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Female sculptors have been rare throughout art history. Once considered the domain of male artists, women were not seen as physically capable of challenging labor such as carving marble or casting bronze and were even prohibited from training in the arts. That changed in the last century as bold and pioneering women forged a place for themselves within the sculptural landscape, taking on the physicality of the sculptural process, blurring lines between craft and fine art, and destabilizing the idea that sculpture had to be made with “masculine” materials of stone or metal.

"Bold and …