A special invitiation to participate - Join us in Celebrating Women and Women Artists Around the World: Live Art Installation and Open Mic, March 26th- March 31st, NYC and around the world

International Women Artists’ Salon is honored to invite YOU to join us in celebrating Women and Women Artists Around the World by contributing to our collaborative site specific art installation and/or participating in open mic nights at our partner venue, Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC, March 26th - March 31st.  Any woman (artist or non-artist) near or far are invited to contribute and our male friends are invited to show their support in conjunction with the international SWAN Day events around the world (Support Women Artists Now).

A special message from our Founder, Heidi Russell...

Celebrating Women around the World!

In honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, National Women's History Month, and the international SWAN Day festivities (Support Women Artists Now), I am thrilled to announce that we have secured a venue partnership with Manhattan Theatre Source for a 5-day celebration of women and women's artistry, March 26th through March 31st, with our March Salon gathering closing out the celebration on Thursday, March 31st.

Let's celebrate each other and our connections, our individual and collective creative forces, and being Women, with women all around the world!

You can participate even if you are located outside of NYC! Please read on and send to me ideas of your contribution from your location (if you'd like to do something local in tandem and/or send me something to add to our installation here in NYC).

Looking forward to honoring, celebrating, and supporting women and women artists around the world with each of you!

Creative Cheers~Heidi
646.272.8879 cell
heidirussellpublicist@gmail.com
http://womenartsalon.blogspot.com
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International Women Artists' Salon Celebrates Women and Women Artists around the World

March 26 - March 31, 2011

In conjunction with International SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now)
Site Specific Installation

We will have the front window box stage of Manhattan Theatre Source, where we will create together a site specific installation throughout the week...you can come by anytime MTS is open (see hours below) to participate/make your contribution...all disciplines are invited to contribute to the installation through visual art, writing, movement, music, sound, performance (think out of the box...dance around the physical piece, embed a video or sound element, perform with the piece, etc). We are also inviting other women artists to make contributions: MTS artists and patrons going in and out of the venue, passerbyers from the street (window box visible from the street), your friends and colleagues. There will be a component where men can even show their support through a SWAN fan book!

Nightly Open Mic and Salon Member Feature Performers
-We have the time period of 6-8pm for showcasing our performance based and writer members and opening up the mic for any other women performers, writers, etc. who would like to participate. Please contact me to let me know if you would like to be one of the feature performers/readers, and which evening you can perform or read.

Documentation of the Installation and Performances
-We would like to document the installation development by video and photographs, so come by with your video camera and camera and contribute to the documentation if you have the equipment and interest.

Other activity at MTS
-Salon member Lourdes Rameriz will be installing her show in the main gallery on Monday, March 28th, and a play honoring the tragedy and transformation that was the Triangle Factory Fire by Looking for Lilith Theatre Company: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle will be playing in the main theater March 24-27th, 2pm. See below for details.

March Salon Gathering
March 31st, 6:30- 9pm, gathering at Manhattan Theatre Source
Let me know if you'd like to present work.
Stay tuned for a Facebook event to share. Feel free to pass this email along to other women and women artists who you would like to invite to participate in this celebration.

Here are the details...
International Women Artists' Salon Celebrates Women and Women Artists around the World at Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street (between 8th Street and Waverly Place, NW of Washington Sq Park area)
http://theatresource.org/contact_us.php
212-260-4698

Directions:
ABCDEFV trains to West 4th Street, exit out of north end of station (8th Street exit), walk one block east to MacDougal on Waverly Place, turn left onto MacDougal towards 8th Street. MTS is on the west side of three, with a pink/red iron detailing on the outside of the building.

Schedule:
Friday, March 25th - Preparation of the installation foundation, lead by Cornelia Jensen and Stella Moulinos during the afternoon. If you are interested in participating in helping with the foundation development, cleaning the stage/window, creating signage, please let me know.

