recent ExhibitionS
"Then is Now"
Two-person Exhibition: Phyllis Bramson and Judith Geichman
March 20–April 24, 2010
Carrie Secrist Galley | 835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago | www.secristgallery.com
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| Photos from the opening reception March 20 |
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"50th Anniversary Exhibition"
Group exhibition, featuring significant Chicago area artists from the past 50 years.
May 6–May 20, 2010
The Art Center| 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL | www.theartcenterhp.org
Awarded an Anonymous Was a Woman Grant for 2009
Anonymous Was a Woman is a grant program focused on supporting individual women artists. The phrase is taken from A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s classic statement of the challenges facing women seeking to create art. With these four words, Woolf succinctly and powerfully evoked the centuries-long struggle of women to gain recognition as artists. Yet there is much more to this innovative grant program than its thought-provoking name.
Anonymous Was a Woman was created to fill a national need. In 1995, the National Endowment for the Arts, under intense political pressure, discontinued funding individual artists. This galvanized an unnamed woman artist in New York to take action. “It was obvious there was a need for more private support,” she later wrote. So she used her personal funds to help fill that void. Since 1996, Anonymous Was a Woman has awarded ten grants of $25,000 each per year, except one year when eleven were given. The purpose is to support women visual artists over the age of 45 who are at a critical juncture in their lives or careers. The overriding purpose of the grants is to allow artists to pursue their work.
Read more about this organization at their website, www.philanthropyadvisorsny.org
Distinguished Alumni Award
The School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has instituted the Distinguished Alumni Award to be given to past alums based on their accomplishments to their field and community. Bramson was selected by the faculty to be one of their first celebrated alums. This award will be presented at a reception for alumni during the CAA's conference held in Chicago, in February. |
