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Abundance, watercolor by Carrie Waller
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Making Their Mark Award Winners Announced
Awards were announced for Making Their Mark, AWA's exhibition hosted by the Booth Museum on Friday, May 29, via Facebook Live and YouTube. Awards jurors were Chrishaunda Lee Perez (Writer, Producer, Orator), Beth Wilson (Fine Arts Specialist, Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA), and Catherine Javiera Huff (Coordinator of Exhibitions and Collections at the High Museum of in Atlanta, GA). Associate Member Carrie Waller (IL) won the $10,000 cash Grand Prize for her dynamic still life painting Abundance. Twenty-five awards were given out during the ceremony.
Congratulations, Carrie, and to each and every artist!
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Images from left to right, top to bottom:
The Secret Keepers, pastel by Lisa Gleim;
Sunset Sunburst, oil by Diane Arenberg;
Buffalo Gals, bronze by Star Liana York;
Western Homestead, acrylic by Claudia Hartley;
Right Where I Want To Be, oil by JaNeil Anderson
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Booth Show Purchase Awards
We were so honored to announce the Booth Western Art Museum Purchase Awards for AWA's Making Their Mark show. The Booth Musuem selected five works from the show. Right Where I Want To Be, oil by JaNeil Anderson (NM), Sunset Sunburst, oil by Diane Arenberg, The Secret Keepers, pastel by Lisa Gleim (GA), Western Homestead, acrylic by Claudia Hartley (AZ), and Buffalo Gals, bronze by Star Liana York (NM) will now reside in the permanent collection of the Western Art Museum.
AWA's
25 in 25 Initiative, to organize 25 museum shows in as many years, began in 2017. The five purchase awards by the Booth Museum now bring the total number of museum purchase awards to ten, helping to secure the rightful place for women in fine arts.
Congratulations to all the artists on this special honor, and our deepest thanks to the Booth Museum for its generosity!
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Edith Halpert in 1953 standing beside
View of New York, Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) photograph. illustration in Rebecca Shaykin, Edith Halpert: The Downtown Gallery and The Rise of American Art, New York: Jewish Museum, 2019, p. 66 |
Rediscovered Women Artists
Edith Gregor Halpert: Pioneer Gallerist for American Artists and Their Art
by Jann Haynes Gilmore, PhD, AWA Board Member
Epic gallerist Edith Halpert led the mainstreaming of American modernism and folk art into the canon of 20th century art history. Halpert established the Downtown Gallery in 1926 and until recently, she has been overlooked as an influential art figure. Successful artists know the importance of gallery representation, and Edith Halpert provided powerful support for her American artists between the world wars.
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Smalltalk, mixed media sculpture by Debbie Korbel
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Booth Show Sponsors
AWA would like to extend our gratitude to our media and merchandise sponsors of
Making Their Mark. For this show, AWA awarded over $36,000 in cash and merchandise to 20 artists!
MEDIA SPONSOR
SPONSORS
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Watch Booth Museum's
Art for Lunch
In this episode Booth Western Art Museum's Executive Director Seth Hopkins discusses art shows, sales, and exhibitions created specifically by a single gender with guests Kathy Lemke Waste, AWA Immediate Past President and Master-Signature & Heritage Circle Member and Dan Finely, Director at the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, AZ, host of CowgirlUP!.
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Southeastern Designer Showhouse & Gardens Event
An 11,000-square-foot renovated Buckhead estate with California transitional design serves as
Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles' fifth annual Southeastern Designer Showhouse & Gardens. As our media sponsor for the Booth Musuem, AH&L invites you to attend this special event.
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Running with the Bulls, gouache by Melanie Eberhardt
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I Stray Off the Beaten Path
AWA Associate Member Melanie Eberhardt shares her story and the path she took to becoming the artist she is today.
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#5 Field of Light, Precedent Image. PHOTOGRAPHER, SERENA MUNRO, ©2019 BRUCE MUNRO LTD
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ARTBEAT: News & Links
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Masthead Images: Walk at 6 Mile, 10:58 am by Lynne Miller Jones, Forsaken by Carmen Drake ,
She Stopped To Look Up by Heather Gibson
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| 25 in 25: A Call to Action | American Women Artists |
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