YWCA Women’s Art Gallery
The YWCA Women’s Art Gallery was established in 1993. Its purpose is to empower local women artists. Although primarily serving the Greater Cincinnati area, the gallery has been proud to host several shows featuring women artists from around the world. As a forum for women’s issues relating to important YWCA programs and services, the gallery has sponsored photographic exhibits on the topics of domestic violence, breast cancer, and women and aging. It is the only gallery in Greater Cincinnati exclusively for women’s art. The gallery features local, national and international exhibits. The co-curators are Carmen Politis and Martha Weber. The Women’s Art Gallery is free and open to the public from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday and by appointment after hours and on Saturday.
The Women's Art Gallery is located in downtown Cincinnati, 898 Walnut Street, 45202, at the corner of 9th and Walnut across from the Public Library. For more information, call the YWCA at (513) 241-7090.
Everyone has talent.
What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
-Erica Jong
Current Exhibit
Reflections Over Afternoon Tea
October 2 - January 15, 2010
The YWCA Women's Art Gallery invites you to this exhibit featuring the realistic paintings of MaryBeth Karaus and cermics by three outstanding ceramicists: Jancy Janslow, Pam Korte and Brenda Tarbell.
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MaryBeth Karaus has been recognized locally for her outstanding watercolors and oil work. The reflective subject matter in her work such as water, silver, glass and mirrors all represent her explorations into the beauty of the visual world. Her personal reflection, acute sense of detail and mastery of watercolor become a double entendre to the theme of this exhibit.
Pam Korte captures light and movement in her porcelain vessels. Clay and the way she uses it suggest paradox: soft as cream cheese yet hard as glass, primordial in the hand yet drawing room elegant in the finish.
Jancy Jaslow's ceramics are inspired by organic patterns and textures in nature. She presses leaves and other natural materials into a clay slab that is then torn into pieces and applied to a thrown clay vessel creating a "patchwork" effect.
Brenda Tarbell considers pottery to be hand sculpture. Natural forms provide a starting point for her work. She explores edges and surfaces and thinks of ceramic surfaces as the "skin of the earth." Her work includes several types of vessels, some are for pouring tea; some are pure sculpture.
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On Permanent Display on the YWCA First Floor
Wise Women
A Celebration of Courage, Strength and Beauty
The photography of Joyce Tenneson
The YWCA Women’s Art Gallery proudly presents Wise Women, portraits by internationally acclaimed photographer Joyce Tenneson. Wise Women is a celebration of the power and beauty of women in the third phase of their lives (ages 65 to 100.) Rather than the frail stereotype of aging that our society has fostered in the past, Tenneson found women who were vital, energetic and deeply beautiful, inside and out. This penetrating collection of portraits leaves the viewer with a new vision of what it means to be a woman of age and wisdom. No one who experiences Wise Women will think about aging in the same way again.
Forty photographs will be on display including Angela Lansbury, Dr. Johnetta Cole, Cicely Tyson, Coretta Scott King, Dame Judi Dench, Gloria Steinem, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Jessica Tandy and more.
Described as one of America’s most interesting portrayers of the human character, Joyce Tenneson is among the most respected photographers of our time. Her portraits go beyond a surface recording of her subject’s likeness. She writes, “Through a person’s face we can potentially see everything – the history and depth of a person’s life as well as their connection to a universal spirituality.”
Ms. Tenneson received her doctorate degree from Cincinnati’s Union Institute & University. Her work appears regularly on magazine covers for The New York Times, Premiere, Fortune, Time and countless other publications. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award, named “Photographer of the Year” by the international organization Women in Photography, and a recent poll by American Photo Magazine voted Tenneson among the ten most influential women photographers in the history of photography. She lives and works in New York City.
This exhibit has been sponsored by Union Institute & University and underwritten by Olay, Fine Arts Fund, Barbra Druffel, the H.B., E.W. and F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation of Fifth Third Bank, and in honor of Jean Wolf, Nancy Gladstone, Pat Wolf and Mary Levin.
