The Artists Who Created HEAR US

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville is professor and graduate program director at the Yale University School of Art. One of her best known designs is "Biddy Mason: Time & Place," which uses images and text etched in stone and steel on the wall of an interior street in downtown Los Angeles to tell the story of an African-American midwife who lived at the site.

Sheila de Bretteville holds degrees from Barnard College and Yale University and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Moore College of Art and California College of Arts and Crafts.

Susan Sellers is co-founder of the multi-disciplinary studio, 2x4, in New York City. The studio's clients include The New York Times, National Geographic, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture/AMO, Princeton School of Architecture, and many others. Sellers received a B.F.A. in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design in 1989 and an M.A. in American Studies from Yale University. She has taught and lectured widely and her articles have appeared in a number of journals. She is a Critic in the Department of Graphic Design at Yale University School of Art.


State House Women's Leadership Project

IntroductionSHWLPThe Art and the ArtistWomen Honored
Curriculum PacketResourcesMeet Lucy StoneHelp

MFH Main Menu

©2001 The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

www.MFH.org


State House Women's Leadership Project

IntroductionSHWLPThe Art and the ArtistHonored Women
Curriculum PacketResourcesMeet Lucy StoneHelp