irrational, nihilistic, collaborative, and spontaneous - namely, because Höch was a woman. One of the group's pioneering photomontage artists, Höch critiqued the role of women, beauty standards, marriage, the politics of her home country, Germany, and the oft-misogynist Dada group itself.

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Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, 1893

William H. West's Minstrel Show, 1900, Lithograph

Lois Maillou Jones, The Ascent of Ethiopia, 1932

Romare Bearden, Jammin' at the Savoy, n.d.

Faith Ringgold, Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima, 1983

Bruce Davidson, Time of Change (the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr., Mrs. King and Rosa Parks during the Selma March), 1965

David Hammons, The Door (Admissions Office), 1969

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled from the Kitchen Table II, 1980

Glenn Ligon, Untitled, 1992

Ruth Asawa, The Bayou, 1943 while interned at Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas

Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Framed, 1989, Installation

Binh Danh, Dead #1 from the LIFE: One Week's Dead Series, 2006

Dinh Q. Lê, Untitled (Tom Cruise & Willam Dafoe, Born on the 4th of July/Highway 1), 2000

Luis Jiménez, Man on Fire, 1969

Frank Romero, Death of Rubén Salazar, 1986

Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, 1893

Perhaps the quintessential African American painter in the pre-Civil War era, Tanner was trained in Paris where he was accepted in the artistic and social circles of Parisian social life.

His depiction of a grandfather teaching a young boy the banjo is seen as a particularly humanistic and sympathetic view of African Americans, a stark contrast to the realities of American slave practices, the slave trade, and the brutal racism in the United States at the time.

Depictions of African Americans during and around the Civil War were often either incredibly negative or very dismissive. For instance, depictions of mammies (like Aunt Jemima) or kind uncle-figures (Uncle Ben) continue to this day in modern culture. While on the surface such images might seem positive, they are in fact reductive and disempowering. Blackface often turned depictions of African Americans into jolly joker figures while general understanding cast them as sexual predators of innocent white women. Whether seemingly positive or negative, stereotypes effectively removed agency from African Americans rendering them subject to white dominance-a powerful and effective strategy that helped justify slavery and the continuing racism after the Civil War.

A short video about caricature and representation of African Americans: here.

William H. West, Minstrel Show, 1900, Lithograph

This is a good example of an advertisement meant to sell tickets for a minstrel show. As you can see, blackface is exhibited here with the stereotypical facial features and hair of the "black man." This is only one example of many depictions of African Americans in the United States that align with a particularly negative perception of African Americans, especially in the post-Civil War period. It is important to remember that before the Civil War, slaves were often depicted as "mammies" or other benevolent servants.

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance refers to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period, Harlem became a cultural center, and while it was primarily a literary movement of writers and poets, it also drew artists, photographers and musicians. Harlem became a northern draw for artists who were escaping a still-oppressive South. More importantly and relevantly for the art scholar, the Harlem Renaissance was a revival in racial pride and contributed to slow, yet changing attitudes about African Americans and their role in the cultural fabric of the US.

Lois Maillou Jones, The Ascent of Ethiopia, 1932

Jones's painting depicts the struggle and ascent of African Americans in the United States finding their heritage in Africa. The Back-to-Africa Movement in the United States emerged after the Civil War after many freed slaves either migrated to the North or spread out throughout the South. They were perceived as a threat to white populations that saw them as potential rivals in the job market. The Back-to-Africa Movement, also known as the Colonization Movement, was seen as a potential solution to these whites and also to a small minority of African American that experienced severe racism and discrimination despite (or because of) their free status. It is important to remember, however, that the movement was seen with great suspicion on the part of the majority of African Americans. While Jones' work speaks to this "repatriation" of American-born African Americans as well as a growing interest in Africa generally, her work is a celebration of cultural heritage and identities, NOT an advocacy of removing African Americans from the United States "back" to Africa. Additionally, Jones' painting demonstrates the trend during the Harlem Renaissance towards forming a unified, cultural identity, here represented in Egypt. Besides searching for their shared heritage, the subtle gesture also alludes to the US's obsession with Egypt after the discovery of King Tut's tomb.

