National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (Official)

Dear NAWA Members and Friends:
NAWA is excited to share the Award Recipients for the "Summer Small Works 2024” online exhibition. This exhibit will remain on line unitil August 8, 2024 at this link: https://thenawa.org/product.../summer-small-works-2024/

Congratulations to all the recipients and talented artists in the show!

Erica Sher Hart, Nighttime Visitor, Honorable Mention

Dear NAWA Members and Friends:
NAWA is excited to share the Award Recipients for the "Summer Small Works 2024” online exhibition. This exhibit will remain on line unitil August 8, 2024 at this link: https://thenawa.org/product.../summer-small-works-2024/

Congratulations to all the recipients and talented artists in the show!

Susan E Cunniff, Peaceful, Honorable Mention

Dear NAWA Members and Friends:
NAWA is excited to share the Award Recipients for the "Summer Small Works 2024” online exhibition. This exhibit will remain on line unitil August 8, 2024 at this link: https://thenawa.org/product.../summer-small-works-2024/

Congratulations to all the recipients and talented artists in the show!

Lily Adamczyk, Tangerine, Honorable Mention

Dear NAWA Members and Friends:
NAWA is excited to share the Award Recipients for the "Summer Small Works 2024” online exhibition. This exhibit will remain on line unitil August 8, 2024 at this link: https://thenawa.org/product.../summer-small-works-2024/

Congratulations to all the recipients and talented artists in the show!

Gwen Marcus, Basket Weaver, 3rd Place

Dear NAWA Members and Friends:
NAWA is excited to share the Award Recipients for the "Summer Small Works 2024” online exhibition. This exhibit will remain on line unitil August 8, 2024 at this link: https://thenawa.org/product-category/summer-small-works-2024/

Congratulations to all the recipients and talented artists in the show!

Nancy O’Hara, Offbeat 2, 2023, 2nd Place

Dear NAWA Members and Friends:
NAWA is excited to share the Award Recipients for the "Summer Small Works 2024” online exhibition. This exhibit will remain on line unitil August 8, 2024. Congratulations to all the recipients and talented artists in the show!

Alyson Julie Barton, Illumine, 1st Place

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Now until September 15th!😄

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Tricia Adler, Together, Linda Stein Award

"I love collecting sticks while hiking. When I return to my studio, I sort the sicks by length, width, straightness or curvature, and color. When a stick's bark is spotted or striped, it often remains, but I also carve, burn, and use colored pencils on others. My next step is to search through my bins of found materials to find the perfect match between sticks and usually abandoned metal. The entire process of creating is fun and exciting, filling me with joy."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

AnaMarie Liddell, Blue Ridge Sonnet #48, NAWA Merit Award

"Grounded in realism, the drawing navigates between reality and interpreted vision. Eliminating all references to color, the monochromatic palette enables exploration into a scene simply and directly and with a sense of abstracted reality. Manipulating dark and light through a myriad of tonal contrasts goes beyond representation to where, layer upon layer, delicate strokes and nuances convey an ethereal, serene image.

The work is not necessarily a direct representation of a scene but is a practice of nurturing an appreciation of the incessant resilience of the flourishing and decaying of nature and the complexities of our relationship within those cycles."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Melissa Elliott, Saint Side-Eye, NAWA Merit Award

"I wanted to branch out into less traditional portraiture, and conceived of the idea of modern iconography—portraying everyday people as saints and mythological characters. I loved the reference model's beautiful silhouette and sidelong look, and decided to add a halo and name her Saint Side-Eye to convey a sense of mystery and distinction."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Denise Cormier Mahoney, Becoming What was Discovered at the Beach, NAWA Merit Award

"In my latest body of work entitled "Echoes," I explore memories and long-forgotten sounds from my youth. Each painting serving as a vessel for a poem of a childhood train as the underpainting. The thin top layers befit the ghost-like forms featured in my surface designed compositions and recall the carefree spirit of childhood explorations."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Janice Mauro, It's a Man's World III, NAWA Merit Award

"It’s A Mans World

A woman behind every great man?
Still, visually speaking, my intention of women representing structural support in this totemic carving offers opportunity to suggest a bit of satire aimed directly at the gender power play.
This series, the body language unique to each one, was created as a direct result of a lifetime of my own personal experiences."

