About this project
Why is this project important?
A.I.R. Gallery was founded in 1972 as the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States. A.I.R. Gallery's Mission is to advance the status of women artists by exhibiting quality work by a diverse group of women artists and to provide leadership and community to women artists.
“Since 1972, the trailblazing A.I.R. gallery in New York, the world’s first women’s art co-op, has provided quiet support for those operating outside the art world’s market-obsessed precincts.” - Carey Lovelace, Art in America June/July, 2007
“Open A.I.R.” is a recent project of A.I.R. Gallery that invites innovative curatorial ideas from women in various art centered backgrounds. “Open A.I.R.” supports our original mission of advancing the status of women artists. This curatorial call gives self-identified women artists everywhere a chance to realize their artistic vision, when they might not otherwise have a chance to do so it reaches out not only to members of the gallery, but to the whole community. A.I.R. is committed to reaching the diversity of people that reside in New York City as well as across the nation, especially those in communities not always served by the art world mainstream.
Where will this project take us?
According to Art Critic Jerry Saltz, 50% of MFA students are women but only 25% of solo exhibits in NYC galleries in 2007 were by women. This fact highlights the need to foster the careers of underrepresented women artists and this is exactly what A.I.R. Gallery is doing through the Open A.I.R. project.
The “Open A.I.R.” project was inaugurated last year. This project gives A.I.R. an opportunity to discover innovative curatorial ideas brought to us by diverse women artists. The Gallery mounted exhibition Locks in Translation, a show that explored issues around hair curated by JoAnne McFarland, featuring artists from many varied backgrounds. In addition Feeling What No Longer Is, curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu will be shown at A.I.R. Gallery from April 28th to May 23rd 2010. This show explores art that takes someone from the past and re-imagines them in the present. With further funding for “Open A.I.R.” we will be able to turn this program, which was once only an experiment, into a permanent part of A.I.R. Gallery. Your donation to “Open A.I.R.” gives us a chance to provide the curators with a stipend for organizing such wonderful exhibits as well as supplying increased funds to go toward supporting the show. Your contributions will also make available the tools and resources we need to make the exhibits possible- including gallery hardware, press materials and comprehensive marketing to bring visibility to “Open A.I.R.” and the women who are involved in it.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 12, 2010.
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You have the option of being put on the A.I.R. Gallery mailing list and recieving our email updates about exhibitions, perfomances and any other gallery news.
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Mini catalogue on A.I.R. Gallery’s history. Featuring pictures of the gallery from 1972 to the present and telling the history of the first all women’s gallery.
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Limited edition artist designed canvas tote bag. Bag designed by Simone Meltesen, reads “collect womens art”.
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Limited edition artist designed canvas tote bag with three rare catalogues by the artists at A.I.R Gallery.
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Catalogue collection featuring 7 rare catalogues by the artists at A.I.R. Gallery.
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Collection of 3 surprise, unique, small works that were featured in A.I.R. Gallery’s annual postcard show. Your chance to own one-of-a-kind pieces of work by local and national artists.
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Collection of 5 surprise, unique, small works from A.I.R. Gallery’s annual postcard show.
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Limited edition artist designed canvas tote bag, designed by Simone Meltesen filled with catalogue collection featuring five rare catalogues by the artists at A.I.R. Gallery as well as a collection of 10 surprise, unique, small works from A.I.R. Gallery’s annual postcard show.
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Original A.I.R. Gallery print portfolio. Our present New York artist members created this most recent portfolio in 2006 for exhibition venues and as an important archival addition to two other print portfolios, one created in the 1970’s and one in the 1990’s. The portfolio consists of 20 works measuring 22 x 30 inches each and printed in color on archival paper. This is your chance to have a collection of prints from brilliant artists including Susan Bee, Daria Dorosh, Regina Granne, Michi Itami, Carolyn Martin, Louise McCagg, JoAnne McFarland, Sylvia Netzer, Ann Pachner, Barbara Roux, M. Luisa Sartori, Ann Schaumburger, Kathleen Schneider, Ursula Schneider, Francie Shaw, Barbara Siegel, Joan Snitzer, Alice Steinhardt, Nancy Storrow and Deborah Wasserman. Your opportunity to have collected works from these fine artists.
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The majority of women artists in the late 1960's had few places to exhibit their art. In response to this problem, a group of women artists founded A.I.R. (Artists in Residence) in 1972. It was the first cooperative for women artists in the United States. The goal of the gallery has been to provide a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists to show work of quality and diversity. The gallery's exhibiting artists are a core group of 22 New York based artists and 20 artists from around the United States. A.I.R. is an artist directed and maintained gallery that has provided a sense of community for women and served as a model for other alternative galleries and organizations. Through lectures, symposia and a Fellowship Program for emerging women artists, A.I.R. serves to maintain a political awareness and voice and to bring a new understanding to old attitudes about women in the arts.
A.I.R. Gallery is a non-profit Organization.
