Florence Schust was born in Michigan, USA in 1917. Her father died when she was five, and she became an orphan at age twelve on the death of her mother. Florence showed an early interest in architecture, so her guardians enrolled her in the
Kingswood School for Girls which was located on the campus of Cranbrook Academy of the Arts. While attending school at
Kingswood, Florence befriended Eero Saarinen. Eero’s parents were the Cranbrook Academy of Art director Eliel Saarinen and textile artist Loja Saarinen. The Saarinen family recognizing
Florence’s talent and brought her under the family wing.
Florence regularly accompanied the family on trips to Europe, and the connections she made through the Saarinen family were key factors in her design education and career. Florence’s sharp eye and uncompromising vision was influenced by the great architects she was able to study under such as Walter
Gropius, Marcel Bruer and Van der Rohe. Florence went on to study architecture at the Architectural Association in London,
England before being forced back to the USA at the outbreak of
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She completed her studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology and was fortunate to study under Mies Van der Rohe, who became a close mentor and friend. In 1941, Florence moved to New York and began working for an architectural firm where she met her future husband and business partner Hans Knoll. Hans Knoll was born in Germany, the son of an innovative modern furniture manufacturer. Hans emigrated to America in 1938 with aspirations of starting his own furniture company. Hans the business man and Florence the designer married in 1946 and grew one of the most influential furniture companies in the world. Florence Knoll was credited with creating a system at Knoll furniture that promoted designers work, “that credited them by name, paid them royalties and allowed them space to experiment with new materials and forms.” (Warren,
Barbara Strozzi was one of the most talented figures of the seventeenth century. Strozzi was born in Venice in 1619 to Isabella Garzoni, servant to Giulio Strozzi. In 1628, Giulio Strozzi acknowledged Barbara as his natural daughter by referring to her in his will as his “figliuola elettiva”, meaning elective daughter and designating her as his heiress. (Spiller, Melanie. 2012)
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
Getting the rights for women to vote in Nova Scotia was a big deal for Edith
Irene Hunt is the daughter of Franklin P. and Sarah Land Hunt. Irene Hunt was born on May 18, 1907 in Pontiac, Illinois. Irene and her family soon moved to Newton, Illinois. Franklin, Irene Father died when Irene was only seven, and the family moved again to be close to Irene's grandparents. Irene's childhood was lonely. She enjoyed listening to her grandfather’s recollections of his childhood during the Civil War, later she use many of those stories in Across Five Aprils. She was educated from the University of Illinois, Urbana, from where she graduated with a BA in 1939, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from which she earned an MA in 1946. From 1930 to 1945 she taught English and French in schools in Oak Park, Illinois. From 1946
Did you know that Martha Washington wasn’t married to George first? Her first marriage was to to Daniel Custis, before she became a widow. Martha was born on June 2, 1731 at Chestnut Grove Plantation, in Virginia. Then sadly she died on May 22, 1802. Martha Dandridge was born in the British colony of Virginia at her parents’ home called Chestnut Grove Plantation. Her father, John, was a successful farmer and local politician. When the Revolutionary War began Martha’s second husband George , was chosen to be the commander of the continental army.
The naturalist painter Georgia O’Keeffe once said, “Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” From a small farm girl to a big city, Georgia O’Keeffe would grow up to be one of America’s most famous painters. Her clear, bright paintings showed the beauty she found in the simple, natural things around her. O’Keeffe loved painting flowers, mountains, sea shells and even animal bones that she found in desert. She was interested in all kinds of natural things and often rearranged those on the canvas. She painted shapes and colors that she saw in her mind. Georgia O’Keeffe is famous for being an American painter mostly of flowers and desert imagery which included bold colors and close-up views of natural objects.
Betty Marie was a girl who had big dreams of being a ballerina. Betty had an Osage Heritage and was born in 1925. She spent most her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. Ballet had helped her get out of her shell. When Betty was 4 yrs old, she had her first ballet lesson. After her lesson, she was in love with ballet.
