This newsletter is divided into the following articles. To read any one of these articles, please click on the text of the article title.

• Letter from the Directors
• WMG Board & Staff News
• Letter to Woman Made Gallery
• Comments by the Member’s Show Jurors
• Join the WMG On-Line Artist Registry
• Gallery News Briefs
• Special Thanks To…
• Do DOGooders Have More Fun?
• Her Mark Hits the Mark for 2002
• Poetry Corner
• Member Profile
• Call For Art and Words
• An Artist To Know
• Woman Made Gallery Calendar
• Sponsor An Exhibit Or Purchase Award
• WMG Wish-List
• Please + Thank You
• In Memory
• Businesses We Support
• Call for Artists
• Newsletter Contributions
• Newsflash
• Previous Newsletters

Letter from the Directors:

Beate C. Minkovski, Pamela Callahan and Sheila Farley

In addition, since we continually receive inquiries from artists about the jurying process, and since the Member's Show jurying was such a rich experience for the three artist/jurors, we are planning a new workshop for 2002 where the participants are the jurors, viewing all slide entries for a specific show, and going through all the things that jurors must consider. Valuable insights and great lessons will be learned from this, including how important professional slides are, how much content and craftsmanship influence jurors' decisions and how tough it is to not accept everything.

Other summer news: Our Open Board Meeting on August 11th was preceded by honoring our Volunteers for their important work for WMG. The meeting with staff, board, advisory board and several WMG members included an overview of gallery activities followed by a spirited discussion. This exchange of ideas is so invigorating, stimulating and needed for WMG to evolve, for out of these gatherings, seeds are planted for new growth. We thank all who attended for their time and for sharing their energy and insights.

Upcoming this fall...Plan your excursion now to our Annual Holiday Bazaar, opening November 23rd. By shopping at Woman Made, not only do you find one-of-a-kind gifts handcrafted by women from Illinois and across the country, but you support these women artists and help us raise important funds for our valuable programs. To meet some of the artists whose works are on display, come to the artist's reception on Friday, November 30 from 6-9pm. Be among the first to see the fabulous array of artwork (prices range from $5-$1000), then tell all of your friends and bring them back for a lovely shopping experience (we're open through Dec 23rd). WMG members receive 10% off throughout the sale.

Among the items featured at the bazaar is the 2002 edition of the Her Mark Calendar--a perfect holiday gift. We're making a special request to all of our members and supporters, to order one copy of Her Mark (for yourself, a friend, family member, co-worker, neighbor...) This shared effort will ensure that we can continue producing a beautiful annual calendar in support of women's visions and voices. Please send in your completed order form on page 9. Other gift ideas are also available on the order form (for those unable to visit the Bazaar), including a WMG Gift Membership for the artist or art lover on your list!

Special Advance Notice: Our annual Art Auction Benefit is to be held on Friday, March 8th, 2002 at the Three Arts Club. (this date has changed from the date announced in the Summer newsletter.) We are soliciting items for our silent auction event and appreciate your contributions of special services, gift certificates and original arts and crafts as well as volunteer help. Call the Gallery for more information on this grand event.

We know that we continually are making requests--for support, input, money--but without this, without YOU, Woman Made would not exist. We hope that you see the interaction between you giving to WMG and how much the Gallery is giving back to you. If you haven't been touched yet by the cycle of give and receive, please visit us this fall to see art from the 'Import/Export' show or the 'Honoring the Crone' exhibition. Take a workshop, attend our lectures, have fun at the Holiday Bazaar and just come in and share yourself. For those far away, browse our website and keep in touch electronically. Best wishes this autumn from all of us at Woman Made.

(top right) ‘In-Between‘, silver gelatin photography by by Cho Hye-Jeong from the Import Export Exhibition

WMG Board & Staff News:

We welcome our newest board member, June Felicia Bennett, who was voted on board at our Open Board Meeting on August 11th, 2002. June is a multi-disciplinary expressionist, creating mixed media imagery and poetic verse. She also organizes an annual symposium featuring artists of varied disciplines. We are very happy that Indira Freitas Johnson has agreed to serve on our Advisory Board. Indira is a respected artist and founder of Shanti Organization for Peace. Please read about Indira on page 6 in this newsletter edition. We are equally pleased that well-known photographer, Tom Van Eynde has joined our growing Advisory Board and look forward to a rewarding relationship. Alison Zehr, one of our existing Advisory Board Members, who is a consultant for non-profit organizations, has agreed to advise us with our long-term planning. We regret that Cathleen Nagle, Marilyn Maas, Debra Mancoff, Lori Pastuszak and Tiffany York had to resign their Advisory positions, but we are thankful for their continued support of the Gallery.

