Femart Gallery Incorporated

The remedy to our lack of opportunities for our artists is to lease or gain a space in our community that will bring public awareness of the incredible women's art and how the value of these voices will lift and cultivate a better society.

We have already set aside a monthly fund of 50% of money in our bank account aside for future rent of a facility and must continue to grow our funding so that 50% increases.

Our main goal is to build a beautiful gallery that will also offer studio spaces for women along with a child care room and educational space. We want gallery hours and educational classes that will enhance community awareness and culturally benefit society.

Our strategy is building on our new women's art center that will provide a permanent location for our art exhibition opportunities, educational space for programs that will enhance skills and art business knowledge to increase visibility of women's art work in all galleries and to also provide studio space with child care that is needed for many mothers who struggle to find the time and space to work on their artwork.

We have also launched a program that we offer to Title I schools in Duval City - Women of Color in the Arts Speak. This program is has been delivered to Sandalwood High School Art class and Riverside High School Art class and is looking for more funding to help students identify with successful women of color who have emerged triumphantly even though they have face dual marginalization because of their gender and color of skin. This program promises a representation not found in local galleries or art museums.

FemArt also takes pride in addressing social systematic bias such as the myriad of stores that continue to display all white mannequins and FemArt has launched a program to bring awareness of the much needed diversity to our market and community so that young women can begin to see uniqueness is good and not all monochromatic. Art painted mannequins will begin to appear in shop windows to display the support of store owners to recognize that their customers are all unique and beautiful and should see themselves in various clothing.

Our new gallery is expected to be open in March 2022 and we look forward to building and cultivating a better society through women's visual voices.

Our capability is measurable by our seven board members who are experienced, educated and dedicated to making real changes in our society by promoting women artists and raising their value and income from their art. We are founded on Feminist values that began with the founders of this organization in 2017. The passion and support of the community is abundant and we believe that our organization's mission is solid and has already grown our organization leaps and bounds with a steady growth of members and community support.

So far we have represented over 300 wome artists, exhibited over 500 art pieces and have survived a pandemic by offering virtual art exhibitions.
We have offered classes to promote women artists with social media usage and how to write a compelling artist statement. Due to the pandemic we have only held one class on-line about how to be inspired to do art when it may be difficult.
We launched Women of Color in the Arts Speak that is a public service to Title I high school students in Duval City and have build a curriculum that can be delivered by a woman of color artist who shares her personal journey of triumph over obstacles and informs students of statistics and bias that exists in the art world and how they can pursue art careers in today's world and change those statistics. This program was received with high marks from the survey after each program at the Sandalwood High school and Riverside High School.
Another achievement is the gallery space that we have been donated to exhibit women's artwork that we are moving into in March 2022. This space will be a safe place for women to exhibit work, have studio space that will include child care nearby and will eventually have an Art Therapist in house to address many of the obstacles of emotional challenges unique to many women who have experienced trauma or debilitating emotional blocks that sometimes can block creativity.