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Header image: Anna Bryant working in her studio. Photo credit: John DuPre, courtesy of Anna Bryant.

Header image: Dare Coulter. Photo by Lauren Lindley Photography, courtesy of Dare Coulter.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting some of the extraordinary female artists we have featured in the past. This list represents a small sample of the women who have shaped and continue to shape the arts in our state.  

Photo: Connye Florance by Graham Gerdeman

The General Jackson, a modern-day replica of the flat-bottomed steamers of the nineteenth century, has been paddling the waters of Tennessee’s Cumberland River since 1985.

Photo by Sandra Davidson.

Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten will be posthumously inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 17, 2019.

Photo Credit: Allison Lee Isley/Winston Salem Journal

Activism and music go hand and hand for Laila Nur, a founding member of The Muslims, a black/brown/queer punk band from Durham, North Carolina.  Born in Brooklyn, New York, Laila Nur moved south after her family was priced out of the big city.

Alice Gerrard | Photo by Irene Young.

Alexis Raeana | Photo by Sandra Davidson.