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2022 Museum Show Announced

2022 Museum Show Announced

  American Women Artists is thrilled to announce our 2022 museum show Breaking Through: The Rise of American Women Artists hosted by the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center in Clarksville, TN. This will be the sixth museum show in...

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Lifting the Sky Show Artists Announced

Lifting the Sky Show Artists Announced

              Congratulations to the artists whose artwork was selected for AWA's National Online Juried Show, Lifting the Sky: Elevating the Works of American Women Artists, May 20 - August 21, 2021. Leslie Adams (OH), Renoir's...

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Lifting the Sky: 2021 National Online Show Jurors Announced

Lifting the Sky: 2021 National Online Show Jurors Announced

Planning for AWA's national virtual show, Lifting the Sky: Elevating the Works of American Women Artists, is in full swing! We have recently confirmed the three jurors who will select the finalists, women artists that will collectively receive approximately $25,000 in...

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Booth Museum: Art for Lunch Series

Booth Museum: Art for Lunch Series

The Booth Museum hosts a weekly Facebook Live series, Art for Lunch with Seth Hopkins, Booth Director. Throughout AWA's Making Their Mark exhibition Seth interviewed AWA Heritage & Master-Signature Member Kathrine Lemke Waste and AWA Signature & Board Member...

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Making Their Mark: Spotlight Videos

American Women Artists and the Booth Museum present Making Their Mark: Spotlight Videos. Select AWA Master-Signature Members share their thoughts on fellow members' artwork from Making Their Mark Virtual Show & Sale. This charming series of spotlight videos will...

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Symposium on Women in the Arts with Kathrine Lemke Waste

Symposium on Women in the Arts with Kathrine Lemke Waste

SIGHTLINES: Brining the Art of Women into Public View AWA Master-Signature & Heritage Member, Kathrine Lemke Waste presents her talk, Sightlines: Bringing the Art of Women into Public View as a part of AWA's Symposium on Women in the Arts. In her talk, Kathrine...

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Making Their Mark – Booth Museum Purchase Awards

Making Their Mark – Booth Museum Purchase Awards

AWA is so honored to announce the Booth Western Art Museum Purchase Awards for AWA's Making Their Mark show. The Booth Musuem selected five works from the show. Right Where I Want To Be, oil by JaNeil Anderson (NM), Sunset Sunburst, oil by Diane Arenberg, The Secret...

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2020 Booth Museum Award Winners Announced!

2020 Booth Museum Award Winners Announced!

We are pleased to announce the award winners for Making Their Mark: American Women Artists' Exhibition at the Booth Western Art Museum. This is the first year AWA is awarding the Grand Prize winner with a $10,000 cash award! We'd like to thank our Awards Jurors:...

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2019 RS Hanna Show News

2019 RS Hanna Show News

RS Hanna Show Report by Robin Knowlton   A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE: AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS AT THE RS HANNA GALLERY in Fredericksburg, TX, had a busy November 1 reception, thanks to the hard work of gallery owner Shannon Hanna and AWA’s Show Chair, Christine...

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American Women Artists at the RS Hanna Gallery

American Women Artists at the RS Hanna Gallery

  A Tradition of Excellence: American Women Artists at the RS Hanna Gallery October 21 - December 7, 2019 A new exhibition at the RS Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas, titled A Tradition of Excellence:...

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Another Museum Purchase Award!

Another Museum Purchase Award!

Congratulations to AWA Master Member Carol Swinney whose painting Big Sky Country was one two purchase awards for the permanent collection of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The paintings were selected from the 2019 Cheyenne Frontier...

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2015 National Juried Exhibition Finalists Announced

AWA Announces the selected finalists juried into the 2015 National Juried Exhibition... We are pleased to announce the following artists will show their selected work in AWA's 2015 National Juried Exhibition & Annual Master & Signature Member Show at Bonner...

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I am thrilled and so honored to receive this award. It is hard to put into words how it makes me feel when I see the caliber of the other entries – amazing work! 

— CARLA O’CONNOR
2019 Spring Online Show Grand Prize winner, WA