Did you know?
Five Facts About EWI
1. Every year, EWI graduates 10-25 artists from the entrepreneurial Training for Success. The program offers training and coaching primarily to immigrant women.
Victorious, Isabel Castaneda
2. All graduates finish the training with comprehensive business knowledge, a complete artist portfolio, a marketing plan and a road map to entrepreneurship and leadership.
Beauty Is How You Feel, Jodi Flood
3. EWI artists volunteer over 1,000 hours every year inside the organization or in the community through civic and educational projects.
Feelings, Louis Jr. Sangare-King
4. Most EWI immigrant women artists speak at minimum two languages, have a college degree from their native country, are highly entrepreneurial, yet they hold low-wage jobs.
Buzkashi, Fatana Arifi
5. EWI artists have been featured in prestigious art museums, galleries and media outlets including the Washington Post and New York Times among many others.
Spring in Shenandaoah, Valentina Dimilo
More about Empowered Women at
www.ewint.org
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AMERICA'S GREAT COMMISSION
Exhibition & Stories of the Empowered Women
Graduation Celebration
Thursday, May 29, 7-9 PM
Lee Center Alexandria
1108 Jefferson St., Alexandria
Come meet our artists and listen to their powerful stories!
A mixed media exhibition featuring the art of 17 alumni and recent graduate artists from the entrepreneurial
Training for Success
Opportunities to collect art of local promising artists, and
make an investment in their lives.
Complimentary Hors D'Oeuvres and Drinks
Art Sales and Raffle Tickets to benefit EWI
FREE of Charge and Open to the Public. RSVP Required.
RSVP to Marga at cfripp@aol.com Guest of Honor
Reid Baron, Publisher Galleries Magazine -
A guide to Washington/Baltimore metro area
art galleries since 1980
EWI Alumni Artists
Fatana Arifi - Afghanistan, Chela and Edith Sanabria - Bolivia Mame N'Diaye - USA, Kamlesh Puri - India
Mekbib Gebertsadik - Ethiopia, Sheryl Gordon - USA
EWI Artist Graduates
Louis Jr. Sangare-King - Mali, Sushmita Mazumdar - India
Isabel Castaneda - Peru, Valentina Bgasheva - Russia
Thiara Pinit - Thailand, Jieun Kim - South Korea
Marlene Belgrove - Trinidad & Tobago
Carmen Dupuy and Clemencia Ronan - Venezuela
Jodi Flood - USA
This program and event was made possible with support from:
The Alexandria Commission for the Arts
The Giving Circle of Hope
The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation
The Art League
Phyllis Weissman Scholarship Fund
Whole Foods Market, Fair Lakes
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Are you an EWI artist member or alumni? Do you have any events or stories to share? Please email Marga at cfripp@aol.com.