Hilltop Art Festival!

Ann Goldthwaite is the inspiration for this art festival, our patron spirit as it were, so we thought we would take a moment to educate about her.

Anne Goldthwaite (June 28, 1869 – January 29, 1944) was an American painter and printmaker and an advocate of women's rights and equal rights. Goldthwaite was born in Montgomery and studied art in New York City.  She was a member of a group of artists that called themselves Académie Moderne and held annual exhibitions. 

She exhibited, along with other artists such as Van Gogh, Degas, and Monet. She set up residence in New York City and spent the summers with family in Montgomery. She taught at the Art Students League of New York for 23 years and during the summers, she was an instructor at the Dixie Art Colony. 

She was an advocate of equal rights and women's rights. She was actively involved in woman's groups, and fought for equality in the South for ethnic minorities. Her work as an activist and artist intersected on several occasions, including the 1915 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign, which she co-organized, and the unfurling of a suffrage banner of her own design at a 1916 New York Giants baseball game.