Manifestation by Angela Alés,
Women Looking At Women Exhibit
by the Arts League of Lowell, MA

Dear Friends,

It is hard to believe that it is the 10th Anniversary of Support Women Artists Now Day already! What a fantastic decade it has been!

I always love compiling the giant list of SWAN events below and learning more about everyone’s work. It is so clear that our movement for gender parity in the arts is growing.

In honor of the 10th Anniversary this year, we decided to expand the SWAN platform so that more of you could share your work. We set aside funds to commission a series of guest blogs and to give out prizes for our recent SWAN Day Song Contest, and our current SWAN Day Photo Contest. We have been delighted with the responses, and we plan to keep the SWAN spirit going by sharing these blogs, songs, and photos with you in the coming months.

In these challenging times, SWAN Day is a way to celebrate our global unity and also the unique individual voices of the women artists next door. There are thousands of talented women artists all over the world who are making wonderful contributions to their communities year after year. SWAN Day is a day to recognize and thank these women.

Please take some time to make a direct connection with at least one woman artist on SWAN Day. Talk to her in person, give her a call, write her a note, or send her a gift – do anything that shows that you appreciate her creativity. There is tremendous power in these simple acts of respect and recognition, and they provide models of the supportive attitudes and behavior that we want to spread around the world.

Thanks so much to all of you for making SWAN Day 2017 a wonderful success.  We encourage you to seek out the work of women artists on SWAN Day and every day. Together we will build a world where women artists get the respect they deserve.

Sending Lots of SWAN Love to All of You,
Martha Richards, Executive Director, WomenArts

List of SWAN Day 2017 Events

For more detailed information about these events, you can search for them on the SWAN Calendar or check the WomenArts Blog to see if we did an article about them.  Some of these events took place earlier in the month and some will happen in the next few weeks.

UNITED STATES EVENTS (Scroll to bottom or click here for International Events)

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS