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The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Booking Overview

A culture-focused show celebrating women artists, featuring conversations between art historian/curator Katy Hessel and artists, curators, writers, and art-world experts about the woman artist who matters most to them. It’s a strong fit for PR pitching major figures in art plus curators and authors with substantive, profile-worthy bodies of work.

Metrics

Episodes: 185

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10,000 - 100,000

Gender skew: Female

Listener location: USA

Instagram: 497.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

thegreatwomenartists@gmail.com

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Katy Hessel - Presented by art historian and curator Katy Hessel, the podcast centers on celebrating women artists through interviews with artists and art-world professionals about the female artist who means th...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Recognized women artists and prominent art-world figures—such as established museum/academic art historians, leading curators, and published authors—who can discuss an influential female artist in depth (often with recent exhibitions, publications, or major institutional projects).
Required Achievements:  
Major museum/exhibition involvement, Curated exhibitions and institutional commissions, Published books or significant scholarly writing, High-profile awards/fellowships

Recent Guest Discussions

Joan Snyder - Career Overview And Work Themes; Studio And Current Practice; Upcoming Exhibition Details.

Lubaina Himid - British Council Commission For The British Pavilion At Venice Biennale 2026; Pavilion Concept And Translation/history Themes.

Briony Fer - Curated Exhibition Sophie Taeuber-arp: The Rule Of Curves; Published Book On Sophie Taeuber-arp; Historical/art-historical Framing.

Recent Topics

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

Episodes

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

Edmund de Waal on Lucie Rie

October 06, 2026

Welcome to a new season of The Great Women Artists Podcast! We're kicking things off with the acclaimed ceramicist and writer, Edmund de Waal. Hailed for his ceramic works that come in the form of fragments, cylindrical pots, or that use techniques such as the Japanese kintsugi, de Waal has become one of the most renowned artists working in pots today. Born in 1964, de Waal grew up mostly in the deanery beside Canterbury Cathedral. He made his first pot aged five, glazing it in opalescent w...

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...

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