SAN DIEGO WOMEN IN ART HISTORY

Since the Guild began in 1915, women artists have played important roles in enriching the art scene in San Diego with their unique voices.  Of the one hundred artists celebrated in our forthcoming book, 100 Artists, 100 Years: A Century of Creativity in San Diego 1915-2015, thirty one are women. This is a high percentage. The book includes times in history when women were not as readily recognized for their professional accomplishments as they are today. Alice Klauber invited her former teacher, Robert Henri, to San Diego to exhibit contemporary art in the 1915 Panama-California Exposition. The work was hung in what is now the Museum of Us. Klauber was one of the founders of  the Artists Guild. She convinced businessman Appleton Bridges to build what became the San Diego Museum of Art.

There are intriguing stories about each of these women. Their bios and their art will be seen in our forthcoming book.

A twenty-minute presentation of these women artists illustrated by the power point is ready to "go on the road" to promote the work of the Guild in the past, present and future.

Contact Jody Abssy for details: (619) 988-7205.

Click on picture to see presentation.