Romare Bearden, Jammin' at the Savoy, n.d.

Bearden's piece allows for entry into more conversation regarding the Harlem Renaissance. (It is important to remember that the Harlem Renaissance was above all else, a literary renaissance.) That being said, this painting incorporates Jazz and its qualities of improvisation, liveliness, and rhythm that could be found in Harlem during this period. The call-and-response of Jazz is here incorporated into a painting, given a rhythm that is improvised and alive. Both Bearden's use of color and his collage-style is typical of his oeuvre and serves as an overall celebration of life and, most specifically, black life in Harlem. The Harlem Renaissance served as an awakening to the values, culture, diversity and beauty of African American creativity and their contribution to the larger fabric of American history.

Civil Rights Movement

A series of movements for equality, the Civil Rights Movement peaked in the United States in the 1960s. Though primarily known for African Americans' protest of segregation, unequal voting privileges and numerous other societal problems, the Civil Rights Movement also galvanized a number of other minority groups leading to an Asian American Movement, a Chicano movement, an American Indian Movement and a gender rights movement.

Faith Ringgold, Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima, 1983

Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem in 1930 and grew up in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance and its after effects. In line with the Civil Rights Movement, Ringgold's paintings began to embody strong political messages that she herself demonstrated numerous times during the movement. In the 1970s, she became more and more interested in fabrics, assisted by her fashion designer mother. This quilt, titled Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima came as a result of these experiments and is the first example of her combining images and handwritten texts in these painted quilts. The quote tells a story of a familiar advertising character, rooted deep in stereotypes of the African American "mammy" figure, turned into an empowered businesswoman.

Bruce Davidson, Time of Change (the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr., Mrs. King and Rosa Parks during the Selma March), 1965

Bruce Davidson's documentary photographs of the Civil Rights Movement stand to this day as one of the best visual records of that tumultuous and productive time in American History. His photographs not only document the events that took place and the violence that occurred as a result of the movement, but also act as a record of the economic disparities between African Americans and white Americans. This particular photograph offers an opportunity for students to use their visual analysis skills for great results. For instance, right in the front is the Reverent Abernathy, a major proponent for Civil Rights. He is not the only white American visible and it is important to emphasize that, in this lecture on race and identity, the Civil Rights Movement, while often divided among racial lines, was nevertheless about human rights, rather than rights for a specific or particular racial group. The unity that is shown among the individuals speaks to the unity that allowed for such an impacting and powerful movement.

David Hammons, The Door (Admissions Office), 1969

In the early 1960s, David Hammons began creating "body prints," a practice that involved coating his body with an oily substance and printing it onto a support, which was then dusted with dry pigments. Here, the impression of Hammons's body against the glass door of an admissions office recalls the struggles African Americans faced gaining entrance to public schools throughout the South.

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled from the Kitchen Table II, 1980

The Kitchen Table Series emerged from and was inspired by the artist's experiences teaching in the late 1970s at college. She noticed that her female students would pose themselves sideways, in profile or shying away form the camera, while male students would square themselves in the frame, looking unabashedly at the camera. Weems created the Kitchen Table Series as a self-portrait project that stood for all women who are confident and self-assured. Her work is not only about race, but also adamantly about gender and class. As part of the Culture Wars, Weems is aware not only of historical and traditional race/gender/class roles, but also of how intertwined all of those issues are. Culture wars refer to battles over the moral foundation of our nation. It can find itself manifested as debates over issues such as prohibition, gay marriage, pornography, and violence.

