For the third year the Sedona Gallery Association is joining forces with more than 300 cultural organizations worldwide to champion women artists. Spearheaded by Washington D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, the #5womenartists campaign celebrates woman artists during Women’s History Month.
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NMWA (National Museum of Women in the Arts) notes that most people have a difficult time calling to mind at least five female artists. So they in 2016 they issued a challenge to great success via social media throughout the month of March to name five women artists (#5womenartists). The Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and The Getty Museum are among those participating. The campaign's goal is to highlight gender imbalances in the art world both nationally and internationally and to increase awareness of women in the arts during Women's History Month.
Sedona has a rich history of nurturing diverse voices dating all the way back to its earliest beginnings. In 1946 the red canyons and spires drew renowned surrealist painter Dorothea Tanning who relocated here with her husband Max Ernst, a pioneer of the Dada movement. Several of Tanning’s pieces created in Sedona now are part of the permanent collections of such renowned institutions as the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Today both in the Sedona Gallery Association member galleries and through public art our female artistic voices are highly and visibly represented. Mountain Trails Gallery sculptor Susan Kleiwer’s piece “Sedona Schenbly” graces the Sedona library and Rowe Gallery’s Kim Kori teamed up with Ken Rowe for a joint piece “Above” in the “Y” Roundabout at the intersection of State Route 89A and Highway 179.
Goldenstein Gallery owner, Linda Goldenstein, has been curating “The Woman’s Show” featuring their numerous female artists for a decade and the exterior of Sedona Arts Center features murals painted by Marlys Mallet as well as sculpture by Barbara Brown among others. This just highlights a minute amount of the internationally renowned woman artists creating and being represented in Sedona. For a larger glimpse at some of their work visit www.sedonagalleryassociation.com or follow them on facebook or instagram.
