10th Annual International SWAN Day

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Happy 10th Annual International SWAN day! What a feat! There are celebrations going on around the world, celebrating the great work of women artists everywhere. Moreover, I'm excited because it means that my website is also two years old. I launched it on SWAN day 2015. So holy cow!

I'll tell you how I'm celebrating SWAN day. This week, I've spent a lot of time working on my book. I'm reviewing transcripts and editing portions for the book itself. Very exciting. On Thursday, I went to see the amazing Misty Copeland with the Chicago Humanities Festival. Last night, we saw the incredible Regina Spektor at the Chicago Theater. Today, I finished Ann Petry's heartbreaking and beautifully written The Street. 

And I'm just getting started.

What are you doing to celebrate and support women artists now? Today? Tomorrow?

I can't wait to hear all the amazing ways you all have been supporting women artists.

SWAN Day! Feminist Frequency!

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Yesterday, I conducted the 57th interview with Sangsuk "Sunny" Kang, visual storyteller. We talked about photography and design. What an insightful and exciting conversation! Again, I'm so grateful to everyone whose participated in the project. I'm so lucky to have so many people willing to talk with me about their work and career. 

This Saturday, March 26th, is the 9th Annual International Support Women Artists Day (SWAN day)! I'm going to a lecture on Vigée Le Brun at the Met and possibly see the exhibit on Nasreem Mohamedi at the Met Bauer. And that's just the start. Incidentally, SWAN day will be the 1 year anniversary of when I launched this blog! So, what are you going to do?

One possibility is supporting this amazing project from Feminist Frequency.  It's called Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History. It's a video series about amazing and daring women in history. If you are inclined, you should try and support it here: https://www.seedandspark.com/studio/ordinary-women#story

Support Women Artists Now. And every day.