Her Mark 2010 (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)

Woman Made Gallery is proud to present its annual publication, the Her Mark 2010 datebook with voices and visions by 48 women.
Select work will be on exhibit from July 31 to August 27, 2009.
The Artist Reception is on July 31, from 6 to 9 p.m. The Release Party with readings by select poets is scheduled for Sunday, August 2 from 2 to 4pm.
Datebooks are available at the Artist Reception and Release Party or may be purchased for $15 or $17 per copy including shipping.

Entry Due Date†: March 12, 2009 - Extended
Notifications Sent: March 25, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: July 22-24, noon-7 pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: July 22-24, noon-7 pm
Exhibition Dates: July 31 - August 27, 2009
Opening Reception: July 31, noon-7 pm
Pick Up Work: August 28, noon-7 pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: September 2, noon-7 pm

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Art: 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.

Poetry: Maureen Seaton
Maureen Seaton’s sixth book of poems is Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon University Press), with cover art by Chicago artist and close friend Niki Nolin. Her previous collections include Venus Examines Her Breast, with cover art by WMG artist and former director Pamela Callahan; and Furious Cooking, with cover art by WMG artist Myrna Charry. Seaton has won numerous prizes for her poetry, including an NEA fellowship, the Lambda Literary Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde Award, and the Pushcart Prize. She has facilitated poetry workshops at Columbia College Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and at Woman Made Gallery. In 1995/1996, she curated a reading series entitled “Woman As Culture” for the Gallery.

Artisan Gallery - Invitational

Select artisans exhibit their work.

Entry Due Date†: August 14, 2009
Notifications Sent: September 3, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: October 7, 8, 9 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: October 7, 8, 9 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: October 16 - December 17, 2009
Opening Reception: October 16 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: December 18 / 12-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: December 23 / 12-7pm

Juror(s): Margaret Denny

Artisan Gallery - Invitational I

Fine crafts including jewelry and ceramics are in display and for sale at Woman Made Gallery.

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Exhibition Dates: January 22 - April 22, 2010
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Juror(s): Margaret Denny

13th International Open (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)

Artwork in all media by women from the international community.

Entry Due Date†: November 15, 2009
Notifications Sent: December 9, 2009
Hand-deliver Work: Feb. 24-26, 2010/ 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: Feb. 24-26, 2010 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: March 5 - April 22, 2010
Opening Reception: March 5 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: April 23 / noon-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: April 28, 2010

Juror(s): Laura Kina
"For the 13th International Open Women Made Gallery received 224 entries from artists working in a wide range of mediums including painting, drawing, photography, fiber, mixed media, and to a lesser extent sculpture, installation, and video. Entries came from across the United States as well as internationally. Thirty-four works by 27 artists were selected.

Thematically many of the works submitted engaged with either issues of the body or landscape. Figuration, and examinations of gendered identity were common subjects. Representational and psychological landscapes, floral and pattern and decoration motifs also abounded. As an invited juror, I chose not to look at where the submissions came from or any biographical details but rather to judge the work based on aesthetic and conceptual considerations as evidenced in both the actual work and the artist statement. Did the work make me stop and look a second time because of its beauty, absurdness, quirkiness, use of materials or innovation? In the context of a women’s gallery, did the work push boundaries that have not been toppled before? Did the work move me in anyway emotionally or prompt me to consider a new topic or even an old topic in a new way?

Judging is always subjective and space is always limited. There’s some good art here, and I hope you enjoy the works selected for the exhibition as much I do. It was an honor to jury this exhibition." -Laura Kina

Laura Kina is an artist, independent curator, and scholar. She is an Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design and Director of Asian American Studies at DePaul University. She earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has shown internationally and is represented by Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts in Miami, Florida. She has been involved in Chicago’s Asian American Arts community with DestinAsian (1992-1995), Asian American Artists Collective and Project A (2001-2005), and the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (1997-2005). For more information visit www.laurakina.com.

Beyond Audubon

IInvitation to women artists worldwide to submit artwork that applauds, challenges or transcends the bird illustrations of John James Audubon. All styles and media will be considered for this juried exhibition. You may submit up to three images plus one detail per image if needed. Please include an artist statement in relation to your submitted work, and a $30 non-refundable entry fee.

