‘BY HEART’
DATE: SEPTEMBER 23 -NOVEMBER 6, 2024
RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 23, 2024, with SC & FL CHAPTERS
Location: Annette Howell-Turner Center for the Arts, Valdosta, GA
Coordinator: Pat Zalisko & Annette Crosby, *Prospectus out in June. A future solo show prize may be awarded at the curator's discretion.
Theme: It references the intuitive sense we all have and rely upon in creating our work and using our materials. It can also reference how we sense, memorize, and process the outside world to respond to it in our work.
‘Self-awareness and Love’
DATE: October 2-26, 2024
Location: The Wedeman Gallery at the Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lasell University
Theme: Who do you create for when you create?
A work of art does not just exist. It comes to life between two people, one creating and one visually taking it in via the studio or a packed show. You are not creating for no reason. You have to choose a person or someone to create for. If you are not creating for anyone or a cause, then all art is the same; the work of art does not exist; you do not exist.
Let's create a scene for our Member Appreciation Celebration.
Date: November 3, from 4 to 7 pm
Location: The Art Gallery [TAG], 460 Harrison Ave 2C, Boston
Enjoy this celebratory and fantastic evening with your inspiring colleagues as we reflect on an amazing year. Celebration is the pause for breath we need to process change. Food, drinks, and great conversations in the picturesque setting of SoWa Art & Design District, Boston, will add warmth and energy to your fall adventures before we get into the holiday season. Through art and the joy of life, we invite you to find excitement at every turn. In 2025, let's continue to navigate positive change and what’s essential in our organization’s ever-growing culture.
'We are not women; we are gods' V2
date: April 1-26, 2025
Location: The Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Theme: 'We are not women; we are gods.' V2 is a group exhibition of 2D and 3D works that capture the lyrical genius of Halsey's words: I'm not a legend; I'm a fraud. We want this life to mean much more: blink, blink, flash, the old life's gone, the blinds pulled back to bright new dawn - a life worth living at what cost we were made a name, all for everlasting fame. In our lives, we are the conduits where time collides, and societal ideas of women change. As artists, we present these changes in ways others can't – change, endings, and new beginnings.
‘About Face’
Date: July 18 - August 16, 2025
Location: Dartmouth Cultural Center
Theme: What does About Face mean to you? Is it a 190-degree turn, as in the military, or is it about the complexity of the human face? We often forget to look back to see where we have been while others are in perpetual evaluation. Some people find safety in their past; others try to block it out. The face tells an ever-changing story of pain, pleasure, curiosity, and love. As artists, we look more profound than the physical veil of emotion and express how it came to be.
‘Breakthrough’
Date: July - October 2025
Location: John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Seaport
(atrium & harbor park) non-juried
Theme: It comes when you don't expect it. Everyone has a creative breakthrough at least once in a lifetime. The Artists exhibiting in this urban and water space express themselves and invest in their creative process. Acceptance is sometimes dark, but a breakthrough is a choice that makes you; the breakthrough is what made you. Understanding is the ultimate breakthrough, and it is not to be left in the hands of others. Your breakthrough is yours alone until what you yearn comes through.
‘Adapt or Die’ Dancing between Art and Coexisting on Earth
date: September 12-28, 2025
Location: Piano Craft Gallery, Inc.
Theme: Of Two Minds: Adapt or Die means Dancing between Art and Coexisting on Earth; the art world is a shaky hand of fate. Draw us in, drown us, and fulfill us. Waking up and changing our lives is an all-consuming passion for Artists who do not choose art; art chooses them to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Juried by Directors Althea Bennett and Rebecca Rose Greene; Curated by Director Kamal Ahmad
‘Power Surge: Ignite the Future’
Date: December 2025
Location: Galatea Fine Arts in SoWa Art & Design District
Theme: The title "Power Surge" alludes to the electric energy that women harness to produce and distribute their creations worldwide. This exhibition acknowledges and celebrates the multifaceted identities of women through their artistic creations. Artists use various mediums (2D, 3D, digital, etc.) to explore, eschew, and express internal and external landscapes navigated and marked by societal expectations, pressures, and limitations throughout history. Other visions that create a profound impact involve dualities such as gentle/fierce, powerful/fragile, and vulnerable/strong. Viewers and artists alike are encouraged to reflect upon their relationship to power, identity, and the complexities of female power. All are encouraged to coalesce, bring fresh perspectives to the dialogue, and energize change for a transformative, illustrative, and uplifting future.
'Windchill Factor'
Date: March 23 - April 19, 2026
Location: Karen and Ted Koskores Gallery
Theme: Windchill, the phenomenon where the perceived temperature drops significantly due to the wind, is a powerful metaphor for broader social and environmental challenges. The windchill amplifies the effects of cold weather and societal inequities.
The artists of NAWA-MA (National Association of Women Artists, Massachusetts) engage with themes of awareness, adaptation, stability/instability, and the interconnectedness of all beings. This timely multimedia exhibition, entitled Windchill Factor, consists of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations that address women's unique experiences and perspectives and the obstacles they have had to overcome throughout history. Women are potent collaborators with the foresight to facilitate the environmental and social change necessary for a healthy future.
The themes explored in “Windchill Factor,” combined with the mutual support of creativity and the validation of expression, deem this show relevant for artists and viewers now and in the future.
Juror Brynn Wartman, the Gallery Director of Karen and Ted Koskores Gallery has showcased artists' work for over 40 years.
‘Playing with Fire’
Date: July 2026
Location: Galatea Fine Arts in SoWa Art & Design District
Theme: We ventured into the world with the cautionary words, 'Be careful when you play with fire,' from politics, creating art to daily life, and environmental concerns. These embers burn the walls we build to surround and enclose our lives, suffocating and leaving our thoughts and physical selves in the ash. But after the worst burn, a single ember ventures back into the world again for the chance to feel alive, blazing within, quickening at a wild pace, unbound, consumed by every addictive media outlet. The longing for connection kindles hope and trumps the bearable noise and endless images in sight. In this show, we literally and metaphorically welcome the power of fire.
‘resist restrictions’
Date: July - October 2026
Location: John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Seaport (front, atrium & harbor park) non-juried
Theme: Our resistance to restrictions could explore the feeling of being confined and the desire for freedom, using imagery of confinement, literal and metaphorical chains, or limitations to symbolize the restrictions artists face. The artists in this exhibition can avoid or push back authority, challenge traditions, and express their determination to break free from these limitations — works chosen by Kaveh Mojtabai, the founder and publisher of Artscope Magazine.
