71-21 Celebrates Five Decades of WIA - Women In the Arts Foundation, Inc - 50th Anniversary Exhibition

71-21: Celebrate Five Decades of WIA - Women in the Arts Foundation 50th Anniversary Exhibition 

takes place at Ceres Gallery at 547 West 27th Street, #201, New York, N.Y. Exhibit runs from June 22 through July 17, 2021.  Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 12 PM - 6 PM.

 

Women In the Arts Foundation, presents an intergenerational, multidisciplinary, exhibition of 46 women artists’ dynamic visions. in celebration of WIA members present and past and their groundbreaking 50 years of art and activism  working to overcome discrimination against women artists to promote their accomplishments. We are proud to present our Founding Executive Coordinators Ce Roser and Joyce Weinstein have work in the exhibit.

Carole Barlowe  •  Deborah Beck • Kyra Belan • Alli Berman •  Michele Benjamin •  Marcia Bernstein •  Louise Bourgeois  •  Karin Bruckner  •  Erin Butler • Linda Butti  •  Myrna Harrison-Changar  •  Hilda Green Demsky  

Sari Dienes •  Deborah Dorsey •  Liz Erlichman  •  Mary Frank • Sharon Florin •  Maria Formoso •  Dorothy Gillespie  Pamela Hawkins •Marilyn Herbst  •  Karen L. Kirshner •  Stephanie Brody-Lederman  •  Helen Levin •Muriel Magenta • Margo Mead • Joan Mitchell •Alice Neel • Martha Nicholson • Joan O’Brien • Pat Passlof • Nancy Quin • Jacqueline Sferra Rada • Ce Roser • Mary Alice Ramsey • Beatrice Rubel . Barbara Rae Schaefer • Marie Schepis  Dee Shapiro  •  May Stevens  •  Amy Supton  •  Helaine Soller  •  Tobey Soller  •  Judith Van Camp •

Cindy Walton • Joyce Weinstein

(bold type indicates founding members)

 

 

Formed in 1971, WIA Foundation was a seminal force in American Art during the 70’s. Throughout its history, WIA has proven to be innovative and creative in its ongoing work to change attitudes of the museum and gallery systems, the jurying of exhibitions, and the minimal inclusion of women’s art in those institutions. We took action, gathered statistics, testified in Washington DC, met with museum directors and curators and protested for equality. WIA’s landmark exhibits include: Women Choose Women at the NY- Cultural Center, Works on Paper Womens’ Work at the Brooklyn Museum, and Women In the Arts - Artists Choice - a traveling exhibit. Additional exhibits include those curated by Linda Nochlin, Dore Ashton, Linda Shearer and Lucy Lippard. In the 70’s-80’s WIA ran its own gallery, Women In the Arts Gallery on Broome Street in SoHo, N.Y. Today WIA actively promotes the professionalism, strength and broad reaching creativity of women’s art. WIA documents are included in the Archives of American Art 1971-1979.

 

WIA is dedicated to the egalitarian principals of inclusion, building a “community” of women artists in non-juried membership and exhibits. Our membership includes artists exhibiting nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, corporation, universities and colleges. Their work is in numerous public and private collections including museum and corporate collections. Moving forward, WIA will present the Dorothy M. Gillespie Speakers Series sponsored by the Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation.

 

 

Helaine Soller has been WIA’s Executive Coordinator since 2011 and a WIA member since 1976. She holds degrees from Pratt Institute (BFA) and Queens College (MS). Her career spans the fields of fine art and she has shown her artwork in numerous solo, national and international exhibits. She has served as an art curator, educator and as a corporate art director and has received numerous awards for her work.

 As the Women In the Arts workshop coordinator since 1983, Soller developed WIA’s NEA grant winning series The Business of Art For Artists series.

 

Women In the Arts Foundation, Inc. wishes to thank Cheim & Read Gallery, Mary Ryan Gallery, the Milton Resnick Pat Passlof Foundation, Dorothy M. Gillespie Foundation, for their support of this exhibit, and to thank the Ceres Gallery directors Susan Grabel and Stefany Benson, their gallery members and staff for their help in making this exhibit possible. Last but most important are all the members of WIA Coordinating Board, the WIA exhibitors, and WIA’s exhibit team who supported this exhibit and WIA’s mission every step of the way. 

 

Thank you and enjoy the exhibition.

Helaine Soller