Shirley Chisolm was born Shirley Anita St. Hill on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York to parents Charles St. Hill and Ruby Seale. Chisolm was raised by her grandmother in Barbados and returned to the United States during her early adolescent years. From an early age, Chisolm was taught the importance of an excellent education. Subsequently, Chisolm graduated from high school and decided to further her education.
Parents of the nine African American students contacted Daisy Bates who was the local leader of the NAACP, owned, and ran the State Press one of the town’s newspapers. The parents were scared of violence and asked her for advice on what to do. The parents were not scared for violence towards them but against their children attending the school. According to Bates, D. (1987), the mother of Elizabeth Echford remembered when she was a child in 1927 that she and a friend walked up on a crowd on the street who had beaten a young black boy then dragged him through the streets and set him on fire. As horrifying as that was, Mrs. Bates assured her that the town of Little Rock was different now and that the National Guard would protect the children.
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by” -Jeannette Walls. Jeannette Walls is a great American writer. Jeannette Walls(1960-present) is closely associated to postmodernism. Postmodernism is late 20th century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism. Jeannette Walls grew up with her parents in southwest United States’ deserts with her nomad parents. Jeannette Walls parents, Rex and Rosemary walls, greatly influenced her life as a writer. Jeannette Walls love of reading and her love of her desert surroundings, along with the time period she grew up in is what influenced her to become such a great writer.
Eliza Farnham was known for her talent in writing which made her national. Mrs.Farnham passed away from consumption in New York in the year of 1864 on the 15th of December at the age of 49. She grew up with foster parents from the age of four. When Eliza turned 15 she moved in with her uncle, and attended the Albany Female Academy. In 1835, Eliza Burhans moved in with a sister who was married in Tazewell county, Illinois. During the 18 century, Cornelius and Mary Wood Burhans gave birth to Eliza Burhans in November 17, 1815. Eliza Burhans was born in Hudson Valley Town of Rensselaerville, New York. Eliza Farnham was involved in numerous events during her time known as Vanguard of several social, political movements including abolitionism,
Faye Carey is a 16 year old girl that has managed to re-home more than 60 dogs. News Hub says that ¨She wants to have a career in animal control.¨ ¨She has made a Facebook page called Animal Re-Home Waikato.¨ Says News Hub. Her Facebook page has nearly 300 likes and a loyal following of new parents. (Of animals). News Hub also said that ¨With Faye being there, when an animal comes into the shelter or animal control, the animal goes right into a new loving home. ¨
Civil rights activist, Daisy Bates was at the core of the school desegregation catastrophe in Little Rock, Arkansas in September 1957. Bates used her position as president of a local Arkansas branch of the NAACP to strategically destroy the segregated school system. Her civil rights work involved changing the policies of the Arkansas Public School System that promoted segregation of school students, which in turn denied equality of educational resources and qualitative instruction to Arkansas’ Negro students. This fight for civil rights for students of color caused a fundamental shift in how the state educated its students both Black and White. Her plan halted the nation to expose the segregation in the Arkansas school district. Bates advocated for Black children to attend public schools that had been segregated arguing that the school system needed to be desegregated. As a result of argument, Bates became the mentor to nine African-American students, who enrolled in
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, who was a pioneer in the modern style, is considered one of the greatest figures in 20th-century architecture. Wright was born June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. When he entered the University of Wisconsin in 1884 his interest in architecture had already acknowledged itself. The university offered no courses in his chosen field; however, he enrolled in civil engineering and gained some practical experience by working part time on a construction project at the university. In 1887 he left school and went to Chicago where he became a designer for the firm of Adler and Sullivan with a pay of twenty-five dollars a week. Soon Wright became Louis Sullivan’s chief assistant. Louis Sullivan, Chicago based architect, one of America’s advanced designers. Louis had a profound influence on Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright was assigned most of the firm’s home projects, but to pay his many debts he designed ‘Bootlegged Houses’ for private clients in his spare time. Sullivan disapproved, resulting in Wright leaving the firm in 1893 to establish his own office in Chicago.