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This episode best friends Megan & Milena cover the sculptor of the Suffrage movement, Adelaide Johnson and Dr. Anna Wessels Williams, an American pathologist who legit would be studying COVID-19 if she hadn’t passed away in 1954.
Adelaide Johnson
Life isn’t perfect. Sometimes you lose your savings to a pick pocket, sometimes your artwork arrives late to a show, and sometimes you fall down a elevator breaking just about all the bones you wouldn’t want broken. Which is any of them.
This episode we cover the life of Adelaide Johnson, the sculptor of the Suffrage movement. Even with those imperfections Adelaide did not let anything get in the way of her art making. While her perfectionism bit her in the ass later in life, it resulted in art that’s uncompromising – something we can always use more of.
Selected Work
- St Louis School of Design – Founded by Mary Foote Henderson, where Adelaide received a formal art education
- The Cult of Womanhood – lol what Milena and I fail at, the concept that women belong in the house as wives and mothers
- White Marmorean Flock – Lead by Harriet Hosmer, was a collective of American 19th century women sculptors in Rome
- Giulio Monteverde – Leading sculptor who took Adelaide on as a student
- National Woman’s Suffrage Association – Founded in 1869, advocating for equal rights via the 15th amendment
- 1893 World Fair in Chicago – Where Adelaide showed work alongside leading artist of the day – like Duchesse d’Uzès featured episode 9
- National Museum of Women in the Arts – Founded in 1981, is still the only leading museum featuring exclusively women’s art
Wanna know more? Always a book for that (usually) (or article)
Celeida Tostes by editors Marcus de Lontra Costa & Raquel Silva. Available to read for free, this is a great collection of essays in both Portuguese and English
Dr. Anna Wessels Williams
Our Girl Anna Wessels Williams turned from school teacher to physician to a superhero. At least, she might as well be categorized as such as she helped keep billions of children alive with her Diphtheria antitoxin. The woman helped develop a vaccine we still use today.
This is what it looks like. That sheet of gross membrane? That will grow slowly over time until a person can no longer breathe. It’s bad. But it’s preventable. Thanks to Anna!
Also she made a rabies vaccine. And helped fight trachoma in poor children in the early 1900s.…… You get the idea. She’s a badass.
I covered the woman. If you want to know more about diseases and Diphtheria, you can hit up two amazing podcasts by three amazing women:
- Ologies by Ali Ward, Epidemiology episode found HERE
- This Podcast Will Kill You, Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane found HERE
As always, music by EeL