Cerebral Women was launched in 2016 as a platform to feature the work of underrepresented visual artists.

In January 2020, Cerebral Women Art Talks podcast was later established to further promote and highlight underrepresented visual artists and the art professionals who work at the institutions that feature them. It is a weekly podcast and since its inception, over 240 episodes have been produced. The podcast enables Cerebral Women to expand its mission by providing our audience with a deeper, more direct connection to artists who are often overlooked including artists from the LGBTQ community and those formerly incarcerated. In addition listeners can learn from scholarly minds focused on visual arts, social justice and art history.

The Cerebral Women platform emphasizes how ‘art can help us understand our history, our culture, our lives, and the experience of others in a manner that cannot be achieved through other means.’

The interviews are viewed as academic research that can be used and referenced in papers and articles. Providing underrepresented artists an opportunity to be academized into history is critical to their sustained success. It is imperative to help normalize documenting and solidifying the contributions of artists into the canon.