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AWA Steamboat!
An events-packed time in Steamboat Springs gave AWA artists and patrons the opportunity to attend two art demonstrations, paint, sketch, and sculpt at a riverside botanical park and a private ranch surrounded by snow-topped mountains, and enjoy a lively reception hosted by the Steamboat Art Museum.
An all-day Symposium on Women in the Arts was enthusiastically received by a full house and the perfect end to a perfect art and artist-filled week.
The museum staff was gracious, generous, and supported us every step of the way. We can't praise them enough. Our amazing Show Chair, Shirley Stocks, worked closely with us for the past year on everything from hiring models to scouting hotels. We were fortunate to have had these partners whose contributions made the show so successful.
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Grand Prize award winner, Point Lobos Cypress by Laurie Kersey, oil, 24" x 30" |
Congratulations
Awards were announced for
Looking West, AWA's exhibition at the Steamboat Art Museum on
Friday night, June 28, at the Chief Theater in Steamboat Springs, CO. Award jurors were Christine Bullard (Art Collector), John Fawcett (Artist) and Jennifer Henneman (Associate Curator, Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum). Signature Member Laurie Kersey (CA) won the $6,000 cash Grand Prize for her evocative landscape Point Lobos Cypress. Twenty-two awards were given out during the afternoon ceremony.
Congratulations
Laurie and to each and every award-winning artist!
List of Award Winners
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Pursuing a Dream, 18" x 13" by Heide Presse, winner of this year's Museum Purchase Award
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Purchase Award
We were so honored to have had the
Richard Galusha and Shirley Stocks Purchase Award for the AWA show at the Steamboat Museum. Richard and Shirley underwrote this award, and the work of art they chose was an oil by
Heide Presse,
Pursuing a Dream. This beautiful painting will now reside in the permanent collection of the Steamboat Art Museum.
Congratulations to Heide on her special honor and our deepest thanks to Richard and Shirley for their generosity.
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Our New Website!
Have you seen AWA's new website? We think it's fabulous; fresh and relevant. We were able to include lots of images. It's a work in progress that we'll be refining over the next few weeks. Thanks go out to Ted Angel, who designed our new site. Ted also designs our museum catalog and AWA's magazine ads. He did a great job of capturing the beauty and spirit of our organization and its members.
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BOOTH MUSEUM 2020!!!
Our next museum show, Making Their Mark: America Women Artists, will be at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA, May 23 - August 23, 2020.
This is an outstanding museum about an hour from Atlanta. The museum is dedicated to the Western United States and houses the largest permanent exhibition space for Western Art in the country, with examples of early Western artists, as well as contemporary artists like Ed Mell, Thom Ross, Donna Howell-Sickles, Kim Wiggins, and others. AWA's show is not a western-themed show; we want artists to submit their best works, regardless of theme or style.
AWA had a show at the Booth in 2015, and the museum purchased a number of major works from our members. Show Chair Lisa Gleim is working closely with the Booth staff
to make this a sensational show.
There will be 110 works in the show. We are organizing a collector's home tour, art social opportunities, portfolio reviews, a workshop, and a Symposium on Women in the Arts. More news is coming soon.
The application period for the show will be November 13, 2019 - January 20, 2020.
Maximum size for 2D works is 40" on the longest side, and 3D works are limited to 200 lbs with no size limit.
2020 is the 100th anniversary year of Women getting the Vote!
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2019 Pendleton Round-Up Poster Artist
The Pendleton Round-Up is excited to announce the selection of cowgirl artist and AWA Master/Heritage Member Donna Howell-Sickles as its 2019 rodeo poster artist! Howell-Sickles is an award-winning artist from Saint Jo, TX, known for her colorful, energetic and joyful depictions of the American cowgirl. Donna's work is included in prestigious museum and prominent private collections. Her art is carried by galleries across the West. A book, Cowgirl Rising, celebrates her works. Donna was selected as a member of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, TX, in recognition of her powerful portrayals of historic and contemporary cowgirls. Donna is also the first woman artist in the history of the rodeo to be selected to create the annual poster.
