The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

thegreatwomenartists@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

A women-focused art podcast presented by art historian and curator Katy Hessel, featuring artists and art-world figures on the female artist who matters most to them. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform for credible artistic voices—especially established women artists, curators, and writers with recognized contributions and museum-gallery visibility.

Metrics

Episodes: 184

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 491.0k followers

Contact Information

thegreatwomenartists@gmail.com

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Host

Katy Hessel - Art historian and curator and the presenter of The Great Women Artists podcast, originally developed from the @thegreatwomenartists Instagram account. Her work centers on elevating women artists an...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established women artists and/or respected art-world professionals—curators, art historians, writers, or prominent art advocates—typically with major institutional recognition (museums, galleries, fellowships/awards) and/or substantial scholarly or curatorial outputs (books, major exhibitions).
Required Achievements:  
Major awards or fellowships, Work held in museum collections, Curated museum or major-gallery exhibitions, Published books or influential scholarship, Significant public commissions (e.g., major international exhibitions/pavilions)

Recent Guest Discussions

Joan Snyder - Career And Practice Of Joan Snyder; Artistic Significance And Current Work (studio Visit Context And Upcoming Exhibition Mentioned)

Lubaina Himid - Lubaina Himid’s Work And Her British Pavilion Commission For The Venice Biennale (context Of The Pavilion Project)

Briony Fer - Sophie Taeuber-arp; Curatorial And Scholarly Work Related To The Exhibition/book

Recent Topics

Art History, Women Artists, Curation, Contemporary Art, Museum

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Great Women Artists
:

Joan Snyder

June 03, 2026

TODAY on the GWA Podcast is the esteemed painter Joan Snyder. Hailed for her large-scale gestural canvases that pulsate with colour, line and text, and are often layered with, buried in, or imploded with images of flowers, faces, or bodies, Snyder's all-encompassing works are nothing but electric. Sometimes large scale, with brushstrokes that populate the canvas like gemstones or musical scores with a whole range of keys: look at Snyder's work for a while, and it's like whole worlds emerge. S...

Venice Biennale special: Lubaina Himid

May 05, 2026

TODAY on the GWA Podcast: a very special bonus episode with Lubaina Himid, on her British Council Commission for the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2026, "Presenting History: Testing Translation". Returning to the podcast for the second time, Lubaina Himid is an acclaimed Lancashire-based artist working in paintings, sculpture, installations, archives, and more, whose career spans from the 1980s – when she was established as one of the leaders and trailblazers of Britain's Black Arts mo...

Briony Fer on Sophie Taeuber-Arp

April 29, 2026

TODAY on the GWA Podcast: esteemed art historian Briony Fer on the avant-garde icon, Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The Professor of History of Art at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy, Briony Fer is one of the leading art historians in the world. Writing and publishing extensively on modern and contemporary art, specialising in the history of abstraction in the 20th century, Fer has curated monumental exhibitions on artists such as Anni Albers at the Tate Modern, Louise Bou...

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