Won Award!
During the College Art Association meeting the Women's Caucus for Art also met in Chicago. I was one of six Chicago women artists winning this year's award for excellence. Thank you WCA and CWCA for this great honor!
http://www.chicagowca.com/programs.html
African American Arts Alliance Award
Won for Excellence in the Visual Arts
presented at the DuSable Museum on October 26, 2009 by Monica Haslip, founder of Little Black Pearl in Chicago.
Thanks Jackie Taylor, Nora brooks Blakley, Chuck Smith and other esteemed members of A.A.A.A.
Ragdale Fellow
The list of Ragdale Fellow's will just blow your mind! I am now in the number and greatly appreciate being awarded this prize and honor by 3Arts.
See an article about the Invisible Artist panel here
http://art.newcity.com/2009/03/30/eye-exam-why-have-there-been-no-great-south-side-artists/
Parish Gallery Washington, D.C.
Showing my work in honor of Barack Obama's inauguration with noted Chicago-based photographer Bobby Sengstacke. Opens January 19, 2009 in Georgetown gallery...more to come.
CROSSED BORDERS/CROSSED CULTURES
The Veeck Gallery
group exhibition features:
Sharon Gilmore Joyce Owens
Jesus Macarena-Avila Craig Pozzi
Lindsay Obermeyer Marjorie Woodruff
The Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery
Catholic Theological Union
Academic and Conference Center
5416 S Cornell Avenue, 4th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60615
through January 14, 2009
Weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Weekends by appointment, 773.371.5415
Sapphire and Crystals: BEyONd Race and Gender
Joyce is curating exhibition of about 23 African American women artists for the Noyes Cultural Center in Evanston, IL for early 2009...please come back for updates!
HYDE PARK ART CENTER, Nov 3, 2008
"Serial art" with images both real and virtual.
5020 S. Cornell
Chicago, IL 60615
773-324-5520
www.hydepartart.org
You can still see "Not Just Another Pretty Face".
Ragdale Fellowship
3Arts in Chicago supports these awards to composers, writers and visual artists. I was one of 2 visual artists selected and will go to Ragdale next summer.
Liberia Embassy
My work has been shipped to Monrovia, Liberia!
The works of Ashley A. Woods, Turtel Onli, and many other Black Age greats is in the "Out Of Sequence" exhibition at the Krannert Museum in Champaign-Urbana opening Oct.24th and running until Jan. 4th. It will show a variety of under represented works in the field of sequential art and illustration. Woods along with a few others will travel to Japan in Novemeber representing the show. The entire show will travel to Denver after its current run.
Other artists in the Krannert exhibition:Artists: Ben Alcantara, Dawud Anyabwile, Ryan Armand, Gus Arriola, Kyle Baker, Alison Bechdel, Dale Beran and David Hellman, Ray Billingsley, Bentley Boyd, Mark Staff Brandl, Nell Brinkley, Dawn Brown, Marjorie Henderson Buell, Elmer Simms Campbell, Stanford Carpenter, Denys Cowan, Jenny Craft, Phonzie Davis, Christa Donner, Colleen Doran, Grace Drayton, Kris Dresen, Edwina Dumm, Brummett Echohawk, Donovan Foote, Shaenon Garrity, Nicholas Gurewitch, Oliver Harrington, Ethel Hays, Shepherd Hendrix, Leilani Hickerson, C. Hill, Raye Horne, Tom Hunt, Phil Jimenez, Ryan Kelly, Keith Knight, Mshindo Kuumba I, Hope Larson, Jenn Manley Lee, Jim Mahfood, Scott McCloud, Dylan Meconis, Dale Messick, Eric Millikin, Tarpe Mills, Andrei Molotiu, Brian Moore, Danica Novgorodoff, Rose O'Neill, Turtel Onli, Jackie Ormes, Ken Patterson, Mikhaela Reid, Trina Robbins, Stan Sakai, Richard Santiago, Melody Shickley, C. Spike Trotman, Ann Telnaes, Hilda Terry, Dann Tincher, Lance Tooks, Tak Toyoshima, Drew Weing, Brian Wood, Masheka Wood, Ashley Woods, Larry Yang, and Lev Yilmaz.
Chicago Artists Month ROCKS!!!!!
BLACK AGE FOREVER!!!!
(Thanks, Turtel!)