Senior advisor, Janet Bloch won a Hollis Sigler lithograph in a raffle event at the last WCA conference and donated it graciously for our permanent collection. Many special thanks for this generous gift!

Letter to Woman Made Gallery:

Beate, I was wondering if you could give me a little feedback on the recent rejections of my work, which I submitted for the Member's Show and the 2002 Calendar. I have always had a good rapport with the Gallery and I would like, if you have the time, some constructive criticism.

I would like to keep submitting work but has my work not been up to standard or was it politically incorrect, or just too many submissions to give individual consideration? It would help me to know more about the judging process.

As I said, only if you have the time, I understand how busy you are but it would be appreciated. Hope all is well with everyone at Woman Made.- Sincerely, Karen Abbott

Hello Karen, Sorry that you didn't make it into the Member's Show or the Her Mark calendar. I think that NOT being included had anything to do with your professionalism. You always had good slides with an interesting theme, but it is a very personal choice, different each time and completely up to the jurors. From my observations the show comes 'together' as the juror selects more pieces. Often the first pieces chosen decide all the following because the juror wants to have a 'connected' show. I don't want to call it 'luck', even though there is that component, but all the following factors play a role: juror's personal opinion, preferences and agenda, good slides, professional entry, all entries by one artist have continuity, originality, craftsmanship and how the work fits in with the rest of the show, the more entries the fiercer the competition and work must fit the theme if there is one.

I hope this helps, Karen. Please don't take this at all personally. I have you on my list of future jurors for the Member's Show and that experience above any other will give you insight into the process and the great difficulties that come with the juror's job. It's a tough one. - Greetings, Beate

Comments by the Member’s Show Jurors:

We thank our three jurors, Anna M. Tyler, Pat Otto and Audrey Preuss-Blessman for an outstanding job jurying the 2001 Member’s Show.

Anna M. Tyler
Serving as a juror is both challenging as well as disconcerting, especially when more than one person is involved in the selection process. The most difficult aspect of the slide review process is selecting a limited number of works for the show that you and your colleagues mutually agree on, because each person bring to the table her own taste. From my perspective, knowledge of craftsmanship and visual communication of ideas are essential. The slide review process as a tool has its inherent drawbacks, but it is currently the best method for choosing visual art for an exhibition.

Pat Otto
It was an honor and a privilege to be asked to help jury the WMG Member’s Exhibition for 2001. It was also difficult. The biggest challenge was attempting to select up to 60 works from over 300 slides. The first thing the three jurors did was to dismiss any entries that were not following the submission guidelines and any poor quality slides. Secondly images were regretfully eliminated if the slide did not give enough information to the viewer, i.e., the artwork depicted was very large or very detailed and no close-up or alternate view was offered to augment it. And finally, the ‘diversity’ of both the jurors and the artwork was often both stimulating and overwhelming. Not only did the three member artists jurying the show represent different ages, cultural/racial background and artistic experience in themselves and had to come together to select a limited amount of work, but the artwork itself ranged from realistic to non-representational, professional to untrained, traditional to experimental, craft to fine art, 2-D to 3-D, etc. As difficult as the task was, it was our common goal to achieve a select group of work representative of WMG membership to be able to exhibit in a way that enhanced ones viewing experience by allowing it the space it surely deserves.

Audrey Preuss-Blessman
Selecting only 60 works out of over 150 entries for the WMG Member’s Show would be a daunting task for any one juror let alone three. Being it my first experience as a juror and having entered many shows with my submissions both “accepted” and “declined,” I was especially curious to observe what exactly goes into jurying a show.

We all agreed that our primary task was to apply the criteria set out in the prospectus which requested no less than three works which would be judged based on originality, craftsmanship, quality and professionalism of entry. With so many wonderful submissions any excuse to remove a work on the basis of lacking professionalism only made our job easier.

Please note, that submitting several consistent works rather than works of two or three styles give a greater impression of professionalism. This was an interesting observation, as I have often entered a variety of works thinking that breadth or experimentation were worthy qualities. However, multiple styles seemed to convey a sense of inconsistency or non-commitment. Sometimes titles were very helpful and if you are submitting three pieces as a triptych you must include a slide that shows the triptych as a whole. We declined a beautiful piece because we could not envision it as a triptych.

So, after removing the obvious “No’s”, we soon moved into serious selection mode. As it turned out, Pat, Anna and I felt unanimously enthusiastic about 33 works. This left us with 9 “personal choices” each. It was fascinating how our personal choices varied! There were pieces I selected that made another juror cringe and vise-versa. However, I believe these personal choices ultimately brought a lovely diversity to the show. Jurying this show was a beautifully difficult endeavor. I learned so much and am grateful to have had the opportunity to participate as a juror and further grow as an artist.

Join the WMG On-Line Artist Registry :

Dear WMG-
I would like to encourage fellow members to join your online artist registry. Upon doing so a year ago, I have received many ‘hits’ on my link.

Several sources have requested slide packets/resumes for inclusion of my original artwork in the print market. A Washington, D.C. art consultant/gallery working with commercial interior designers, architects, and corporate clients also requested a complete slide packet with the potential for commission work. An author in the Atlanta area would like to include me in a book she is writing on creativity amongst artists that she terms ‘late bloomers’. Most recently I have been included in an international exhibition of women artists that will take place in Italy this September.

Woman Made has established itself on the national and international level as a resource for artists, advocates, and aficionados. None of the above would have occurred without my exposure on the WMG online artist registry. Whereas artists may have their own website (I do) and feel no need for this service, people unfamiliar with their work will never opt to look at that site as they do not know a name to begin with. Being viewed on the Woman Made registry vs. one’s own website holds much greater odds.

Kudos to WMG for being a frontrunner in this area with a most enjoyable, resourceful, professional, and user friendly website. Their 21st century vision has put Woman Made Gallery ahead of the pack. Similar galleries sprouting in other major cities have recently been sending me membership information!

Debates still persist about the legitimacy of showing one’s work on the Internet. While the many debates continue, those using it are professional enough to know that they are viewing an image that undoubtedly is better seen in person. And in using it, they are able to conduct their art business and affairs in a more economic and efficient manner. The computer is the visual tool of the art community today. It is not going away. Use it and be seen! - - Kathleen Waterloo - 8-22-01

Gallery News Briefs :

Grant Update
We did not receive grants from WPWR – Channel 50 and the Fry Foundation. Pending grants are Sappi (for the HER MARK calendar) to be decided in September and the Benjamin Rosenthal Foundation which well be decided in November. We were approved for $2,000 from Polk Brothers to help with a program with the Neopolitan Lighthouse (NL), an organization serving the emotional and educational needs of abused women and children. Through this outreach program, we will collaborate with schools and shelters to provide educational and artistic programming that addresses issues of violence. Grants due in September are the Sara Lee and Andy Warhol Foundation and the Kaplan Foundation renewal.

Women Artists and Archetypes
Presented by Mary Stoppert, Artist, Curator and Educator
Register now for this series of three important slide lectures providing an overview of women artists, some famous and some not so famous and their role in shaping 20th century art. The final class will focus on Chicago women artists. This lecture series is for the art history challenged and no prior experience or knowledge is necessary. Mondays, October 15, 22, 29 from 6:30 - 9:00pm - $75.00 fee.

Her Story T-Shirt
Janet Bloch and Nicole T. Perez designed a great HERstory t-shirt in response to a ‘HIStory of Art’ version Janet saw at the gift shop of the Art Institute. Instead of the usual European White Male Artists making up the History of Art this fresh and enlightening version recognizes Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Mary Cassatt, Sonia Delaunay, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Faith Ringgold, Eva Hesse, Judy Chicago and Ana Mendieta. Don’t know who some of these artists are? All the more reasons to get this shirt from WMG now to educate yourself and others about the artistic contributions of ten historic women artists.