Past Exhibits
- I Can't Imagine: Artwork from the Terrain of Grief, August 21 - September 24, 2009, Susan Carlson
- Reigning Cats & Dogs, June 12 - August 14, 2009, Martha Newfield
- Miram's Odyssey: Testimony of an Armenian Legacy, April 24 - June 5, 2009, Margaret Markarian Wasielewski
- Textural Expressions: Fabric Art, January 16 - April 3, 2009, Patricia Coleman-Cobb and Cynthia Lockhart
- Art & Soul, June 20th - September 8, 2008, Suzanne Lambert and Ann Zeff
- Spring Awakening, April 11, 2008 - June 16, 2008, Trish Weeks and Lisa Hueil Conner
- Captured Moments: Sisters of the Soul, January 18th - April 4, 2008. Velma Morris and Joyce Phillips Young
- The Dance of the Painting: Lyrical Color on Canvas by Kay Muir, Sept. 14, 2007- Jan. 11, 2008,
- Revisiting Tiger Lily: The YWCA Women's Art Gallery's Connection to Cincinnati Printmakers 1978-2007 , June 15, 2007 - September 2007, Carola Bell, Judy DiMuzio, Joan Effertz, Rick Finn, Elizabeth Foley, April Foster, Theresa Gates, Kuhr Saad Ghosn, Julie Knepfle, Mary Mark, Elaine M. Zumeta, Susan Naylor, Kim Shifflet, Sherry Sicking, Carla Trujillo, Carole Winters, Barb Young, Leslie Shiels, Joyse Howe, Mary Ann Butkovich, Louanne Elliott, Eugenie Goggin
- Spring Fling! Flirting with Femininity, April 13 - June 8, 2007, Trelan Leigh Jones, Jennifer Feld, Jennifer Bortz Schneider
- The Women of Pendleton, January 19th - April 4th, 2007, Nelle Ferrara, Karen Heyl, Kay Hurley, Terri Kern, Paula Wiggins
Year 2006 (View more here)
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Real Beauty, September 8 - December, 27, 2006, Curated by Claudia DeMonte
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- Summer Dreams, June 16 - August 18, 2006, Hei Kyung Byun and Young Hi Lee
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- Abstract Is Sublime, April 7 - June 9, 2006, Jung Nam Lee, Nancy Gollobin and Susan Schuler
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- Virtual Realities: Visions of the World By Ursula Roma, February 3 - March 31, 2006, Ursula Roma
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- Form and Figure, November 11, 2005 - January 20, 2006, Marjorie Applegate, Carolyn Barham, Louise Head, Ellen Schiefer, Elizabeth Stoehr, Denise Strasser, Carol Twyman, Eunshin Khang, Marlene Steele
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- Empty Chairs, Painful Windows, September 23 - November 4, 2005, O'Leary Bacon, Jan Brown Checco, Diane Debevec, Margot Gotoff, Ali Hansen, Robyn Lovato, Ann Moss Meranus, Velma Morris, Carmen Poltis, Lisa Siders-Kenney, Martha Weber and Tom Weber
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- Rejoining Generations: International Images of Siberian Eskimo Families, June 17 - September 2, 2005, L. Saunders McNeil
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- Ladies from the Outside: Self-Taught Southern Female Artists, April 29 - June 10, 2005, Cher Shaffer, Janice Harding Owens, Hazel Kinney, Nina Sparks, Joan Dance and Lilian Baker
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- Journeys to Freedom: An Exploration of What It Means to Be Free, March 4 - April 22, 2005, Leslie Alexandria, Judy Anderson, O'Leary Bacon, Hei-Kyung Byun, Jane Cash, Jan Brown Checco, Stephanie Cooper, Diane Debevec, Mary Anne Donovan, Margot Gotoff, Ali Hansen, Brian Joiner, Lisa Siders-Kenney, Eunshin H. Khang, Bukang Kim, Young Hi Lee, Constance McClure, Saunders McNeill, Velma J. Morris, Mayumi Oda, M. Jewel O'Neal, Carmen Ramos Politis, Barb Rauf, Ursula Roma, Nancy Rudolph, Ann Segal, Anne Straus, Connie Sullivan, Josiane S. Trageser and Martha E. Weber
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- When My Mama Reads to Me, August 13 - September 3, 2004, Annie Ruth
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- Go Figure! The Summer Show: Paintings and Sculpture, June 18 - August 6, 2004, Jackie Frey and Lyla L. Haggard
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- A Tear & A Smile, April 23 - June 11, 2004, O'Leary Bacon
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- Bright, Bold and Beautiful, January 30 - April 13, 2004, Judy Anderson, Diane Debevec, Shannon Deye and Trina Feldhake
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- The Goddesses of Mayumi Oda, September 19 2003 - January 9, 2004, Mayumi Oda
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- The Artist Exchange Show, June 20 - August 30, 2003- Lynn Carden, Jane Cash, Nancy Fletcher Cassell, Claire Darley, April Foster, Genie Goggin, Ali Hansen, Karen Heyl, Joyce Howe, Lisa Jameson, Sheila Jordan Kappa, Andrea Knarr, Mary Mark, Brenda Richardson, Valerie Sheshko, Suzanna Terrill, Josy Trageser, Patrice Trauth, Fran Watson and Barbara Young
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- Black Women Series, April 11 - June 13, 2003, Brian Joiner
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- Bearing Witness to the Human Spirit, November 15 - March 20, 2002, Nancy Rudolph
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- Classy Glass, September 20 - November 1, 2002, Margaret Gotoff
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- Painting Women, Women Painting, June 28 - August 23, 2002, Dorothy Weil
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- Women of the World, A Global Collection of Art, April 5 - June 7, 2002, Curated by Claudia DeMonte
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- The Clothesline Project: SILENT NO MORE, September 21 - November 2, 2001
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