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Introduction
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.
Calls for Art for upcoming shows are found on our
Entry Form Page.
For Jury Results please go to
What's New to find out who was recently accepted into an exhibition.
General Information
All group exhibitions are open to women and are juried by artists, curators or other professional women whose involvement brings a new and challenging perspective to an exhibition. WMG makes conscious efforts to provide leadership roles such as curating and jurying positions to women of color, lesbian women and older women artists. Artists are not required to be members in order to exhibit at the gallery, with the exception of an annual Member's Show. Men who are members of WMG are welcome to participate in the annual Member's Show. Some of the themes that were open to male artists in the past included a show on Healing juried by Hollis Sigler, "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" with images & iconography of the Virgin Mary, "Jack & Jill" a show on gender issues and "Prejudice", which was on exhibit from January 19 to February 22, 2001.
All group exhibitions are open to entries from around the world. If accepted, the work must be at the gallery by delivery date for the particular exhibit. All shipping, handling and/or custom fees including insurance during transit are the responsibility of the artist. Artists from outside the United States must pay any fees with Visa, Mastercard or with an International Money Order. Our bank will not accept personal checks from countries outside the USA in foreign currency!!!
Call for artists are placed in all major art publications at least three months prior to entry deadlines. WMG charges each artist a twenty-four dollar entry fee or $25.00 if the artist chooses to contribute to the scholarship fund. This fund enables artists who can't afford the entry fee to enter an exhibit free of charge. The money that is collected from entry fees helps to offset costs for printing invitations, postage, signage, publicity, website work, opening night expenses, rent, utilities, insurance and salaries. Once accepted, all artists who ship their work must pay a $10.00 administrative fee and also include the correct shipping fee to cover return shipping. WMG will not return artwork where shipping and administration fees have not been prepaid. Artists who drop off their work do not have to pay the administration fee.
All entry and shipping/handling fees may be paid from our Secure Page.
WMG sends out monthly publicity announcements and press releases, listing the upcoming exhibition and all other events and their dates of occurrence to numerous publications in the Chicago area and by email to large online venues. In addition invitations for each show are sent to approximately 1500 people on our mailing list. Accepted artists receive about 10-15 show announcements and copies of any publicity written about the exhibition is sent to artists after the show comes down.
Viewing of the art exhibition is free to the public. WMG also welcomes small groups to visit and see the current art exhibits. The directors introduce the artwork and engage the group in discussions. We have given tours to students and to groups such as the Women's Bar Association and the Women's Architectural Society. If groups wish to come outside regular business hours a fee is negotiated.
(above left) 'Tomatillo', video still by Pamela Turner.
(right) 'Wound', fabric art by Cybele Moon from the 2000 Members' Show.
Present & Upcoming Exhibitions
The following is a list, along with a brief description, of exhibitions 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. Make sure you read the tips & submission Guidelines as well as the respective dates and deadlines provided below. You may enter work 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.
Entries will not be accepted after the exhibition entry due date!
For the most recent Jury Results please go to What's New and scroll down to the exhibition you are interested in.
(right) Partial view of 'The Whole Ball of Wax' exhibition
Artisan Gallery - Physicality: Body, Shape, Form (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)
Juror(s): Margaret Denny - Artisan Gallery Curator
Margaret Denny is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her dissertation, From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers, 1850-1900, investigates women’s experience as fine art photographers and professional studio photographers in the early days of the medium. She teaches at both Columbia College and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent publications include essays in the anthology The Spaces and Places of Fashion 1800-2007 and the Journal of Illinois History. Denny is a former Terra Foundation fellow and has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. For the Terra, she curated "En Plein Air, American Artists in Giverny" in 2003.
Exhibition Dates: May 1 - July 23, 2009
Her Mark 2010 (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)
Juror(s): Maria Elena Buszek
Maria Elena Buszek is an assistant professor of art history at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her curatorial experience began at MoMA in NYC and LACMA in LA. She has curated exhibitions for the Charlotte Street Awards, Greenlease Gallery, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, and The Cube. She is working on the traveling exhibition Raised in Craftivity, opening at the Wignall Museum in 2009. Recent publications include Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2006) and Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism (Cambridge Scholar' Press, 2007). She is a contributor to journal BUST and Kansas City's Review. For more information visit www.mariabuszek.com.
