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RamblingsEli GrayAugust 23, 2023

Montana

A Homecoming

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RamblingsEli GraySeptember 28, 2021Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Mathis Cheatham, Eli Cheatham, Holly Andres, Montana, A Homecoming, June Glasson, Madeleine Bialke, Visions West Contemporary

Eli Mathis Cheatham

The Artist Formerly Known as Lizzie

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RamblingsEli GraySeptember 3, 2021Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Eli Cheatham McNairy, Matrons of the Arts, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons and Mistresses, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy

This is a Robbery

Isabella Stewart Gardner

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RamblingsEli GrayAugust 19, 2021Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Eli Cheatham McNairy, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Rhea Khanna, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John Singer Sargent, This is a Robbery

Artist as Muse

Shifting the Structure

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RamblingsEli GrayMay 28, 2021Mieke Marple, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst

“Capital A” Art

Unlearning the Art World’s Indoctrination

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RamblingsEli GrayApril 9, 2021Mieke Marple, Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, SFMOMA, CODA, MOMA

Rina Banerjee

Sculptures and Role Models

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RamblingsEli GrayFebruary 24, 2021Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Rina Banerjee, Sculpture, Female Artist, Female Writer, Rhea Khanna

Big Money

For “Starving” Artists

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RamblingsEli GrayFebruary 10, 2021Mieke Marple, Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Big Money, Artsy, WrkLst, Jenny Holzer, Tom Otterness, female, Female Artist, Female Writer

Learning the Art of Self-Portraiture

Through Adelaide Damoah

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RamblingsEli GrayJanuary 27, 2021Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Rhea Khanna, See Spectacular, Adelaide Damoah, Self-Portrait, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Guest Writer

Forged in the Fire

A Letter From Our Founder

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RamblingsEli GrayDecember 30, 2020Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Happy New Year, Tale of Two Cities, Ginny Williams, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Beverly Pepper, Breonna Taylor, Vanity Fair, Luchita Hurtado, Emma Amos, Kennedi Carter, Helen Downie, Zoe Buckman, Judy Chicago, Study for Flaming Fist, 2020, 2021, Turner Carroll Gallery, Burned: Women and Fire

Thoughts On Art & Grief

By: Libby Buck

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RamblingsEli GrayNovember 9, 2020Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Libby Buck, Amy Sherald, Breonna Taylor, Vanity Fair, For the Light, Susan Rothenberg, Grief, Whitney Museum of American Art, Willard Gallery

Lockdown Reboot

By June Shapter

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RamblingsEli GraySeptember 11, 2020Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, June Shapter, Pandemic Lens, Breast Cancer, Pandemic, female, Female Artist, Female Writer

A Room of My Own

Featured in Walter Magazine

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RamblingsEli GraySeptember 3, 2020Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Walter Magazine, Matrons of the Arts, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons and Mistresses, Raleigh, Heather Gordon, Susan Harbage Page, Stacy Lynn Waddell, Stacey Kirby, Anna Atkins, Zoe Buckman, Toni Morrison, Andrea Donnelly

She Votes

An Upcoming Release by Bridget Quinn

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RamblingsEli GrayAugust 6, 2020Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, great women artists, women artists, female, Female Artist, Female Writer, Feminist, Feminine, Lorris lora, bridget quinn, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Stephanie Kubo, Marie Coons, Ella Trujillo, illustration, She Votes, How Women Won Sufferage, Sufferage, Broad Strokes

Creative Resilience

A Roundtable Conversation

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RamblingsEli GrayAugust 3, 2020Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Hilary Pecis, Heather Day, Maysha Mohamedi, Artist, Female, Feminist, Female Writer, COVID-19, George Floyd, New York, New York City

The Blending of Roles

Motherhood & Artistry

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RamblingsEli GrayJuly 2, 2020Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mother And Child, Julie Blackmon, Candy, An Artist in Residency in Motherhood, Lenka Clayton, Crystal Bridges, Out Arting, Motherhood, Artist Mothers, Feminist, Femininity, The Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tending to Art

A Journey of Attention

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RamblingsEli GrayMay 14, 2020Matrons and Mistresses, Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Libby Buck, Ramblings, Tending to Art, Maine, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Basha Burwell, Women of the Arts, Art, Artist, Writer, Female Artist, Female Writer, Art Historian, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Eva Hesse

A Commitment to Creativity

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RamblingsEli GrayApril 9, 2020Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Matrons and Mistresses, Lizz, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Artist, Art, Eva Hesse, Hauser & Wirth, Hauser and Wirth, Detroit Institute of Arts, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Helen hesse Charash, Stephen Korbet, The Estate of Eva Hesse, WikiArt, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, Sculpture, Painting

Happy Holidays

A letter to our readers.

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Ramblingslizzie mcnairyDecember 23, 2019Matrons & Mistresses, Matrons of the Arts, Matrons and Mistresses, Happy Holidays, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Artist, Art, Artist Mothers, Family, Happy New Year, 2019, 2020, Letter to Our Readers, Create, Creative

Simone Leigh

Entering another way.

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Ramblingslizzie mcnairyNovember 13, 2019Simone Leigh, Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, New York City, Loophole of Retreat, Female Artist, Feminist, Sculpture, Female, Lizzie Cheatham McNairy, Elizabeth Cheatham McNairy, Matrons of the Arts, Matrons & Mistresses, Matron, BLM