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Muskegon Museum of Art
296 W. Webster Avenue, Muskegon, MI 49440

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Transcending Tradition celebrates women figurative realist painters who have changed the landscape for women in the arts. Featuring iconic paintings from The Bennett Collection, this exhibition highlights work by both historical and contemporary women painters, such as Artemesia Gentileschi, Mary Cassatt, Elaine de Kooning, Andrea Kowch, Zoey Frank, Katie O’Hagan, Anna Wypych, and many more.

Throughout history, women artists have struggled for recognition. Throughout history, women artists have faced resistance to creating art and had to overcome societal rules and traditions to follow their passion. In every sense, to create art, women had to be transcenders — people who stepped beyond tradition and its limitations in order to find success as an artist.

The hope of this exhibition is to give insight into the struggles and challenges women artists have historically faced and to empower women artists of today that breaking tradition, in this context, is not a misdeed but rather a noble and necessary act that is the predicate for liberation, self-actualization, and acceptance.