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  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS

    Dear NAWA Members and Friends, NAWA is thrilled to share that this week's talented and brilliant #NAWAArtistOfTheWeek is: Susan Miller-Havens! Born and raised in New Jersey a bus ride from the NYC art world, Susan Miller-Havens has been a resident of Cambridge, MA for over four decades. She has two 20 year careers: one in the field of mental health, the other in fine arts. Originally a reconstructive surgical nurse at the Mass General Hospital, she was one of the founders of The Department of Psychiatry at The Cambridge Hospital. While working in a clinic she pursued a degree in studio art from Wellesley College where her honors advisers were the watercolorist Richard Yarde and landscape artist, James Wilson Rayen, both well represented artists. Drawn back to psychology she completed her Doctorate in Human Development from Harvard School of Education. After working in adoption reform as an educator she realized once again that she was drawn to expressing in paint what she had come to understand about human nature. We Are Not Privy #5 Women's Best Friends #3 Not primarily a portrait artist, Miller-Havens paintings focus on the subtleties within relationships and the human condition in general. She is known as an artist who invites the viewer into the painting through unexpected use of color, absence of background, and inventive cropping of the images. Her work is part of private collections in San Diego, Denver, Miami, New York, and Boston. Her commissions include the official portrait of Mayor Alice Wolf Hall of Fame basketball coach Patrick J. Riley and Harvard Dean Jerome T. Murphy. Her life size portrait of Cooperstown Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk is in the Permanent Collection of the National Portrait Gallery Washington D. C. as is her Portrait of Pedro J. Martinez. She is currently working on the series "Zooming Out" concerning the use of Zoom and the isolation of its participants during the pandemic . She is a member of The Harvard Arts in Education Advisory Council, The Art Connection Boston MA, The National Association of Women Artists, Who's Who in American Women, Who's Who In America, The Harvard Square Business Association The Harvard Square Neighborhood Association and Somerville Concord, Cambridge Artists Associations 2023 Series Zooming Out #5 Check out Susan's feature on the NAWA Instagram and Facebook. Click here to view more of her work! Stay well and keep creating! Sincerely, Christie Devereaux, NAWA President Susan Hammond, NAWA Vice President Jill Baratta, Executive Director {{Unsubscribe}} Office Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am-5pm Email: office@theNAWA.org Suggestions?

  • It's That Time Again- Open Studios May 6-7 12-6

    Five of the Artists Participating in Open Studios 2023

  • Supreme Court Justice Sonia Maria Sotomayor NPG

    Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and has served since August 8, 2009. She is the third woman, first woman of color, the first Hispanic, and first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court. She is pictured here along with El Orgullo y La Determinacion (Pedro Martinez portrait) in the National Portrait Gallery's invitation to children who would like to learn about art.

  • Somerville Open Studios

    At Long Last two years into the Pandemic Miller Street Artists Studios participated in Somerville's Annual Open Studies displaying a variety of art works. People were so delighted to have a free and open event to attend! Over 350 visitors enjoyed two days at Miller Street. Miller-Havens's "Zooming Out" oil paintings made their debut. 300 Artists opened their studios across Somerville making this the largest artist's community only second to NYC.

  • A Treasure Hunt for Young portrait explorers- Pedro Martinez portrait National Portrait Gallery D.C.

    A slide show with images created by the artist Miller-Havens to help children learn to look at a painting closely. She includes some of the steps in making the portrait as well as telling a short story about Pedro's life as a young boy. In the Fall of 2021, during Hispanic Month,The Education Dept at The NPG presented this in a zoom and powerpoint format that other teachers could might like to use.

  • "Looking At Men"

    Miller-Havens 2000 "Looking At Men" It is okay for men to stare at women . It is not okay for women to stare at men. Psychology tells us this double standard occurs because there are men who are subject to fetishes or more simply because they feel they have the right to stare. In art men often represent women as objects. Some women artists have broken into that system. Given the history and complexity of male/female relationships it is not surprising that there are women artists who respond to their experiences by softening, politicizing, or castrating the male image. These reactions were perhaps no better presented than in the 1980 London I.C.A. show "Women's Images of Men" and the resulting collection of essays edited by Kent and Morreau in 1985. As a feminist living in a world still without equality I have had to ask myself; What are the conditions that make it possible to admire the beauty, prowess and sensitivity of certain men? Is it realistic to believe that there is an alternative to the idolizing, bashing, or infantilizing of men that many female artists focused on in their artistic representations ? For ten years I used the images found in baseball, basketball, and football to record my reaction to the beauty and timelessness of athletic games. I believe that athletic competition in the United States has become a symbolic equivalent of war. Visually, the catchers' protective equipment in baseball, the helmets in football, and the physical height of the players in basketball recall the warriors, gladiators, and Vikings of years gone by, thus uniting the past with the present. I have tried to place images in a time that is ambiguous, thus asking the viewer to imagine what will or has happened. I intend to paint facial expressions that evoke a response from the viewer that originates in what I saw in the image while knowing each viewer will have their own subjective response. I mean to paint the individual male as possessor of his masculinity but also as possessor of a unique personality vulnerable to all of life's demands. I want to look at men and portray them not as objects nor still lifes as did Manet, but with a human connection as Mary Cassett did with women and children. #MikeMatheny #Men #FeministArt #WomenArtists #MenArtists #Athletes #Baseball #sports

  • Remembering the Days of Bobby Doerr

    #BobbyDoerr #Baseball #RedSox #JohnHenry #JoeCronin

  • Abstracts On Loan

    This work was selected from the Cambridge Arts Council Open Studios Artist Registry on SlideRoom by one of their Creative Marketplace Exhibitions program partners, Workbar, Inc., on Prospect St. Central Square Cambridge, MA, who sought to have works of local artists on display in their Cambridge offices for one year. These Three pieces from "The Looking For A Silver Lining Series" are part of that exhibit. #AbstractPaintings #fineart

  • Mike Matheny on his Mitt Collection

    Mike Matheny has collected a number of mitts as he has travelled the USA. I viewed them as what I call "Alive Still Lifes" They all have stories. Mike was kind enough to send me a box of them for a series I did.. Link to an audio message from him. #baseballmits #Matheny #StLouis

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