Saturday, March 26th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
2pm - Play: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle, in main theater space on 2nd floor
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Sunday, March 27th - Also World Theater Day
1pm - 7pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
2pm - Play: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle, in main theater space on 2nd floor
5pm - 7pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Monday, March 28th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
Afternoon - installation of Lourdes Rameriz' exhibition in gallery space
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Tuesday, March 29th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Wednesday, March 30th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Thursday, March 31st
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6:30pm - 9:00pm - March Salon gathering - open house

Information about the play:
Tickets for the play at 2pm on March 24th-27th are available for Salon members at each (put in SALON for the promotion code if buy online here or tell ticket person you are a member of Heidi's Salon.

https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8721425

Here is information about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire the play is based on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent immigrant Jewish women aged sixteen to twenty-three. [1] Many of the workers could not escape the burning building because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits. People jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. The factory was located in the Asch Building, at 29 Washington Place, now known as the Brown Building, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark.[2]

Member Spotlight: Rica Takashima, contemporary artist and manga graphic novelist, participates in BAAD!'s 'Dykes Draw the Line' slide show, discussion and comix mayhem in Bronx, NY on Sunday, March 20th, 6-7:30pm

International Women Artists’ Salon is honored to announce member Rica Takashima will be participating in a slide show, discussion and comix mayhem at BAAD!  Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance on Sunday, March 20, 2011 , 6-7:30pm...

 

"Rica & Miho" A pair of lovers in Rica 'tte Kanji!? 

 

 

Dykes Draw the Line

Slide Show, Discussion and Comix Mayhem

with cartoonists:

Jennifer Camper (Juicy Mother)

Diane DiMassa (Hothead Paisan)

Joan Hilty (Bitter Girl)

Rica Takashima (Rica ‘tte Kanji!?)

Sunday March 20, 2011   6-7:30pm

BAAD!  Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

841 Barreto Street, 2nd Floor, Bronx, NY

http://www.bronxacademyofartsanddance.org/

Trains: 6 to Hunts Point Ave., 2 or 5 to Simpson St.

For anyone inspired by comics, no experience necessary.

About the cartoonists:

Jennifer Camper’s books include Rude Girls and Dangerous Women and subGURLZ, and she’s the editor of two Juicy Mother comix anthologies. Her cartoons and illustrations have appeared in magazines, newspapers, comic books, anthologies, and bathroom walls, and have been exhibited internationally. www.jennifercamper.com

Diane DiMassa is the creator of the comic Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, the castrating classic cult cartoon heroine. She also illustrated the graphic novel, Jokes and the Unconscious, written by Daphne Gottlieb. Her work has appeared in many comic anthologies and has been shown from NYC to Amsterdam. Recently, DiMassa has plunged into oil painting and street art. www.hotheadpaisan.com (and) www.dianedimassa.com

Joan Hilty is the creator of the comic strip Bitter Girl, distributed to print and web everywhere by Q Syndicate since 2001. She was a longtime editor at DC Comics and has contributed to various publications including Gay Comix, The Advocate, Juicy Mother, andMs Magazine. www.joanhilty.net

Rica Takashima is a cartoonist and pop artist. She created the yuri manga series, Rica ‘tte Kanji!? and has had exhibitions and shows in museums and galleries internationally. Originally from Tokyo, she's lived in NYC since 2008. www.AozoraArt.com

 

"Rica & Miho" A pair of lovers in Rica 'tte Kanji!? 

 

Rica Takashima Bio

Contemporary artist and manga graphic novelist Rica Takashima’s vivid and socially challenging work has appeared in a number of exhibits including Instant Gender, part of the 2009 New York City Pride March; A Second Chance through manga art, part of the 2009 ComicArt event in New Jersey, and Who Are You?, a showcase of artists-in-residence presented at the Tachikawa International Art Festival 2006, in Tokyo.  
 
Rica ‘tte Kanji, a graphic novel illustrated and written by Rica Takashima, debuted from ALC Publishing, in 2003, and she was Guest of Honor at the international manga conventions MangaNext, Yuricon and Yurisai. 
 
