Global Woman Project 2000-2007: Curated by Claudia DeMonte

Claude DeMonte: In Women of the World, the visionary and the everyday come together to render a global image of the female, circa 2000. Traditional art in ancient media gleefully joins with multimedia constructions that sing of glow. Individually superb, these works of art make an aggregate statement about the continuity of women's accomplishment. Women of the World is an affirmation of the survival of the will of commonality that subsumes difference, of courage under fire, and of grace in adversity. It is a powerful and moving expression of self from people whose voices have rarely been heard.

Each artist in the exhibition donated their work to be auctioned off at the end of the exhibition tour to raise money to help other women. However, in order to keep the exhibit as a whole, Richard Colton, a New Orleans businessman and art collector, made a donation in the name of all the women artists in the exhibition to the New York Women's Foundation. He plans to donate the collection to the International Museum of Women, which will permanently house the exhibition.

DeMonte sees the project as a means to show the differences in how art is made and perceived. The project has achieved its goal, but there is another unforeseen and joyous effect of the accumulation of images.

A traveling exhibit to venues in the United States, Europe and the Middle East:

- White Columns, NY (June 9 - July 15, 2000)

- Flint Institute, Michigan (September - November 2000)

- University of Maryland (March 2001)

- Volvo Gallery Stockholm, Sweden (December 2000 - March 2001)

- University of New England, ME (July 24- August 18, 2001)

- Tucson Museum, AZ (September 8 - November 4, 2001)

- Women's Art Gallery, OH (April 5 - June 7, 2002)

- Museum of the Southwest, TX (September 5 - October 27, 2002)

- Inrernational Museum of Women, San Francisco (March 8 - May 31, 2003)

- Mobile Museum, Alabama(July 25 - September 28, 2003)

- Brenau University, GA (October 20 - December 5, 2003)

- Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia (January 23 - February 22, 2003)

- Akureyri Museum, Iceland (March 13 - May 8, 2004)

- Gerduburg Cultural Center, Rejkavik, Iceland (May 15 - July 1, 2004)

- World Financial Center, New York (January 11 - February 15, 2005)

- Women's Museum, Dallas (March 2005)

- New Orleans Contemporary Art Center (April 16 - June 19, 2005)

- Simmons College, Boston (October 2005)

- Legion Arts, IA (November 5 - January 31, 2006)

- Chicago Cultural Center (September - October 2006)

- Merrill Lynch Gallery, Tokyo (November 13 - 20, 2006 )

- City Hall, Amman, Jordan (January 15 - February 28, 2007)

- Acadia Art Center, Lafeytte, LA (March 10 - April 30, 2007)

- Villa Saugy, Geneva, Switzerland (September - October 2007)

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