Special Thanks To…:

WMG is supported in part by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation, the Sara Lee Foundation and by a CityArts Program II grant from the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Woman Made appreciates the following individuals and organizations for their ongoing support of the Gallery:

• Our Board members for their continued hard work, devotion and board pledges
  
• All Advisory Board Members for their support
  
• Dan Fensin from Blackman Kallick Bartelstein, 300 South Riverside Plaza,
• Chgo. 60606 for free tax & audit services
  
• Yvonne & Mason Galganov from Galganov & Associates in Cambridge, Ontario for design & maintenance of our web-page
  
• George Gehrken from Telpoint Communications for donations and maintenance of computer equipment
  
• Patricia Callahan for her donation of $200
  
• Anne Elizabeth for her donation of $300
  
• Her Mark 2002 project people: Ruby Barnes, Janet Bloch, Meg Coleman, Cin Salach and Maureen Seaton. Also special thanks to the WMG Marketing Committee (Cali Bergold, Kathy Greenholdt, Margo Jeanchild, and Marian Jones) for their insights and efforts
  
• Mary King for coordinating the monthly art critique workshops
  
• Clarke House Museum curator, Edward Maldonado, for his help with organizing our first Reading in the Park
  
• Arthur & Jane Mason for donating $100
  
• Kendra Miller for donating $80
  
• Jeanne Nemcek for her design skills (see WMG ad in Sept/Oct New Art Examiner)
  
• Dan Waterloo from EZ Mail Services, 708-488-9163, for bulk-mailing services.
  
• Theresa Witek for designing our newsletter.

Do DOGooders Have More Fun? :

On July 14th, WMG hosted a panel presentation for pets and their guardians. Included were representatives from five groups that are contributing to the public welfare in the Chicago area. Thank you to Harriet Rosenfeld Choice, Sherri & Jim Gallaher, Stacey Hawk, Judy Keitz, Charlotte Projansky, Mary Ellen Schneider, and the amazing canines that accompanied them, for an informative and entertaining morning. WMG also extends a big thank you to Alice Lehrman of Barker & Meowsky, Howling Hound Bakery and Lance Schwimmer of Petco for their generous donations to the event. If you missed the DOGooders panel, following are profiles of the participating organizations so that you may familiarize yourself with the good they are doing.

Call of the Wild School for Dogs is dedicated to providing the highest quality dog training using only positive reinforcement. Utilizing the latest techniques, including eye contact training, this school gets results with kindness. They also have a daycare program. Call them at 773-539-1088 or visit their website, www.callofthewildschool.com

Chicago Regional Search & Rescue, Ltd. is a non-profit which offers certified dog and handler teams to search for missing persons. They provide search teams to agencies and have helped find live victims of disasters, lost Alzheimer patients and drowning victims. Training only German Shepherds by using positive reinforcement techniques, they capitalize on the dogs’ natural instincts for “play.” Their wish list includes diverse requests for illustrators, photographers, website managers, childcare workers and people to prepare frozen or boxed meals for their missions. Contact them at 847-970-9917 or jfgallaher@aol.com.

D.A.W.G. (Dog Advisory Work Group) is a coalition of dog and non-dog guardians, groups and individuals who help communities share public spaces responsibly, and to promote and implement public education about dogs and dog-related issues in communities. Some of their current initiatives include Animal Violence Prevention and Animal Abuse Court Advocacy. Contact them at 312-409-2169. They need your membership!

Rainbow Animal Assisted Therapy is a not-for-profit volunteer group that works with emotionally, mentally or physically disabled children in the Chicago area. Their programs at various hospitals, schools, parks and camps teach children to participate in training, grooming and social activities with dogs. These activities increase the children’s motor and verbal skills, self-esteem and confidence. For more info call Nancy Lind at 773-283-1129.

Chenney Troupe, Inc. was profiled in our last newsletter, but if you missed that issue please contact them at 312-280-0266. They provide animal assisted therapy for adults and children.

Her Mark Hits the Mark for 2002 :

Woman Made Gallery invites you to attend a special Release Party and Reading in honor of the HER MARK 2002 CALENDAR on Sunday, October 21 from 2-4 pm. After such success in 2001, the Gallery has once again put out this special edition 2002 13-month date book, which features art and poetry by women from around the country. The Release Party will be attended by many of the calenda’rs featured artists and poets - a perfect opportunity to have your pages personally autographed. The spiral bound date book makes a perfect gift and this year features six color postcards to tear out and send to friends. Just $15, HER MARK is the ideal way to make your mark on women¹s art and Woman Made Gallery. Order your copy today, by phone (312-328-0038) or online from our Secure Site where you can charge your order with Visa or Mastercard, or send in the order form with regular mail. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, October 21 and until then - go out and make your mark!