Takashima’s award-winning short film, Talking About Amy, screened on Young Director’s Night at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art’s Muse festival, as well as festivals in Canada, Turkey, Japan and elsewhere. Her photographic series, Photos of Aozora Art, was part of the 2000 Japanese Seasons1 exhibit sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Commission of Photographic Art and Heritage, in Moscow. 
 
Director of the Artists Support Council and full member of the Art Resources Development Association, both in Japan, Takashima earned a Bachelor of Art degree in Fine Arts from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She currently lives in New York.   Rica can be reached at ricatakashima@yahoo.com

About BAAD!  Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Crowned "a funky and welcoming performance space" by The New York Times, BAAD! is an art, performance and cultural workshop space that presents cutting-edge and challenging works by established, evolving and emerging choreographers, playwrights, poets, musicians and visual and performing artists.

BAAD! is the home of Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre and the Bronx Dance Coalition.

BAAD! presents four annual festivals, BAAD! ASS WOMEN, THE BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES, OUT LIKE THAT! and the BlakTino Performance Series. BAAD! celebrates the arts created by and featuring women, people of all colors and/or the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community.

COME TO BAAD! WHERE IT'S ALL GOOD.

email: crg_bx@yahoo.com

phone: 718-842-5223

web: http://www.BronxAcademyOfArtsAndDance.org

Member Spotlight: Judith Z. Miller, artist, writer and spiritualist, will read her erotic writings in "Essensuality: An Evening of Erotic Expression" in New York, New York on Saturday, March 19th, 8:00-11:00 pm.

International Women Artists' Salon is pleased to announce that Judith Z. Miller will be reading her erotic writing in "Essensuality: An Evening of Erotic Expression" at WOW Cafe Theatre, in New York, NY on Saturday, March 19th, 8:00-11:00 pm.

Essensuality:
An Evening of Erotic Expression

Sex, love, relationship…

 
Anger, passion, longing…

Unspoken desires, unrealized fantasies,

Unheard of sensual adventures…


...Essensuality invites out the essence of sensuality. The raw, vulnerable, uncensored, tender – usually private – moments step out into the spotlight to be shared. In poetry, spoken word, dance. Comedy, storytelling, music. Or some genre of your own imagination.

The evening will include: Featured acts, open mic performances, and spontaneous combustion…not necessarily in that order. Comfortable seating in the round, a limited bar, and an unrushed evening of erotic expression. Opportunities to laugh, cry…and blush.

Bring yourself, your friends, your lovers. Your desire, your embarrassment, your uncertainty. It's all welcome here! After all, that's what it is to be a sensual being. And that's what we're celebrating...the sensuality that lives — whether hidden or on the sleeve — of every single one of us.

Saturday, March 19 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
WOW Cafe Theatre
59-61 East 4th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY

FEATURED PERFORMERS 3/19/11

*Judith Z. Miller lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe; she writes as a way of coping with its beauty, sensuality, frustrations and ecstasies. Here in New York, she has read at events sponsored by organizations such as Nehirim, Zeek Magazine, Essentuality, and at venues such as Blue Stockings, The Jewish Community Center, Wow Café Theatre - and late at night to her girlfriends in bed. (extended bio below)

*She's Black, He's Jewish, They're Married, Oy Vey!
Essensuality welcomes back Epstein and Hassan, known on the NYC comedy circuit as The Black and the Jew, a husband and wife comedy team willing to talk about "all things that make us nervous!" New York Daily News has called them "the Burns & Allen or the Lucy & Desi of the new millennium." They will bring their unique blend of shoot-from-the-hip truth-telling and hilarious insights on relationships, politics, families, race and, of course, sex. Epstein and Hassan will reveal how BlackJew Love Technology could save the planet!

*Jeremy Edwards (www.jeremyedwardserotica.com) writes quirky erotic fiction celebrating joyful sensuality, libidinous urgency, offbeat romanticism, and the pleasures of language and laughter. His novel Rock My Socks Off is an eroto-comedic romp through academia, live television, and a dysfunctional rocking-horse museum. The book takes on a theatrical dimension at Essensuality, as the author performs a favorite chapter in a live reading seasoned with improv and audience participation.

