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● The 2012 AWA Annual Members Show and Juried Competition will be hosted by the K Newby Gallery & Sculpture Garden in Tubac, Arizona in November. A show prospectus and competition details will be available on this website on March 1st. Artists must be Associate Artist Members of AWA to enter the competition. The deadline for submissions is July 8th, 2012. All submissions will be handled through Juried Art Services. The show opens with a reception on Friday, November 2, 2012 and continues through November 25, 2012. Check back in March for more details.
● Visions of the Southwest, an AWA exhibition of work will open in the fall at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. AWA Vice President Carol Swinney and Immediate past President Bethanne Kinsella Cople have been working with Susan Fisher, the Director of the ASDM Art Institute and Ronda Ballard, Exhibits Coordinator for over a year to bring the show to fruition. The Museum's impressive Ironwood Gallery will display 120 paintings and sculptures by AWA's Signature and Master Signature Members that embody, envision or re-imagine the great American Southwest.
● American Women Artists is now accepting Associate Artist Members. Women who draw, paint, or sculpt in a representational style - whether with a contemporary or traditional approach - are welcome and encouraged to apply for membership. For details, please click on the Members tab at the top of this page.
● Tune in - visit the American Women Artist's Channel on YouTube catch a glimpse of AWA members at work. Click on the YouTube icon at the bottom of this page.
Kudos
● AWA Signature Member Rachelle Siegrist and her husband, Wes, were recently commissioned by the Woolaroc Museum in Bartlesville, OK to paint portrait miniatures of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama. The Woolaroc, one of the Nation’s premiere western art museums, is one of a handful of museums nationwide with portrait miniature collections of U.S. Presidents. Museum collections of miniature paintings are primarily comprised of portraiture dating from the 1500s through the early 1900s. The Siegrists’ Presidential portrait miniatures in the Woolaroc place them in the coveted class of living artists with work in the permanent collection of a museum.
● Master Signature Member Nancy Boren has her work included in The 2012 Fine Art in Dallas, a 128-page engagement book with 100 color plates of original art of 72 artists from the Greater Dallas area. Available at www.cityartcal.com.
● Kudos to AWA Board Member Kathrine Lemke Waste who is featured in "A Closer Look," an in-depth review of her work in the January, 2012 issue of Southwest Art Magazine.
● Artists Romona Youngquist of Portland, Oregon, South Carolina painter Paula Holtzclaw and Claudia Seymour of New Canaan, Connecticut are the newest Signature Members of AWA. Paula was recently featured in Southwest Art Magazine, and shows her work in numerous galleries along the Eastern Seaboard and in California. Romona, featured in Southwest Art, American Art Collector and Art Talk, is represented by galleries in the Pacific Northwest, California and Scottsdale. Claudia is President of the Salmagundi Club, New York and an honored Master Pastellist, represented by galleries in the United States and London.
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Leah Lopez, / Bethanne Kinsella Cople, Joy Beckner, Karen Vance, Jacqueline Kamin / Rachelle Siegrist / ©Margret Short, Studio Habiliments #4 /Cathy Ferrell
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