Dorothy Gillespie (1920–2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures.

Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia,[1] where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was an artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center),[2] Wilmington, North Carolina, and Florida.

The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.

[7] She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981–1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection.

She maintained a studio through the 70s and worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause.

Her "Colorfall" is a 40-foot (12 m) tall sculpture hanging in the lobby of Wilmington's Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts.