Michaela Wetherell is a curator from Sunderland. After completing her MA Curating, she knew she wanted to focus her career on Feminism and women artists. The Tell Her Story was informed by her passion to create feminist events, exhibitions and discussions in the North East, and to look at art collections and how they represent women here. Tell Her Story included several paintings and a drawing from Darlington Borough Art Collection, where information on the women involved was either absent, had been lost through time, or where images were drawn from the imagination in the first place, alongside new work commissioned from practising artists.
Michaella programmed a series of events to accompany the exhibition, and Darlington based writing group, Vane Women, developed original poems inspired by the exhibition, sharing these through a reading event in the Art Gallery at Darlington Library.
In January 2025 Michaella programmed Working Lass scrapbooking Tea Party drop in sessions in the Art Gallery at Darlington Library as part of the Pink-collar Gallery led Working Lass project. National Lottery Heritage Fund – Working Lass Project. – Pink-collar Gallery.
