Talks – Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism

Virtual Talk with author Linda M. Grasso

Drawing from paintings, photographs, correspondence, press, fan mail, and archival documents, Grasso explores how O’Keeffe and feminism have been linked in popular culture and the public imagination. Situating the artist in U.S. feminist history and considering what feminism meant to O’Keeffe and her audiences over several generations. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: “Things I Had No Words For”.
Newport Art Museum 2022

Breakfast with O’Keeffe Lecture Series
Linda M. Grasso discusses how women’s activism in the suffrage era affected Georgia O’Keeffe’s life choices and art-making. Unmarried, mobile, and an independent wage earner, O’Keeffe lived by feminist ideals. This lecture focuses on how O’Keeffe was shaped by the quest for women’s rights and why she continues to be a feminist icon today.
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum August 5, 2020

Interview with Lilian Calles Barger Gender Studies New Books Network

Interview:
Radio KUNM, with Host Susan Loubet
Women’s Focus

The New York Metro American Studies Association hosted a Salon Talk by Professor Grasso in which she explored how feminism and O’Keeffe are inextricably connected in popular culture and scholarship. The women’s movements that impacted the creation and reception of O’Keeffe’s art, Grasso argued, explain why she is a national icon who is valued for more than her artistic practice.
Hunter College, March 18, 2019

Drawing on paintings, photographs, correspondence, print media, fan mail, and archival documents, Professor Grasso explored how Georgia O’Keeffe and feminism have been linked in popular culture and the public imagination.
York College, March 12 2019

Professor Grasso presented her research on Georgia O’Keeffe’s Career as part of the program, The O’Keeffe Sisters and Women of American Modernism, in conjunction with the exhibition Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow
Dallas Museum of Art February 2nd, 2019.

Drawing from paintings, photographs, correspondence, press, fan mail, and archival documents, Grasso explored how O’Keeffe and feminism have been linked in popular culture and the public imagination.
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
July 25th, 2018

An Evening with Linda M. Grasso and Roxana Robinson, author of Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. Part of the new exhibition: Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai’i
New York Botanical Garden, June 13, 2018