Spring 2024

Now Open! (re)FOCUS@BWA: Prints by Women, Then and Now
Since its 1972 founding in Philadelphia’s Spring Garden neighborhood, women artists have always been essential to the printmaking community nurtured by Brandywine. (re)FOCUS@BWA: Prints by Women, Then and Now is our contribution to (re)FOCUS, Philadelphia’s extended, citywide celebration of women working in the visual arts not only in Philadelphia, but throughout the world. This amassing of exhibitions and related programs honors and extends the legacy of FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, a historically significant feminist arts festival presented in 1974.With Marta Sánchez and her print R Cigarro, R Barril (2002) are (left) William Valerio, Director and CEO of the Woodmere Art Museum, and Glen Sacks
(From left) Artist John Dowell, Board member Jeffery Cruse, Executive Director Michele Parchment, (re)FOCUS@BWA curator Ruth Fine, Founder and President Emeritus Allan Edmunds, Board member Patty Smith, Board Chair Jean Woodley, and Board member Ted Agoos with Belkis Ayón’s Untitled II (1999), which was printed by Ms. Smith. 
 Hester Stinnett with her print Fortune (1987)Celebrated in (re)FOCUS@BWA are internationally acclaimed artists Emma Amos, Tomie Arai, Belkis Ayón, Camille Billops, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Sonya Clark, Maya Freelon, Letitia Huckaby, Lois M. Johnson, Jean LaMarr, Samella Lewis, Yong Soon Min, E. J. Montgomery, Vitjitua Ndjiharine (see article below), Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Marta Sánchez, Hester Stinnett, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Gayle Tanaka, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Sarah Van Keuren, and Deborah Willis.
(re)FOCUS@BWA was inspired by Brandywine’s Executive Director, Michele A. Parchment. It was organized by Ruth Fine with Gustavo Garcia, Brandywine’s Associate Director for Artist Residencies & Media Projects. Now an independent curator and artist, Ms. Fine served as a curator with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, for more than 30 years. She was a BWA Visiting Artist in 1982.

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Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Chicana painter Marta Sanchez is deeply inspired by traditional Mexican folk art expressions. Her works on paper are mostly linocuts and monotypes, which follow the social and cultural traditions of Mexican and Chicano/a Art. Her paintings are mainly on tin or industrial corrugated metal. The materials, scale, and issues connect to present day concerns.