Musica Femina will be an ambitious exhibition designed to honor women composers with an immersive installation of art, architecture and sound at Vienna’s Orangerie at Schönbrunn Palace .
We had so many great entries in our SWAN Day Song Contest and Photo Contest last year that we have decided to do them again!
WomenArts Executive Director Martha Richards discovers the joys of playing a ukulele and the ways that creativity can help us survive tough times.
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture has just published Arts Became the Oxygen: An Artistic Response Guide. The free, downloadable, 74-page booklet is an excellent new resource for artists who are […]
Guest Blog by Lou Fancher. Lara Downes is a critically-acclaimed American pianist who is creating a unique series of five-minute videos that feature women writers reading their work while Downes […]
Guest Blog by Laura Stradiotto. In a mining community about four hours north of Toronto, a group of Canadian women with lived experience in sex work and their allies have […]
Guest Blog by Sarah Diamond Burroway. “I am Appalachia. In my veins Runs fierce mountain pride; the hill-fed streams Of passion; and stranger, you don’t know me!” […]
We are delighted to announce that Lydiah Dola won the $1,000 first prize in the SWAN Day Song Contest for her song SWAN Girls. Dola is a composer, singer, guitarist, […]
Special Guest Blog by Adryan Russ. Many women in Hollywood have a hard time getting work, but women composers have it harder than most. According to Martha Lauzen’s Celluloid Ceiling […]
Guest Reporting by Sandra Bogdanovic. Women in electronic music were celebrated at the Heroines of Sound festival in Berlin, Germany in December 2016. Founded by Bettina Wackernagel and the Berlin […]
Special Guest Post By Ophra Wolf. Seventeen vastly different dresses hang suspended just off the wall, visible to passers-by through the large storefront windows of the Space Create Gallery in […]
I am happy to report that as part of my birthday celebration this year, I have decided to create a Support Women Artists Now Day Song Contest. I am making […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The We Are Here! Festival (WAH! Fest) will provide a dynamic platform for diverse women choreographers, musicians and visual artists creating contemporary work through a feminist […]
HAMBURG, GERMANY – The second annual SWAN Day Hamburg will feature visual art and music by refugee and migrant women artists currently living in Germany on Sunday, May 1 from […]
I knew that one day I would write an opera about the struggle of African Americans, because an opera would give me the space to express the fear, the anger, the […]