Linda M Grasso
@okeeffefeminism
Professor of English, York College, CUNY. Faculty, MALS, BAM, and WGS, CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism (U of New Mexico Press) and The Artistry of Anger (U of North Carolina Press)
Finally got to see Mary Callery's sculpture, which adorns proscenium at the Metropolitan Opera House at a mesmerizing performance of El Ultimo Sueno De Friday Y Diego.
My wonderful colleagues @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu Faculty Publication Workshop who did great work this year. (left to right) Julieanne Guadalupe, Pat Haggler, Shirell Roeback, @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social, Jason Herel, Anthony Sparacino www.york.cuny.edu/academic-aff... #academicsky
Building an interdisciplinary Scholarly community with wonderful colleagues @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu
An illustration of Kenyon Cox's women's painting class at The Art Students League of NY from 1891 @atlantic.com article. Women were students from the school's inception; however, painting-from-the-nude classes were gender segregated. @ @womeninart.bsky.social @nationalwca.org
Another reason to major in English and value a college education: “They’re absolutely professional astronauts, wonderful communicators — almost poets,” Isaacman said. “These were ambassadors from humanity to the stars.” @cuny.edu @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social #academicsky
I await inspired scholarship on Artemis 2, but I am interpreting resistance to current Earth atmosphere through the name INTEGRITY, the projection of values such as respect, joy in expertise and learning, and collaboration among people of different genders, colors, and nationalities. #academicsky
@cuny.edu history. "The Female Normal and High School, opened in 1869, prepared young women to become teachers. Renamed @huntercollege.bsky.social in 1914, it’s the first NYC institution to offer free public higher education to women." Who are these women? Race? Ethnicity?
“It is an incredible history,” Dean George White noted. “These items don’t just tell us about one woman’s life; they illuminate the experiences of Black women in uniform, and the history of York College itself.” @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu www.york.cuny.edu/news/2026/yo...
Thank you to my nursing colleagues for a wonderful symposium on Black Women and Health @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu And thank you to President Schrader, Provost Brazill, and Dean Wright for supporting faculty scholarship.
Madeleine C. Roach, graduate of @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu Member of 6888th Battalion, an all-female mostly Black military unit that has been made famous by several books and movies—most recently in a 2024 film, Six Triple Eight. Honored by York, 3/12, www.york.cuny.edu/events/2026/...
Great things are happening @yorkcollege @cuny.edu Three Nursing Faculty discuss Black Women and Health Past and Present. March 5, 12:15-1:45. Academic Core, 2M04.
My wonderful students in “Story -Merging in books written by and about women” class in @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Remembering @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social who was murdered in the city he loved 45 years ago today, December 8.
Great things are happening @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Excited to hear my @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social colleagues, sociologist Jacob Apkarian and sculptor Maki Hajikano, discuss the shared theme of borders in their work. 11/20, 12-2, 2D01. @cuny.edu
Thinking about gendered art education in New York City in 1907, the first year Georgia O'Keeffe was a student at the Art Students League of New York.
Georgia O'Keeffe's first year in NYC at the Art Students League: www.youtube.com/watch?v=260m... My entry on O'Keeffe in 150 STORIES led me to the research I discuss in the talk. Congratulations Stephanie Cassidy and Happy Birthday League! @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social
Happy between two Georgia O’Keeffe paintings at Seattle Art Museum.
Thrilled to see Mary Callery’s 1946 bronze sculpture “Acrobats: Study for a Monument” today at the Grey Art Museum. The open spaces, sinuous rhythm, and fused female figures are transporting. From the back, the figures appear androgynous. Sculpture in storage.
At the wonderful 150th anniversary at the Art Students League of New York with Eugene Speicher’s painting of Georgia O’Keeffe when she was a 20 year old student at the League.
Presenting on sculptor Mary Callery at IABA Conference in Cape May, NJ. Callery's "The Flirt" is on the screen. Honored to be on panel with Laura Beard and Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle. Thanks to Kate Culkin for chairing. @bamcuny.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social
My wonderful York College @cuny.edu students in Women’s Literature class. We read two short stories a week from the 1890s to 1990s. We all learned a lot.
My honors student in women’s literature, Mahira Rahman, and her mother at York College @cuny.edu graduates’ celebration. She is applying to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social MALS program.
@bamcuny.bsky.social Women Writing Women's Lives lecture in honor of Dorothy Helley Jane Eisner, biographer of Carole King, speaking @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Monday, April 7, 4:00, C201-202. All welcome!
Keeping women's lives past and present in focus at York College, @cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bamcuny.bsky.social
Students in my class at York College, @cuny.edu discussing Sui Sin Far, Jessie Fauset, and Angelina Weld Grimke with the urban splendor of Jamaica, Queens out the windows--this is what gives me hope.
Zibby Wilder (center), who is writing a biography of Maria Chabot; Renata Kessler, who has studied O'Keeffe's "nature mysticism," and me at Carolyn Gage's "Georgia and the Butch: Adapted from Maria Chabot-Georgia O'Keeffe Correspondence" at the Tank in NYC. Recommend! thetanknyc.org/.../2025/2/2...
Juan Hamilton and Georgia O'Keeffe's relationship compels analysis. Friendships with close women friends that O'Keeffe maintained for many years were severed because of her involvement with Hamilton. Hamilton also withheld archival documents from scholars until 2020, when he auctioned them off.