This year’s annual meeting will feature a special guest speaker, historian, curator, and ArtCurious podcast host Jennifer Dasal will discuss her new book The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris.
This is a lively and engaging portrait of the American Girls’ Club, a transformative residence for American women artists from 1893 to 1914. At a time when educational opportunities were limited in the U.S., hundreds of ambitious American women crossed the Atlantic seeking formal training, independence, and community. The Club became a sanctuary—part salon, part dormitory, part incubator of radical creative lives.