(right) Gracing Her Mark 2002's cover is 'One Clown', oil and collage on canvas, by Carol Es.

Poetry Corner :

What We Lose (Poem from the Her Mark 2002 Calendar)
© Kathleen Kirk

My son spits his first loose tooth
into the yard, and dragons sprout!
Tongues drip pink bleeding heart,
spew fire red saliva/salvia. Truth
crackles under our feet, dry
needles of the white pine. On hands and knees
we try to find it, take it back---
We have wishes to make under pillows,
lily bulbs, daffodils! we cry,
but it¹s too late: twigs/bones break,
thumbs turn black, petals wither and fall,
earth eats us up again, or we rise
as vapors and rain back down. Days
root us and pull us free and we wail.

Member Profile:

Meet Marian Jones, artist, educator and Woman Made Gallery Board Member

For the past twelve years... I have enjoyed teaching young children at the Lafayette School. And through photography and writing I continue to grow as an artist.

I became involved with Woman Made Gallery... after attending an opening for a moving exhibition, "Breaking Bread" by Nazaré Feliciano. Later I dropped in for exhibits and visited a childrens' workshop and met Beate.

I think the Gallery is important... because it makes very special art by women accessible to all, and does so in an atmosphere of warmth and sharing.

Three words that definitely do not describe me... are quiet, shy, and unfriendly.

When I was a young girl... one of my first experiences with art wasseeing very large oil paintings created by my grandmother.

The best advise I ever received... was "you can do anything you want if you work hard enough."

Two women who greatly influenced my life... were my mother and my Jersey City high school counselor. My mother was completely supportive, loving and devoted to us. The counselor introduced me to the University of Chicago which gave me life changing experiences I would not otherwise have had.

Every morning I wake up... and say, "How thankful I am for so many blessings."

The three women artists whom I most admire... are --my grandmother whose powerful figure," Bohemian Girl ," was so realistic it seemed to step off the canvas. -- my mother who sang, designed and made clothes and painted small delicate water color prints -- Onnie Millar, a Brooklyn artist who was always creating something beautiful from any kind of material.

No one knows... but I love to sing.

Call For Art and Words :

Call For Words
Call For Poetry and Short prose (curated by Nina Corwin) to correspond with the Invented Figure exhibition at WMG, April 5-May 16, 2002

Entry Deadline (postmarked by): January 15, 2002

The body. The body in whole or in part. Write the body. Sing the body. Celebrate the body or bemoan it. The body embellished or deconstructed. Re-invent the body. The Surreal body. Body functions. The body in Action or Motion. The body in distress. The body alone or in context. The body through time.

Selected writers will present their work in a Reading at Woman Made Gallery on Sunday, May 5, 2002 2-4pm

Send no more than 6 poems or no more than 6 pages short prose along with SASE to: Invented Figure Words, Woman Made Gallery, 1900 South Prairie Ave., Chicago, IL 60616. For more info, call 312-328-0038.

Call for Art and Words for "Seeding the Snow"
"Seeding the Snow" is a biannual journal of women's writing and artwork that celebrates the Midwestern landscape. They are looking for work exploring women's connection to nature for the Spring 2002 issue. "Seeding the Snow" welcomes poetry, short fictions, essays, journal notes (maximum 1000 words), photography and artwork suitable for black & white reproduction.

Deadline: January 2002.

An Artist To Know :

INDIRA FREITAS JOHNSON
(as interviewed by Cali Bergold)

Q: Tell me about yourself... where did you grow up... when did you first become interested in art ...

A: I grew up in Mumbai, (Bombay) India, the second daughter in a family of six girls. My father was an artist and my mom was a social worker and that combination of art and activism was part of my life from an early age. After doing under graduate work in India I came to the Art Institute of Chicago where I received my MFA. And met my future husband, Karl. Our early life together was as nomads, living in India, Sweden, later Denver, and finally settling in Evanston, just north of Chicago.

Q: Tell me specifically about the art that you produce ...the medium, the message you are conveying ...

A: As an artist I am self-learned and self taught. Most of my formal education has been in advertising design. I first started making sculpture in clay during our stay in Sweden, and have gradually included other materials like wood, metal and found objects into my sculpture. I became interested in community art in the early nineties. My first project was a health-education project in India. Working with a group of tribal children who had been affected by leprosy, we painted a commuter train that ran between Mumbai and the far suburbs and spread the message of the curability of leprosy to thousands of people. Since then I've worked on a number of community projects like the one with Apna Ghar, a Chicago based South Asian domestic violence organization and an ongoing collaboration with an income generating woman's organization SHARE (Support the Handicapped's Rehabilitation Effort) that operates in the slums of Mumbai.