*Performance poet, Aimee Herman, works as editor of erotica for Oysters & Chocolate. She has performed at various reading series including In the Flesh, Queer Lit Carnival and The Red Umbrella Diaries in NYC. She can be read in the anthologies, Best Lesbian Love Stories (Alyson Books), Best Women's Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press) and Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Cleis). She promises to excite, enthrall, entice and...perhaps even reveal all!

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door
For tickets and information: www.thesensuallife.com/events 

TO PERFORM: Contact Monica Day by email monica@thesensuallife.com

*Special Note:*
This performance of Essensuality is the finale of the four-day festival:
The Sexual Act: An Experimental Erotic Performance Art Festival
"Exploring intimacy and how we relate to it"
Wed-Sat, March 16-19, 2011

To learn more about the other performances, and obtain a discounted festival pass go to http://passionatepersuasions.blogspot.com/

 

Judith Z. Miller

 

Judith Z. Miller lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe; she writes as a way of coping with its beauty, sensuality, frustrations and ecstasies. Here in New York, she has read at events sponsored by organizations such as Nehirim, Zeek Magazine, Essentuality, and at venues such as Blue Stockings, The Jewish Community Center, Wow Café Theatre - and late at night to her girlfriends in bed. Judith was trained as an actress in Washington DC, co-founded The Fine Line Actors Theatre (formerly Earth Onion Women's Theatre) and acted in numerous productions in the DC area. Her grant writing skills and hustling ability enabled the theatre to raise the necessary funds to produce its performances and special constituency projects, including the groundbreaking Women’s Prison Project. She spent six weeks teaching and performing in a women’s federal penitentiary, co-created original works with the communities the company’s various special projects served, developed her own dramatic and comedic original performance material, and was awarded an NEA Arts Management Fellowship in Theatre. Judith was the founder and director of ZAMO! (Zelda Arts Management Organization), an arts management organization that represented a multi-cultural mix of world-class award winning performing artists for over 20 years. She wrote promotional materials for the artists she represented, study guides for the Kennedy Center. and developed curricula for workshops shecontinues to teach on self-promotion for performers, presented by organizations such as The Field, The Red Tent Women’s Project and the Brooklyn Arts Counsel. In 2008 her paper “Sometimes a Tree Isn’t Just a Tree,” was read at the First International LSP-and Translation Studies Oriented Textual Analysis conference at Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco. She is the Chief Rhythm officer of Microfundo, a crowdfunding platform supporting musicians worldwide, where she co-develops the company’s programs and website content. Judith’s blog, Artist Soul Speaks, is a forum for arts, culture, and community in NYC and beyond. She is also a visual artist who creates primal sculpture and wearable art from trees and stones. Currently Judith is developing as an intuitive healer, via spontaneous chanting and the use of percussive shakers to stimulate trance – all the while attempting to translate these ecstatic experiences into words. She published in Inside Arts magazine, The Washington Post, and American Theatre magazine. Judith is a 2011 British Airways Face-to- Face Opportunity contest winner just recently returned from journeying to Thailand where she met with indigenous woodcarvers and shaman. She resides in Park Slope Brooklyn.

Website: http://www.zamo-zamo.com

Blog: http://www.ArtistSoulSpeaks.wordpress.com

Featured Member Fractured Atlas:
http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/ 2009/10/16/featured-member-judith-z-miller/
 

Member Spotlight: Lynn McGee, Poet: Feature presenter in “A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations”, Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm, The Old Stone House in Brooklyn, NY

International Women Artists’ Salon is thrilled to announce member Lynn McGee will be reading her poetry in “A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations” on Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm at The Old Stone House 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY

Re: Blarneypalooza  
(Get Your Irish Up! No Green Beer)

A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm,
The Old Stone House

336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

(718) 768-3195

Presented by Brooklyn Reading Works 

~D/N/R train to 9th St/4th Ave, then walk down 4th Avenue till you take a right on 3rd Street~

Blarneypalooza is a literary celebration of Irish writers and influence planned with Saint Patrick’s Day in mind.

