Happy Support Women Artists Now Day 2018! Take time on SWAN Day to tell a woman artist how much you appreciate her creativity. There is tremendous power in these simple acts of recognition.
The theme of SWAN Day Kenya 2018 is Closing the Gap: Connecting Artists, and over 70 female artists will participate in the day-long festival this year.
SWAN Day Milwaukee, now in its third year, invited women artists to explore women’s artistic and spiritual connections to nature, and how these roots nourish one’s work, activism and daily living.
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 Kim Bridgford. How much do you know about women poets? Can you name women poets from other centuries or other countries? Did you know that the first recorded […]
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!” […]
Special Guest Post By Cynthia L. Cooper For the past two years Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel, Founder and Executive Director of Remember the Women Institute in New York City, has been […]
“This year’s SWAN Prague Festival will feature over 30 women artists from around the world, and every artist will bring something unique . . . We felt there was […]
“Every single year this event somehow significantly changes a woman’s artistic career. A sisterhood is formed . . . artists start producing their own events with SWAN sisters, or they […]
I always love reading the listings that people submit for our SWAN Day Calendar because they give me a snapshot of a world that I do not see in the […]
“SWAN is the only space that brings peace and fun as we continue talking about our struggles. I organize a lot of political work . . . SWAN Day is different. […]
Whether you are hosting an art exhibition, a concert, a play or a party for SWAN Day, there are many steps you can take to make sure that you are […]
“From the time of the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century, over a quarter million Chinese came to work on the railroads, in mining, agriculture, fisheries, industries […]