My most recent project was FREENOTFREE at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence. I worked with a literacy group as well as with the wider community incorporating stories people shared with me about actions of comfort and care giving, everyday acts of love, kindness and support that are freely given and freely taken. The Museum installation became a community celebration bringing together the spiritual and the material dimensions of life and reinforcing the idea that each of us exists in relation to the other and everything else, in a vast web of interrelationships.

Q: When did you get involved with Woman Made Gallery and why ...

A: About six years ago, I was asked to jury a show and during that process learned about Woman Made Gallery. I was very impressed with the philosophy and the way the gallery supports artists at all different levels. It is nice to see that the expansion of facilities and programs has not been at the expense of caring leadership.

Q: When you give advice to young artists, what do you tell them ...

A: Discover the truth of one's voice. After that it's a question of nurturing the integrity of that voice, believing in one's self and not being influenced by current trends, etc.

Q: What three women artists have made an impact on you and your art and why…

A: While I admire the work of many contemporary women artists, I have been most deeply influenced by the female folk traditions of rural India, like the women painters of Mithila or the elaborate embroideries of the Rabari women. The underpinnings of these traditions and the way they are embedded in the culture of the place is what is especially meaningful to me. They are based on a need to locate the individual within a larger universe. Handed down from woman to girl these traditions center around the well-being of one's family, the idea of sacred space and the transitory nature of all life.

Q: What is the best advice you've ever gotten ...

A: My mother was this amazing woman whose advice has been valid in all areas of my life. She taught me how to think critically, to look at the at the other person's point of view and most of all through her own life demonstrated that individual action can make a positive difference in the world.

Q: Tell me about the Shanti Foundation ... how did it begin, what is its mission ...

A: Shanti Foundation was established in 1993 to foster the practice of non-violence in everyday life. My goal in founding the organization was to do something as an artist to bring about peace. We have evolved into an arts education organization that creates and implements curriculum based programs for children and families so that they can develop lifelong non-violence decision-making skills. Art is the medium we teach with, as creativity and the peace process are linked: both require brainstorming, critical thinking and respect for life. A student said after completing our program "I am two things I didn't know I was before: an artist and a peacemaker". Our programs promote the understanding of nonviolence as a complex and active rather than passive model for problem solving and foster the idea that we can each and every one of us affect positive change in our world. These are building blocks for peace.

Q: What are your plans for the future, regarding your art ...

A: I plan to continue doing community work as I find great fulfillment in the challenge inherent in the process. You bring together a group of individuals, who are more or less strangers, and help them discover through dialogue, art and ritual the commonality of our human experience, and the spiritual potential inherent in all of us.

(above left) ‘Communication Gap‘, mixed media sculpture by by Indira Freitas Johnson

Woman Made Gallery Calendar :

Please check our WOMAN MADE GALLERY CALENDAR for all events throughout the year.

Sponsor An Exhibit Or Purchase Award :

Please become an exhibit sponsor or give an exhibit purchase award for future shows. An example of exhibit sponsorship is providing money for printing and mailing expenses of invitations. Your name would be printed on the invitations and in our newsletter. You might also want to give a purchase prize for a select exhibition. This means that you would commit to buying one artwork from one exhibition. Your name and /or company would be credited on all printed materials and on our Web site. For more information contact WMG at (312) 328-0038.

WMG Wish-List:

• Books and videos about women artists for our research library
  
• Exhibit sponsors or people to give purchase awards
  
• Membership from everyone who reads this so all our wishes can come true!
  
• Office supplies (pens, laser and copy paper, etc)
  
• Our own Women's building in Chicago
  
• Wine, soft drinks for opening events

  Donated items should be in workable condition and are tax-deductible.

Please + Thank You:

We would like to thank the following people who have become members or renewed their memberships and all those who have donated money, items, time and talents. We apologize for any misspellings and appreciate if you would let us know. Please check in our winter newsletter if your name has not yet been listed here.

