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Krystii Melaine, Flowing (triptych)

Newsletter – June 2022

Newsletter – June 2022

Treading Tribe, 22x30, Watercolor by Stacy Lund Levy Click here to read our June 2022 Newsletter! (Cover image: Happy Happy, 24x18, Oil by Carol Lee Thompson)

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2022 Spring Online Juried Show Award Winners Announced!

2022 Spring Online Juried Show Award Winners Announced!

AWA is pleased to announce the 20 award winners for our 2022 Spring Online Juried Show chosen from 136 pieces juried in from 979 entries. We'd like to thank our Sponsors, Merchandise Donors, and Jurors for making these awards possible! "The AWA 2022 Spring Online...

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Newsletter – May 2022

Newsletter – May 2022

Sala dei Pappagalli in Pitti Palace Florence, 20x15, Oil on Panel by Priya Ahlawat Click here to read our May 2022 Newsletter! (Cover image: Pink, 20x30, Watercolor by Xi Guo)

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The Huntington Women – Arabella and Anna

The Huntington Women – Arabella and Anna

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington first came to my attention when I was doing research on Delaware artists Orville and Ethel Peets.  After World War I, the Peetses traveled in Spain and Portugal painting the Spanish...

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2022 Spring Online Juried Show Jurors Announced

2022 Spring Online Juried Show Jurors Announced

AWA has confirmed three accomplished women in the arts who will select the finalists and award winners for the 2022 Spring Online Juried Show! Sarah B. Cunningham | Selection & Awards Juror Sarah B. Cunningham is the owner of Walker-Cunningham Fine Art, a private...

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Newsletter – April 2022

Newsletter – April 2022

Mama's Little Baby Loves Rhubarb Pie, 30x24, Acrylic by Robin Harris Click here to read our April 2022 Newsletter!  (Cover image: Prickly Paradise, 18x26, Mixed Media by Barbara Dahlstedt)

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Newsletter – March 2022

Newsletter – March 2022

Crab Apple Tea Pot, 22x30, Watercolor by Kathleen Giles Click here to read our March 2022 Newsletter!  (Cover image: Olympia, 12x16, Red Chalk on Charcoal Paper by Wendy Wagner)

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“Our Own Forgotten” Tucson Museum of Art

“Our Own Forgotten” Tucson Museum of Art

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member                Having spent more than a year now writing the thirty-plus year history of the American Women Artists, years 1991 through 2022, my chronological research started with...

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Newsletter – February 2022

Newsletter – February 2022

It's Always Sunny, 27x19 Soft Pastel by BF Reed Click here to read our February 2022 Newsletter!  (Cover image: Daffodil, 20x16 Oil by Nancy Boren)

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Newsletter – January 2022

Newsletter – January 2022

Poems Looking For a Seat, by Gayle Madeira Click here to read our January 2022 Newsletter!  (Cover image: Once in A Blue Heron Moon, Oil by Drewyer Christine)

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UNINVITED: Canadian Women Artists Reinvited

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member While spending almost a year now writing the 30-year history of American Women Artists at our thirtieth anniversary, I have become intrigued by a dozen Canadian women artists who have become AWA members and participated in...

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Newsletter – December 2021

Newsletter – December 2021

Raining Cats and Dogs, Oil and Cold Wax by Jolynn Forman Click here to read our December Newsletter! (Cover image: Afternoon Tea, oil by Lauren Anderson)

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Newsletter – November 2021

Newsletter – November 2021

The Long Climb, ink and watercolor by Marilynn Brandenburger Click here to read our November Newsletter! (Cover image: Light Martini, oil by Karen Budan)

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Rediscovered Women Artists: Alice Neel

Rediscovered Women Artists: Alice Neel

By Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member Artist Alice Neel was known throughout her career, but was “rediscovered” in a prodigious way over the past year due to a major retrospective of her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled Alice Neel: People Come...

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AWA Announces Master-Signature Members for 2022

American Women Artists is honored to announce that two AWA Signature Members have been elevated to Master-Signature status for 2022! AWA’s Master-Signature Task Force carefully reviewed the impressive group of qualified Signature Members and unanimously agreed on two...

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Newsletter – September 2021

Newsletter – September 2021

Ann at the Bus, oil by Jill Eberle Click here to read our September Newsletter! (Cover image: Eventuality (Hyalophora Ceropia), Charcoal and Italian Paper by Traci Martin)

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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