CERES GALLERY'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT

I am fundraising to support the Ceres Gallery's 40th Anniversary Exhibit - Diversity of Women's Voices

January, 2024 marks the fortieth anniversary of Ceres Gallery. Beginning in 1984, Rhonda Schaller, Polly Lai, Darla Bjork, Nancy Azara, all part of the New York Feminist Art Institute (NYFAI), and soon joined by Carol Goebel, Phyllis Rosser, Joan Arbeiter, Sandra Branch, and Vivien Tsao, Ceres Gallery began exhibiting art by women from a feminist, not-for-profit and alternative gallery space perspective. Ceres was established as a gallery and organization dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the visual arts as a way to remediate women’s limited access to commercial galleries. In doing so, the early members found that by allowing women artists to be fully able to decide what they were exhibiting and how they chose to do so, the advantages of an all-woman, artist-run, exhibition space allowed for greater artistic freedom, broader creativity, expanded personal artistic growth and stronger work.

Through the years, Ceres Gallery has been a leader for women artists breaking through the constraints of the commercial art world with powerful and poignant work. In 2024, we are forty showing artists strong, along with an equal number of artist supporters. Our anniversary exhibition, Diversity of Women’s Voices, shares the work of current active members and invited guest artists whose work, taken together, comprise a powerful exhibition that is a tribute to Ceres’ ongoing efforts for promoting art world equality and diversity.

Your contribution will help with publicity costs relating to this exhibit. I hope you will contribute to this effort to celebrate the artists of Ceres!

Thank you!