Fashion and fiber arts are two areas in which women have long excelled: Even at a time when businesswomen were nearly unheard of, “fashion was kind of this one little sliver that [people] were willing to sort of see women succeed in,” per Clara Berg, fashion curator and historian at the Museum of History and Industry.
But that doesn’t mean that their efforts have been adequately recognized. “There has historically been a division in the arts: fine arts, and decorative arts,” says National Nordic Museum curator Leslie Anderson. Women frequently lacked access to the education necessary to participate in fine arts, while the arts that were available to them, like
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