Direct Support For NMWA

Ongoing: Engaging GANMWA members to increase support and awareness of both organizations. 2024: Purchased for NMWA’s permanent collection:

• Sonya Yong James, The Future Has an Ancient Heart, 2024, horsehair and hand-dyed cotton, 67" x 59" x 6" (via Whitespace Gallery)

• Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Between Starshine & Clay, 2021, unbound, 6-page artist book, original text, artist-made cotton, and Atlanta foraged kudzu paper, hand-embroidery, screen-printing, and letterpress, varied ed. of 15.

2023: Completed payment pledge of $150,000 to the Space to Soar NMWA’s building renovation campaign.

2020: Purchased for NMWA’s permanent collection (Both Moon and Haghani were past Georgia Women to Watch):

• Jiha Moon, Take Out, 2012, lithograph print

• Jiha Moon, Snow White-Detourist, 2012, screen-print

• Jiha Moon, Fortune Cookie, 2019, letterpress print

• Sanaz Haghani, Red Moon, a 2019 unique artist book

2018: Purchased and donated, at NMWA’s request, Mildred Thompson’s Magnetic Fields, 1990, oil on canvas. Thompson was part of a group show entitled Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today at the Kemper Museum and at NMWA in 2017.

2013 – 2016: Made gifts to NMWA including:

• Jiha Moon, Leia, 2013, ceramic sculpture

• Exhibition Sponsor of She Who Tells A Story (2016)

• Florence Knoll benches for the Museum’s exhibition spaces

• Baluster for the Great Hall in honor of Anna Stapleton Henson and her years of service as GANMWA Chair.

2002-2012: Established an Acquisitions Project which raised over $70,000 to place major works by Georgia women artists, selected by NMWA, into the Museum’s Permanent Collection.

Artist Relief Fund

2020: The Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts has distributed $500 individual visual artist grants to 20 Georgia-based female and female-identifying artists to help with financial hardship due to COVID-19.

“As longtime supporters of Georgia’s women artists through educational programs and the Women to Watch exhibition program, we wanted to offer our help during this time of great adversity for visual female artists,” says Georgia Committee board chair Sara Steinfeld of this inaugural relief fund.

Grants were distributed to practicing women, femme-identifying and non-binary visual artists living in Georgia who are able to demonstrate a commitment to their work and career and who are experiencing immediate financial need due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Applicants were at least 21 years of age or older, reside in and have worked in the state of Georgia for the last two years and must have created at least one body of work in the past twelve months.

HAMBIDGE PARTNERSHIP

2024: GANMWA sponsored a Georgia Committee of NMWA Distinguished Fellowship at the Hambidge Center. Atlanta Artist Laura Bell enjoyed a two-week residency in the serene North Georgia Mountains as our first recipient. During her stay, Laura worked on new cut-paper works and spent many restorative hours in nature. Hambidge is a unique place for artists to focus on their work while exploring freely. In conjunction with our exhibitions, and financial/creative support, this residency is a way for GANMWA to further its mission to support and celebrate women in the arts.

Learn more at www.hambidge.org

Artist Studio | Gallery Visits

Georgia Committee has visited over 40 galleries and artists’ studios over the last 8 years. Creating enriching dialogue between artists and art patrons as well as raising awareness of women artists in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia.

Studio visits enrich both the artist and the art lover, exchanging thoughtful discourse on concepts, process and work in progress. Studio and gallery visits are the backbone of the Georgia Committee, filling a need for both the visitors and the artists.

Georgia Committee has visited studios and galleries across the state of Georgia including:

• Atlanta

• Athens

• Savannah

• Kennesaw

• Decatur

• Columbus

Click here for more photos of visits through the years.