Dr. Victoria Sonstegard is the founder and CEO of Art Speaks: Design + Illustration, creator of the Blog, Women out West: Art on the Left Coast, a fine artist, art historian, and educator. Dr. Sonstegard has designed logos and advertisements for industry and has taught drawing, painting, art history, and graphic design for 20 years. She was interviewed for and is excited to appear in an upcoming documentary film about California artist, Ina Perham, by producer and documentary filmmaker, William Lorton.
What matters most to Dr. Sonstegard is truth, loyalty, and compassion for all. She strives to be meticulous in her work in the field of accounting female artist’s lives on her Blog, and she is inspired by those artists, many largely forgotten over time-the impetus for the creation of the Blog.
In addition, Dr. Sonstegard is concerned with women’s issues, the environment, and aging. She loves to travel and has dragged her husband to art museums in every city to which they have visited, especially in her hometown of Washington, D.C. When she was a new arrival in Los Angeles,
she worked in the entertainment industry. Her most unusual task was on a television series called Sledgehammer! Dr. S had the dubious honor of being solely responsible for assisting Mr. Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian and Mr. Hand; Fast Times at Ridgemont High) with his very tight knee boots, both the taking off and the putting on, before every scene!
For the e-Conference, Dr Sonstegard will be presenting:
Four Waves of Feminism through Art in America
My presentation is on the Four Waves of Feminism through Art in America. Each “Wave” will be discussed with the history of the movement and the art that either drove it or acted as propaganda intended to interfere with the progress women were attempting to make within the framework of each Wave.
The artwork is primarily in the form of ephemera, i.e., illustrations, flyers, posters, photographs, and advertisements. It is at times shocking, enlightening, unexpected, and timely, especially considering the current state of women’s rights that at present are being systematically undermined here in the United States.