Dr. Meghan Callahan

Jane Morris and her husband William Morris were integral to the arts and crafts movement. While Jane is commonly described as William’s and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s muse, she was also a skilled artist and embroiderer. Her sister Elizabeth Burden was also an embroiderer. In this class we’ll examine how the “women’s work” of needlework has been alternately valued and undervalued in the art world.