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By focusing attention on the work of women artists, SWAN Day helps people imagine what the world might be like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all
of our lives.
People celebrate this new holiday by participating in SWAN Day events and by making donations to their favorite women artists. The long term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities around the world to find new ways to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning.
There were over 170 SWAN Day 2009 events in 12 countries.
To see a list of all of them, please click here: List of SWAN Day 2009 Events>>
New This Year - Celebrate Women of the WPA
Since 2010 is the 75th Anniversary of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the U.S., WomenArts invites you to honor women artists of the WPA as part of your SWAN Day
celebration this year.
The WPA was a federal jobs program designed to stimulate the U.S. economy during the Great Depression of the 1930's. At its peak, the WPA employed over 40,000 artists. Find out more about how you can honor the women of the WPA at: www.WomenArts.org/swan/wpa
Special Thanks
SWAN Day 2009 is made possible by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lambent Fund of the Tides Foundation, and the Leo S. Guthman Fund, The Sister Fund, and by gifts of time, energy and money from artists and arts supporters around the world.
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