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Sunday, March 8, 1992 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER EntertainmentG-5 Women celebrate 100 years of brushes with greatness (For information, write: Woman's Art Club, Pendleton Art Center, I 1310 Pendleton Cincinnati 45202). The official club exhibitions are judged, but members have other exhibitions as well, including a series in the gallery of Parisian in the Forest Fair Mall. This year's annual exhibition opens April 11 at Closson's Gallery. "There are a lot of fine artists in the club," Royal says. "Most of In they are the law.

Oft the streets theyarexthe power. women's art There will be presentations by African-American printmaker Margo Humphries, Hawaiian artist Margo Machida and Native American artist Tammy Rahr, Argentine artist Liliana Porter and East Indian sculptor Indira -Johnson. And Cincinnati Muse, an all-woman vocal group, will perform next Sunday. Admission: $50 (general public), $40 (members of the art museum or Woman's Art Club), $30 (artists, teachers) and $15 (students). One-day passes: $25 (general public), $20 (members of the art museum or Woman's Art Club), $15 (artists, teachers), $7 (students).

The Guerrilla Girls: The New York performance art group that addresses issues of sexism in the art world will don gorilla masks and face the public at 6 p.m. Saturday. Admission: $7. All events will be held at the Cincinnati Art Museum and are open to the public. Pre-registration is required for the pre-symposium and symposium.

To register (the deadline is noon Friday), call the museum's Department of Museum Education, 721-5204. OWEN FINDSEN the Museum Center. Through the years the club has continued its annual exhibitions, regular drawing and painting classes, and lectures by such luminaries as Robert Henri and Grant Wood. Today, there are more than 300 members and the club has a new studio space in the Pendleton Art BEES FOREST FAIR MALL EXIT 39 OFF 1-275 671-1710 OR 333-44442081 FREE JACK (R) 1:153:155:157:159:15 THE LAST BOY SCOUT R) 1:00 3:10 5:20 7:20 9:30 ADDAMS FAMILY (PQ13) 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:15 PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (R) 1:10 3:20 5:20 7:30 9:45 PURE LUCKJPQ13) 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30 KUFFS(PG13) 1:15 3:15 5:15 7:20 9:45 CURLY SUE (PG 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:15 AMERICAN TAIL 2 (G) 1:00 2:30 4:00 5:30 RUSH (R) 7:00 9:30 A hundred years ago, male and female artists in Cincinnati were not speaking to each other. The reason: the men started an art club that the women weren't invited to join.

"Start your own club," was the men's answer to the women's protests, and they did, on Dec. 10, 1892. This year, the Woman's Art Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary. It is the oldest art club for women in the country and probably the third oldest art club of any kind in the United States, following the Cincinnati Art Club (founded in 1890) and the Salmagundi Club in New York City (founded in 1870). Owen Findsen Art Cincinnati Art Club members were adamant in their refusal to allow women through the door (until 1979 that is).

It may have been because they would have been embarrassed to draw from nude models with women present. But painter Dixie Sel-den, a founding member of the Woman's Art Club, suspected another reason. She wrote that if women succeeded in getting into the club, the men feared having to give up "their pickles and beer, their Dutch lunches (German wurst and sauerkraut) and Worst of all, there was the possibility of having to escort these women home at a reasonable hour." A boys' club In fact, the Cincinnati Art Club was very much a boys' club, with rowdy parties, theatrical evenings and swimming outings that would not have been acceptable activities for women at the time. The WAC began with a more lofty goal; "to stimulate members to greater effort in their work and to increase a general interest in art." The club started with 19 members, including artists associated with the Art Academy, Rookwood Pottery and the Pottery Club. Henrietta Wilson was president.

Dixie Selden, today one of Cincinnati's most admired painters, was vice president. flUHM the art is still rather conservative I would like to see more experimental work and new directions." Marsha Lazar Kinger says the club has come full circle. "I think for a long time the club became a white gloves and hat social club," she says, "but now the club is becoming more like it was 100 years ago. There's a new breed of serious, professional artists. "You get a lot of inspiration and great ideas in the club.

We're not interested in lunch." Ill I III HI 111 I BmiTim I 7:45: SEDUCTIVE mm lit Unit piiilll till lliiltlinir gig WAHNfH Mli 9:55 10:10 WAYNE'S WORLD IBS3! CINCINNATI 5:40 7:40: 9:40 SPRINOOALE 5:40 EASTQATE 5:40 9:40 PL ANGER MO; 6:40 0:40 0:40 BUGSY I STARTS FRIDAY 1 fBiaaf 136j Learn more about In recognition of the Woman's Art Club's 1 00th anniversary and Women's History Month, the Cincinnati Art Museum and Art Academy of Cincinnati will present lectures and performances on women's art. Here's the schedule: Japanese Women Artists: 7 p.m. Wednesday with speaker Pat Fister, research assistant at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan. Admission: $5 (general public), $3 (Cincinnati Art Museum members). Pre-symposium: p.m.

Friday includes a reception, buffet and keynote address (7 p.m.) by Alessandra Comini, prof essor of art history at Southern Methodist University, who will speak about "Gender and Genius: Different Roots to Expressionism." Admission: $25. Daughters of Revolution: The theme is "Gender, Ethnicity and Art." Panel discussions on "How Women Artists Use the Figure," "Multicultural Art Education," "Why Art History Needs Feminism," "Standing the Test of Time: Veteran Artists Speak Out" and other topics will be held 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. March 15. Among the membership were noted artists Caroline Lord, Kate Reno Miller and Laura Fry.

Elizabeth Nourse, a prominent Cincinnati expatriate painter living in Paris, was an honorary member. Mary Spencer opened her studio for club meetings and sketch classes. Rising prices -The club held its first exhibition at Closson's Gallery in 1893. About 70 paintings, both oils and watercolors, were shown, and 13 were sold, at prices ranging from $15 to $60. Paintings by artists in that show now sell for at least 1,000 times those prices and the best bring tens of thousands of dollars.

The painting that attracted the most comment in the press in the first show was a watercolor of the Lato-nia race track by Dixie Selden. Work by some of the founding members is in the permanent collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum and can be seen in the Cincinnati Public Schools art collection at MAGAZINE EBEKT mimi raw zmm qim I fm 3V4 mi 1 "Street Scene" by Dixie Selden, a founding member of the Woman's Art Club. Center in Over-the-Rhine. "We never had our own clubhouse," member Clotilde Royal says. "That's why a number of our members joined the Cincinnati Art Club when it was opened to women in 1979." Many of the members of the Woman's Art Club now belong to both clubs, but not at the expense of quitting the Woman's Art Club.

"There is a tradition that is worth preserving," says Joan Rothel, a member of both clubs. "And the studio space at the Pendleton is going to open up new opportunities for programs and workshops that we haven't had before." To join the club, an artist must have two sponsors in the club and submit work for approval. New members are associate members until their work is accepted for two of the club's annual exhibitions. BIGGS PLACE MALL EXIT 63-B OFF 1-275 753-6588 OR 333-44442097 4 ADDAMS FAMILY (PQ13) 1:10 3:10 5:10 7:10 9:10 KUFFS (PQ13) 1:15 3:15 5:15 7:15 9:15 AMERICAN TAIL 2 (G) 12:45 2:25 3:55 5:25 7:00 LAST BOY SCOUT R) 12:50 3:00 5:15 7:25 9:40 FREE JACK (R) 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30 CURLY SUE (PG) 1:05 3:05 5:05 7:05 9:05 PURE LUCK (PG13) 1:20 3:20 5:20 7:20 9:20 DECEIVED (PG) 1:10 3:25 5:35 7:45 9:50 PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (R) 9:25 EASTQATE MALL 4701 ASTGATE BLVD EXIT 63-B FROM l-B7S 1-71 75 EXIT 1S4B TO RT. B3BW I ERLANOER, KENTUCKY 9:50 940 linj i-Td LJ OKI MO; H)0 im i fT a IHM OMPI 10:05 I 10:05 IV 1701 SHOWCASE DRIVE III a II ROUTE 4 I-879 NEAR TRI-COUNTY SHOPPING CTR.

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