The gift of the artist is the way she gives us the opportunity to experience and reflect upon the world around us from a novel and unconventional perspective. Within their chosen medium, today’s women artists continue to share their unique viewpoint on the material, personal, global, political, and cultural landscapes that surround us. This exhibition commits to giving women artists a forum in which to share their singular position and outlook on the inner and outer worlds we all share.

The Womencenter’s national annual women’s juried art show, From Our Perspective: A National Women’s Art Exhibition, will be held September 17 – October 9, 2009 in the Smith Theatre Gallery at Oakland Community College’s Orchard Ridge Campus in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The event is a juried exhibit featuring two- and three-dimensional works of art and is open to all women artists nationwide. Recent original works only. All media (excluding video and performance). All entries must be submitted online at www.oaklandcc.edu/womencenter. There are purchase and cash awards.

To view and print the 2009 entry brochure, please click here.

To submit your entries for the 2009 Art Exhibit by July 31, 2009, please click here.

Susan Goethel Campbell, our 2008 juror, had this to say about the show:

“The process of selecting work for this exhibition was a great opportunity for me to view multiple perspectives by women artists across the country. I spent a good deal of time reviewing the submissions and examining the technical, conceptual and aesthetic aspects of all the work and chose to highlight several of them for this exhibition. These themes include ideas about the body, identity and loss. In addition, I selected work that underscored for me a love of process and creating. Several of these works employed
non-traditional materials such as sugar, crochet and q-tips allowing for new associations to be made with the everyday.”

View a slideshow of the 2008 exhibit. NEW!

View a slideshow of the 2007 exhibit.

View a slideshow of the artwork displayed in the 2006 exhibit.

View a slideshow of some of the artwork displayed in the 2005 exhibit. You will need flash player to view the slideshow.

For more information on From Our Perspective, or to be placed on the mailing list, call (248) 522-3642 or email womenart@oaklandcc.edu