Wild Women of The Village: Paint, Poetry, Clay and Camera, walking tour

Behind every talented artist in Greenwich Village, there is… A powerful, talented and liberated Village woman! From Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opening her studio in a former stable to a mysterious DaDA poet, artist and Baroness inventing (and getting arrested for) “wearable art,” and from Mabel Dodge’s wild all-night salons to the first exhibitions of revolutionary paintings by Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler, the Village and its environs would not be what it is today without women artists – and writers and photographers.

This two-hour walking tour, led by Marc Kehoe, East Village artist and veteran NYC tour guide, winds through the Village, visiting the sites where women strongly expressed their power and where they insured that their male counterparts became part of New York City cultural history.

• Marc Kehoe

Meet: Under the Washington Square Arch, Fifth Avenue/Washington Square North.