Entry Due Date†: February 10, 2010
Notifications Sent: March 3, 2010
Hand-deliver Work: April 28-30, 2010 / 12-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: April 28-30, 2010 / 12-7pm
Exhibition Dates: May 7 - June 30, 2010
Opening Reception: May 7 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: July 1-2 / noon-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: July 7, 2010

Juror(s): Karen Bondarchuk
Karen Bondarchuk received her MFA in sculpture from The Ohio State University, and her BFA in sculpture and video from NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada. She is Assistant Professor of Art at the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University. Her artwork includes sculpture, kinetics, bookmaking, drawing, video and performance, and incorporates a wide array of materials from wool to scavenged tires to bagpipes. Her current work explores the level of artificiality that defines our relationship with the wild, and the reality that most close encounters with wildlife are by human design. Bondarchuk has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, Italy, and England, and her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and numerous private collections. For more information visit www.karenbondarchuk.com.

Artisan Gallery: Invitational II / 2010

Fine crafts including jewelry and ceramics are in display and for sale at Woman Made Gallery.

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Exhibition Dates: May 7 - August 26, 2010
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Juror(s): Margaret Denny

Category: Printmaking

Invitation to women artists worldwide to submit artwork that challenges the boundaries of traditional handprint media, including intaglio, lithography, relief, monoprint and silkscreen. You may submit up to three images plus one detail per image if needed. Please include an artist statement in relation to your submitted work, and a $30 non-refundable entry fee.

Entry Due Date†: March 24, 2010 (Final Extension)
Notifications Sent: April 14, 2010
Hand-deliver Work: June 30 - July 2, 2010
Shipped Work to Arrive: June 30 - July 2, 2010
Exhibition Dates: July 9 - August 26, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9, 2010 / 6-9 p.m.
Pick Up Work: August 27, 2010
UPS Pick Up Date‡: September 1, 2010

Juror(s): Debora Wood
Debora Wood is senior curator at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, where she takes the leading role in developing the Museum’s exhibitions and collections. She has been at the Block Museum since 1999 and her area of focus is in twentieth-century art and the history and study of prints.

Wood has a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of the exhibition catalogues for Imaging by Numbers (2008) and Marion Mahony Griffin (2005), and contributing author to catalogue Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910–1960 (2006).

After Adelita

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Juror(s): Amy Galpin

Artisan Gallery: Invitational III / 2010

Fine crafts including jewelry and ceramics are in display and for sale at Woman Made Gallery.

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Mothers

“Mothers” seeks work by women that addresses the culturally ubiquitous role of motherhood, historically under-represented in visual art. “Mothers” encourages multivalent understandings of this rich topic. Submissions might speak to personal experiences (as a mother or as related to a mother), social constructions of motherhood, the balance of home and work, the politicization of mothers, pregnancy, breastfeeding, childbirth, bodily transformation, miscarriage, loss, fertility/infertility, or other points of entry. Open to all forms of art that investigate the theme of “Mothers.” Please include an artist statement in relation to your submitted work, and a $30 non-refundable entry fee.

Entry Due Date†: August 11, 2010
Notifications Sent: September 8, 2010
Hand-deliver Work: October 27-29 / noon-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: October 27-29 / noon-7pm
Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 23, 2010
Opening Reception: November 5 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: December 29 / noon-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: January 5, 2011

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.

Girl, Please!

"We are all born naked, the rest is just drag" -Rupaul
Gender is a performance, an act that is perpetuated and maintained by societal norms and expectations, but how, and to what extent does it define us? "Girl, Please!" seeks to push and transcend the definition of gender while also exploring its relation to individual character amongst collective expectations. Bearing in mind Rupaul's statement, drag in this case is not disco, but rather an illustration of feminity and masculinity in shades of grey.
Open to all gender! Artwork in all media may not exceed 72” horizontally, frame included. Please include an artist statement in relation to your submitted work, and a $30 non-refundable entry fee.

Entry Due Date†: August 11, 2010
Notifications Sent: September 8, 2010
Hand-deliver Work: October 27-29 / noon-7pm
Shipped Work to Arrive: October 27-29 / noon-7pm
Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 23, 2010
Opening Reception: November 5, 2010 / 6-9pm
Pick Up Work: December 29 / noon-7pm
UPS Pick Up Date‡: January 5, 2011

Juror(s): Kristen Carter and Emanuel Aguilar, WMG Staff