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N E W S L E T T E R S - Spring 2001 |
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This newsletter is divided into the following articles. To read any one of these articles, please click on the text of the article title.
As of this writing we are all deeply immersed in preparing for the Spring Soiree and Art Auction Fundraiser and by the time you read this, our wishes have come true, the art auction and all the activities in connection with it are past, but we are still counting the mountain of money we have raised... Well, that is most likely a tremendous exaggeration, but we hope that we will have come close to our goal of raising $50,000. Regardless of the final numbers, no matter how important they are to the survival of this organization, this event has already topped the success of the last art auction, evidenced by the generosity and involvement of so many old and new supporters. We indeed have many more people to thank, for donations of artwork, goods and services, for attending the auction and bidding on items, for contributing money, time, talents and ideas, for buying raffle tickets and volunteering efforts, and for encouraging us with their enthusiasm, interest and active participation. An event like this major fundraiser, really brings out the love and loyalty of many true supporters that have helped to build WMG into the vital, supportive, interactive, expanding and energy-generating hub it is, that flourishes and touches the lives of so many people in numerous rewarding ways. Woman Made will broaden this circle of friends by reaching out and welcoming so many new art-loving neighbors to the Prairie Avenue district. We've decided to continue to reside in the Keith Mansion for the next year at least--while reserving funds, resources and energy, and putting thoughtful and deliberate efforts into researching a future permanent home. And what a better way to introduce newcomers to the wondrous creations of women artists than the Third Annual Art Bus Tour to women-owned and -operated galleries in Chicago! On Saturday, May 19th, 2001, the day will start with a fresh bagel and cream cheese breakfast as participants view the "Deal With It' exhibition. A sack lunch will be provided later on the road. Last year, we went on a marathon tour, visiting five local galleries. This year we will carefully select three so that more time can be spent experiencing the unique offerings of each location. The trip in the company of other spirited women in a luxury coach, is in itself worth the experience, as past participants can testify, but you need to make reservations NOW---the bus fills up quickly! In case you haven't seen it yet, we revamped our website early this year, adding many more images and an easy-to-navigate layout. One major improvement is including all of the artwork from each group show online. So, those living too far to visit the gallery, can take a virtual tour through our exhibitions and a little closer into the circle that makes up the Woman Made community. These online exhibitions give the participating artists more visibility and truly show the diversity of art by women, as well as different jurors' selections, to a broader audience. We welcome your feedback regarding our new and improved site. With the success of the auction benefit, and the amazing continued support from all of you, we are joyful this spring. We are looking out over a garden already green and growing, already so bountiful. This garden is inside Woman Made Gallery in the form of art, but it also outside our window in full bloom, as the Hillary Rodham Clinton Women's Park is newly landscaped with trees, flowers, fountain and gentle curving paths and will be an added bonus to gallery visitors. So visit us this spring--online is fine but in person is the best! Read on in this newsletter to find out how rejuvenating an art experience at Woman Made can be: like a walk in a luscious garden. (above right) 'Madonna and Child', oil on canvas by Mary Ellen Croteau. Please view more images from her website 
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL OPEN 
We are very happy to report that Fujiko Isomura won First Place in the International Open and was awarded a Solo Show for 2002. Second Place winner is Saudia Wadud and Jean Davey Winter from Great Britain won Third Place. ELIZABETH CATLETT We make great efforts to educate the public about women artists and their artistic contributions and in continuance of this tradition we have another excellent lecture on the calendar for this spring. Please join us on Sunday, April 8, 2001 2-4 p.m. for a slide lecture presented by artist, writer and WMG advisory board member Anna Tyler, who will give insight into the life and work of Elizabeth Catlett. MORE POETRY On Sunday, April 29, 2001 2-4 p.m. the artwork in Woman Made Gallery will come alive through the words of women writers during a free Poetry Reading. Not only can you see the current show--the Group Exhibition: Beyond the Surface--but you can hear hosts Mars Gamba-Adisa Caulton & Nina Corwin and featured writers Brenda Cardenas, Sharon Masters, MoonLodge and Denise Rector, as they delve "beyond the surface" in their performances. ART BUS TOUR Please register NOW for our Annual Art Bustour on Saturday, May 19, 2001 from 10am-4pm. Ride in a luxury coach in the company of 58 other women and visit three women-owned and operated galleries. Breakfast and lunch included! Only $60 benefiting Woman Made Gallery. WRITING WORKSHOP Award-winning poet Maureen Seaton presents Deal With It, a four-week Writing Workshop on Tuesdays (May 15, 22, 29 and June 5) from 6-9pm. In the safe and supportive environment of Woman Made, workshop participants will generate poetry and short prose in response to the artwork in Deal With It--a group exhibition exploring difficult subject matter--as well as from their own experiences and memory. Optional participation in a reading at the gallery on Sunday, June 10th, 2-4pm. Limit: 12 women. $185 WMG members/$200 non-members (Registration Required) LAST CALL FOR WORDS for the Her Mark Calendar 2002, honoring WMG's 10th Anniversary. Don't miss this opportunity to be published in the company of a diverse group of women writers and artists. Poetry entries will be juried by Chicago poets Cin Salach and Maureen Seaton. Entry Deadline is June 15, 2001. Send three poems, $5 entry fee and SASE to: WORDS, Woman Made Gallery, 1900 S. Prairie Ave., Chicago IL 60616, or e-mail poems (no attachments; send entry fee via U.S. mail) to: callaloo@earthlink.net. Note: calendar page size is 6"x7". Selected poets will receive two copies of the calendar. FREE ART CRITIQUES Artist Mary King leads our free Women's Art Critique Workshops on the fourth Sunday of each month, 2-4 p.m. The critiques are for both advanced and beginning artists. Bring work to share (finished or in progress), ask for feedback, or exchange tips for presentation, places to exhibit, sources of supplies, etc. Upcoming dates are April 22, May 27 and June 24. Since this a FREE workshop, we would appreciate membership support. Call (312) 328-0038 or email us if you have questions. (above left) 'The Story of Veranda ', ink, acrylic, ink jet print, metal leaf on paper by Fujiko Isomura. Pictures speak a thousand words, therefore you owe it to yourself to visit our on-line artist registry and view the galleries by the 25 women already represented there: www.womanmade.net This great promotional tool is for those women artists who are producing consistently and have a respectable body of work. All the requirements and instructions are in the FOR ARTISTS section and if you need help please call us at 312-328--0038.The cost for the first year, which includes hosting, setting up your site, scanning & color correcting 15 slide images plus main-page image, typesetting your personal information (bio, artist statement, selected exhibitions, etc.) is only $160. Exchanging older images with new work is $10 per image and editing any amount of text costs $10 per incident. The most commonly asked question is "Will my WomanMade.net gallery site get listed on search engines?" Some search engines will spider the WomanMade.net site and pick up embedded links while some will not. Your unique web site address (URL) is designed to permit you to submit your WomanMade.net web site as the unique web site it is - about you and your work. Virtually all search engines and directories will accept your WomanMade.net web site for inclusion in their database. We believe that manual submission is, while the most time consuming method, the most effective technique for getting listed in search engines and directories. It gives you the opportunity to contour your submission to take advantage of the search engine/directory's best features. For the very reasonable fee of $25 our Web Hosts will manually submit your web site for you to at least 20 search engines and directories and donate 5% of each order ($1.25) back to Woman Made Gallery. For more detailed information please visit www.womanmade.net/services.html or email us at galler@womanmade.org Finding Your Own Voice A few years ago "Go to your studio and make art" was a popular slogan on artists' hats and T-shirts, and I always had a secret desire to insert the word "women" in front of the saying. It reminded me of a poem, "Polemic #1," written by poet Honor Moore in the late 1970s that begins: This poem is to say, "Write poems, women, because I want to
Women sometimes have a harder time obeying that admonition, because we are busy taking care of families, working day jobs and juggling social and practical obligations for our families and ourselves. Carving out time for making art seems somehow self-indulgent. Some women sneak a few guilty minutes to create a watercolor painting of a bowl of fruit at the kitchen table before dinner or to make sketches of the line-up of cars when waiting for children bound out of the school building. But no matter how superior our skills, as women, we sometimes find it difficult to take ourselves seriously as artists. 
I have a friend who has a large studio she rarely visits because she is overtaken with anxiety and fear when she permits herself to create with her authentic voice. The poem by Honor Moore mentions that the poet HD splashed herself with ink so that she could feel free. Being free and authentic in our writing or our artmaking can be a scary process. But how wonderful to risk that kind of vulnerability only to be strengthened and supported in the process. I suggest that we all heed the inner voice that says, "Make art, women." Even if you are convinced that your work is not technically good enough, not big enough or does not have enough content, I say, "Keep making art, women." Do not give up. And when you have a body of work, put your work in the Woman Made Gallery registry, enter some of the specialized shows at Woman Made, and begin to identify your strengths. It all begins with a single step-to your studio. Let's discuss! Send your comments about the freedom to make art or your suggestions for future columns to suzannescott@bigplanet.com (above right) 'Thought on Companionship', acrylic on board by Saudia Wadud (Second Prize Winner - International Open). Over the years we have been asked many questions and have given a lot of helpful advice. One of the most often asked inquiries by new artists is: How much do you think I should ask for my art? This question is difficult to answer and involves all kinds of considerations. First of all it is your responsibility as a professional artist to make sure that the product you are offering for sale is of high quality and impeccable craftsmanship. Secondly, we advise you do some research before you begin to price your work. Inform yourself on where your work fits into the current art market. Visit galleries, which sell art similar to yours in style, size and medium and note the prices of art sold and how the artist's resume differs from yours. What is the artist's sales history compared with your sales history? Most artists ignore the law of supply and demand and prices are set irrationally and unrealistically, often guided by emotional connection and attachment. In this case it is better if you mark the work that you are most attached to as 'sold' or 'not for sale'. The following factors are important when you are pricing your work: Where are you in your artistic career? How large or intricate is your work, what is the medium and how much time did you spent creating it? Have you sold art previously and for how much? Prices for artworks that are of the same dimension, medium and from the same series should be identical. (By pricing one of them higher, you give the impression that you are preferring this work over the others, and therefore the other works are not as good.) Here is a formula for those of you just starting out: Pick one of your works and set a price as low as you can, without feeling sorry if it sells, then double the amount. This is the retail price of your work, considering that most galleries take a 50% commission. Price your other works in relation to this basic formula, by dividing the retail price by the square inch/foot. Now multiply that number with the square inch/foot of the new work you wish to price. (Example: $700 divided by (12"x16") 192 square inches = $3.65. This is your base price. The new work you wish to price is (20"x24") 480 square inches, multiplied by $3.65 = $1,752. The gallery takes 50% and you will get $876 if it sells) Don't raise your price until your sales increase or your exhibition history changes. Don't forget that it is probably better for your art to be seen and sold than collecting dust in your studio. As you show your art more and sell more, your prices will establish themselves and you will feel more confident about pricing your work. PEARL HIRSHFIELD 
Q: When did you first want to be an artist? How long have you been creating art?
A: I don't think I ever consciously decided to be an artist. It was something I just did and loved doing before I even started grade school. In those years, children in the Chicago public school system who showed aptitude were given scholarships for Saturday classes at the Art Institute. It was a terrific learning experience, and by high school I just continued to do art. As aware as I am now about women's lib, it never occurred to me then that real artists were other than men. I don't remember more than one woman artist being discussed by the two male lecturers in the three years I was in those classes. Q: Tell me about your art- what medium do you work in? A: For the past 20 or so years I've done multi media work, some large walk-through installations. Having been a painter my early years I find this very liberating. I even use water in motion as a medium in works on the environment. Combining elements of nature which is life-giving, with mass- produced materials of technology is one way I can use art to make a statement about issues I'm involved with. I also use audio in some works. Q: Tell me about your creative process? What stages do you go through? A: It usually starts with an issue that involves or angers me. Then it's a matter of getting all the information I can about it. The next stage is obsessing about it, for a long time before beginning. My installations on the Holocaust took over a year just to start after returning from a devastating trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Once under way, I begin to sort through ideas, make changes and work through my anger. The problem for me is to control myself from continuing to make changes once the work's finished. Many times I'll get an idea for a work by seeing an object such as a remnant of a blown out auto tire on the street. Or seeing by-products of industrial waste that I mistook for volcanic lava rock, the oldest rock known on the planet. Whatever approach, the process is always the same. Q: What message do you want you want your art to send to viewers? A: Of course I want viewers to 'get' what the work's about. If the viewer picks up and gets involved with the issue so much the better. And if it leads to further discussion, that's great. Q: What are you working on in the present? Where do you see your art going? A: I'm in a real transition period at this point, an unhappy place I've been several times in the past. So I think my work is leaning toward a new direction. Or perhaps, a new approach to an old one. Q: What words of advice do you have for aspiring, young artists? A: Never take generic advice from anyone. Q: Tell me about your personal/family life just a bit. A: I'm married, have three children and a grandson who are all in some kind of creative art. Q: Where were the milestones you hit as an artist? A: Milestones. Well, there were many milestones in my life, but the most important one was enrolling in a degree program at the School of the Art Institute in the Sculpture Department in 1977. I was at a place where my painting was becoming very large three dimensional. I'd even completed an installation using sculpture forms. So, that decision gave me the freedom to experiment with all sorts of mediums and materials and approaches. Q: Who influenced you? A: I was immensely influenced by Leon Golub who moderated the critique class that met once a month, where I received positive reinforcement. I'm a social political activist and have worked in civil rights, civil liberties, women's issues and have done organizing for, and with these movements, protesting issues I believe were and are unjust. Golub served almost as a mentor. His involvement with the same issues and his encouragement reinforced my struggle to express them in my painting. Another very important influence was a fantastic instructor Steven Waldeck at the School of the Art Institute, head of the kinetic department, who encouraged and helped me with my need to include areas of technology that I felt important to ideas I was working with. My current work is the result, in part, of his guidance, his generous, patient teaching. Both Golub and Waldeck are people I respect whose work, though completely diametrically opposed, I admire. Q: Is there a particular woman or women who have inspired you? A: Many women inspired me through the years, teachers, activists, organizers, those dedicated to issues in which I was involved. But as far as being inspired by them in my art, I think I was on too private a quest pursuing my own vision. There's no question in my mind that these wonderful women, by being part of my life, enlarged and enriched that vision. (above left) 'MAD[E] IN U.S.A.', mixed media installation with audio by Pearl Hirshfield. Note to a Nagging "Friend" Lay no trips of guilt on Me Sans Rhyme There are things I cannot write about These are the things I cannot The body of reason lies shriveled and torn
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Thank you to the following auction contributors, who have given monetary funds to our auction event: Art Angels $1000+ Visionaries $500-$999 Patrons $250-$499 Friends $100-$249 Thank you to our Host Committee Roberta Reb Allen, Janet Beals, Sarah Bell, Cali Bergold and Ed Emering, Jenny Bergold, Kathy and Roy Bergold, Janet Bloch, Sherri Brenner, Sabrina Fesko, Anita Flores, Shelley Gates, Antje Gehrken and Andy Pappas, Kathy Greenholdt, Jean Houlihan-Henderson, Susan Ifergan, Margo Jeanchild, Laura Landecker, Sheila Malloy, Beth Miller, Rebecca Sive, Amy Stoeffler, Ginny Sykes, Jeff Walté, Kathleen Waterloo, Alison Zehr (All contributors are listed in our Auction Event booklet.) Thanks you to the following people who have become members or renewed their memberships and all those who have donated money, items, time and talents. Jenny Abell, M V Adler, Aestetica, Inc., Roberta & Neil Allen, Linda Ammons, Angelic Organics, Helen & Michael Arkes, Jeffrey A. Arnold DDS, Gina Bader, Glorya Bakken, Kim & Carlos Basile, Janet Beals, Andrea Bempong, June Bennett, Cali Bergold & Ed Emering, Kathy & Roy Bergold, Allison Berman, Stephanie Rose Bird, Susan Bishop, Dayna Block & Steve Rosenberg, Helen Buturma, Kris Cahill, Mo Cahill, Sharon Cahill, Jo-Anne Cairo, Pamela Callahan and Jeff Walté, Susanna Conaway, Helene Connolly, Melanie Cooper, Gail Flack Crandus, Claudia Cron, Amy Stacey Curtis, Vicki Curtis & Bill Siavelis, Melanie Deal, Karen Deighan, Rosemary DiNardo, Jude & Sal DiPaolo, Jennifer Edwards, Anne Elizabeth, Scott Evans, Carol Fesko, Elissa Foster, Jerry Frankowski & Colleen Flynn, Mallory Frjelich, Gallery 213, Michelle Gates & David Kornhauser, Antje Gehrken & Andy Pappas, Linda Genet, Patricia Gilleran DDS, Marge Graham, Granville Gallery, Dr. Carmen Green, Kathleen Greenholdt & Paul Coady, Paige Grere, Phoebe Greyson, Daniel Griffin & Sheila Farley, Judith Guajardo, Mary Haag, Patricia Hall, Karen Hamity, Andrea Harris, Brian Heard, Carol Vihon Hirsch, Nancy Huggins, Carol Vihon Hirsch, Deborah Hughes, Pearl Hirshfield, Carla Inwood, Lorraine Inzalaco, Missy Isely-Poltrock, Susan Ifergan, Margo Jeanchild, Patricia Johnson, Tara Jyawook, Ildikó Kalapács, Diane Lang Kelly, Laura Landecker, Mary Laskey, Eileen Louie Laskowski, Micki Leventhal & Constance Buckley, Abby Levine, Laurel Lipkin, Eha Luik, Anat & Amos Madanes, Sheila Malloy, Tatiana Mamaeva, Suzanne Massey, McDonald Corporation, Suesi Metcalf, Renny Mills, Michael Minkovski, Cybele Moon, Jenny Morlan, Patricia Moyer, Barbara Noonan, Thany O, Kim Ohms & Joe Novelli, Staci P. Oien, Marisol Olivas, Jennifer Patterson, Christine Pelkola, Mary Ann Penner, Gisèle Perreault & Peggy Mason, Marcia Perry, Dina Petrakis, Nancy Pirri, Elizabeth Rauer, Jeni Reeves, Theresa Reid, Susan Rice, Bonnie Rubin, Karla Rindal, Alyce Ritti,Sally Ruddy, Suzann Robinson, Martha Rusk, Pamela & Yale Sage, Jeanne Rogers & Perry Sainati, Shirley Senior Sallas, Helen Gagel Squires, Yvonne Saul-Craigo, Donna Saxton, Elizabeth Schraft, Janet Schumacher, Misha Rae Shehesta, Janet Smedley, Laurel Smith, Sheri & Ron Spielman, Norine Spurling, Julie Stagliano, Liz Staller, Anne Stephan, Eden Stern, Wilma Stevens, Amy Stoeffler, Matt Stoeffler, Pamela Stoeffler, Ruth Stoeffler, Jane Strasma, Susan Straus, Karla Sunn, Victoria Tasch, MaryRoss Taylor, The Apartment People, Elsbeth & Otto Thilenius, Debbie Trejo, Cherryl Troy, Annette Turow, Hollis Turner, Kyra Walsh, Eileen Wasserman, Gary Waters & Richard Anderson, Deborah Weber, Rachel Weaver, Sally Weiner, Diane Weisbeck, Mary Beth Williams, Alison Zehr, Lili Ann & Richard Zisook. We are thanking Roberta Reb Allen, who has again topped herself with her efforts to organize our volunteers. There was no shortage of good will and in her words, this is "an impressive list! We have a lot of willing hearts and hands!" We thank all of the volunteers listed here and will include all those that are not yet recognized in our next newsletter: Dora Albregtse, Jessa Alexander, Neil Allen, Mark Allen, Aletheia Anderson, Christa Anderson, Danielle Anderson, Carol Augustine, Kim Babon, Beatriz Badikian, Janet Beals, Sandra Beaty, Patricia Biesen, Paulette Boyd, Monica Brown, Gahan Christenson, Meg Coleman, Leslie Cooke, Pamela Crabtree, Sandra Wong Danoch, Kerry Doyle, Jennifer Eng, Melissa Fink, Pam Frederick, Monica Fudala, Stefanie Gehrit, Andrea Ginsburg, Caroline Gray, Lynn Greenholdt, Judith Guajardo, Pat Guizzetti, Angela Harken, Liz Holland, Olivia Hurns, Patty Johnston, Nina Jones, Angela Just, Lois Keller, Mary King, Micki Leventhal, Catherine Lundgren, Bonnie McGrath, Regina Maniaci, Roberta Mezinskas, Roberta Miles, Beth Miller, Michelle Morrissey, Reema Mukheja, Lyz Nagan, Kristen Neveu, Sharyl Noday, Gilbert Orejudos, Trish Page, Joan Pantisios, Joyce Patterson, Pat Patterson, Michelle Perkins, Monica Plott, Linda Price, Jacqueline Pruitt, Melissa Reinckens, Laurice Rhue, Susan Rice, Suzen Riley, Adele Rocyte, Laurel Smith, Jeanne Soldner, Melanie Sorenson, Helen Squires, Joan Stachnik, Suzanne Stafford, Lee Stanton, Katie Teitelbaum, Cherryl Troy, Bridget Verdun, Eileen Wasserman, Diane Weisbeck, Pushpa Wewegama, Keith Witham, Nicole Yakes. Special thanks to all the poets (including open mic participants) who inspired us at the Garments reading: Sharon Darrow, Joslyn Eccles, Jamie Rush, Cin Salach, Maureen Seaton and at the Prejudice reading: Lucy Anderton, Tara Betts, Evelyn Delgado, Lani Montreal, Nikki Patin and Selly Thiam. Please check our WOMAN MADE GALLERY CALENDAR for all events throughout the year. Sponsor An Exhibit Or Purchase Award: Please become an exhibit sponsor or give an exhibit purchase award for future shows. An example of exhibit sponsorship is providing money for printing and mailing expenses of invitations. Your name would be printed on the invitations and in our newsletter. You might also want to give a purchase prize for a select exhibition. This means that you would commit to buying one artwork from one exhibition. Your name and / or company would be credited on all printed materials and on our web site. For more information, contact Woman Made at (312) 328-0038 or send us an email Meet Kathy Greenholdt, Woman Made Gallery Board Member. Professionally, Kathy is in marketing communications - mainly writing and design… 
I am ... a public information officer for University of Illinois Extension. We offer grass-roots education programs that help people improve their lives and address community issues involving youth, families, health, economics and natural resources. I've been involved with WMG since... 1997, when I became a member. But the first show I saw at WMG was a year earlier. It was a traveling exhibit of personal work by female graphic artists. The show made a big impression on me because it proved that graphic artists are "fine" artists, too. I became involved with the Gallery... Because it is a special place for women to go and just be ourselves. The staff and environment are warm and welcoming, and there is a real sense of caring among all the women who are involved with the Gallery. Also, the shows always have interesting themes and feature a wide range of artistic styles and disciplines. When people describe me they often say that I am ... Hard-working and creative, and sometimes a little too serious! But they definitely don't say I am ... Foot-loose and fancy-free. My mother always told me... You'd better shop around. No, just kidding. If I had to pack for an around the world trip, the three items I would be sure to bring are... My wedding ring, deodorant and enough clean underwear. The woman artist I most admire is... Beate Minkovski, because she is the selfless force behind Woman Made Gallery. She makes all women artists feel special and nurtures both our skills and our confidence. We are lucky to have the Gallery, and we are lucky to have Beate. Two women who have greatly influenced my life are ... My mother and my long-time family friend, Norma. Mom was a leader in the ERA movement. She taught me that I could be anything I wanted to be - and she made that possible by helping to advance the rights of women and exposing me to other women role models, including political leaders. Norma has always been a "respectable" free spirit. She taught me that, while it's important to be a good person, it is also important to have lots and lots of fun! Norma is a former phone company executive who wears white cotton nightgowns as dresses, picks wildflowers in the woods, and stargazes while lying on the hood of her car. At this time in my life, I never dreamed that I would have ... A garden. I'm interested in growing native flowers and grasses to attract birds, bees and butterflies to my city lot. I want to help improve the balance of the ecosystem. The best words of advice I've ever received are... It's easier to apologize later than to ask for permission now. One of the things I've saved from my childhood is... An essay about St. Joan of Arc. In ten years, I see WMG as... The same warm, welcoming place for women it is now - but with more members and more name recognition among the city's residents and opinion leaders. Also, I see Mayor Daley giving us a building similar to the one he gave to the Vietnam veterans for their art museum around the corner. I'm sure he realizes we would take really good care of it -- we are a bunch of women after all! (above right) 'Keep Off The Grass', patchwork, photo transfer images by Jean Davey Winter (Third Prize Winner - International Open). WMG is proud to support other community organizations: Forum High School For Creative Study The mission of the Forum High School