A Group of One’s Own: Women’s Visual Arts Organizations in America

Sep 14, 2008 - Jan 07, 2009

This exhibition will present a selective historical survey of organizations and groups that represented, promoted and displayed visual art by women in the United States. The organizations to be featured had memberships comprising women artists -- often professional, sometimes “amateur,” -- who created visual art in many media, including both the fine and applied arts. Significant institutions and exhibition spaces that showed art exclusively by women will also be represented. As a whole, the exhibition will offer visual art and related textual and documentary materials, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, on groups that sought to showcase the achievements of women in the visual arts, and attempted to correct the difficulties frequently faced by women in gaining recognition and equity in museums, art schools, and the marketplace.

Among the groups represented are: The National Association of Women Artists (founded in New York City), The Sketch Club of San Francisco, the Women’s Building at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, Women Painters of Washington (Washington State), Moore College of Art and Design (Philadelphia), A.I.R. Gallery (New York), and Womanhouse (Los Angeles).

Admission:
$3.00 per person for adults who are not members of the museum. Entrance to the museum is free at all times for members, all children under 18, and Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff with a valid I.D. In addition, the first Sunday of each month will be free to all.