A guest post by Natalie Bradbury exploring the life and work of the artist, educationalist and founder of the Pictures for Schools scheme, Nan Youngman.
A guest post by Rebecca Savage exploring the life and work of the overlooked poster artist, designer, author, illustrator and Head of BBC Children's Television Freda Lingstrom.
For the second piece in the Advocates for the Arts series, I'm celebrating the work of painter, illustrator and muralist Mary Adshead (1904-1995), especially her wartime murals for Birmingham.
This post, the first in a new series celebrating Advocates for the Arts, explores the forgotten women who, as secretaries, administrators and committee members, worked to extend public access to the arts in the first half of the twentieth century.