For Creative Study, located on 11024 South Bell Ave. in Chicago, is to teach secondary education in an environment that promotes individualism and its means to artistic expression. Small class size, (sixteen is the maximum) and an art-centered curriculum create an atmosphere that encourages dialog, self-reflection and internal discipline. Through writing, music, movement work, fine arts, and the integration of math, social studies and the sciences, students learn to assume responsibility for the direction of their work. Additionally, math and the sciences are integrated into the curriculum. Applicants must have the desire to work with various mediums and a willingness to explore their own limits as an artist and as a human being. Physical work and breathing exercises are included in the curriculum in order to promote strength, balance, self-discipline and whole-body integration. Weekly field trips are part of the curriculum. We believe the best way to learn about the world is to be in it! Forum High School For Creative Study offers a $200 art scholarship (with portfolio)! For more information please call Jan Favia, Director at (773) 881-8777. . Senior Artists Network The Senior Artists Network (SAN) is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization committed to promoting and fostering the talents of Chicago-area artists age 50 or older. SAN is operated by a volunteer board representing a diverse membership from all ethnic and racial backgrounds. The organization remains unique in the Chicago metropolitan area as the sole organization committed to older artists. SAN makes visible and available art works that otherwise would be excluded from the arts community. Membership benefits include participation in the annual LATER IMPRESSIONS and MEMBERS exhibitions, quarterly social and educational programs, opportunities for individual and group exhibitions, quarterly newsletter and volunteer opportunities. Please call Patricia O'Malley at 312-744-4551 for more information. Ladyfest Midwest Chicago (LMC) Ladyfest Midwest Chicago (LMC) is a multi-disciplinary, four-day fest that will showcase the work of female artists, performers, musicians, and activists primarily from Chicago and its surrounding regions. LMC aims to promote women from diverse backgrounds working in the fields of the creative arts and community building. LMC functions as an entirely volunteer-driven, community-based, non-profit organization, and although entirely organized by women, it is open to all people regardless of age, race, or gender. Ladyfest Midwest Chicago is accepting submissions for a series of juried shows at various locations throughout the city. Looking for all media - film/video, performance, and visual arts. Also accepting proposals for workshop ideas and panel discussions. Check out their website for complete entry guidelines and opportunities: www.ladyfestmidwest.org or send email inquiries to: info@ladyfestmidwest.org How has Woman Made impacted your Life: WMG celebrates its 10-year anniversary in July 2002. Honoring this occasion, we will publish quotes from artists and members who have participated in the astounding growth of the gallery in the Her Mark Calendar 2002. Send, fax or email us your favorite Woman Made Gallery memory/experience! (Keep it brief; deadline June 15, 2001) You have two options for obtaining guidelines for shows: 1. Send a note (with a self-addressed-stamped envelope) requesting the show prospectus of your choice to: Woman Made Gallery, 1900 South Prairie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616. 2. Click on http://www.womanmade.org/calexhibits.html and print out entry forms in pdf format for the exhibition you wish to enter or print out a generic Entry Form: http://womanmade.org/entryform.html. EIGHTH ANNUAL MEMBER'S SHOW, August 3 - 30, 2001 HER MARK CALENDAR 2002, (publication date: October 2001) IMPORT/EXPORT, September 7 - October 4, 2001 HONORING THE CRONE, October 12 - November 8, 2001 Woman Made News is produced quarterly. Send newsletter contributions to Cali Bergold, Woman Made Gallery, 1900 South Prairie Ave, Chicago, IL 60616. You may e-mail your entries to gallery@womanmade.org. Woman Made Gallery reserves the right to edit articles for clarity and brevity. Entries for the Summer Newsletter 2001 must be received by MAY 15th, 2001. Please Note: The entry deadline for the annual "Member's Show" in August has been extended to: May 16, 2001. For details and entry form go to: http://www.womanmade.org/calexhibits.html#4. Click here to read our previous newsletters. |
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