Sponsorship

Sponsorship

Northwest Area Arts Council is proud to be a part of Women's Works 25th Anniversary Show.  We welcome your support for this milestone year.  Please contact us if you wish to sponsor an upcoming show or name an award in honor of a loved one or your own art cause.  We would love to work with you as we strive to maintain an important link with the people and businesses in our community.

 

 

Old Court House Arts Center

Woodstock, Illinois

www.oldcourthouseartscenter.com

 Our sponsors for the Show are as follows:

Massage Envy

Liquitex Artist Heavy Material Heavy Body Paints

Lynfred Winery Certificates for up to 10 Adults for a

Scheduled tour and Wine Tasting Event

Lettuce Entertainment You, Inc

Swiss Maid Bakery

 

 

PLEASE CONTACT  US : www.naac4art.org

The Old Court House
Workshops of Interest

GUEST BOOK

We are  so happy you are signing our Guest Book, we look forward to reading all about you and if you click on the artist's name at the end of the message, it will take you to the artist's website.  This will lead you to the wonderful and creative websites of very talented and professional artists.  Please, scroll down to the end of the page and submit your name and website information.  We are very happy to meet all of you,  please give us feedback on the Journal Page.  If, you like you may send a jpeg of your artwork to kimberly@naac4art.org and I will post it on the Women's Works Gallery page. 

Thank you for this wonderful opportunity for women artists!

February 17, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterMary McEneely

I discovered this site through Call for Entry. Thank you for the opportunity to post my link. I recently photographed Antarctica and am excited to share the photographs.

January 19, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterLiz Johnson

What a great site and a wonderful resource! Thanks for supporting us with this effort! :)

January 18, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterAmanda Bratschie

It is so wonderful to see a website dedicated to the work of women artists. Thank you so much for the work that you are doing!

If interested, my work can be viewed at www.lacyhale.com

January 17, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterLacy

I engage my work in an organic, natural way, where past occurrences arise and become part of my present life. My life and art are changing as I try to bridge two cultures so I have both a sense of being in-between and also feelings of confusion. I want to explore areas in life that are in transition. My paintings investigate myself as I try to relate to this new environment. Where I reside is important to whom I am as a person. At times borders seem very random, they have a lot of power to change lives. I want my paintings to break-up borders because they keep people apart. People are the same and art helps to explain the different situations we all live in.

Past experiences are important to my present life and it is important to engage these feelings in a natural way. I begin with recollections of my previous life. The images I remember of past incidents become part of my present. I am trying to combine several opposite ideas: ancient and modern, traditional and contemporary, and realism & abstraction. I want to mix my dreams and reality together so I try to use exterior reality in such a way as to evoke my interior world. Having the freedom to shift between different consciousnesses is important. I depict situations that are parts of a journey between my different life stages.

January 16, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterZahra Nazari

I’ve always done something creative, whether in needlework, mosaics, glass or paint. Since 2000 I’ve used acrylic, oils & pastel.

I love the texture of oil paint and the vibrant hues of pastel. Subjects with sharp contrast and lots of color are what attract me most. I believe in constant learning and experimentation. Recently I have become
inspired by Zentangle® drawings with ink & marker to create abstract & subjective doodles on watercolor paper greeting cards and on canvas.
I love working around other artists, which has become an important part of my social life. I do my best work at my own pace, usually painting several days a week. I use the other days to post to my blogs and to prepare for local & national exhibits and entries for on-line competitions.

I enjoy being a member of The Oil Painters of America, The Chicago Pastel Painters, Contemporary Fine Art International, The College of Lake County Foundation, The Daily Paintworks .
www.gloriajzucaro.blogspot.com
www.gloriajzucaro.com

January 16, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterGloria J Zucaro

Thank you for creating this site and helping give us all both extra visibility and a chance to network. And thanks for checking out my paintings on my website!

January 15, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterDiane E. Fairfield

Please visit http://www.molliekellogg.com, featuring figurative paintings by Mollie Kellogg. Currently working on a series called The Incognito Witch Project, celebrating hidden magick. Feedback welcome.

January 15, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterMollie Kellogg

Thank you for the opportunity to celebrate contemporary women artist! I am a full time painter living in southern california. My work is based on personal narratives that develop through the process of applying paint and looking within this context for visual clues and shapes which begin a dialog between the paint and my personal stories which lead to the discovery private fables. they blend the line between memory and fantasy with an element of the fantastic, infusing the paintings with a sense of romance and revelry. I work in oils, which allow me to add and subtract paint for an extended period of time, and help the long process of story telling find its beginning, middle and end.

January 14, 2012 | Unregistered Commentershannon richardson

I know there are many women quietly creating great art in silence. I would very much appreciate the opportunity to learn about what is being done and where it is being shown. Cynthia Brody, San Francisco Bay area

January 14, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterCynthia Brody

Living in Montreal, my art is about what is real and what is fiction, in the political as well as the personal. I deal with illusions. See my website for paintings, holograms.