Donna attributes her love of the cowgirl and western imagery to a vintage postcard of a cowgirl on a horse captioned, "Greetings from a Real Cowgirl from the Ole Southwest." Inspired by the charm and confidence of the woman in the image, Donna has made the iconic cowgirl -
and
all that she stands
for - the central theme in her contemporary Western settings of mixed-media artwork.
"Employing a bold
palette
of vibrant colors and dynamic visual movement," observed Round-Up Publicity Director Pat Reay, "Donna is a perfect fit to capture the color and drama of the Pendleton Round-Up. There is no better embodiment of the confident, exuberant, fearless and playful
spirit
of Donna's cowgirls than the members of the Pendleton Round-Up Court celebrated in the poster. Paired with the iconic colors of the Round-Up's bucking chutes and the historic TiPi Village, Donna has created a masterful poster."
"The historic Pendleton Round-Up," Donna comments, "is rich with iconic images, so choosing just one for a poster was a challenge. Portraying a Round-Up queen in a posture of welcome and celebration atop one of the red bucking chute gates of the arena, surrounded by the triangles of the Tipi Village, seemed to be a good solution. The red roses around her hat underscore the beauty of the entire event. I look forward to attending the Round-Up again in September."
In addition to the basic poster, special limited editions will be available for sale through the
Round-Up store at (541) 276-2553,
or visit the Round-Up web site at
pendletonroundup.com/shop
. Donna will be on hand September 11 - 14 to sign the poster and help celebrate the 109th edition of the Round-Up.
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Thank You!
Two remarkable women retired from our Board: Earline Burke and Paula Holtzclaw. Both have provided years of sound advice, financial support, and enthusiasm for AWA.
Earline has been a Board Member since 2015, and has been instrumental in helping us with budgeting, taxes, and the questions that arise over non-profit compliance. Earline was a former IRS agent, and she knows her stuff. She has volunteered to help with the Booth show so we will get to see her again next year in Georgia.
Paula Holtzclaw has been on AWA's Board since 2013! As our Board Secretary, she turned in meticulous notes from our 2-to-3-hour meetings. She always has a kind word to say, and her attitude reminds us that we are all in this together.
AWA has been fortunate to have had these two dedicated women as members of our Board of Directors. They will be missed. Our sincere thanks to both Earline and Paula for their service!
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Sponsor Profile: America West Frames
Special Offer!
Amber Nill is the new dynamic General Manager of America West Frames in Flagstaff, AZ. A single mom of four children, Amber grew up in a small farm town in Southern Ohio, moving west to attend college at Humboldt State University in Northern California. Artist and musician Amber says the biggest impact on her life has been 15 years of pregnancies, breastfeeding, toddlers, and cloth diapers; "seriously, 24,000 cloth diapers, I did the math!"
Amber loves working with so many talented and inspirational artists through America West Frames. She looks forward helping AWA artists choose their next perfect frame. America West Frames has been handcrafting the highest quality custom fine art frames for nearly 40 years. They offer a wide variety of styles, including elegant gilded frames, classic copper and silver frames, modern matte clay frames, contemporary floater frames, and their trademark rustic Western distressed frames.
Special Offer: Please take advantage of an exclusive American Women Artists Discount.
Use promo code
AWAsteamboat when you order by email (
[email protected]) or by phone: 928-213-1580. If you email the company an image of the art you'd like to frame and request a
Design Consultation, America West Frames will provide a Sample Design PDF so that you can see your work of art framed with different styles and colors.
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ARTBEAT: News & Links
from the Wider World
The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last
ByTess Thackara/ NYT
Why Old Women Have Replaced Young Men as the Art World's Darlings
By Anna Louie Sussman/Artsy.net
Taking arts classes leads to better academic performance, research shows
By George Mason University
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We Will Promote Your Work on Social Media!
Click on the promotions link below to add your information. We'll blast it out on AWA's social media channels. Be sure to include an image!
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Masthead Image
: Of Beauty and Grace by Cynthia Feustel, Brewing Tempest by Mejo Okon,
Tea for Two? by Diane Mason, Day Break by Elaine Bowers
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| 25 in 25: A Call to Action | American Women Artists |
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