For more information: www.blarneypalooza.com

The following artists will read/perform:

Lynn McGee's poems were just published in The New Guard, where one was a finalist and one a semi-finalist in that magazine's contest judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall. Two of her poems are forthcoming in NYC Big City lit, and others have appeared in the Kennesaw Review, Ontario Review, Northwest Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sun magazine, Phoebe, Brooklyn Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Southern Anthology, Laurel Review and other journals. Lynn's poetry chapbook, Bonanza, won the  Slapering Hol national manuscript contest; she won the In Our Own Write and Judith’s Room Emerging Writers contests in New York City, received a MacDowell fellowship, and earned an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. She spent over 15 years working in literacy, and works now as the Internal Writer for a CUNY college.

On Larry Honig: An avowed Situationist, this dude is way too old to behave the way he does. He's wanted in 6 countries and wishes his epitaph to contain a line from the police report: "He was found without pants."

Barbara O'Dair is a long-time magazine editor and writer who lives with her husband and four children in New Jersey. She graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in American Studies and from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina with a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry. She has edited two collections of writings, Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography and Censorship, and Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock. In 2002, as the editor of Teen People, she instituted a regular poetry column and contest. Currently, as the executive editor for Reader's Digest, she oversees poetry in the magazine. Her journalism, essays and poetry have been published in many magazines, newspapers, journals and online publications.


Pat Smith’s play Driving Around the House has been produced in theaters around the country and is published by New Rivers Press. He regularly posts new poems on his blog Not in the News Today . Recent work has appeared in the online journal Haggard and Halloo and is soon to be published in Used Furniture Review.  He will be curating a Brooklyn Reading Works program in September.

Native New York poet Michele Madigan Somerville is the author of Black Irish (2009), a book of verse about being a NYC Irish Catholic, and WISEGAL (2001) a book-length poem.  Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including Fickle Muses and Eureka Street and she has won a few poetry prizes including a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry, Honorable Mention in Dublin Ireland’s Davoren Hanna contest (sponsored by Eason Books -- judge: Charles Simic), First Place Prize in the 2000 W. B. Yeats Society’s Poetry Competition (judge: Billy Collins).  She posts poems and poems-in-progress on Fresh Poetry  She written about religion for the New York Times, and her essays on religion and education appear regularly on her websites Indie Theology  and Bored-O-Ed respectively as well as regularly on  religion and education pages of the Huffington Post.

Michael Sweeney a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, earned his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College and teaches at Fairfield University. In Memory of the Fast Break (Plain View Press, 2008).

Introducing: Salon Miami!‏

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce the start up of our first local salon outside of our founding city of New York.  

Welcome to Salon Miami!!!!
 

Photo by Jeff Riegel

We look forward to learning more about member artists in and around Miami and Salon Miami's activities in 2011!

Photo by Jeff Riegel

You may learn more about Salon Miami and it's artists and activities at their blog at http://salonmiami.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-environments-photos_07.html

Amanda Serrano,
founding member of Salon Miami

If you know of any women artists of any of the creative disciplines* in the greater Miami area, please pass along our invite for them to connect with Salon Miami.

Contact:  Amanda Serrano at amanda@amandaserrano.com

Photo by Jeff Riegel

International Women Artists' Salon now has over 125 members hailing from all areas of the world.

Any woman artist of any discipline*, any stage of creative career and background, any age, any location around the world is welcome to join International Women Artists' Salon by contacting Heidi Russell at heidirussellpublicist@gmail.com.  If you are interested in forming a local salon that is connected with International Women Artists' Salon, please contact Heidi.  We are also looking to connect with women- run and women-artist-focused organizations around the world to share resources and creative energy.

Happy Creative 2011!!

