MISSION
To give voice to women and invite them to explore their freedom of expression through the arts

Proposed Goals

• To promote art created by and about women
• To develop bridges into our communities
• To challenge assumptions and demonstrate that change is possible
• To enlist perspectives from all over the world
• To increase the number of jobs and positions for women artists
• To provide a venue for women artists to explore their work
• To propose choices and initiate change

"We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all women and men are created equal."
~Elizathbeth Cady Stanton

On this day in 1848,five women: Jane Hunt,
Mary Ann McClintock, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, and Martha C. Wright decided
to call for a convention. "To discuss the social,
civil, and religious conditions and rights of
women."
The time had come for women to shoulder the
responibility and by the afternoon the "Seneca
Falls Convention", was born. (July 19-20th)

"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead

In 1692 Bridget Bishop was the first Salem Witch hung.

In 1875 Mary McLeod Bethune was born. A woman
who though born to slaves- founded Bethune-Cookman
College in 1904; served as consultant to the U.S.
Secretary of War for selection of first female officers;
awarded the Haitian Medal of Honor; recieved the
the honor of Commander of the Order of the Star
of Africa.

In 1917 Emma Goldman was imprisoned for
obstructing the draft. She served two years then
was deported to Russia. She is buried in the U.S.A.

"One half of the world cannot understand the
pleasures of the other."
~Jane Austen

Ann Ward Radcliff, the world's first "bestseller", a pioneer
of the gothic novel;born 1764.

"Fanny Fern" or Sarah Willis, first woman columnist, (and
highest paid) novelist, suffergist, humorous,
helped form "Sorosis" a woman's press, born 1811.

Barbara Cartland, the top selling novelist of the 20th
century, over a billion books, published 723 novels,
Vogue calls her, "the true Queen of Romance", born 1901.
She died in 2000.

XX XY

This day in history Nettie Stevens was born in 1861.
In 1905 Nettie's experiments identified the
presence or absence of the Y chromosome; basically
if you got the Y then you will grow to be a guy. XY
Females are XX.

Mother Cabrini was the first American to be
canoized by the Catholic Church. Mother's work
opened much needed hospitals and orphanages
throughout the United States. Happy Birthday!

"Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops,
stars, molecules, microscopic entities, all come
in communities. The singular cannot in reality
exist."
~Paula Gunn Allen