How have women and other artists formerly excluded from galleries and museums used "crafts" to express their unique vision and gain acceptance into the world of "fine arts"?

They the same meaning. It was during the Renaissance that painting, sculpture and architecture got labeled into the category of art and from there on the activities of making a chair, a rug, a bowl was separated into this other category called crafts.

lithograph is created by etching the flat surface of a print.