Art & Letters by the Sea: Kathleen Stone

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Kathleen Stone will discuss her book, “They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men” (Cynren Press, 2022) and the artist Dahlov Ipcar. Free with admission.

Kathleen Stone is the author of “They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men,” published by Cynren Press in 2022. The book is collection of biographical portraits of women who had professional careers in the mid-twentieth century, an era when women were expected to stay home. But these women defied conventional expectations and had careers in law, medicine, science, art and other fields. Based on personal interviews and historical research, Kathleen unlocks the secrets of their ambitions.

Female ambition is a subject Kathleen knows well. As a lawyer, she litigated commercial and business cases, sometimes as the only woman in the courtroom. Before that, she studied art history in college and hoped to work as a museum curator. Her talk will include a discussion of the route one of the women in her book, Dahlov Ipcar, took to become an artist, along with a viewing of Ipcar’s work in the museum’s collection.