The Whiskey Bottle Auction ends on July 31st. First view the graphics which tell the story, then click on the below link to make your bid. https://givebutter.com/c/xEw01c/auction

This is approved by NAWA and American Woman Spirit Company.

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Barbara O'Shea, Sea Trance, NAWA Merit Award

"In this photograph my granddaughter Georgina looks transfixed out to sea.She lives with Rett syndrome a rare genetic neurological disorder that affects the way the brain develops. She is nonverbal. I do know by her calmness at the shore that she feels a sense of peace and wonder here. I want to share that with her and with you."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Catherine Toulsaly, Nyami Nyami, NAWA Merit Award

"In my work, I have at times carved female figures in place of traditional male figures, sometimes with animal attributes, like horns. Nyami Nyami shows here the face of a woman, with a snake tightly wrapped around her body. She bears the name of an African river god portrayed traditionally as a snake.

The construction of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River in the 1950’s caused the forced resettlement of an entire population under the British rule. Today, this piece is a call for environmental protection. It is meant to bring attention to the many indigenous sites that are threatened by pipelines, mining and human greed throughout the world."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Carmen Schaefer, Rome Remembrance, NAWA Merit Award

"Figurative drawings have the potential to convey deep emotions and tell compelling stories. Whether it's capturing the human form in a raw and emotive way or exploring complex themes through subtle details.

As I revisit the portrait genre repeatedly throughout my artistic career, I document the changes and growth within myself—both as an individual and as an artist, and my subject. Each portrait becomes a reflection of a state of mind, an experience, and emotions at a particular moment in time. Whether rendered in graphite, charcoal, or vibrant colors, these portraits can serve as visual diaries chronicling the passage of time and the complexities of the human condition."

Today, July 19, after 3 PM ET, head over to our YouTube channel for the latest installment of Art in Conversation With Farrin featuring NAWA artist: Monica Shulman!

Monica Shulman is a New York-based artist whose brand of gestural abstraction is a form of story-telling. Rooted in the traditions of abstract expressionism, Monica’s world is best described as colorful and rhythmic and her paintings reflect an evolving universe where communication is less concrete.

Primarily self-taught, Monica creates sculptural surfaces through her heavily layered impasto technique and her paintings exhibit a compulsive energy and the dynamic tension between reckless abandon and careful restraint. She engages the medium itself, specifically oil paint and oil pastel, as a participant in both her abstract and figurative works.

Emerging from the fluidity of her visual language and diverse mark-making, her process-oriented work explores themes of the human condition, identity, and self-reflection. Monica is a first generation American strongly tied to both her Cuban and Argentinian roots. She’s a former lawyer who left her career over 15 years ago to focus on her art practice full-time and she lives and works in the lower Hudson Valley with her husband and their children.

Monica has been featured in various publications including The Washington Post, Popular Photography, Create Magazine, Art Seen and Westchester Magazine. In 2019, the Director of PULSE Art Fair in Miami invited Monica to participate in the “Next Generation” exhibit to celebrate the fair’s 15th anniversary. She was inducted into the National Association of Women Artists in 2022. Her work has been shown at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, the National Association of Women Artists, Frieze Los Angeles, Art Market Hamptons, PULSE Art Fair, The National Arts Club, and the New York Mercantile Exchange, among others.

View her feature here:
https://youtu.be/uKNQbFWs4Is

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Raisa Nosova, Squeeze Like a Sandwich, David and Leon Antar Memorial Award

"My current work is a documentary self-portrait as I go through pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and postpartum. The multidisciplinary installation consisting of video, glass and breastmilk sculpture, as well as painting, is a direct cry of motherhood pride and fragility. In my practice I dissect, peel, slice, unveil and reorganize extreme experiences to help me process their impacts."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Carolyn McLeod, Rustic Barn, Virginia Stukey Memorial Award

"This is a digital photograph I took of a large old rustic barn on a ranch south of my hometown."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Randy Globus, Support Group, Gloria Devereaux, AWS Memorial Award

"This painting is about the fragility of life and how life changing events may happen in an instant. It is so important to surround ourselves with supportive friends to celebrate our achievements and help us get through our difficult challenges."

