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Introduction
WMG exhibits art made by and about women, educates the public about women’s art, and advocates for the equal treatment and recognition of women’s artistic accomplishments. WMG provides a multifaceted space for women artists. These women are not less advantaged in terms of their talent; they remain, however, disadvantaged in their access to exhibit their work in a professional, high-quality, committed space that provides the safety of artistic expression and recognizes the value of traditionally devalued art. Our exhibit topics have ranged in themes from domestic violence and religious freedom to stylistic themes such as the still life and surrealism.
Woman Made Gallery had its first juried art exhibit in July 1992 titled "Women Do Women". Nineteen artists depicted images and iconography of all things female. Since then the gallery hosts on the average eight group exhibitions per year with approximately 30 artists per show and a wide variety of themes. WMG has shown the work of more than 6500 women artists since 2010.
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The following is a list, along with a brief description, of juried group shows that are currently on display, or those that we will be hosting in the coming months.
If you are interested in submitting your artwork for any of these exhibitions, you may download an entry form by clicking on the PDF icon below each exhibition. The entry form in PDF format is on two pages and can only be opened if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for FREE from their web site. Click here if you want to download Adobe Acrobat Reader now. If you are unable to do so, you may use our Generic Entry Form and fill in the name of the WMG exhibition you are entering. Women artists may enter work online with digital files instead of slides, and all information about that is here: Entry Forms. By submitting their work to exhibitions, all artists agree to allow reproduction of their slides, photographs and/or digital files taken of their art for educational, publicity, and archival purposes.
(right) Installation by Jessica Witte. Photo by AJ Kane - www.ajrjphotography.com
Mothers
Juror(s): Rachel Epp Buller
Rachel Epp Buller, Ph.D., is a feminist-art historian-printmaker-mama of three whose art and scholarship investigate this balancing act. Her prints have been exhibited in solo and group and shows in Kansas City, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere and she lectures and publishes widely on issues of motherhood and the maternal body in contemporary art. Her art writing and criticism appears in journals such as Review, Woman’s Art Journal, German Studies Review, and the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, in essay collections such as Mothering in the Third Wave (2008), and the forthcoming Mothers Creating / Writings Lives: Motherhood Memoirs, and Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother, and in her own forthcoming book, Reconciling Art and Motherhood. She has worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Spencer Museum of Art, and currently teaches at Bethel College in Kansas.
Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 23, 2010
Girl, Please!
Juror(s): Kristen Carter and Emanuel Aguilar
Kristen Carter, WMG's former Gallery Coordinator is currently pursuing her PhD in Art History at the University of British Columbia. She is a graduate from DePaul University, with a BA in History of Art and Architecture and a minor in Studio Art. She is a member of the Keeper Team for ArtSlant Chicago where she writes monthly reviews about art exhibitions in Chicago. She also writes for the online art magazine, Jettison.
Emanuel Aguilar is assisting Woman Made Gallery with its exhibition programs. In addition he volunteers his marketing skills to the organization. He is a Fine Arts Major at Columbia College with concentration in Identity Politics and a Minor in Marketing, and he studied in Florence, Italy at the Lorenzo De Medici University. Aguilar works for Chicago’s Jean Albano Gallery and A & D Gallery, has curated several exhibitions, and helped found the online arts magazine, Jettison.
Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 23, 2010
The American Dream: A Juxtaposition
Juror(s): Catherine Blackwell Peña
Catherine Blackwell Peña (BFA/MFA) is a working artist and educator. Her artwork blends photography, installation, public art, and sculptural elements in works that challenge the viewer to reposition their perspective physically and mentally. Reoccurring themes in her work are humans altered relationship with nature and the boundaries and limits of our built environment.
Peña’s work has been exhibited in-group shows in Seattle, New York, Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis, Boulder, Las Vegas, and Kansas City.
Outside of her studio practice, Peña is dedicated to teaching, and exploring Public Art and Social Practices not only through educational settings but also in collaborations with nonprofits and community organizations.
Peña currently teaches at Memphis College of Art and Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN and also acts as a Public Art Workshop Coordinator for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. For more information, visit www.catherineblackwellpena.com.
Exhibition Dates: January 21 - February 24, 2011
14th International Open
Juror(s): Laura Anderson Barbata
Born in Mexico City, Laura Anderson Barbata has exhibited internationally since 1986. She currently lives and works in New York City, Venezuela, and Mexico City, where she is Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes—Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado la Esmeralda.
Her work is included in various private and public collections, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany.
Anderson Barbata has received several awards from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes for her drawings, photographs, and children's rehabilitation toys. In 1999 she was the recipient of a six-year artist grant from the Fund for Culture and Arts of Mexico.
Since 1992 Anderson Barbata has worked primarily in the social realm, initiating projects in Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Norway, and the U.S.. Among these projects is her collaboration with Moko Jumbies stilt walkers. This project has been presented at various museums and schools, among them the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; on 24th Street in Chelsea, Brooklyn, New York; and in Oaxaca, Mexico. For more information, visit www.lauraandersonbarbata.com.
Exhibition Dates: March 4 - April 28, 2011
True Poetry: Abstractions
Juror(s): Sandra Perlow
Sandra Perlow is a prolific artist interested in abstraction and pictorial space. She earned her BA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MA from the Illinois Institute of Design. Perlow has shown her work internationally, including at Linda Warren Gallery, Harper College, Jean Albano Gallery, and the Rockford Art Museum. She is an active contributor to WMG and serves on its Advisory Board. For more information visit www.sandraperlow.net.
Exhibition Dates: May 6 - June 30, 2011
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