“Woodman is often associated with the beginning of a trend in the mid-1970s toward raising traditionally low forms of art-making – ones that were not painting, sculpture, drawing, and printing – to the higher status of those other mediums. For Woodman, this was accomplished by radically experimenting with ceramics, in the process alluding to Italian Renaissance, ancient Etruscan, and Chinese styles.” In 2006 she became the first living female artist to get a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum.