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Greetings!
Welcome to our new E-Newsletter informing you about exhibitions, events, calls for art, and all the other good things happening at Woman Made Gallery (WMG).
The new fiscal year started on July 1, 2009, and we are looking back with gratitude to a year filled with much positive activity. Organizational development under the guidance of Alison Zehr and the WMG board, exciting programs with much good art, wonderful poetry readings, a most successful Gala event, and support by new and renewing members, donors and volunteers, has helped WMG and its artists to get noticed and recognized. For the July 2009 issue, Today's Chicago Woman readers choice awards selected Woman Made Gallery as one of the best art galleries in Chicago.
WMG received an immediate boost in July 2008 with a generous donation of $10,000 from our Anonymous Donor. Important grant support followed throughout the year from the Illinois Arts Council, The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Arts Work Fund, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, and the Efroymson Family Fund. In addition WMG is the recipient of many valuable in-kind contributions from board members and other generous benefactors. Please read our Sponsor Page for details. The Gala and Benefit Auction in April 2009 was truly a most wonderful and successful event. With the tremendous help of many supporters we were able to raise more than $57,000!!! We thank our co-chairs, Pamella Capitanini and Amy Stoeffler, for their leadership and generosity. We appreciate the input by our Auction Committee and all Board and Staff members, who have helped to make this another successful fundraiser. We are most grateful to all our sponsors who have donated to the good cause, all individuals and businesses who have placed ads, and we thank all our contributors whose gifts were used in the live and silent auction and in our boutique section. Thank you Mo Cahill for doing a great job with the adbook, and thank you to Shannon Downey and Pivotal Production for being our expert event planner! And of course we couldn't do what we do without our great volunteers. Thank you for all your hard work for Woman Made Gallery throughout the year. Please visit our website to read details about the Gala Event.
The new year begins with renewed vigor, a new board, new exhibitions at WMG, and also an off-site show at Robert Morris University. Many thanks to Amy Galpin who did a lot of work to put this show together. Please visit the exhibition Online to get a glimpse of the tremendous variety of art included. All our exhibitions are online, and it's the next best thing to being there in person. We are most grateful to our jurors, who put together fabulous exhibitions, and to our artists, whose work continues to breathe new life into this organization. All our exhibitions, current and past, may be viewed on our website, and all upcoming events are listed in our Calendar. Please support our work to provide exhibition opportunities for women artists and to educate the public about women's artistic contributions. We appreciate comments and any feedback to help us serve you better.
Sincerely,
Beate Minkovski
Woman Made Gallery
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Changing of the Guard
Thank You Board, Staff
and Volunteers!
June 30th was the end of our previous fiscal year, and we said good-bye to several wonderful board members who have helped guide WMG in the past.
We thank Nicole Gotthelf, our outgoing President, and Wilma Stevens, who has served most recently as Vice President, for their enormous contributions to WMG. We thank Michele Sexton Dorvil and Donna Korey who each served WMG part of the year as Secretary and on the Auction Committee. We truly appreciate all the work and devotion that each of them gave to help make WMG a thriving arts organization.
We are happy to welcome and introduce our new board with President Rebecca Sive, Vice President Anita Jenke, Treasurer Mary Keefe, and Secretary Marty Bash. Other board members include Pamella Capitanini, Robin Malpass, Amy Stoeffler, Elena Aguirre Sznajder, Cheryl Toles, and Cassandra West. We are grateful to all our board members, and look forward to work together productively to benefit the organization.
There are also staff changes to report. Amy Galpin, WMG's Gallery Coordinator, has received a two-year fellowship in San Diego, California, and she will leave WMG at the end of August. We thank Amy for all the good work she did, and we wish her all the best with her new position.
We are grateful to our interns and volunteers who work so enthusiastically at WMG. We truly could not do our programs without them.
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Sponsors
Thanks to Our Contributors!
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 Trust; the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.
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Exhibitions
Annual Members' Show
Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its new juried exhibition, the Annual Members' Show, on Friday, July 31, 2009. On display are a diverse range of work, featuring 41 artists who explore issues from identity, to social and political landscapes, to the human condition.
Entries were juried by Judithe Hernández, a Chicago artist who was a founding members 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.
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Artisan Gallery
Fine Crafts by Women
The mission of the Artisan Gallery is to honor women working in traditional and non-traditional craft disciplines. Incoming entries are curated by Margaret Denny. We carry a variety of functional craft works in a variety of media, including jewelry and pottery, throughout the year.
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Poetry Readings
Hosted by Nina Corwin
WMG offers a variety of poetry readings in association with our group show themes. Some of the readings present the work of invited poets, and for others we list a call for poetry, and select poets from incoming entries.
Upcoming readings include the Her Mark 2010 Release Party on Sunday, August 2, 2009, from 2 to 4 p.m.
There is a call for entries for "Writing the Transdiasporic Experience" scheduled for Sunday, October 4, 2009, from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Her Mark 2010
Art & Poetry by 48 Women
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.
WMG Price: $17.00
S & H: included
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WMG Memberships
To Serve Women Artists
Basic: $40
Receives 10% off on purchases, 20% discount at workshops, and participation in "Her Group," a monthly art group session. Member will receive notices about exhibitions, calls for art, poetry readings, and other events at WMG. Member may request a link to artist's personal website.
Gallery: $100
Receives Basic benefits, plus a page on WMG's website, with one studio and three art images, a brief statement or biography, artist's e-mail and website address.
Online Registry: $200
There is a one-time setup of $100. Member receives Basic benefits, plus a webpage on WMG's Online Registry: www.womanmade.net.
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Contact us by mail, email or phone, and let us know if you have questions. You may submit to our exhibitions online.
Upcoming exhibitions are listed HERE.
Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
312-738-0400
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