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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM AWA!
We are grateful for your continued membership and support of American Women Artists year after year. As we welcome 2023, the AWA Board and Staff wish you and your loved ones a safe holiday, good health, and a prosperous year full of love and blessings. We hope to see you at our upcoming show and are excited to keep you updated on all the happenings with our wonderful member artists.
Pushing Forward Reaching Back Finalists Announced January 13
Selection Jurors Michele Marceau, owner of Principle Gallery, Tricia Loscher, PhD, Assistant Museum Director-Collections, Exhibitions, & Research at Western Spirit Scottsdale's Museum of the West, and Vanessa Rothe, designer, artist, curator, writer, and owner of Vanessa Rothe Fine Art are currently working through over 850 entries for Pushing Forward Reaching Back!
All artists who entered will be informed directly on or before January 13 whether or not their work is accepted to the show. Watch the AWA website after the 16th to see the pieces headed to Brookgreen Gardens in May!
Brookgreen Gardens Sponsorship Opportunities
You can be a vital part of Pushing Forward Reaching Back by sponsoring an artist award or other aspects of the show. You can review the possibilities on the exhibition website HERE.
The Pushing Forward Reaching Back Grand Prize Award of $10,000 is generously funded by Presenting Sponsor Edmund S. Twining III.
Thursday, May 11, 2023, AWA hosts the annual Symposium on Women in the Arts at Brookgreen Gardens with speakers Anne Brown, former Associate Publisher, Streamline Publishing, Brittany Ryan, sculptor and educator, Robin Salmon, VP of Art and Historical Collections/Curator of Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, Donna Howell-Sickles, artist, gallerist, and early AWA leader, Michele Marceau, owner, Principle Gallery and Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, art historian and AWA Board member.
The 2023 Symposium on Women in the Arts is generously funded by Presenting Sponsor Edmund S. Twining III.
Image: Jessica's Shadow Dance, 28x22, graphite by Kim Taggart
ArtistsCalendars
By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member
On the blog, Jann shares the history of artists calendars and how they've evolved year after year.
Jann would love your feedback on her article, please email her at: jhgilmoreART@aol.com
Photograph of Dorothy Newkirk Stewart, c. 1950, Passions in Print: Private Press Artistry in New Mexico, 1834-Present, Santa Fe: New Mexico Museum Press, 2006, p. 95
ARTBEAT: News & Links from the Wider World
Canon in Drag: Female Artists Reimagine Famous Works by Men, ARTnews Read More
The Burns Halperin Report: Exactly How Underrepresented Are Women and Black American Artists in the Art World?, Artnet News Read More
The 5 Art News Stories that Defined 2022, Ocula Magazine Read More
Image: Rain on Windshield: Red Light, 30x30, oil on panel by Dianne Massey Dunbar
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Header Images (Left to Right): Peacefully Await, 16x12, Oil byAngela Campbell; Central Park Sunday, 18x24, Watercolor by Sandy Delehanty; Peace of Place, 24x18, Watercolor Over Graphite, Arline Mann
