Looking West: An Exhibition Highlighting Works by American Women Artists

Looking West: An Exhibition Highlighting Works by American Women Artists, is a juried show featuring 150 paintings and sculptures by members of American Women Artists. It is the fourth show in AWA’s 25 in 25 campaign to have 25 museum shows for its women artist members over the next 25 years. 

A public reception will be held at the museum on June 28 from 5:00 – 8:00. Works in this show will be for sale. AWA will be hosting a free Symposium on Women in the Arts at the Chief Theater adjacent to the Steamboat Art Museum, June 29, 2019 from 9am - 3pm. Speakers include artists Heide Presse and Carol Carter, Donna Howell-Sickles as well as author Jann Gilmore who will be speaking about her book, “Olive Rush: Finding Her Place in the Santa Fe Art Colony.”

Running concurrently with the AWA show at the Steamboat Art Museum will be a special show by AWA Master Member and Symposium Heide Presse. Her show, We Turned Our Faces Westward, One Woman’s Journey 1839-1848, is a collection of paintings and artworks bringing to life the people who were among the earliest participants in our country's westward migration, including period clothing, textiles, and material culture of the 1840s.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

Image: Sheri Farabaugh, Lotus Leaves and Lily Pads