Volunteers
Thank you to our board member, Roberta Reb Allen for her great job in contacting and organizing volunteers to help at WMG with various projects. We thank all of the volunteers listed here and will include all those that are not yet recognized in our next newsletter:

Poetry Contributors
Special Thanks to ‘Deal With It’ and RHINO writers for sharing their words: Mary Biddinger, Lina Chern, Bernadette Geiser, Mary O'Banion, Sarah Odishoo, Cecilia Pinto, Maureen Seaton, Ginny Sykes and Lori Williams.

In Memory :

We are very saddened by the death of our friend and WMG member, Annalee Hultgren who passed away on July 6, 2001. Ms. Hultgren had a MFA from the School of the Art Institute and taught in the art department of City Colleges for twenty-four years, until her retirement eight years ago. She was also adjunct lecturer at the Art Institute since 1972. Annalee Hultgren was a member of Woman Made Gallery since many years and participated in several of our exhibitions, including the 7th Annual Member’s Show in 2000.

Businesses We Support :

4439 Design
4439 Design is a full service design studio with sixteen years experience in the development and design of all print media including books, newsletters, brochures, identity, CD packaging and promotional pieces.

Working with independent artists, nonprofit organizations and corporations, 4439 Design offers creative design solutions to any project, small or large. Call for further information and samples.

Contact Jeanne Nemcek at 773 539-9270 or email her at nemcek@flash.net

EZMAIL services
Mailing services: addressing, bulk mail presorting, labeling, postage discounts. Minimum 250 pieces, can handle jobs up to 75,000 pieces. 10% discount on mailing services to WMG members. Very competitive prices. Save time and money on your next mailing and let EZMAIL eliminate your mailing headaches! Daniel P. Waterloo, 708-488-9163 or email dan@ezmailservices.com. Check out the EZMail Website.

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Newsletters - Brochures - Marketing Collateral - Stationary - Invitations - Envelopes - Advertising Specialties - Labels - Mailings - Business Forms - Pocket Folders - Graphic Design

Call for Artists :

You have two options for obtaining guidelines for shows:

1. Send a note (with a self-addressed-stamped envelope) requesting the show prospectus of your choice to: Woman Made Gallery, 1900 South Prairie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616.

2. Click on http://www.womanmade.org/calexhibits.html and print out entry forms in pdf format for the exhibition you wish to enter or print out a generic Entry Form: http://womanmade.org/entryform.html.

ANNUAL HOLIDAY BAZAAR, November 23 - December 23, 2001
Deadline for Entries: October 26, 2001
Unique hand made crafts, jewelry and small-scale artworks by women
Jurors: Gallery Directors

CENSORSHIP, January 18 - February 21, 2002
Deadline for Entries: October 27, 2001
Open to all women artists whose work has been censored (self-censored) or that stirred up heated debates and was seriously threatened with removal by those who objected to its content. All media and styles encouraged.
Juror: Rosemary Luckett

5th INTERNATIONAL OPEN, March 1 - 28, 2002
Deadline for Entries: December 15, 2001
Woman Made Gallery invites women from all backgrounds, all ages, and from all corners of the globe, to submit artwork for this open exhibition. All themes, styles and media will be considered.
First prize: Solo Exhibition in 2003. Second prize: $500. Third prize: $250. Juror: Faith Ringgold

THE INVENTED FIGURE, April 5 - May 16, 2002
Deadline for Entries: January 24, 2002
An exhibition, which uses the figure as a metaphor for human experience. The show will consist of work in all media which go beyond merely recording the image of the body. Open to artwork by women in all media.
Juror: Judith Raphael

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, May 24 - June 20, 2002
Deadline for Entries: February 20, 2002
Entries in all media by women that is autobiographical.
Juror: Mary K. O'Shaughnessy, artist, founder and director of Wood Street Gallery and Sculpture Garden

Good luck to all exhibition entrants. Remember to enter shows in the most professional way with the best slides possible.

Newsletter Contributions :

Woman Made News is produced quarterly. Send newsletter contributions to Cali Bergold, Woman Made Gallery, 1900 South Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60616. You may e-mail your entries to gallery@womanmade.org. Woman Made Gallery reserves the right to edit articles for clarity and brevity. Entries for the Winter Newsletter 2002 must be received by November 15th, 2001.

Newsflash :

Please Note: The entry deadline for the "CENSORSHIP" exhibition, has been extended to: November 2, 2001 and entries must be at the Gallery by that date. For details and entry form go to: Exhibits.

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