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Mary H. Dana
Women Artists Series
History of the SeriesThe Mary H. Dana Women Artists SeriesThe Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series (DWAS), founded by Joan Snyder and established at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library in 1971, is the oldest continuous running exhibition space in the United States dedicated to making visible the work of emerging and established contemporary women artists. Formerly known as the Women Artists Series, in 1987 the Series was renamed in memory of Mary H. Dana, (Douglass College [DC], Class of 1942), by her friend, Professor Emeritus Nelle Smithers. The Series was initiated upon the suggestion of alumna artist Joan Snyder (DC, 1962), to Library Director Daisy Brightenback Shenholm (DC, 1944), who responded enthusiastically, and appointed the Series' first coordinator, Lynn F. Miller. During the Series' first twenty-five years, close to 200 artists, both acclaimed and emerging, have exhibited in the Douglass Library lobby gallery space and under the direction of other former coordinators Evelyn Apgar (DC, 1969), Beryl Smith (DC, 1982), Bonnie Goldstein, Karen McGruder, Elsa Bruguier, and Marianne Ficarra (DC, 1988). Dr. Ferris Olin (DC, 1970), Founding Head of the Margery Somers Foster Center/Rutgers University Libraries, has served as the Series' curator since 1994. In 2004, with Ferris Olin, Joseph Consoli and Sara Harrington were appointed co-curators of the Series. Since Fall 2006, the Series has been co-curated by Ferris Olin and Distinguished Professor Emerita Judith K. Brodsky, Founding Director of the Brodsky Center/Mason Gross School of the Arts. Olin and Brodsky also serve as the co-directors of the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers. The Series is a program of the Institute for Women and Art in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries and The Feminist Art Project. For further inquiries or to be added to the DWAS / IWA mailing list, please contact womenart@rci.rutgers.edu or 732/932-3726. The Institute for Women and Art
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Reception & Artists' Talks
Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:30 - 7 pm, Douglass Library
Re-visioning the End of Life - Cathy Greenblat / Life in Photography - Ernestine Ruben
Cathy Greenblat and Ernestine Ruben have been working on the visual imagery of life and death, one from a documentary perspective and the other metaphorically. Greenblat is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Rutgers University, Artist-in-Residence at the Hospital Network of Nice, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK. Ruben, based in Princeton, NJ, is internationally known through exhibitions, publications and workshops. Her photographs are included in many major museums and private collections.
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| Cathy Greenblat, Nurse Heloisy Visiting Man Who Had Stroke, 2008, Ernestine Ruben, Synagogue Spirits, 2006 digital print, 16 x 20 inches |
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| Ernestine Ruben, Synagogue Spirits, 2006 |
Exhibitions and events have been organized by the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Institute for Women and Art (IWA) in partnership with the Rutgers University Libraries. The Institute for Women & Art (IWA) is a unit of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a center of the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts & Humanities. Co-sponsors include: Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, Department of Art History, the Institute for Research on Women, The Feminist Art Project, Global Initiatives, Women Artists Archives National Directory, and the Women's and Gender Studies Department. These events are made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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| Detail, Faith Ringgold, Working Women, 1996 Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 31 inches Courtesy of Artist and ACA Galleries |
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University
33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday; 12 - 4 p.m.; and by appointment
Sunday, May 17, 2009 from 4:30-7:30 p.m.
IWA Gala & Celebration honoring Faith Ringgold
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University
Painter Faith Ringgold is best known for her painted story quilts-art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and her work is in the permanent collection of museums that include the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. She has written and illustrated many children's books and she has received more than 75 awards, fellowships, citations and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting and two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her children's book "Tar Beach" was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration. This year Ringgold will be receiving an honorary degree from Rutgers University.
Please join us for a festive evening of food, drink and conversation in honor of distinguished artist Faith Ringgold. Bid on artworks especially created and donated by artists who have shown in the Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series from 1971 to present, as well as other women artists.
Sunday, May 17 2009, 4:30-7:30 pm
Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries
Rutgers University
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Information: Lana Sacks / Lansacks@rci.rutgers.edu
Or 732/932-3726
TICKETS $125 per person
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: $75 special ticket price
| Fall 2009 | Cecilia Vicuna | |
| January-March 2010 | "Gendered Agency:" Aliza Augustine and Ashley Watson | |
| Fall 2010 | Joan Snyder |
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With the 1999-2000 academic year, a new program that enhances the Series was inaugurated, The Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence Lectureship. This program affords the University community and general public the opportunity to not only view the work of a renowned contemporary woman artist, but also to meet with her in classes and public lectures. Artists who held the Lebowitz Lectureship
Estelle Lebowitz (1930-1996) was born and raised in New York. She attended the High School of Music and Art and Brooklyn College. Her work has been exhibited in Sommers Town Gallery, Sommers, NY; Coster's Gallery, Highland Park, NJ; The Gallery at Busch Campus Center, Piscataway, NJ; and the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ; Art Library at Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ. In her artist's statement she wrote, "My work(s) may be described as women's feminine objects with overtones of nature. They are semi-abstract images that are mostly fantasies, influenced originally be Impressionism and brought into Modernism by my own style and technique. Light and color are very important in my work...and they each mean something." |
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Dr. Ferris Olin |
Nicole Ianuzelli |
The Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists contains files related to women artists and art organizations. These collections are housed in Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives and are open by appointment to scholars, curators, researchers and students who seek documentation about women's art practices. In addition to the operational and artists files for the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, there are also files in the Contemporary Women Artists Files (CWAF) of emerging and established contemporary women artists. Women artists are invited to submit their resume, an artist statement and supporting documentation to be housed in the CWAF by sending their materials to: Dr. Ferris Olin, Director, Institute for Women & Art, 191 College Ave., 2nd floor, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
