Play: A MAWA Members' Show and Sale

Opening: Friday, Nov 1, 2024, 5 - 8 pm at MAWA
Exhibition: Nov 1 - Dec 6, Wednesday - Friday, 10 am - 4 pm
Closing party: Friday, Dec 6, 5 - 8 pm

This fall, MAWA is hosting a members’ showcase and sale entitled Play. It features 89 artworks by MAWA members, in a wide range of styles and mediums. Some of the art is for sale, with all proceeds going to the artists.

Play exists for enjoyment. It encompasses sports, games and more. To play is to engage, to activate, to take part. One can play a trick or act in a play. It is also a move: “Nice play!” There is an aspect of improvisation, spontaneity and the unexpected to play: making it up as we go along. Play can have goals, literal and figurative, or be open-ended; it can move teams of people to physical prowess or take place in a single imagination; it can provide pleasure in doing and even in being watched. Play is one of the hallmarks of childhood—indeed an important way we learn—but is embraced by humans of all ages, as well as mammals and birds. As artists, making a mark, a stitch, a gesture or a sound intrinsically connects us with play, playfulness and the joy of being.

Susan Aydan Abbott and Yvette Cenerini , Adriana Alarcón, Marie Antonette Spectrum Artist, Carolina Araneda, Avery Ascher, Ana Azevedo, Lisa Bissett, Lilian Bonin, Jax Maria Boss, Carol Budnick, Connie Chappel, Karen Clark, Karen Clements, Coral, Karen Cornelius, Chloe Courchene, Alice Crawford, Sarah Crawley, Alison Davis, Jessica Dutka, Rosemary Dzus, Heidi Eigenkind, Corah Enns, Tracy Charette Fehr, Elvira Finnigan, Karen Fletcher, Leona Fontaine, Danielle Fontaine Koslowsky, Pamela Desmet Franklin, Charlie Franz, Gwen Freeman, Teresa Serafina Garside, Kate Geiger, Natasha Halayda, Bonnie Hallman, Leona Herzog, Jodi Hildebrand, Pamela Jeffrey, Desa Kalem, Nora Kobrinsky, Viktoriia Kost, Miranda Kudajczyk, Zoë LeBrun, Ingrid Lincoln, Monica Lowe, Annette Lowe, Kate Manchur, Francine Martin, Jordan Miller, Rose Montgomery-Whicher, Kimberly Moore, Allison Moore, Margot Morrish, Jacqueline Mouflier, Suzanne Mouflier, Kati Nagy, Ursula Neufeld, Loricia Pacholko, Susie Penner, Tracy Peters, Michelle Pichette, Anastassiya Polinkina, Carey Roess, Karen Schmidt Humiski, Karen Schulz, Elizabeth Sellors, Alaleh Sharghinezhad, Theresa Shaw, Charlotte Sigurdson, Barbara Smith, Daniela Smith-Fernandez, TJ Southam, Shanelle St. Hilaire, Stephanie Stetefeld, Leesa Streifler, Rae Swan, Terisa Taylor, Tree Tree Tes, Diana Thorneycroft, Patrick Treacy, Jackie Turnbull, Sheri Turner, Dulya Uhanovitage, Marika Veith, Tricia Wasney, Lisa Whitehouse, Daisy Wu, Lan Ping Xing, and Cheryl Zubrack