What's New at Woman Made Gallery

On this page we include news about exhibitions: who got into a show, what does the juror have to say, etc. We try to update the information as soon as we receive it and it's good to check here frequently to see if your work has been included into an exhibition.

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We are proud to be able to offer exhibition opportunities to women artist and very happy for all the artists whose work is selected by the jurors. Membership helps us to continue our work on behalf of women artists. The electronic version of $25 keeps artists connected and informed plus we include a link to artists' websites from our linkspage and members receive discounts at workshops and on any arts & crafts sales. (Memberships at the electronic level receive notifications/updates from WMG by email only.)

Annual Members' Show

Thanks to Judithe Hernández for jurying the entries for our 2009 Members' Show. Forty-one artists' work is included in the exhbition on display from July 31 to August 27, 2009.

Congratulations to Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka, Cat Del Buono, Mary Button, Tianxin Sophie Chen, P.R. Davis, Betsy Dollar, Henrietta DuBois, Ruth Eckstein, Lucia Enriquez, Kathryn Gauthier, Janet Gerske, Sue Goldsmith, Christie Helm, Juliette Herwitt, Tehniyet Hussain, Tatijana Jacenkiw, Pepper Johnson, Elka Kazmierczak, Alessandra Kelley, Lea Basile Lazarus, Mary Longley, Maya Just Maya, Amanda Meeks, Bert Menco, Jane Michalski, Dora Natella, Jean Nerenberg, Julie Niskanen, Debbie Heemstra Novak, Sarah Rehmer, Kim Rogers, Elizabeth Sanderson, Wendy Segal, Beth Shadur, Sandy Sheagren, Ruth G. Sikes, Dian Sourelis, Katherine Strause, Elena Aguirre Sznajder, Cheryl Toles, and Kathy Weaver.

Interactive

We appreciate all entries for the "Interactive" group show, and we thank Karen Hanmer for making the selections for this exhibit from June 19 to July 23, 2009

We congratulate the following artists whose work was accepted for this show: Alex Appella, Alli Berman, Zawi Borsa, Lucy Childs, Margaret Coleman, Jenny Craig, Paula Curran, Jennifer Drinkwater, Wendy Fernstrum, Jane Griffith, Dianna Huxhold, Peggy Johnston, Laurie LeBreton, Jacqueline May, Amanda Meeks, Rachel Melis, Rachel Merrill, Cathryn Miller, Elena Neidig, Catherine Blackwell Pena, Alyson Provax, I. Carmen Quintana, Gabriela Salazar, Barbara Schneider, Catherine Schwalbe-Bouzide, June Sekiguchi, Shawn Simmons, Leslie Haines and Britt Stadig, Jen Thomas, Nikki Thompson, Kathy Weaver, Ashlee Weitlauf, and Jessica Witte.

Her Mark 2010 Art

Much gratitude to Maria Buszek for making the art selections for Her Mark 2010. She comments: " What a TOUGH job jurying this excellent, eclectic group of submissions! It was a particularly difficult job when considering the print format of the "exhibition." Because the work will be viewed as reproductions, and in a very specific format, I found myself having to eliminate work that needed to be part of a series, or that was performative in nature, large-scale or installation work, etc., as much of the work would have been very difficult to understand as a single reproduction in a small, bound book. So, I found myself coming back to work that had a strong, graphic sensibility due to the particularities of the project. But, I do want to stress to the artists that these limitations, rather than the inherent quality of the work, was what drove most of my choices."

Congratulations to: Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka, Adriana Baltazar, Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman, Crisanta de Guzman, Kathleen Elliot, Rebecca Greene, Judithe Hernandez, Anjani Khanna, Margaret LeJeune, Aliza Lelah, Suyeon Na, Bonnie Peterson, Shari Pettis, Tara Polansky, Melissa Shook, Alice Simpson, Sylvia Steen, Verna Todd, Kate True, Iris Vazquez, Amy Wainwright, Angilee Wilkerson, Beatrice Wolert, Elizabeth Wuerffel.

Her Mark 2010 Poetry

Decisions regarding the poetry for Woman Made Gallery's Her Mark 2010 have been made. With over 500 poems to choose from (a record) and only 24 slots, it was challenging, to be sure-but also incredibly rewarding to see what women writers are concerned with and about in 2009. We thank Maureen Seaton for the difficult jury work, and we appreciate her thoughtful and most considerate selections.

