Exhibitions/Events for July 8 - July 31, 2023

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 26, 6-9pm (Award Ceremony: 7:30pm)

Reception: Sept. 12, 5–7 pm

Reception: September 5, 6-8pm Artwork by Nicole Maye Luga

Reception: July 18, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Reception: June 13, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Artwork by Lea Weinberg

Artwork by Meredith Rossier Reception: May 16, 5 – 7 pm

Artwork by Carmela Martin Reception: April 11, 5–7 pm

Opening reception: March 14, 2019 Pictured artwork by Carole Kunstadt

A juried exhibition for NAWA members and non-members. Opening reception: Thursday, February 7, 2019

Photo: Mimi Herrera-Pease, Bountiful, Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. Reception: Friday, February 1, 2019, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Deadline to submit: Monday, December 10, 2018 www.showsubmit.com   Transparency – This theme can be viewed visually (opacity, ethereal, luminous), historically and/or socially (openness and accountability). Photo credit: Matteo Catanese

What is Creativity? It is the use of the imagination and original ideas in the production of an artistic work. This exhibition is for women artists celebrating their individual talent. All fine art mediums are acceptable (painting, sculpture, works on paper, collage, mixed media, encaustic and photograph).

Reception: January 17, 2019, 5 - 7 pm Watercolor (Luminous Light) is the first in a series of open juried exhibitions at the NAWA Gallery, focusing on specific mediums in celebration of NAWA’s 130th Anniversary. All watercolor/gouache works are eligible.

Opening Reception: November 15, 3-5pm

Artists at times have the challenge and gift of interpreting stories that are delivered in verbal language. They may respond to the imagery “painted” by authors and other storytellers or can choose to depict an emotional or intellectual response to an interior state. Realistic or abstract, internal or external, art expands the narrative of storytelling into the visual realm.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18, 6-9pm This Exhibition proudly recognizes Art Angels.  These are “Angels” who deliver critical services, strengthening the entire NAWA organization and enabling the many diverse voices to be seen and heard through their generous contribution of time, efforts, and amazing talents. This year’s “Angels” in this exhibition show are not only [...]

195 Chrystie Street Gallery, NYC (Lower East Side), Location of the 129th Annual Members’ Exhibition. Reception: Thursday, October 11, 6:00 – 9:00 pm The National Association of Women Artists is honored to present its 129th Annual Members’ Exhibition, a show of paintings, works on paper, sculpture, mixed media, photography, and collage by established member artists. [...]

In this gallery you have the benefit of showing powerful artworks in an intimate space. Lord & Andra Gallery will highlight each accepted artist’s work in the exhibition, held in its contemporary space located in a charming town just outside of New York City, two blocks from the Metro North NYC commuter line. Lord & Andra will be celebrating the first anniversary of its opening with this NAWA exhibition, which is planned to coincide with New Rochelle’s Art Fest 2018 (October 18-21, 2018).The gallery is woman-owned and run.

Artists listed clockwise: (Top left) Georgieva Antoaneta, Marilyn Liedman, Cassandra Gordon-Harris, Patricia Zalisco, Heather Blume, Roberta Millman-Ide. Reception and Award Presentation: Saturday, October 6, 2018, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm The National Association of Women Artists and the NAWA Florida Chapter are honored to present a juried exhibition DAYDREAMING at the Coral Springs Museum of [...]

Artists listed clockwise: (Top left) Susan B. Phillips, Kim McAninch, Phyllis Shenny, Rita Herzfeld (detail), Takayo Noda (detail), Jill Cliffer Baratta (detail). Opening reception: September 16, 2018, 6-8pm The B. Beamesderfer Gallery in Highland Park, NJ, has joined with NAWA to present Beamesderfer 3: Sea and Sky. This is the third year that the Gallery [...]

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 12, 5-7pm

Opening reception: Thursday, July 19, 5-7pm The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is excited to present its second small works exhibition of 2018, featuring Small Works by 75 member and non-member artists. “Small Works” are truly compact creations with big perspectives. We are proud of the fact that each year we get more [...]

