How cool is this project? Advancing Women Artists (AWA) is a non-profit that’s “committed to identifying, restoring and exhibiting artwork by women in Florence’s museum storage.” Yes, the Italian town that is home to Michelangelo’s David, Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, and more, has a number of works by female artists quite literally gathering dust, out of sight from the millions of tourists who stream through the city every year.
Jane Fortune, founder of AWA, has set out to remedy the situation. Over the centuries, the female artists and their paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings were forgotten, and they became invisible, as has happened to so many women.
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