The art market has its share of globe-trotting fairs but few glamorous female-centric industry events—until now. This month, Komal Shah, the California-based collector, decided to simply invent the event that didn’t exist. Her Making Their Mark Forum gathered more than 350 curators, artists, and industry leaders (the vast majority of them women) in Washington, DC, from March 5 to 7, primarily at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. The main theater where talks were held was extraordinary, befitting of the art appreciators in the room. Steeply raked in the classical sense, it was a theatron, literally, with guests arrayed above and speakers emerging below from what the Greeks called the skene, a closed structure behind the stage. “I spent a lot of time in these libraries as a kid,” said Chelsea Clinton, one of the morning’s speakers, of the D.C. library system. The setting gave the panel discussions a faint charge of drama, and indeed dangerous ideas were being shared. Dr. Sarah Lewis, Founder, Vision & Justice and Dr. Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair, Clinton …