Exhibition Dates: July 31 - August 27, 2009
Interactive (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)
Juror(s): Karen Hanmer
Chicago book and installation artist Karen Hanmer’s intimate, playful works fragment and layer text and image to intertwine memory, cultural history, and the history of science. Her work weds the ancient act of book binding with the high-tech use of the computer to aid her process. She exhibits widely, and her work is included in collections ranging from Stanford University and Tate Britain to National Museum of Women in the Arts and Graceland. Hanmer holds a degree in Economics from Northwestern University. She is Exhibitions Chair for the Guild of Book Workers, and serves on the editorial board of The Bonefolder, the peer reviewed online book arts journal. Visit: www.karenhanmer.com
Exhibition Dates: June 19 - July 23, 2009
Annual Members Show
Juror(s): Judithe Hernández
Judithe Hernández’s was a founding members of the Chicano Art and Los Angeles Mural Movements of the 1960's. Regarded as one of the important visual artists of the period, she was also the only female member of the seminal and influential East Los Angeles artist collective, Los Four, who broke the museum barrier with the first major exhibition of Chicano art in the United States. Her works are part of several important public and private collections, among them: the Bank of America Corporate Collection, the State of California Collection, and the National Museum of Mexican Art. Her extensive exhibition record includes the ground-breaking first exhibition of contemporary Chicano art in Europe: Le Démon des Anges. Among her many public works is the Los Angeles Bicentennial Mural (1981) commissioned by the City of Los Angeles to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the city's founding in 1781. In contrast to her public art, her studio work has always been pastel on paper. Commenting upon her work in the Aztlan Journal (Fall 2008), Dr. Chon Noriega of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center wrote, “Judithe Hernández’s vibrant pastel drawings illustrate the formation of a unique political aesthetic and Chicana/o consciousness that continues to inform her work in provocative and stunning ways”. In 2010, she will have solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Mexican Art and Woman Made Gallery. Visit: www.jhnartestudio.com
Exhibition Dates: July 31 - August 27, 2009
Artisan Gallery - Materiality: Emphasis on the Media
Juror(s): Margaret Denny - Artisan Gallery Curator
Margaret Denny is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her dissertation, From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers, 1850-1900, investigates women’s experience as fine art photographers and professional studio photographers in the early days of the medium. She teaches at both Columbia College and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent publications include essays in the anthology, The Spaces and Places of Fashion 1800-2007 and the Journal of Illinois History. Denny is a former Terra Foundation fellow and has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. For the Terra, she curated En Plein Air, American Artists in Giverny in 2003.
Exhibition Dates: July 31 - October 10, 2009
Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices
Juror(s): Pritika Chowdhry
Pritika Chowdhry explores cultural forms of memory and representations of historical trauma in her current work. Working in clay and fibers, Pritika creates sculptural installations that function as mobile memorials. Pritika has founded the Partition Memorial Project which exists as temporary art exhibits as well as a digital archive, www.partitionmemorialproject.org. Pritika is the recipient of a Vilas International Travel Fellowship, an Edith and Sinaiko Frank Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts, a Wisconsin Arts Board grant, a City of Madison project grant, and a Dane County Commission grant. Pritika’s works are in the “Erasing Borders 2009” traveling exhibit organized by the Indo-American Arts Council, and will be shown at the Queens Museum, New York, the Aicon Gallery, Manhattan, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery in SUNY-Cortland, and the Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania. In addition, Pritika is showing her works in solo and group exhibits at the DoVA Temporary at the University of Chicago, the Brodsky Center in Rutgers University, Woman Made Gallery, ARC Gallery, both in Chicago, and the Class of 1925 Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin. Born and brought up in India, Pritika moved to the U.S. in 1999. Pritika worked as a computer engineer for several years and then returned to school to do an MFA in Ceramics and Sculpture from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Exhibition Dates: September 4 - October 10, 2009
Mirando Al Sur: Looking South
Juror(s): Dolores Mercado
Dolores Mercado is an artist, curator, and arts educator. Mercado studied at UNAM, La Esmeralda in Mexico City, and the University of Guadalajara. Her recent curatorial projects include Quilt Me A Story: Nuestros Relatos (Immigration Stories) and Women Artists of Modern Mexico: Frida’s Contemporaries. Her exhibition, Rostros y Crónicas / Women of Juarez, opens in October 2009. Currently, she is Associate Curator and Associate Director of Education at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.
Exhibition Dates: October 16 - November 12, 2009
Artisan Gallery - Invitational
Juror(s): Margaret Denny
Exhibition Dates: October 16 - December 17, 2009
Family Album
Juror(s): Karen Irvine
Karen Irvine is Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. She is a part-time instructor of Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
Irvine received her MFA in Photography from FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, and her Masters of Arts in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has a BA in French and International Relations, an MFA in photography from FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, and an MA in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Irvine has organized numerous exhibitions, including: Paul Shambroom: Evidence of Democracy; Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi; Shirana Shahbazi: Goftare Nik/Good Words; Jason Salavon; Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography, a group show investigating the role of hearing and seeing in perception; The Furtive Gaze, artists who use the camera as a surveillance instrument, and Camera/Action, on the relationship between performance art and photography as a record of experience.
Exhibition Dates: November 20 - December 17, 2009
Cross Pollination
Juror(s): Laurel Delaney
Traveling and experiencing other cultures has had a major impact on Laurel Delaney's art. With her recent move to Arizona she has embarked upon a new series of work influenced by the many Native American tribes in the region.
Delaney is an exhibiting artist and writer and volunteers in local art based outreach programs. She has a BA from Dominican University in River Forest and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Delaney also teaches workshops in encaustic wax techniques as an affiliate of R&F Paints in Kingston, New York. For more information visit: www.laureldelaney.net.
Exhibition Dates: November 20 - December 17, 2009
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