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Krystii Melaine, Flowing (triptych)

Newsletter – November 2023

Newsletter – November 2023

Something Special, 12 x 9, Mixed Media by Linda Harrison Parsons Click here to read our November 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: Zeta, 10.5 x 9.5 x 5, Sculpture by Anna Kasabian)

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Newsletter – October 2023

Newsletter – October 2023

Layers, 23 x 22, Watercolor by Irena Roman Click here to read our October 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: The Flightless Bird, 18x24, Mixed Media by Barbara Dahlstedt)

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Mary Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) Glamorous Patroness

Mary Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) Glamorous Patroness

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Late in life, Millicent Rogers was called the Patroness of Northern New Mexico and the progenitor of “Southwestern Style,” after she moved to New Mexico in 1948.  She was the granddaughter of Henry Huttleston Rogers,...

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Newsletter – September 2023

Newsletter – September 2023

Tempest, 19x12x11, Oil by Linda H. Post Click here to read our September 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: Treasures Abound, 20x20, Acrylic by Vie Dunn-Harr)

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Newsletter – August 2023

Newsletter – August 2023

Seeing Eye to Eye, 19x12x11, Bronze by Liz Wolf Click here to read our August 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: Wander, 21x13, Linocut Relief Printmaking by Monique Wales)

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Newsletter – July 2023

Newsletter – July 2023

Trainspotting, 27x27, Oil by Shelley Smith Click here to read our July 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: Oasis, 12x12, Printmaking by DeAnn Prosia)

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Neighbors: Women Artists of Canyon Road, Santa Fe

Neighbors: Women Artists of Canyon Road, Santa Fe

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Sense of place is a phrase often associated with art colonies and this is especially true of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Difficult to define, place is an allusive combination of senses: taste, smell, sight, and hearing, and in...

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Newsletter – June 2023

Newsletter – June 2023

Walking Her Dogs 15x11, MMP by Donna Howell-Sickles Click here to read our June 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: Morning Swim, 16x20, Oil on Linen Mounted on Board by Annette Hammer)

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Newsletter – May 2023

Newsletter – May 2023

Morning Mist 15.5x8x5, bronze by Moana Ponder Click here to read our May 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: Helping Hand, 16x15x9, bronze by Pokey Park)

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Revisiting American Women Art Patrons

Revisiting American Women Art Patrons

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Many affluent American women patrons built some of the best art collections in this country. Three major women patrons are showcased here, each of their families had multiple members who also contributed significantly to...

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Newsletter – April 2023

Newsletter – April 2023

Little Flower Girl, 10x13, oil by Carmen Drake Click here to read our April 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: Flow, 24x18, Oil by Yana Beylinson)

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Newsletter – March 2023

Newsletter – March 2023

Alla, 36x28, oil by LinHui Ding Click here to read our March 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: In the Wind, 24x24, Water Media by Linda Loeschen)

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Visionary Women Art Educators

Visionary Women Art Educators

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member The New Woman Movement began in the last years of the 19th century and had a profound influence on empowering women’s lives in the early twentieth century. Ironically, Henry James popularized the term when he wrote about...

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Newsletter – February 2023

Newsletter – February 2023

Somewhere Deep, 24x30, Deep Acrylic and Oil by Megan Lange Click here to read our February 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: The Poetics of the Body, 30x20, Mixed Media by Odeta Xheka)

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Newsletter – January 2023

Newsletter – January 2023

Light Martini, 20x16, Oil by Karen Budan Happy New Year! Click here to read our January 2023 Newsletter! (Cover image: Once in a Blue Heron Moon, 30x30, Oil by Christine Drewyer)

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Artists Calendars

Artists Calendars

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Each November, I am prompted to buy my next year’s calendar as appointments and events begin to pile up for the following year. Like most, I head to an office supply store and purchase the requisite commercially-printed...

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Newsletter – December 2022

Newsletter – December 2022

Catching Snowflakes 12x10, Acrylic by Cher Pruys Click here to read our December 2022 Newsletter! (Cover image: Freedom 30x36, Oil by Nicole Finger)

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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