January 14, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterMary Harman

A midwesterner by birth I grew up in the Chicago area, graduating from Lake Forest College in 1960. I worked for my father, a commercial artist, after graduation and in 1967 married and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. On Saturdays and evenings I attended the Art Academy while working as a graphic artist.
It was not until 1975 when I moved to Maine that I began thinking of myself as an artist. My father, books and art galleries were some of my earliest teachers, but the person who was the single biggest inspiration to me was a painter from Montreal named Bruce Le Dain. We met in 1975 in Stonington where he liked to paint occasionally. His life fascinated me because he came from the similar tradition of graphic arts but had made the leap to supporting himself and his family through painting.
Printmaking was largely unknown to me until I discovered wood engraving. In 1990 I returned to school receiving an MFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. My process involves a lot of sketching from life and then creating a composition based on these drawings. Most of the detail is developed while I’m cutting the block.
More recently I have returned to painting. This transition was inspired by trips to the Southwest, a stark and subtle landscape that seemed to ask for color.
I support myself with sales of art, commissions and teaching. I have taught at colleges, our community schools, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft.
Check out my web site www.siribeckman.com

January 14, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterSiri Beckman

I was so delighted to hear of the work you are doing for women artists.You can see my work at www.RosemarieAdcock.com My latest painting is in the Museum of Florida Art until March and took an Award for Excellence. Thanks again for your work on behalf of women artists!

January 9, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterRosemarie Adcock

What a wonderful site!! I'm a painter working out of WHISTER BC in Canada. It's very snowy, magnificent and inspiring here. Another constant source of inspiration are my two spirited toddlers- always full of new imaginative ways of viewing the world. I completed my art degree at the University of Victoria. In my art practice I'm interested in the evocative visual energy that can be created through painting. My paintings aspire to engage the viewer in a satisfying visual adventure, offering portals into imagined and real landscapes and emotional atmospheres. I also teach workshops on Vancouver Island and in Whistler. To view my website: www.jenniferzizman.com

January 7, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterJennifer Zizman

As a young woman artist on the verge of graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art I am greatly encouraged by this community of women artists. The art world is opening up to women but the current financial situation in the USA, and many other parts of the world, is making it tough for everyone. As artists it is important that we give each other the support we need to keep our passions alive. Thank you all for participating in the community.

January 5, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterLilli Fisher

Teresa’s images invite the viewer to experience the “dreamscapes” that are created in her mind’s eye. What these images reveal is not just a simple illustration of the scene in front of her, but her own personal view of that scene interwoven with her own creative signature.

Thank you, Women's Works, for all you do to promote & celebrate women artists everywhere!

TeresaBaberPhotography.com

January 5, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterTeresa Baber

I am a ceramic artist who began as a potter. My concentration today is in portrait and figure sculpture. Thanks so much for your support of women in the arts, and for the oppertunity to share my work via my website:

www.yessy.com/gaileric

January 5, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterGail Erickson

Thank you!

January 3, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterNaomi J. Falk

Using art, painting in oils and acrylics, to construct healing images and to communicate that which is felt and unseen. That is my work. Visit it me at my blog and in the fall of 2012 my new website. May we all have strength and grace for the journey.
my blog: http://whereartdreamscomeintobeing.blogspot.com/
my store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/GwensArtDreamscape

January 3, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterGwen Duda

Thank you for this opportunity! I am a mostly impressionist painter, and I paint the things around me - people, landscapes, and things around the house.

Jessie's Fine Art Gallery

December 28, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJessie Rasche

My name is Jean Nicolazzo, and I am a painter living and working in Providence, RI. For the past several months I have been working on a series of paintings about water, light and movement. These and other works are on my website: http://jeannicolazzopaintings.com.
I also have a blog, Sixty Days, http://jeannicolazzo.wordpress.com, in which I write about the process of returning to painting after a long hiatus, and the daily struggles of the creative life - things I think many women artists have experienced. Please visit and join the conversation.

Thank you for this website and for your work promoting women artists!

December 25, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJean Nicolazzo

Thank you for this opportunity to be part of a female artist community. I am a painter and a mixed media collage artist. My work is about appreciating the sacredness of everyday things and seeking to express the beauty that surrounds us in each moment. My work embodies my love of color, movement, and composition. www.lindaraestudio.com

December 20, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterLinda Rae

Hello! I am a MFA candidate in Jewelry and Metalworking. My work directly correlates to not only the female body, but our very notions of body awareness and the flesh. Please feel free to visit my website!


www.naomifaith.com

December 20, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterNaomi Faith

Thanks.

December 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterEdie Dillon

Thanks for all you are doing to support and promote women in the arts! The world needs our creative energies.

ediedillonart.com

December 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterEdie Dillon

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