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April 2024 Members meeting, with Carol La Chiusa explaining her color-triads approach and offering a painting demo. Here are a couple of samples:
April 2024 “Vision and Imagination,” our Spring show at the Flagstar Strand Theater, Pontiac, April 5 - Jun3 28, 2024
Susan Jaeger, Yearning for Peace from Morning to Night
March 2024 meeting at Color|Ink Studio for a discussion led by Marina Castro-Neves of the use of social media by artists
February 2024 Valentine Tea
January 2024 Member critique ONLINE!
Marguerite Carlton. A “human” tree
Steffanie Samuels. Considering the environment
November 2023 Laura Earle leads members in an exercise to enhance creativity.
October 2023: A DIA Docent speaks about the museum’s holdings of works by women artists. And anniversary aprons are distributed!
September 2023: First meeting of the year at the Bloomfield Township Public Library: Show and Tell, with members presenting their own work for critique…or not
June 2023: Celebrating 120 Years of Art in Detroit with an exhibition at the Anton Art Center, Mt Clemens
May 2023: At the Annual Meeting, starting the creation of Circles of Influence to celebrate our 120th year
April 2023: Valerie Allen with luscious Golden Acrylics
March 2023: Learning about encaustic painting from Candace Law at Color/Ink Studio
Winter 2023…: A New Member Profile Book
February 2023: Valentine’s Tea Party
January 2023: “A Celebration of Creativity at the Fine Arts Gallery of the Livonia Civic Center Library.
November 2022: Art supplies swap and painting together
September 2022: Scholarship winner Julianna Sanroman Rojas spoke movingly about how her particular life experience has influenced her art. PLUS: many new members (click here, then use the Members Only password)
April to June 2022: “Here’s to You, Detroit” at the Gallery at Brewery Park, Detroit.
February/March 2022: $1000 DSWPS Scholarship 2022
February 2022: A Member Tea & Celebration of Sweet Creativity—our first Holiday (Valentine’s) Party after two years, at The Royal Treat Tea Room, Utica Road, Roseville.
January to April 2022: Collecting artist contributions for the Global Art Project for Peace. Deadline April 30, 2022. (Shown: Andra-Alida Baban, Romania: “The Planet in Our Eyes,” 2004)
November 2021: First hybrid meeting (Zoom and in person), in the well equipped Taylor Community Library. Members so inclined discussed their work.
September 2021: First meeting of the new year, in person on Belle Isle, with a presentation by sculptor/painter Theresa Lannen.
April 2021: At our first meeting since October—albeit on Zoom, it was great!—Kim Santini led us in an art-journaling workshop celebrating the return of Spring. Click on the date to learn about the process and see some results.
EMPOWERING WOMEN ARTISTS
A collaboration between the Huron River Art Collective, the Women's Caucus for Art Michigan Chapter, and the Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. It is free and open to all members of any one of the collaborating organizations. The collaboration hosts an invited speaker event every other month. In alternate months we host a casual discussion and networking event. All events take place on the second Tuesday of each month at 7-8pm.
Together, we support and empower women in their pursuit to gain equity in the arts and to assure diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a special focus on supporting women of color and all persons who identify as women.
April 2021: April 13, 7 - 8:30, Vic Bell, Detroit metalsmithing artist, spoke about her background, her art, selling fine art online, and meeting financial goals without compromising your creative soul in times of continued crisis. Register at https://huronriverartcollective.org/event-4237763
March 9, 2021: “Why Old Women Have Replaced Young Men as the Art World’s Darlings”—discuss!
January 2021: Discussion (via Empowering Women Artists) of Judy Chicago’s "What Does Art Have to Do With the Coronavirus?" on January 12th at 7.
2020-2021 DSWPS participates in the biennial Global Art Project for Peace. Click on the date for more information about the project, this year’s DSWPS participants, and their international partners.
Image: Heal, by Lori Keeling Campbell
Bozeman, Montana, USA
December 2020: Virtual opening for Resilience at the beautiful, newly designed Kayrod Gallery. The name of the show is a nod to our founders, who mounted an exhibition during the 1918 Influenza pandemic.
December 2020: December 1st is the first event sponsored by our new collaboration with Women’s Caucus for Art (Michigan Chapter) and Ann Arbor Women Artists
October 2020: First-ever Zoom Membership Meeting, with a presentation and demo on Art Journaling by Kim Santini
September 2020: First in-person meeting in seven months, Belle Isle
April 2020: Meeting in the Time of Covid-19
Working out modifications to the constitution to provide for electronic voting…if necessary. Kathleen O’Connell, Kathleen McNamee, Joan Smykowski, Joya Rush-Keli, Lori Zurvalec
February 2020: Meeting at Eric and Candace Law’s Color/Ink Studio
December 2019: Holiday Tea at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham
November 2019: Pewabic Pottery hosts a board meeting
September 2019: Three DSWPS presidents painting in France and Madeira
September 2019: Scholarship winner speaks at the first meeting of the year
March 2019: DSWPS Artists Highlighted on WTVS MetroArts Show
November 2018: Birgit Huttemann-Holz at the Scarab Club: The Weight of Orchids: Metaphor of Flora
October 2018: Judy Bowman at the Scarab Club
October 2018: 333 Midland Show (Highland Park)
Autumn 2018: DSWPS meetings at the Scarab Club
September 2018: DSWPS board retreat
The 2017 Holiday Party, a high tea with scones, finger sandwiches, and pastries, was held at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham on December 16.
November 2017: We try out a Saturday meeting and watch a demonstration of printmaking techniques.
October 7-27, 2017 The DSWPS show Visual Perceptions, juried by Kim Fay, hung at the Starkweather Gallery in Romeo, MI.
October 19, 2017: Rob Maniscalco painted a portrait of Chris Unwin at our monthly meeting.
September 2017: Lisa Waud tells the story of Flower House.
Image: https://www.facebook.com/thedetroitflowerhouse/
Also in September: 2017 scholarship recipients Alison Okla and Susan Runyon speak to members about their work.
June 19, 2017: Empowering Women Artist series:
A casual discussion of Anna Louie Sussman’s article “Why Old Women Have Replaced Young Men as the Art World’s Darlings.” Here is the link to that article:
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-women-replaced-young-men-art-worlds-darlings
