Patience Lovell Wright was one of America's first inspiring artists and businesswomen. In her time, however, she was known for her unpopular manners and strong ideas. Wright was born in Outer Bay, a town in New York, and later moved to New Jersey when she was four years old. Later she married Joseph Wright, a landscape and portrait painter. Throughout the day while her husband was at work, she would amuse her children with simple sculptors and clay molds she had made out of bread dough. Patience Lovell Wright, America's first professional sculptor, should be included in the Social Studies curriculum at Perkiomen Valley Middle School West, the reason this is because she was an inspirational artist and businesswoman who taught women to know that…show more content… This expresses how even in Wright's life when no one stepped out, she knew that she had to be the change to inspire others at times. Especially at the time of the Revolutionary War, people sought after the finest of artists. Patience also struggled with many gender problems since she was a woman with unique ideas in a male-dominated field. One thing we can understand from this detail is her ability to go on to preserve despite being challenged in a world where men were expected to do it all. This shows readers that she possessed a strong sense of resoluteness and determination in the face of adversity. She had many contributions and ideas to the artistic world. As one of the first known sculptors, she was one of the first to lay down the foundations of later artists. Her new-age introduction to wax and her mastery of working well with it opened a new door and challenged artists to start doing this new “norm” of art. Second, in addition to her artistic achievements, Patience Lovell Wright's life sheds light on more general historical and social issues that had been foreseen by most women in