Article: Carrie Mae Weems

Video: Carrie Mae Weems, the Kitchen Table Series

Glenn Ligon, Untitled, 1992

Glenn Ligon borrowed the words repeated across Untitled (I Do Not Always Feel Colored) from a 1928 essay by Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," which considers the idea that skin color is a social construction. In his painting, Ligon applied the phrase "I do not always feel colored" to the canvas over and over by rubbing oil stick through a plastic stencil onto the gessoed surface of a door. Ligon's technique allowed for a remarkably subtle range of optical and expressive effects, depending on which black oil stick he used, how many times he went over a letter, and how often he cleaned the back of his template. As Ligon worked his way down the support, the text became progressively smudged and illegible because the greasy oil stick left a residue that adhered to the stencil. This transition from block-letter clarity to illegibility is a meaningful effect, playing on the idea of text as something that is shifting and malleable. "It makes the words cast shadows, bleed into one another, [so that] their meanings seem less fixed," remarked Ligon about his technique. "The smearing also creates a visual interaction with the gesso ground, a metaphor for the interaction between blacks and whites in the construction of racial identity." Source.

Japanese-American Internment

On February 19, 1942, as a result of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which ordered some 110,000 Japanese Americans, primarily along the West Coast, to give up their homes, businesses, and the majority of their possessions. These individuals were then interned in what has come to be known as the Japanese American Internment. Though Japanese immigrants and their children had long been in the United States and Japanese Americans served against Japan in the US Army, anti-Japanese sentiments reached a hysterical level after Pearl Harbor. Easily turned into foreign scapegoats, Japanese Americans were viewed with immense suspicion, justifying the internment camps.

Inside the camps, life continued, and several interned artists taught art classes. Others picked up crafts, utilizing their scarce resources as medium for their work.

See video: The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps

Ruth Asawa, The Bayou, 1943 (while interned at Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas)

During the beginning of Asawa's internment, she and her family were stationed at Santa Anita racetrack in California. While there, artists from the Walt Disney Animation Studios who were also interned taught art classes as a way to pass the time. This was one of Asawa's watercolors during her time there.

Art from the internments often depict nature and idyllic scenes-an escapist vision from an imprisoned life. Other artists depicted barbed wires, the stalls that the Japanese Americans had to make home, and military men with guns overlooking the camps. The legacy of the visual imagery that emerged from the Internment camps is often overlooked and forgotten, but nevertheless serves as an important reminder of a period of American History that is often left untaught and forgotten.

Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Framed, 1989, Installation

In responding to these camps, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto created an installation that consists of window frames with archival film footage shot by the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The WRA was a federal agency that oversaw the forced incarceration of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, controlled the photographic documentation of the camps, and thus ignored the harsh reality of life there. The artists have reframed and thus subverted the images, which originally tried to put a smiling face on a grim episode in American history. The resulting stills have a poignancy and irony missing from the original film. The idyllic blue sky behind the spectator has appeared in numerous TV commercials and evokes today's controlled media environment while echoing the fabricated reality of the WRA films.

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular American war of the twentieth century. It was also the first televised war-for the first time ever, the majority of Americans had a television set and could turn on the television for footage of the war at almost any time. Many artists grappled with this new visual imagery. Not only were Asian faces frequently on the television screen, but due to the nature of the Vietnam War they were depicted either as the evil faces of the Viet Cong or the helpless faces of the refugees fleeing the war-torn country. Asian Americans were then confronted with the transplantation of those sentiments of either enemy or victim that did not actually apply to them as Americans.

The Vietnam War also led to an increasing number of Asians in the United States. Refugees fled from the war-torn countries of Southeast Asia as well as Cambodia, where Pol Pot conducted massive Genocide. Previously, the Korean War had led to waves of refugee immigration of Koreans to the United States, a pattern that continued throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The Asian American population increased exponentially during this time.

Binh Danh, Dead #1 from the LIFE: One Week's Dead Series, 2006

Binh Danh embedded photographic images onto tropical leaves that recall the vegetation in Vietnam. The leaf symbolically represents the blood and sweat of American soldiers that was absorbed into the ground and then into the vegetation and the surrounding trees. Perpetually being reborn and recreated, the remnants of American bodies will always be present in the landscape of Vietnam. Danh utilized a photosynthetic process in which the photo negatives of American faces are pressed onto living leaves. After exposure to sun, the images themselves are imprinted through the chlorophyll of the leaf.

