Hi Friends!
Hope this post finds you in good spirits. My name is Stephanie and I am the resident blogger for A.I.R. Gallery. Through this blog we hope to connect A.I.R. Gallery with a larger community. There will be information about events and openings, reviews, video interviews, and much much more! Tell me what you'd like to see, and I will work to include it.
A little bit about A.I.R. Gallery ...
Images thanks to the Guerrilla Girls
These are the Most Bigoted Galleries in New York from 1991
Do Women Have to be Naked to get into the Met. Museum? from 1989
A.I.R. Gallery was founded in 1972 as the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States. the founding members of A.I.R. (Artists in Residence, Inc.), Dotty Attie, Maude Boltz, Mary Grigoriadis, Nancy Spero, Susan Williams and Barbara Zucker, selected fourteen artists to join them as original members: Rachel bas-Cohain, Judith Bernstein, Blythe Bohnan, Agnes Denes, Daria Dorosh, Loretta Dunkelman, Harmony Hammond, Laurace James, Nancy Kitchell, Louise Kramer, Anne Healy, Rosemarie Mayer, Patsy Norvell and Howardena Pindell. Together they established policy, incorporated as a 501.c.3 not-for-profit organization and renovated their gallery space at 97 Wooster Street.
The goals of the mission are accomplished primarily through our exhibition programs: solo shows of Gallery Artists, sponsored solo shows for our Fellowship Artists, group shows of National Artists, invitational solo shows through our Gallery II Program, and group shows designed to include a broader community of women artists such as our "Generations" invitational series and our juried Biennial Exhibitions. The gallery also meets its mission by addressing topics of general concern to the public through lectures and symposia; by bringing the work of its exhibiting artists to the awareness of museums, collectors and critics; by working with interns and volunteers; and by making its archive of materials documenting the 30+ years history of A.I.R. available to the public.
...There is more to come! Check back shortly!
-Stephanie
Hope this post finds you in good spirits. My name is Stephanie and I am the resident blogger for A.I.R. Gallery. Through this blog we hope to connect A.I.R. Gallery with a larger community. There will be information about events and openings, reviews, video interviews, and much much more! Tell me what you'd like to see, and I will work to include it.
A little bit about A.I.R. Gallery ...
A.I.R. Gallery's Mission is to advance the status of women artists by exhibiting quality work by a diverse group of women artists and to provide leadership and community to women artists.
Founded in 1972 as the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States. At this point in time, women made up a majority of those attaining art and art history degrees, 63%. Even though women represented a majority of the students, women made up a small minority of university faculty. Most shocking was in the Ph.D. -granting, where women made up 16% of the faculty, 9% of the full-time professors, and 0% of the departmental chairs (statistics from Barbara Ehrlich White's article "A 1974 Perspective: Why Women's Studies in Art and Art History" in the College Art Association's Art Journal). Historically, artists who weren’t white males of Europe or the United States were not shown in major museums and galleries.
Images thanks to the Guerrilla Girls
These are the Most Bigoted Galleries in New York from 1991
Do Women Have to be Naked to get into the Met. Museum? from 1989
A.I.R. Gallery was founded in 1972 as the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States. the founding members of A.I.R. (Artists in Residence, Inc.), Dotty Attie, Maude Boltz, Mary Grigoriadis, Nancy Spero, Susan Williams and Barbara Zucker, selected fourteen artists to join them as original members: Rachel bas-Cohain, Judith Bernstein, Blythe Bohnan, Agnes Denes, Daria Dorosh, Loretta Dunkelman, Harmony Hammond, Laurace James, Nancy Kitchell, Louise Kramer, Anne Healy, Rosemarie Mayer, Patsy Norvell and Howardena Pindell. Together they established policy, incorporated as a 501.c.3 not-for-profit organization and renovated their gallery space at 97 Wooster Street.
The goals of the mission are accomplished primarily through our exhibition programs: solo shows of Gallery Artists, sponsored solo shows for our Fellowship Artists, group shows of National Artists, invitational solo shows through our Gallery II Program, and group shows designed to include a broader community of women artists such as our "Generations" invitational series and our juried Biennial Exhibitions. The gallery also meets its mission by addressing topics of general concern to the public through lectures and symposia; by bringing the work of its exhibiting artists to the awareness of museums, collectors and critics; by working with interns and volunteers; and by making its archive of materials documenting the 30+ years history of A.I.R. available to the public.
...There is more to come! Check back shortly!
-Stephanie
