First women of Castlemaine Art Museum

Council has been shortlisted for the Victorian Women’s Public Art Program which will fund six new public artworks to honour women’s contributions to Victoria.

We put forward a public art proposal to tell the story of seven trailblazing women from our region.

Known as the first women of Castlemaine Art Museum, Mary Leviny, Lilian Sheridan, Alice Waterhouse, Winifred Brotherton, Elsie Barlow, Mary Brough Woolley and Mrs. Cox stood in solidarity for better representation of women in art.

They were also instrumental in establishing the town’s first art institute, the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Museum (now known as the Castlemaine Art Museum).

With your vote, funding from the program could help us create a new public artwork to acknowledge their place in history, forever.

To vote, click the link below then scroll down and check the box for ‘The first women of Castlemaine Art Museum’. Click the submit button and you are done!

Vote now for the first women of Castlemaine Art Museum!

Image: Elsie Barlow at her solo show at the Castlemaine Mechanics Institute Library in 1912. Image credit: Adolphus Verey care of the Adolphus Verey Photographic Collection.