Through Women’s Eyes

The Lily Pond by Doris Foss

May 3 – 26, 2012

Artist Reception:  May 4, 5-7pm

This exhibition features the collected works of the Painting Section of the University of Michigan’s Faculty Women’s Club (FWC) covering a large variety of styles and media.

The FWC is a cross campus organization, offering members acquaintance and fellowship.

The members of the Painting Section have been “painting” together regularly for over eighty years, creating award-winning pieces in a wide variety of media and learning from one another at weekly gatherings in their homes.

Sharing experiences with new media, critiquing one another’s work, and encouraging exploration in artistic expression are the basic elements of their continuing study of the visual arts as a group.

Members participating in this exhibit:  Suzanne Beutler, Young Cho, Marlene Cooper, Mary Dempsey, Doris Foss, Marie Glysson, Veronica Hadjiyski, Catherine Kendall, Judith Mason Macomber, Eathel Mendenhall, Angela Nagle Miller, Carole Miller, Yoshiko Mishina, Sarah Newman, Akemi Serita, Libby Uher, Sue Van Appledorn, Tanja Van der Voo, and Lineke Zuiderweg

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Design Your Kairos

May 26, 2012, 10 am – 3 pm

“Design Your Kairos: A Mixed-Media Journey in Creating Time through Creativity,” led by Marney K. Makridakis of Dallas, TX.  This workshop is brought to us and hosted by the Ann Arbor Women Artists.  (Open to anyone)

Only 40 seats available.  Sign up today.  Read all the details on our blog.

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Karen Gallup – Retrospective

Retrospective

May 31 – June 30, 2012

Artist Reception:  June 9, 5-7 pm

Artist Karen Gallup has been an educator, a metalsmith and is now a studio artist focusing on collage and found object sculpture.  Gallup has a BFA from Michigan State University and taught junior high art for two years before going to Cranbrook Academy of Art for a MFA in Metalsmithing and Design.

Other teaching include Art Education at Delta Collage, Professor of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the College for Creative Studies and adjunct professor at Eastern Michigan in Jewelry and Metalsmithing.

Over the years she has explored paper-making, wood turning, mixed media, basket making and several jewelry and Metal workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and blacksmithing, welding, wood block printing, plastics, collage and paper lithography in other venues.

This retrospective exhibit will contain work from all facets of Karen’s art career. (In fact, this may be the largest exhibit in our gallery to date.)  A must see!!

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Ann Arbor Women Artists

Summer Juried Exhibit

July 5 – 28, 2012

2D / 3D Mixed Media artwork.    Artist Reception:  July 7, 5-7 pm.