The enduring feminine spirit is diverse, ever-changing, a mystery, and beautiful all wrapped up into one. As far as art can remember, we have been drawn to the female archetype in all her complexities and contradictions. Her strength and vulnerabilities, her value, her abilities, and all of her possibilities. FEMME celebrates women, their allure, and their place in humanity.

FEMME

First Place- Durga

Second Place- Eliza Ann Harker Bennion

Third Place- Grandmother

Inner Nature

Empowered

Arbor Vita

Coiffure

Pandora
Erik Carter
oil on canvas
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Under The Surface 9

Angles and Curves
Anica Archip
photography
Brooklyn, New York

Judith, tcb

Callisto

Nice Day At Beach
Brian McBean
Prismacolor pencil and watercolor
Agoura Hills, California

Night shift

The Magenta Muse
Timothy Griffith
oil on canvas - all colors infused with quinacridone magenta
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Self portrait untitled
Charlene Avery
oil on canvas
Bridgewater Township, New Jersey

Two Women, Two Lovers

My Body My Choice

Balance

Camille With Veil

Aylla

Blue Lungs

The November Issue, No. 1

Lady Kulta
Christine VanSickle
acrylic on canvas
Two Rivers, Wisconsin

Kneesocks
Angela DeCenzo
digital print of instant film (from drum scanned file)
San Francisco, California

Self portrait

Siren

Armor 10/What Are You Looking At?
Winnie van der Rijn
repurposed menswear with mixed media weaving
New York, New York

CONTROL Garment #7

Transcending
Joan Zagrobelny
ceramic - hand built sculptural vessel with white terra sigillata inside and out
Sandwich, Massachusetts

Self Visitation

Mother Earth III

if it Wrinkles it Must be Real (detail)

Becoming Unbecoming

Somewhere in Time

The Awakening

Negotiations
Todd Fox
mixed media - clay (raku fired), faience, glaze, chicken wire, cheesecloth, found objects and repurposed items
Orlando, Florida

Ironclad

Party Dress
Susan Zimmerman
cotton thread - line drawing of dress created by sewing on water soluble substrate with various threads, later dissolved to leave only the thread
El Cerrito, California

Torn
Christine Kern
dyed handmade paper pulp & cast over a high fashion mannequin's torso
Granville, Ohio

We Come in All Sizes

Wedding Dress (27,645 Women Per Day)
Sonja Czekalski
yarn, steel wire, and handmade paper
Cumberland, Rhode Island

Classic Nude

Pollen

Female Confidence

The Scars of Womxn

My Day?
Marilyn Geary
fiber-commercial Japanese cotton, embroidered vintage towels
Woodacre, California

Nine Nipples
Beth Smith
mixed media - repurposed rubber shower mat, acrylic paint, plastic beads, embroidery floss, mounted on a recycled handkerchief over styrofoam
San Diego, California

Moisturizing the skin on my belly

Patriarchy Cook-Off

Willow [Queen of Hearts]
Kate Joiner
mixed media acrylic, glitter on wood (upcycled bed support)
Carlsbad, California

Everyone Has a Darkside

One Day

Little Dancer

Shades Drawn

Love my Sugar Daddy
Virginia Green
mixed media, paper mâché and US currency
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Handmaids Tell

Suffragette

Hot Pink

Girl with the Red Scarf, Orange Beads

Brightening the world
Foroozan Karimzadeh
acrylic on canvas, mixed media
Atlanta, Georgia

The Accepted Failure

Visitation

Narcissus 2
Ira Upin
oil, with tar bleed thru on paper on canvas on panel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Blowing Wishes

tu es

To Serve Man

Hannah Baiye

Contemplations of an Empty Nest
Michael James
acrylic on canvas
San Jacinto, California

Pride Knows No Color

Middle Finger
meyekərā
photography
Los Angeles, California

Linda no.1

Peruana (Kulli Anqas)
Dani Coronado
acrylic and oil on panel
Kansas City, Missouri

Abigayle
Nancy Jo Ward
mixed media- digital painting, printed with archival inks on aluminum and hand-finished with acrylics
Santa Maria, California

Armament
Ashley Cecil
acrylic, block printing, and oil on canvas
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Scala ad Caelum

Venus is Trapped

Tiffany

Love Letters (detail)

Pre-Quarantine
Mercer Hanau
two-layer woodcut print, oil-based ink on kitakata paper
Seattle, Washington

Her Story

Hello Kitty

The Drifter
Jill Miyabara
clay
Silver Spring, Maryland

Early Light

Cabana

Babydoll
Cassandra Schifano
nylon, cotton thread, ceramic
South Bend, Indiana

Herod’s Wife 1

Mask #2
Julia Cangiano
charcoal on paper
Medford, Massachusetts

Self Portrait

Gypsy Eyes
Jean-Paul Aboudib
graphite on paper
Canton, Michigan