Application for membership starts now and goes until September 15th!😁

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

June Klement, Luminous Evening, Sandi DeFranco Giannini Memorial Award

"Luminous Evening" emanates the golden hour's enchantment, born from a small study painted en plein air of a nearby pond. With a symphony of hues, I painted its canvas to mimic the sun's warm embrace. Peach, pink, and coral danced, while the pond shimmered with golden reflections. Trees stretched upward, leaves aglow with sunset's fire. Imperfections embraced; the scene exuded tranquility. The painting captured the fleeting magic of golden hour, inviting viewers to bask in its luminous beauty.

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Linh Vivace, Fool's Gold, Caroline M. Lupori Fund Memorial Award

"The composition for this painting was inspired by the view from my campsite at Buffalo Gap Campground, part of the Dakota Prairie National Grasslands, during a road trip in September 2020. The mood and quality of the sky and sunset, though, borrowed from every sacrifice I have made in life. Whether I realized it at the time or not, each of those sacrifices involved a kind of faith. Sometimes, often much later, that faith can seem so foolish -- if not designed to deceive. However, this painting does not connote anger at that cycle, but rather peace."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Julie Weaverling, No Tension, Globus Family Award in Loving Memory of Ric Globus

No Tension is the beginning of a series around the idea of resilience. We have gone through and will continue to go through difficulties in our lives but I believe we have the strength to keep going and can do so with grace and beauty. Wrapping, stitch, paint and quiet marks are all evidence of our sensitivity which contributes to our resilience.

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Leslie Tejada, Forest Inscape #28, Bobbi Mastrangelo Environmental Art Award

"The Forest Inscapes came about accidentally, as I was experimenting with dripping paint on wood panels. I had used dripping extensively in my large Erosion paintings, in which the drips formed veils of color. In a smaller format, the columns of paint looked like trees. Thus were born the Forest Inscapes, which have evolved to reflect the seasons in the forest around my studio. Forest Inscape #28 is an interpretation of the glittering effect of early evening light seen through the screen of forest foliage."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Lynne Kroll, She-Tree, Elsie G. Hammond Memorial Award

"SHE-TREE is part of an ongoing series exploring the many roles of women as mythmakers, healers, storytellers, peacemakers, earth mothers and warriors.
These mixed media dreamscapes are constructed on tactile substrates such as my paintings, handcrafted papers, fabrics, monoprints, photographs, antique books and wallpaper.
Adding and subtracting the elements randomly, I then glue, sew, paint, and manipulate them into a slowly evolving composition.
Layered with patterns and symbols, metaphor and archetypes I unite often- disparate worlds into new relationships—compositions and artworks that reveal the interconnectedness of nature, life, spirit and time."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

L.L. Erdman, Winter Walk 3, Dorothy Cochran Award

"The image is based on an original drawing inspired by a nearby forest. Its trees are in permanent descent and on every walk I take appear to be shifting closer to the lake they surround. They sometimes seem to shuffle behind my back. The etching was pulled from a zinc plate and is hand-colored in watercolor with gouache highlights."

Congratulations to all the talented NAWA Members who participated in the 135th Annual Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition. We will be sharing the Award Recipients here but you can see all the amazing art online at
https://thenawa.org/.../135th-anniversary-annual.../...

Sandra Giunta, Coral Group 3, Sandra Giunta (NY), Coral Group 3

"My work is inspired by the natural environment and made to celebrate, memorialize, and preserve living entities during the ongoing climate crisis. "Coral Group 3" is one of a series of work inspired by many visits to the Mesoamerican Reef off the coast of Belize. The incredible variations of colors, textures, and designs of the corals are translated into a wet felted 3-D textile sculpture. It invites the viewer into the flow, patterns, and textures that evoke a more emotional connection to the environment and its precarious balance due to climate change impact."