Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Reiniger made more than 40 films over her career, all using her invention. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935). Reiniger is also noted for devising a predecessor to the first multiplane camera.

Only three of her major public murals are believed to survive, the largest single example, the Expanding Universe at the Bank of England, was destroyed in 1997

“No other field is closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.”

Betye Saar (born July 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California) is an American artist, known for her work in the field of assemblage but is also an accomplished print maker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, challenging myths and stereotypes.

She produced photo-montages, book covers, typography designs and propaganda posters, and participated in architectural projects. Her early paintings have been lost, but according to surviving descriptions, they depicted geometric, typographic compositions composed of diagonal lines, which introduced dynamism.

Kunz was born to a family of weavers in 1892 in Switzerland. She was not a trained artist; she is characterized as an outsider artist. Her first exhibition, The Case of Emma Kunz, was posthumous. Inspired by spiritual evolution, she divined with a pendulum and created her drawings by radiesthesia.

Mostly known for being the drummer for seminal the no wave band DNA, Ikue has done numerous designs for the Tzadik record label.

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Russian graphic and fashion designer and member of the Constructivist movement. Created textiles, costumes, posters and graphics.

Sutton is also a noted printmaker and collagist.

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Lauand is a celebrated Brazilian Neo-Concrete Artist, one of the early members of the Grupo Ruptura, and the only one who was a woman. She is considered the great lady of Concrete art in Brazil.

Mary Ellen Bute (1906 — 1983) Animator and pioneer of experimental filmmaking, specialising in visual music and abstract film

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Mahlangu began painting at ten years old, following the teachings of her mother and grandmother. A tradition of her native South Ndebele people is for females to paint the exterior of houses.

Edna Andrade (1917-2008) An early leader in the Op Art movement. Characterized by pulsating patterns, vivid colors, and a visual immediacy that surpasses narrative meaning, her work explores symmetry and rhythm through geometric design and structures inspired by nature.