As you know, our mission at AWA is to inspire, celebrate, and encourage women in the visual fine arts. In this private Studio2Studio Facebook group, AWA members will have the opportunity to encourage each other.

 

Connect with other members in your subject matter, your medium, and your region/state/city. Share resources, ideas, and information in a way that will truly elevate the work of our hands. Let's keep it positive, let's ask questions, let's get started!

 

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AWA is Delehanty's large-scale pay-it-forward project, her way of offering help and advice to artists, the same way her Aunt Betty [Lynch] did, for the new era. "When Betty was first helping me, she could see I was serious about painting as a career," she says. "She told me, 'You have to sign your paintings with your initial. Don't sign your first name, because if you do, you're not going to get into the shows you enter.' I signed my first name from day one, but she found it necessary to tell me that. She had experienced discrimination herself, and she felt it necessary to advise me as a younger female artist. That was part of her canon of advice."

 

It's that mindset that Delehanty, along with AWA, hopes to change. But in remembering her own artist's statement, Delehanty's advice extends even further. 

 

"Look for workshops with a teacher who paints in an entirely different way than you paint, who has an entirely different style than yours, who maybe does something that you have absolutely no idea how to do," she says," and then sign up for that workshop. You'll be so far out of your comfort zone that you'll probably be frustrated. When you go back home, don't stop. Don't put all the materials away. Take all those things and go through what you did. See what you learned and then incorporate it into your work. Your work will take a turn every single time. You'll jump ahead in your knowledge and proficiency."  

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