Wilhelmina Seegmiller

Wilhelmina Seegmiller (1866-1913) was an American artist whose Applied Arts Drawing Books were used ubiquitously throughout American schools.[1][2] She worked as an art teacher in the public schools in Indianapolis beginning in 1895.[1]

In 1909, she convinced the legislature of Indianapolis to pass a law allowing school boards to split $0.5 of each taxable $100 with the associations for art education in cities that had art associations.[3] She also changed art education in Indianapolis by encouraging schools to use professional artists to teach art.[3]

She wrote the children's books Rhymes for Little Readers, Other Rhymes for Little Readers, and Sing a Song of Season, the last of which she also illustrated.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Mary Quick Burnet (1921). Art and Artists of Indiana. Century. p. 257.
  2. 1 2 "Wabash Carnegie Public Library - Indiana Artists".
  3. 1 2 David J. Bodenhamer; Robert G. Barrows (22 November 1994). The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. pp. 212–. ISBN 0-253-11249-4.
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