*including music, theater, comedy, dance, writing, video, film, installation, visual arts, critical writing, curatorial, art administration, art history, etc

Creative Resource: EzTextiles - Extensive Online Textile Design Resource

International Women Artists' Salon is pleased to start sharing creative resources! We begin with EzTextiles, the world’s largest online source for royalty-free, production-ready textile designs. Today they launch their vintage library!

FOR RELEASE MARCH 15, 2011

EzTextiles® Adds 325,000-Plus Vintage Print Images to Popular Online Textile Design Resource
EzTextiles® has added a new Vintage Library with more than 325,000 high-resolution digital swatches to its popular EzTextiles.com online textile design service. The new library expands the scope of the more than 25-million existing plaids and stripes, prints, and knit designs already available at the site. The vintage designs, which include a variety of colorways and repeat patterns, cover more than 75 categories.

New York, NY – March 15, 2011 – EzTextiles, LLC announces the addition of a new Vintage Library to its fast-growing EzTextiles.com (http://www.eztextiles.com) online digital textile design resource center. Amassed over the past decade, the more than 325,000 vintage print images are becoming part of what is already the world’s largest online digital textile design resource with more than 25-million royalty-free woven plaids and stripes, prints, and knit designs. The innovative and unique site provides textile design content developed primarily for the apparel, accessories, home fashions, and related industries. Digital swatches from all EzTextiles.com libraries can be freely viewed and are available for purchase and immediate download based on a variety of subscription plans. During a limited-time launch period, newly registered users to the site can download 25 sample images.

According to Brian Kaminer, owner of a New York-based merchandising design firm that provides design direction for the U.S. Polo Association clothing line, “EzTextiles offers textile patterns in a convenient online platform at a fraction of the traditional price. When I showed the site to my design team, they knew just what to do and went crazy with it.”

The new library includes more than 75 categories of vintage prints. Vintage images can be searched by category, size, keywords, and other attributes. All of the 300 dpi TIF-formatted images are offered in a wide range of color options and are in repeat. In contrast to the production-ready original designs created for the other libraries on the site, vintage items are provided for use as inspiration and reference only. While the Vintage images are believed to be old and in the public domain, they are not warranted to be free of copyright restrictions.

All EzTextiles.com libraries provide visitors convenient search and visualization tools, the ability to save images to a personal collection, and visualize and evaluate patterns on more than 500 built-in apparel, footwear, accessories, home fashion, and other product sketches and photos. EzTextiles plans to add more vintage prints as well as new image categories as fashions evolve.

Textile designer Robin Lewellen, who has worked with design teams from Abercrombie & Fitch and Express, shares in the enthusiasm for the site. “Because EzTextiles does a lot of the trend research, the website allows me to spend more time experimenting with patterns and colorways as I develop new lines. Seeing the patterns on other items such as a scarf also expanded my thinking on different applications for the designs.”

EzTextiles has also integrated a blog on the site to enhance the user experience by informing visitors on industry trends and providing free textile and fashion industry news and reports. The new design portal, located at http://www.EzTextiles.com/blog, goes beyond simple distribution of information by providing readers with relevant EzTextiles designs and collections through the click of a mouse.

“We are pleased to make this exciting vintage collection and blog available to EzTextiles.com visitors and subscribers”, noted EzTextiles Vice President Tracy Sano. “After years of collecting and cataloging these images, this important step furthers our goal of providing a user-friendly and cost-effective design tool for a wide range of industry students, freelancers, professionals, and executives.”

About EzTextiles, LLC

EzTextiles.com is the world’s largest online source for royalty-free, production-ready textile designs. By making images available at the click of a mouse, it eliminates the traditional, time consuming and costly practice of manually searching, buying, and converting textile designs for each new season or product line. This easy-to-use and affordable design tool was created for a broad range of professionals in both the apparel and home furnishings industries including designers, merchants, stylists, colorists, mills, students, and others that use textile designs for inspiration and new product development. Developed by Sano Design Services, the New York-based CAD studio/service bureau, EZtextiles.com enables subscribers to immediately download production ready, editable designs that can be readily used in all CAD design software systems, Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®, and Microsoft® Excel®, Word, and PowerPoint® applications.