What Will I Do With All This Freedom? Eyenga Bokamba is an artist who is most drawn to abstraction as a means of expressing her perceptions of complex realities. Her work has been widely collected by public libraries, universities, and private buyers who value the spacious expansiveness and luminosity of her creations.

What is Abstract Art? It is art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using, shapes, forms, colors and textures. “Abstract art may be gestural, geometric, fluid, or figurative (implying things that are not visual such as emotion, sound, or spirituality.” Quote taken from -Origins of Abstract Art [...]

Painting by Pennie Brantley. Path to Knowledge (Palacio Nacional de Sintra, Portugal), 48 x 60 in. A native of Caruthersville, Missouri, Pennie Brantley now lives and works in Boston and the Taconic Mountains of New York with her artist husband, Robert Morgan, following a three-year sojourn in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An art-study tour in the [...]

Three Women Artists Step up to the Plate Opening Reception: Thursday, April 12, 5:00 - 7:00pm Traditionally, more men have painted women as a subject matter than the male figure. Jill Cliffer Baratta, Susan Miller-Havens and Marisol Rose have thrown their own curve ball on that idea, choosing to paint male baseball players and the [...]

Migration is a natural phenomenon: birds go north in the summer, south for the winter; monarch butterflies migrate across the continent to California or Mexico; mammals will migrate only to follow their prey; humans migrates as well, searching for hospitable environments to grow and prosper. We seek the safest and best. Our theme for this exhibit [...]

Shelter is a main concern for all living beings, especially for refugees, immigrants, the homeless, those concerned about climate change, drug addiction and victims of domestic violence. A juried NAWA exhibition open to members and non-members alike, adds light to this ongoing problem. For the second year, NAWA has joined forces with the Harlem School [...]

Women’s History Month celebrates the character, courage, and commitment of women throughout history. NAWA was founded in 1889 to support those ideas and this March six members artists, Sandra Bertrand, Nancy Coleman Dann, Susan G. Hammond, Natalia Koren Kropf, Leah Raab, and Carole Richard Kaufmann have brought their combined talents to the challenge. Through expressionistic [...]

A juried exhibition for NAWA members and non-members. Opening reception on Thursday, February 15, 5-7pm.

The artist members of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) have often set their sights on a shared vision of expanded horizons. The County College of Morris (CCM) Art & Design Gallery in Randolph, NJ is hosting NAWA’s Open Horizons, a unique exhibition that allows each artist to go as far as her own [...]

5x7, a fundraising exhibition of original 5"x7" artwork for $40 at the NAWA Gallery. Opening Reception: December 14, 2017 5-7pm Closing Reception: January 18, 2018, 5-7pm

Black and White images are making a comeback, as mono images adapt to all lighting situations, and even though we don’t see the world in black and white it is a creative choice. You can produce formal black and white portraits, landscapes and still lifes that speak for themselves concentrating on capturing clean whites and [...]

Opening reception November 9, 3-5pm This exhibition features the work of the new members juried into NAWA for the year and is preceded by the induction ceremony for new members.

Lucinda Abra, Jill Cliffer Baratta, Sandra Bertrand, Dottie Branchreeves, Judith Carline, Julie Castillo, Nancy Dann, Penny Dell, Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Christie Devereaux, Christine Frisbee, Carolynne Fromme, Marlann Gorsky, Carole Richard Kaufmann, Natalia Koren Kropf, Nella Lush, Carol O'Neill, Mary Alice Orito, Anita Pearl, Susan Phillips, Leah Raab, Beth Scher, Sonia Stark, Esther Sternberg, BJ Talor, [...]

Opening reception: Saturday, October 7, 2017 Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, NY, is a very welcoming environment and is available to rent for private exhibitions and parties. ​Emerge Gallery & Art Space exhibits and sells original art, online and on location in Saugerties, NY, by the best emerging artists from the Hudson Valley, NY metro area [...]

Reception: Saturday, September 23, 2017, 6-8pm

Opening reception TBA

Reception: Thursday, August 31, 2017, from 6-8pm

Reception Date: July 20, 2017, 5-7pm

RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017, 2-4PM