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Group and Solo Shows and Other Events
July 31 - August 27, 2009 / Artist Reception: Friday, July 31 / 6-9 p.m.
Chicago, Illinois -
Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce
the "Annual Members' Show" juried by Judithe
Hernández, and the Her Mark 2010 publication
and exhibtion with art juried by Maria Elena Buszek,
and poetry juried by Maureen Seaton. The Artisan
Gallery opens with "Materiality: Emphasis on the
Media" juried by Margaret Denny.
Please join us at the artist reception on Friday,
July 31 from 6 to 9 p.m., at 685 N. Milwaukee
Avenue in Chicago. Works will be on display until
August 27, 2009.
In addition to group and solo exhibitions, Woman
Made presents a Release Party for Her Mark
2010. Poets included in the publication will read from
their work on Sunday, August 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. The
event is hosted by WMG's Poetry Event Coordinator
Nina Corwin.
Regular Gallery hours are Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday from 12 to 7 p.m., and Saturday and
Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m.
The "Annual Members' Show" brings together a
diverse range of work featuring 41 artists who explore
issues from identity, to social and political
landscapes, to the human condition. Included in this
group exhibition are painting, sculpture, photography,
installation, mixed media, and video, demonstrating
the diverse and probing work of today's artists.
Juror Judithe Hernández's was a founding
member of the Chicano Art and Los Angeles Mural
Movements of the 1960's. Regarded as one of the
important visual artists of the period, she was also the
only female member of the seminal and influential
East Los Angeles artist collective, Los Four, who
broke the museum barrier with the first major
exhibition of Chicano art in the United States. Her
extensive exhibition record includes the
ground-breaking first exhibition of contemporary
Chicano art in Europe: Le Démon des Anges. Among
her many public works is the Los Angeles
Bicentennial Mural (1981) commissioned by the City of
Los Angeles to commemorate the 200th anniversary
of the city's founding in 1781.
The exhibition includes work by Grazyna
Adamska-Jarecka, Cat Del Buono, Mary Button,
Tianxin Sophie Chen, Patsy Reilly Davis, Betsy Dollar,
Henrietta DuBois, Ruth Eckstein, Lucia Enriquez,
Kathryn Gauthier, Janet Gerske, Sue Goldsmith,
Christie Helm, Juliette Herwitt, Tehniyet Hussain,
Tatijana Jacenkiw, Pepper Johnson, Elka
Kazmierczak, Alessandra Kelley, Lea Basile Lazarus,
Mary Longley, Maya Just Maya, Amanda Meeks, Bert
Menco, Jane Michalski, Dora Natella, Jean Nerenberg,
Julie Niskanen, Debbie Heemstra Novak, Sarah
Rehmer, Kim Rogers, Elizabeth Sanderson, Wendy
Segal, Beth Shadur, Sandy Sheagren, Ruth G. Sikes,
Dian Sourelis, Katherine Strause, Elena Aguirre
Sznajder, Cheryl Toles, and Kathy Weaver.
The Artist Reception is on July 31 from 6 to
9 p.m., and works will be up through August 27,
2009.
Images: (top to bottom) Artworks by Dora Natella
and Katherine Strause
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Woman Made Gallery is proud to present Her
Mark 2010, a publication with art and poetry by 48
women. Juror Maria Elena Buszek made the art
selections, and Maureen Seaton juried the poetry
entries. Designed by Karin Kuzniar and edited by Marty
Bash, Her Mark 2010 includes a layout with
color reproductions, poetry, and weekly calendar
pages with holidays and moon cycles.
In addition to the publication, WMG hosts an exhibition
featuring most of the Her Mark 2010 artworks.
The Artist Reception is on July 31st from 6 to 9 p.m.
The Release Party and Reading is on August 2 from 2
to 4 p.m. Her Mark 2010 copies are available at
the Artist Reception and Release Party or may be
ordered for $15 per copy plus shipping. Please
contact WMG by phone, 312-738-0400, or by email,
gallery@womanmade.org.
Visual Artists who have their work in Her Mark
2010: Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka, Adriana Baltazar,
Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman, Crisanta de
Guzman, Kathleen Elliot, Rebecca Rose Greene,
Judithe Hernández, Anjani Khanna, Margaret LeJeune,
Aliza Lelah, Suyeon Na, Bonnie Peterson, Shari Pettis,
Tara Polansky, Melissa Shook, Alice Simpson, Sylvia
Steen, Verna Todd, Kate True, Iris Vazquez, Amy
Wainwright, Angilee Wilkerson, Beatrice Wolert, and
Elizabeth Wuerffel.
Poets included in Her Mark 2010: Beverly Boyd,
Rosemary Ann Davis, Kelley Evans, Veer-Tess Frost,
Jane Ellen Glasser, Ona Gritz, H.K. Hummel, Kiki Vera
Johnson, Laurie Junkins, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Anna
Leahy, Christine McKee, Coco Owen, Maureen
Piggins, JC Reilly, Susan Richardson, cin salach,
Mary Kolada Scott, Sheri Sorvillo, Judith Terzi, Judith
Valente, Gale Renee Walden, Rachel Jamison
Webster, and Andrena Zawinski.
Exhibition Dates: July 31 - August 27, 2009
Release Party: August 2, 2009 - 2-4 p.m.
Cover image of Her Mark 2010.
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Artisan Gallery: Materiality 
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Her Mark 2010 Release Party & Reading
August 2 / 2-4 p.m. 
Join curator Nina Corwin and a group of fabulous
poets for this special Release Party and Reading
while the Her Mark 2010 exhibition is on
display.
The reading takes place on August 2, 2009 from 2 to
4 p.m at Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60642. The event is free to the public, and
refreshments will be served.
Read More Here
About Woman Made Gallery
Woman Made Gallery is a tax-exempt,
not-for-profit organization founded in 1992. Its goal is to
support women in the arts by providing opportunities,
awareness, and advocacy. It specifically
accomplishes this through monthly thematic
exhibitions which raise public awareness and
recognition of women's cultural contributions.
Woman Made Gallery is supported in part by grants
from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; a CityArts
Program II grant from the City of Chicago, Department
of Cultural Affairs; the Arts Work Fund for
Organizational Development, a donor-advised fund of
the Chicago Community Foundation; the Gaylord and
Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; Foundation; the
Efroymson Fund, a CICF Fund; a major anonymous
donor; and the generosity of its members and
contributors.
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Woman Made Gallery
Beate C. Minkovski
Executive Director
Phone:
312-738-0400
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