EzTextiles is a registered trademark of EzTextiles, LLC.

Adobe, Photoshop, and Illustrator are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

Microsoft, Excel, and PowerPoint are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

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Contact:

Mr. John Sano, President

Ms. Tracy Sano, Vice President

EzTextiles, LLC

info@eztextiles.com

(212) 679-6400

Member Spotlight: Artists Janet Restino and Maura McGurk Celebrating Women in the Arts March 19th and 26th at Queens Museum of Art

International Women Artists' Salon congratulates Janet Restino and Maura McGurk for their participation in Legros Cultural Arts' celebrating women in the arts series this month on March 19th and March 26 (two separate nights) at the Queens Museum of Art.

And for our Connecticut members and fans, you can see more of Janet Restino's work in
Brazilian Roots Cultural Center in Wallingford, CT tomorrow night, March 8th for International Women's Day celebration.

JANET RESTINO PRODUCTIONS celebrates
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

You are cordially invited to attend
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EXHIBITION
Opening Reception:
March 8th, from 6 - 8 pm
Artwork will be on display March 5th - 20th

ART OF COLLABORATIVE GIVING
128 Center Street     
Wallingford, CT 06492
(located in the Brazilian Roots Cultural Center)
Tel: (203) 269-9189
Email: info@ArtofCollaborativeGiving.com
www.ArtofCollaborativeGiving.com

Janet has 10 artworks  - prints and originals - in this group show.
Wonderful community events, classes and opportunities taking
place here!


Other Events:

Legros Cultural Arts, Inc
Promoting Arts and Culture
Women in Arts Series 2011
Please join us as we celebrate women artist in honor of SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now) during Women's History Month.  LCA is hosting several events in March to pay tribute to women in music, film, theatre, art, and dance. 

March 12, 2011    Women in Arts Series
Dix Hills Library 55 Vanderbilt Parkway Dix Hills, New York 11746
Art Exhibit and Performances
Featured Artists:  Susan Varo, Anu Annam, Sheila Blunt, Chrysandra Sanders, Sophia Bastos, Sonia Hopewell, Zakiya Mars, Special Performance by The Stage Door Dance School and Kaitlin White
Free Admission
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March 18, 2011    Women in Theatre
Bridge Theatre @Shetler Studios 244 West 54th Street New York, New York
Donation:  $20.00
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March 19, 2011 & March 26, 2011    Women in Arts
2:00pm-5:00pm
Queens Museum of Art
NYC Building @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park  Corona, NY 11368
Art Exhibit, Vocal Performance, Film Screening, Dance Performances
Featured Artists:  Susan Varo, Anu Annam, Sheila Blunt, Chyrsandra Sanders, Sophia Bastos, Sonia Hopewell, Simone Sobers, Shirley Crabbe, Flor Bromely, Jocelyne Dorisme, Greta Herron, Maura McGurk, Janet Restino, Andrea Cukier, Naomi Regis,
Donation: $20.00
City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras will be in attendance
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March 20, 2011   Women in Theatre
3:00 pm
Bridge Theatre @Shetler Studios  244 West 54th Street   
New York, New York
Featured Artist:  Pat Riley, Brittany Maldonado, Rashida Clarke, Nicole Rose
and more...
Donation:  $20.00
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March 24, 2011   Women in Music
7:00pm
Club Groove   125 Macdougal Street   New York, New York 10012
Featured Vocalists: Noreen Crayton, Flor Bromley, Penelope Thomas,
Greta Herron
Cover: $15.00
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March 31, 2011   Women in Arts Networking Event
6:30pm
Shetler Studios  244 West 54th Street    Penthouse #1
Guest Speaker:  Janet Foster-Casting Director, Charm Peake-Entertainment,
Renee Myvett, Esq. and more....
Donation: $15.00
Refreshments will be served

When April Happens  digital archival print 9.5 x 7.5"  framed 11 x 14" and larger
Edition of 50  with excerpt from artist's poem "Aprilling Away"