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American Women Artists' Association (USA, Canada, Mexico)

Asian American Women Artists Association (USA)
Organises exhibitions, publications, education projects and administers a support network for its US-wide members

Association for Women's Art and Gender Research in Israel (Israel)

AWITA - Association of Women in the Arts, London (UK)
Holds annual conference and events for members, women with 5+ years experience in the art world. Founded in 2016, main events held from 2022.

British Women Artists (2008-) runs an annual competition for women artists (UK)

Connecting Women Artists in Asia: CAWA, Asian Women Artists Connection (China)

EmPoderArte ((Spain))
50 women artists in Spain, association organising exhibitions

Female Artists Association of Nigeria (FEAAN) (Nigeria)

Feminist Image Group, FIG (Los Angeles) (USA)

FKF | Frauenkunstforum Südwestfalen (Germany)
a kunstverein / regional network for women artists in Germany

GEDOK (Germany)
Based in different organisational groups in different cities/regions - Stuttgart, Munich, Freiburg, Brandenburg, Koeln, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, Wuppertal, Bonn, Heidelberg - founded in 1926. GEDOK offers residencies, prizes, and supports women in the arts through a wide range of events.

IMAN, International Muslimah Women Artists Network (USA)
Established by Nora Hammoude and Safiya Godlas, a network and online member's gallery, based in the USA, site no longer operates: http://www.imanworld.org/Site_7/IMAN_.html

International Museum of Muslim Women: Muslima: Muslim Women's Art & Voices (USA, Sharjah, Denmark, The Philippines )
An offshoot of the Global Fund for Women aiming to profile Muslim women's voices in art and culture

KKS, ”Kvindelige Kunstneres Samfund” / Danish Women Artists Association (Denmark)
(Copenhagen, founded 1916) Celebrating 100 years of activity supporting women artists in Denmark in 2016

Korean American Women Artists and Writers Association (KAWAWA) (USA)
Site - http://www.kawawa.org/ - no longer active. Group still registered in San Francisco. Facebook page has replaced this link.

MAMA on PALETTE (Singapore)

Mujeres de artes visuales: Women in the Visual Arts (Spain)
MAVs are the association of Women in the Visual Arts, composed of more than 750 members from all the territories of the Spanish State, which covers the various fields of the arts: researchers, artists, curators, cultural managers, teachers, gallerists, specialized journalists, directors, coordinators and techniques of art centers, publishers, designers, critics, collectors, collectors, architects, etc.

National Art Education Association's Women's Caucus (USA)
Founded in 1973, this organisation compiled in 2019 a booklist of (US) sources on Zotero for teaching feminisms in art education.

National Association of Women Artists USA (USA)

National Women's Caucus for Art (USA)

New York Society of Women Artists (1925- ) (USA)

Nosotras proponemos/Compromiso de práctica artística feminista/Asamblea Permanente de Trabajadoras del Arte (Argentina) (International, Argentina)
Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French: This is the website for a 'Declaration of Commitment to Feminist Practices in Art, Permanent Assembly of Women Art Workers' and outlines actions taken in 2018 to support it in Argentina...ongoing... Around 3,000 artists, curators and activists across South America and Spain have signed it...

OWL, Frauenkunstforum-Archiv (Germany)
a kunstverein in Bielefeld,Germany of women artists from the region

Pen and Brush (USA)

San Francisco women artists association and gallery (USA)

Schweizerische Gesellschaft Bildender Kuenstlerinnen, SGBK * (Switzerland)

Society of Women Artists (UK)
founded in 1857, this artists' association holds an annual exhibition in London.

South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) (USA)

Sudanese Women Artists Association (Sudan)
active 2000-2002

SVBK, Amsterdam (women artist's organisation), archive housed at Atria (The Netherlands)
Archive of Stichting Vrouwen in de Beeldende Kunst (SVBK).SVBK's archives on women artists, collected between 1976-1993 are at Atria (formerly known as Aletta), Women's Library in the Netherlands.

The Female Artists Platform of African Artists Foundation, Lagos (2014- (Nigeria)
Last Project 2022, Through the Lens, on women's photography. Organised as part of the Association of African Artists.

Ulster Society of Women Artists (UK)

Vereinigung Bildender Kuenstlerinnen Oesterreichs (VBKO) (Austria)

We Are WIA (UK)

Women and The Art Forum, National Gallery, London ()
Network holds annual lecture, annual conference and reviews participation of women artists in National Gallery programmes.

Women and Their Work (USA)
Based in Austin Texas. Holds Artists Registry and organises exhibitions.

Women Artists of the West, Inc (USA)

Women in the Arts Foundation (WIA) (USA)
founded in 1971, incorporated in 1973 as a not-for-profit.

Women Painters of Washington (USA)
founded 1930

Women Printmakers of Austin (USA)
A US printmakers group

WomenArts (formerly) Fund for Women Artists (USA)
Based since Summer 2012 in Berkeley, ran SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) days (2008-2018, 2021), active since 1994.

Women's Art Association of Canada (Canada)

Women's Art Resource of Minnesota (WARM) (USA)
History recorded in J Inglot WARM. A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota(University of Minnesota Press, 2007) Smithsonian Museum archive of records from WARM, 1975-1999 digital archive of WARM journal, 1978-1982 at St Catherines University

Women's Arts Association / Cymdeithas Celfyddydau Menywod Cymru (Wales, UK)

Womens Caucus for the Arts (USA)
A national organisation for women in the arts

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