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The Latest from American Women Artists
Krystii Melaine, Flowing (triptych)
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)
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)
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,...
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)
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)
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)
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...
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)
Award Winners for Pushing Forward Reaching Back Exhibition @Brookgreen Gardens
Congratulations to the award winners of AWA's 2023 museum exhibition Pushing Forward Reaching Back at Brookgreen Gardens The Awards Jurors had an extremely difficult task! Thank you again to jurors Anne Brown, retired Associate Publisher, Streamline Publishing,...
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)
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...
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)
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)
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...
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)
Artists Announced for Pushing Forward Reaching Back at Brookgreen Gardens
AWA is pleased to announce the 108 members who have been invited today to show at our 2023 museum exhibition Pushing Forward Reaching Back from May 13-July 23 at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. Thank you to all who applied and congratulations to the finalists!...
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)
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...
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)
Barbara Buhler Lynes, PhD presented “Georgia O’Keeffe: Personal and Professional”
Barbara Buhler Lynes, PhD presented “Georgia O’Keeffe: Personal and Professional” AWA was fortunate to benefit from a private event hosted by Master-Signature artist and Board member Diana Reuter-Twining in October in beautiful Virginia. Local art supporters and Board...
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
