Women Artists Who
Inspire Us
Isabel Allende Celebrated
SWAN Day 2009
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Join Us for the Third International
Support Women Artists Now Day!
Introduction to SWAN Day
SWAN Day/Support Women Artists Now Day is a new international holiday that celebrates women artists.
It is an annual event taking place on the last
Saturday of March (Women’s History Month) and the surrounding weeks.
The official date of the Fourth International SWAN Day is Saturday,
March 26, 2011, and it will also be celebrated throughout the months of March and April.
By focusing attention on the work of women artists, SWAN Day helps people imagine what the world might be like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all
of our lives.
People celebrate this new holiday by participating in SWAN Day events and by making donations to their favorite women artists. The long term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities around the world to find new ways to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning.
There have been over 500 SWAN Day events in 14 countries in the first three years of SWAN Day. To see a list of the 2010 events, please click here: List of SWAN Day 2010 Events>>
To post SWAN Day events for March or April 2011, please visit our SWAN Day Calendar>>
New This Year - Celebrate Women of the WPA
Since 2010 is the 75th Anniversary of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the U.S., WomenArts invites you to honor women artists of the WPA this year. The WPA was a federal jobs program designed to stimulate the U.S. economy during the Great Depression of the 1930's. At its peak, the WPA employed over 40,000 artists. Find out more about how you can honor the women of the WPA at: www.WomenArts.org/swan/wpa
New Shoe Theatre Group has created a new play that weaves together voices of women of the WPA. The play was read at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York as part of SWAN Day 2010, and it is now available for free downloads from our website>>
Special Thanks
SWAN Day 2010 is made possible by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lambent Fund of the Tides Foundation, and the Leo S. Guthman Fund, The Sister Fund, the Loreen Arbus Foundation, and by gifts of time, energy and money from artists and arts supporters around the world.
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