Women Making Art

The Editors: Deborah Johnson is Associate Professor of Art History, Women's Studies, and Black Studies at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. While curator at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, she published several catalogs in the areas of prints, drawings, and photography, two of which won national awards. As a modernist at Providence College, she has continued to publish widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and culture, and was recently included in the landmark collection Readings in Nineteenth-Century Art (Janis Tomlinson, Ed.). Dr. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in art history from Brown University. Wendy Oliver, Associate Professor at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, teaches dance and women's studies. She has authored several articles on dance, and is the editor of the book Focus on Dance XII: Dance in Higher Education. Prior to her work in academe, Dr. Oliver was a choreographer and performer based in Minneapolis, MN. She has an M.F.A. in dance from Temple University and an Ed.D. in dance education from Columbia University.