Susan Richardson - The Pen is Mightier
Judith Valente - Lunar Eclipse
Ona Gritz - In a Campus Library
Rachel Jamison Webster - Fighting Fever
Anna Leahy - Incantation
Kiki Vera Johnson - Madame Bovary
JC Reilly - On Sanitizing Official Versions
Elizabeth Kerlikowske - Beetrail
Cin Salach - Your Hands
Judith Terzi - Amor on the Keyboard
Coco (Carol) Owen - Balm 23
Mary Kolada Scott - Yellow Rubber Gloves
Kelly Evans - Winter Walk III
Rosemary Ann Davis - Flapping between the Hands
Laurie Junkins - Uncertain Balance
Maureen Piggins - The Visit
Sheri Sorvillo - Being
Beverly Boyd - Still Point
Veer-Tess Frost - Mammo
Andrena Zawinski - Losing the Balance
Jane Ellen Glasser - The Imagined Man
Heather Hummel - Ecofeminism 101
Gale Walden - Good Friday (Yaqui Reservation, Tucson, Arizona)
Christine McKee - Epitaph

The Emotional Body

The jurying for "The Emotional Body" has been completed and we are grateful to Elka Kazmierczak who did the difficult work selecting artwork from more than 250 entries for this group show. In her juror statement Kazmierczak states: "Thank you so much for this educational and delightful opportunity to become intimate with works of so many terrific women who shared themselves through their works and statements. I have carefully read all statements and paid attention to themes. I did not include any work with a statement that did not explicitly relate to the theme of the show. I believe that as much as the works may speak for themselves, it is equally important to "meet" the artists and share their motivations and stories behind the works. I included a coherent though broad range of themes, and a wide range of techniques and modes of expression."

We congratulate the following 35 artists whose work has been accepted into the exhibition: Juliet Araujo, Nicoletta Braccioni, Fran Bull, Luanne Burke, Emily Cameron, Kira Campbell, Kimberly Carroll-Raber, Laura Cerf-Dahl, Esther Charbit, Irene Chendra, Cécile Comblen, Judy Cooperman, Heather Doyle-Maier, Iwona Duszek, Dena Eber, Mary Rachel Fanning, Sarah Gabel, Tina Garcia, Carolyn Halliday, Beata Rafflewska Jacobs, JoAnna Johnson, Amber Johnston, Catherine Kirkpatrick, Angela Lee, Shin Lim, Kim Maurer, Ruth Aizuss Migdal, Dora Natella, Meg Oakley, Yoonshin Park, Carrie Porter, Marci Rubin, W.F. Weill, Pamela Zimmerman, Cynthia Zordich.

12th International Open

We thank Yolanda Lopez for making the selections for the 12th International Open from March 6 to April 16, 2009. There were so many wonderful artworks that the juror would have loved to include, but in the end she needed to restrict her choices to 44 artists. We congratulate the following individuals whose work has been accepted into the exhibition.

Gloria Adams, Golnar Adili, Theresa A. Anderson, Nancy Angermeyer, Joanne Tomi Aono, Cousandra Armstrong, Donna Ascher, Lisa Marie Barber, Sylvia Broubalow, Audrey L. Brown, Angela Cazeljahn, Jinkyung Chong, Crisanta Deguzman, Jean Donegan, Susan Grace, Judithe Hernandez, I-Hua Lee, Anna Liljas, Jeanette Martone, Molly McCarty, Janet McKenzie, Valerie Mendoza, Kendall Mingey, Erin Mullenex, Su Yeon Na, Carol Ng-He, Kristine O'Reilly, Patricia Pena, Mary H. Phelan, Jessica Plattner, Erika Pochybova-Johnson, Gosia Podosek, Rosemary Porter, Marianne Reim, Kristin Lindseth Rivera, Sally Ruddy, Caren Helene Rudman, Michelle Sierra, Olaina Silva, Priscilla Smith, Sabrina Squires, Allison Svoboda, Gwendolyn Zabicki, Ling Yan Zhang.

Get On-Line!

Have Your Own Affordable Website

Be part of our on-line registry even if you have a website already. Why? Because we have the name and we get the traffic. The price is $250 (which includes $100 hosting fee). For more information please visit www.womanmade.net and view the websites by artists who are already part of this service. Many of the artists whose work is in the on-line registry and whose images appear on this website, have been 'discovered' by commercial galleries, curators and private collectors. Here is a letter by artist, Kathleen Waterloo's which we published in our Fall 2001 Newsletter that relates her experiences since she joined the On-line 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

(right) 'Echo', oil on canvas by Pamela Callahan