Because matter can never be destroyed, the leaves represent the "transmigration of matter: the decomposition and composition of matter into different forms. They contain the residue of the Vietnam and American War: bombs, blood sweat, tears, and metal." The leaves themselves create the chlorophyll that sketches the images onto the leaves.

Binh Danh, "The Inbetweeners" (MFA thesis, Stanford University, 2004), 11. As quoted by Aimee Chang, One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, (New York: The Asia Society Museum, 2006), 56.

Dinh Q. Lê, Untitled (Tom Cruise & Willam Dafoe, Born on the 4th of July/Highway 1), 2000

Utilizing a process that mimics Vietnamese grass weaving, Lê weaves together a film still from the movie, Born on the 4th of July, featuring a scene with iconic American actors Tom Cruise and Willam Dafoe, with the infamous photograph from the Vietnam War of children running from a Napalm attack on their village. Bringing into question the various sources of memories of the Vietnam War, Lê inextricably weaves together two such sources, questioning how the war is remembered in the US.

The Chicano Movement emerged in tandem with the Civil Rights Movement and is rightly seen as another part of the Civil Rights Movement. In an effort to bring into political awareness issues of property, jobs, and other economic matters, the Chicano Movement worked to raise awareness of stereotypes of Mexican Americans in the United States. Both Jiménez and Romero, discussed below, bring focus to issues that were specific to Mexican Americans, especially in the western part of the United States as well as cultural perceptions of Mexican Americans.

Growing Latino/Hispanic Presence in the United States

The Smithsonian American Art Museum presented a show in 2013 called Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art. This is a good basic starting place to discover more about Latino/Hispanic artists in the United States who, like mentioned previously, were motivated along with other minority groups by the civil unrest of the 1960s and 70s. Coupled with growing immigration, the Latino presence in the United States grew. These struggles of immigration, nationhood, poverty, identity, and language are exhibited in many of these artists' work, most of whom are current contemporary artists. Online Exhibition of American Art.

Luis Jiménez, Man on Fire, 1969

Jiménez's Man on Fire recasts an iconic Native American in contemporary terms. Employing a pop art style of slick, hot-rod surfaces, the artist conflated references to Cuauhtémoc, the Aztec ruler tortured by fire during the Spanish conquest, and Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist monk who set himself ablaze in protest against the Vietnam War. For Jiménez, the monk's act resonated with the rising antiwar sentiment in many Latino communities. Jiménez's brown figure-which was also a self-portrait-also asserts the Native identity of Chicanos and the community's roots in the Southwest prior to 1848.

Frank Romero, Death of Rubén Salazar, 1986

Death of Rubén Salazar is an example of Romero's later work that portrays political and civil unrest. The painting's vivid imagery virtually overwhelms the viewer: the contrast of the bright colors and short brush strokes make it hard for viewers to rest their eyes. The painting's large scale and colors are deceiving, however. At first glance, one might think it portrays a happy scene. The painting, however, depicts the tragic death of Rubén Salazar, a civil rights activist and journalist for the Los Angeles Times. After covering a peaceful antiwar protest in 1970, Salazar was struck and killed by a tear gas canister fired by the police. Although the canvas was painted sixteen years later, it indicates Romero was still greatly affected by the event. Video: .

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LGBT artists have continually challenged mainstream understandings of gender and sexuality, and the impact of this on our society is immeasurable. Like artists of the 1980s who worked tirelessly to bring attention to HIV/AIDS in America, artists today maintain their roles as leading figures striving for change and cultural awareness.

As Pride Month comes to a close, we would like to showcase a number of LGBT artists who have influenced the progress of art and society throughout the past hundred years or so. While this list is in no way comprehensive, we hope to highlight some of the many creative individuals who as members of the LGBT community have put their unique stamp on art history.

Check out the list below of amazing LGBT artists who have irrevocably changed the art world and beyond with their work. You can help us to increase this list by adding your favorite LGBT artists to the comments section below. To see more, we ran a tribute to "Artists Who Passed Away From AIDS" yesterday. Spoiler alert: It's a real bummer.

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