INVITATIONAL ART EXHIBITION Susan Hensel OPENING ONLINE SOON Pandemic Art Lessons: A Women’s Art Institute Online Initiative  October 26–December 11, 2020 Featured artists invitational art exhibition online: Hend al-Mansour, Rajee Aryal, Leslie Barlow, Beth Bergman, Teresa Cribelli, Rita Collins, Paola de la Calle, Nicole Drilling, Carolyn Halliday, Susan Hensel, Fawzia Khan, Sarah Kilgallon, Catherine Alice Michaelis, Gwen Partin, Nancy Robinson, Natalie Vestin During these months of the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation and social upheaval, artists have turned on their creativity, delving deeply into their studio practice. While some have taken on these events as a subject, others have seemingly worked in opposition to its effect on our lives. In these wide-ranging responses to our invitation, artists demonstrate that art cannot be denied even in these confounding times. Here’s what sixteen invited women and non-binary artists are thinking about now. – Patricia Olson and Paige Tighe, Co-curators Invitational Art Exhibition with Susan Hensel I am exhibiting works completed during the pandemic: Escape Capsule and Chromatic Flutter. About Women’s Art Institute: Since 1999, Women’s Art Institute offers events of interest to contemporary women’s art practice, as well as a four-week summer intensive studio course for advanced women artists of all ages and backgrounds. [...]