This special series of Atelier follows a group of American women who studied and practiced art in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, then reunited in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as artists in one of the era’s most important printmaking collectives. The series features conversations with participants from the October 2026 symposium, Drawn Together: Trailblazing American Women Artists in Belle Époque Paris.
In this second episode, Bernie Schultz, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Art History at the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University, and Cookie Schultz, retired faculty member and administrator for the Honors College at West Virginia University, discuss the life and work of Blanche Lazzell. They follow her path from Morgantown to Paris, where she discovered the Cubist aesthetic that would greatly influence her printmaking, and the fellow women artists with whom she would reunite in Provincetown. The Schultzes also share how they discovered Lazzell’s art and how they are working to bring it the recognition it deserves.
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Host: Marie Doezema
Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette
Editing: Theo Albaric
Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He
With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris
The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.
Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
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