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Introduction

Artwork by Jessica Witte from the Interactive Group Show

WMG exhibits art made by and about women, educates the public about women’s art, and advocates for the equal treatment and recognition of women’s artistic accomplishments. WMG provides a multifaceted space for women artists. These women are not less advantaged in terms of their talent; they remain, however, disadvantaged in their access to exhibit their work in a professional, high-quality, committed space that provides the safety of artistic expression and recognizes the value of traditionally devalued art. Our exhibit topics have ranged in themes from domestic violence and religious freedom to stylistic themes such as the still life and surrealism.

Woman Made Gallery had its first juried art exhibit in July 1992 titled "Women Do Women". Nineteen artists depicted images and iconography of all things female. Since then the gallery hosts on the average eight group exhibitions per year with approximately 30 artists per show and a wide variety of themes. Since then and through 2008 WMG has shown the work of more than 6000 women artists.

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

The following is a list, along with a brief description, of juried group shows that are currently on display, or those that we will be hosting in the coming months.

If you are interested in submitting your artwork for any of these exhibitions, you may download an entry form by clicking on the PDF icon below each exhibition. The entry form in PDF format is on two pages and can only be opened if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for FREE from their web site. Click here if you want to download Adobe Acrobat Reader now. If you are unable to do so, you may use our Generic Entry Form and fill in the name of the WMG exhibition you are entering. Women artists may enter work online with digital files instead of slides, and all information about that is here: Entry Forms. By submitting their work to exhibitions, all artists agree to allow reproduction of their slides, photographs and/or digital files taken of their art for educational, publicity, and archival purposes.

(right) Installation by Jessica Witte. Photo by AJ Kane - www.ajrjphotography.com

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  • Her Mark 2010 (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)

    Juror(s):

    Art: Maria Elena Buszek
    Maria Elena Buszek is an assistant professor of art history at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her curatorial experience began at MoMA in NYC and LACMA in LA. She has curated exhibitions for the Charlotte Street Awards, Greenlease Gallery, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, and The Cube. She is working on the traveling exhibition Raised in Craftivity, opening at the Wignall Museum in 2009. Recent publications include Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 2006) and Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism (Cambridge Scholar' Press, 2007). She is a contributor to journal BUST and Kansas City's Review. For more information visit www.mariabuszek.com.

    Poetry: Maureen Seaton
    Maureen Seaton’s sixth book of poems is Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon University Press), with cover art by Chicago artist and close friend Niki Nolin. Her previous collections include Venus Examines Her Breast, with cover art by WMG artist and former director Pamela Callahan; and Furious Cooking, with cover art by WMG artist Myrna Charry. Seaton has won numerous prizes for her poetry, including an NEA fellowship, the Lambda Literary Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde Award, and the Pushcart Prize. She has facilitated poetry workshops at Columbia College Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and at Woman Made Gallery. In 1995/1996, she curated a reading series entitled “Woman As Culture” for the Gallery.

    Exhibition Dates: July 31 - August 27, 2009

  • Artisan Gallery - Invitational

    Juror(s): Margaret Denny

    Exhibition Dates: October 16 - December 17, 2009

  • Artisan Gallery - Invitational I

    Juror(s): Margaret Denny

    Exhibition Dates: January 22 - April 22, 2010

  • 13th International Open (Click Here for an online preview of this exhibit)

    Juror(s): Laura Kina
    "For the 13th International Open Women Made Gallery received 224 entries from artists working in a wide range of mediums including painting, drawing, photography, fiber, mixed media, and to a lesser extent sculpture, installation, and video. Entries came from across the United States as well as internationally. Thirty-four works by 27 artists were selected.

    Thematically many of the works submitted engaged with either issues of the body or landscape. Figuration, and examinations of gendered identity were common subjects. Representational and psychological landscapes, floral and pattern and decoration motifs also abounded. As an invited juror, I chose not to look at where the submissions came from or any biographical details but rather to judge the work based on aesthetic and conceptual considerations as evidenced in both the actual work and the artist statement. Did the work make me stop and look a second time because of its beauty, absurdness, quirkiness, use of materials or innovation? In the context of a women’s gallery, did the work push boundaries that have not been toppled before? Did the work move me in anyway emotionally or prompt me to consider a new topic or even an old topic in a new way?

    Judging is always subjective and space is always limited. There’s some good art here, and I hope you enjoy the works selected for the exhibition as much I do. It was an honor to jury this exhibition." -Laura Kina

    Laura Kina is an artist, independent curator, and scholar. She is an Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design and Director of Asian American Studies at DePaul University. She earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has shown internationally and is represented by Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts in Miami, Florida. She has been involved in Chicago’s Asian American Arts community with DestinAsian (1992-1995), Asian American Artists Collective and Project A (2001-2005), and the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (1997-2005). For more information visit www.laurakina.com.

    Exhibition Dates: March 5 - April 22, 2010

  • Beyond Audubon

    Juror(s): Karen Bondarchuk
    Karen Bondarchuk received her MFA in sculpture from The Ohio State University, and her BFA in sculpture and video from NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada. She is Assistant Professor of Art at the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University. Her artwork includes sculpture, kinetics, bookmaking, drawing, video and performance, and incorporates a wide array of materials from wool to scavenged tires to bagpipes. Her current work explores the level of artificiality that defines our relationship with the wild, and the reality that most close encounters with wildlife are by human design. Bondarchuk has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, Italy, and England, and her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and numerous private collections. For more information visit www.karenbondarchuk.com.

    Exhibition Dates: May 7 - June 30, 2010

  • Artisan Gallery: Invitational II / 2010

    Juror(s): Margaret Denny

    Exhibition Dates: May 7 - August 26, 2010

  • Category: Printmaking

    Juror(s): Debora Wood
    Debora Wood is senior curator at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, where she takes the leading role in developing the Museum’s exhibitions and collections. She has been at the Block Museum since 1999 and her area of focus is in twentieth-century art and the history and study of prints.

    Wood has a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of the exhibition catalogues for Imaging by Numbers (2008) and Marion Mahony Griffin (2005), and contributing author to catalogue Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910–1960 (2006).

    Exhibition Dates: July 9 - August 26, 2010

  • After Adelita

    Juror(s): Amy Galpin

    Exhibition Dates: September 10 - October 28, 2010

  • Artisan Gallery: Invitational III / 2010

    Juror(s):

    Exhibition Dates: September 10 - October 28, 2010

  • Mothers

    Juror(s): Rachel Epp Buller
    Rachel Epp Buller, Ph.D., is a feminist-art historian-printmaker-mama of three whose art and scholarship investigate this balancing act. Her prints have been exhibited in solo and group and shows in Kansas City, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere and she lectures and publishes widely on issues of motherhood and the maternal body in contemporary art. Her art writing and criticism appears in journals such as Review, Woman’s Art Journal, German Studies Review, and the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, in essay collections such as Mothering in the Third Wave (2008), and the forthcoming Mothers Creating / Writings Lives: Motherhood Memoirs, and Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother, and in her own forthcoming book, Reconciling Art and Motherhood. She has worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Spencer Museum of Art, and currently teaches at Bethel College in Kansas.

    Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 23, 2010

  • Girl, Please!

    Juror(s): Kristen Carter and Emanuel Aguilar, WMG Staff

    Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 23, 2010

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January 26, 2010
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