AWARE launches a newversion of its website
Wednesday June 5, 2024

AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions is proud toannounce, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the evolution of its website
through a redesign of the layout and the launch of a new section in Japanese,accessible from 5 June 2024. This development reflects the breadth of theassociation’s activities and its international reach, enabling it to better showcase
its academic and educational content, public events and the programmes at its
Paris headquarters, the Villa Vassilieff.

‘I’m very proud to be celebrating AWARE’s 10th anniversary by adding a third
language to our website, broadening our reach to a country and a culture of
extraordinary refinement and history, where there have been many womenartists, many of whom have travelled the world. The mobility of women artists isa very surprising feature of our research. The work on Japan is part of a wider,long-term project on Japan and South-East Asia, in collaboration with local
partners and specialists. Opening this new section of the website will help enrich
our international relations’Camille Morineau
Executive Director of AWAREAWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions is proud toannounce, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the evolution of its website
through a redesign of the layout and the launch of a new section in Japanese,accessible from 5 June 2024. This development reflects the breadth of theassociation’s activities and its international reach, enabling it to better showcase
its academic and educational content, public events and the programmes at its
Paris headquarters, the Villa Vassilieff.
Over the last 10 years, the AWARE website has become a one-of-a-kind resourceof, with almost artist 1,200 biographies, texts written by over 500 researchers,curators and art historians from all over the world, and over 100,000 visits permonth. Last year, two programmes enabled AWARE to extend the chronologicalscope of its index of artist: ‘Re-illuminating the Age of Enlightenment: Women
Artists of the Eighteenth Century’, and the ‘+1 Programme’, which brought
forward in time by one year the limit on artists’ birthdates. The chronologicaland geographical scope of the website, as well as the diversity of its content andmultimedia offerings, make it a tool for professionals and the general publicalike.
The website’s new Japanese-language section is a dedicated entry point fordiscovering Japanese artists, making this content accessible to new audiences.
This section is born from work carried out in the region over the last 2 years incollaboration with Japanese experts and institutions, thanks to the programmes‘Women Artists in Japan: 19th - 21st Century’, ‘TEAM: Teaching, E-learning,
Agency, Mentoring’, and a new programme ‘Women Artists in New Media’.
Concurrently, AWARE is also launching its partnership with the Bloomberg
Connects platform, where it is sharing its multimedia content to reinforce theinternational visibility of women artists.
About the AWARE website
The AWARE website has become a unique online resource, focusing on 3 major
areas:
Increasing diversification of content and an opening up to the generalpublic: video interviews with AWARE prize nominees, animated films, and also
podcasts since 2020 with the series ‘Great Women of Art’ and ‘Women house’.
The new website layout with its ‘Watch and Listen’ tab provides easy access tothis multimedia content.
A chronological expansion of the index of artists, with the aim ofgradually broadening it:- Nineteenth-century artists from 2021;- Artists born in 1974 from 2024;- Eighteenth-century artists, opening in 2024.
A number of texts are linked to the index: a series of thematic focuses, research
articles, interviews and reviews provide an introduction to a number of artisticand historical issues. A ‘Read’ tab in the new website layput will make it easier tofind this content and understand how it relates to the artists in the index.
Geographical breadth: AWARE seeks to ensure the right balance between
the local and international scenes by working with committees of experts andpartner organisations throughout the world. Since 2020, AWARE has beendeveloping specific research programmes to publish resources on previously
under-represented geographical areas and themes:- Research programme on artists from the African continent: launched in 2020
and renewed in 2023 under the title ‘Tracing a decade: women artists of the1960s in Africa’, in collaboration with the Njabala Foundation;- ‘The Flow of History. Southeast Asian Women Artists’: a research programme
on Southeast Asian artists launched in 2023, in collaboration with the Asia ArtArchive;- ‘The Origin of Others. Rewriting Art History in the Americas, 19thCentury - Today’: a research programme on Black and Indigenous artists in theAmericas (since 2022), in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute, WOPHA(Women Photographers International Archive) and the Pérez Art MuseumMiami;- ‘Women Artists in Japan: 19th - 21st Century’: a research programme on Japaneseartists launched in 2022;- AWARE x Canada: a programme of publications on Canadian artists launchedin 2022.
To widely disseminate research on women artists and gender studies, AWARE alsoorganises symposiums, round tables and seminars locally at the Villa Vassilieff,
or in partnership with institutions, universities, museums and other independent
structures internationally. The new website layout features two tabs which makeit easier to publicise these events, ‘Villa Vassilieff’ and ‘Events’.
About the programmes‘Re-illuminating the Age of Enlightenment: Women Artists of the 18th Century’
AWARE’s tenth anniversary marks a new stage in the association’s journeyback through the centuries, revisiting the history of eighteenth-century art. Reilluminating the Age of Enlightenment is a research programme carried out incollaboration with the Rijksmuseum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the FineArts, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario, which aims
to highlight the cultural and social contributions of women artists throughout
the 18th century. This programme reveals their trajectories and works in a wide
variety of artistic disciplines, as well as their organisation in networks thattranscended borders. This programme is supported by the Tavolozza Foundation,
Anne-Françoise Gavanon and Frederick Mulder LTD.
‘+1 Programme’
AWARE is extending the chronological limits of its index and publishing newbiographies of international artists born in 1973 and 1974. The +1 Programmemarks a gradual opening up of the AWARE site to the contemporary period byallowing the inclusion of a new year of birth for artists every year. For the first andsecond years of the +1 Programme, AWARE is collaborating with Camille Richert,
art historian, curator and AWARE 2022 Awards reporter, who has compiled a listof international artists and authors to whom AWARE has entrusted the writingof the texts. This programme is supported by Maison Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin,
founded in 1772.
‘Women artists in Japan: 19th - 21st century’
This programme is a four-year research programme designed to highlight theartistic production and contributions of women artists in Japan to world culturalhistory. A committee of experts, made up of specialists in contemporary art,
photography, nihonga (Japanese painting), yôga (Western-style painting) andwomen artists accompanies the project to represent the diversity of the Japanese
art scene through the prism of gender. This programme is supported by Cartier.
Press contact
Agence Dezarts
Manon Vaillant: +33 (0)6 47 66 86 07
Noalig Tanguy: +33 (0)6 70 56 63 24
agence@dezarts.fr
Practical information
AWARE
Villa Vassilieff
21 avenue du Maine
75015 Paris France
awarewomenartists.com+33 (0)1 55 26 90 29
Social media
Twitter, Facebook et Instagram@AwareWomenArt‘TEAM: Teaching, E-Learning, Agency, Mentoring’
TEAM is an international academic network set up in 2020 with the aim ofcollecting and publishing resources produced by academics on women artists
and training a new generation of researchers in issues of equality in art history.
TEAM is also a network for solidarity and transnational reflection on the issues
shared by these art historians. To date, the TEAM network has 17 members and
80 students (masters, doctorate) whose research covers 5 continents.
About Bloomberg Connects
Bloomberg Connects is an app that offers access to exhibitions, collections andrenowned artists at over 400 museums and other cultural organizations.