Welcome to Working Women Artists!

Working Women Artists (WWA) is a Lansing, Michigan-area nonprofit organization whose purpose is to help make women artists and their art more visible in the community and to provide nourishment for all women with arts interests including students and professionals. WWA offers a network of communication and support for those making their mark in the art world. WWA provides arts exhibitions, workshops and special interest educational programs and events for the community.

© Barbara Hranilovitch

Working Women Artists:

• Provides opportunities for women artists to meet, to share their work, processes and philosophies and to interact with mentors, peers and protégès for mutual support and encouragement of artistic growth.
• Shares information and resources for promoting the development of artistic competence and careers.
• Engages in activities such as exhibitions, sales and informational programs to gain recognition for members as individual artists and as a group.
• Creates opportunities for women artists in general, including girls and women art students.
• Honors diversity, including differences of race, ethnicity, age, financial status, ability, spiritual orientation and sexual orientation. WWA opposes oppression and prejudicial attitudes and promotes learning from diversity to enrich our lives as women and as artists.

©2000 Lynn DT Hershberger

Origins

Working Women Artists, Inc. was founded in 1987 by Linda Kalinich Spyke and Barbara Channer Thomsen with the intent to organize women artists in the Mid-Michigan area and to overcome the isolation and lack of support which often confronts women in the arts.

©Marian M. Reiter