IWL Consortium Units Institute for Women and Art Established in 2006, the Institute for Women & Art (IWA) brings together Rutgers faculty, curators, researchers and artists on the Camden, New Brunswick and Newark campuses to promote the study of women and art and to advance the development of Rutgers University as an internationally-known center for the study of women and art. The vision of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art is to transform values, policies, and institutions, and to insure that the intellectual and aesthetic contributions of diverse communities of women in the visual arts are included in the cultural mainstream and acknowledged in the historical record. The mission of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art is to invent, implement, and conduct live and virtual education, research, documentation, public programs, and exhibitions focused on women artists and feminist art. The IWA strives to establish equality and visibility for all women artists, who are underrepresented and unrecognized in art history, the art market, and the contemporary art world, and to address their professional development needs. The IWA endeavors to serve all women in the visual arts and diverse global, national, regional, state, and university audiences. The Institute for Women & Art is actively engaged in: Exhibitions and public programming organized by the award-winning and nationally recognized Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, founded in 1971 by Joan Snyder, and other sponsored events through the US and abroad. http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/exhibits/dana_womens.shtml Educational and curricular development led by The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) website and the soon-to-be launched FARE: Feminist Art Resources in Education for K-12, college students and their teachers. http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu Research and documentation facilitated by the Getty and New Jersey State Council on the Arts-funded Women Artists Archives National Directory (WAAND), as well as the archival collections found in the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists http://waand.rutgers.edu Contact Information: Institute for Women and Art 191 College Ave., 2nd Floor New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8546 Tel: 732/932-3726 Fax: 732-932-1207 Email: womenart@rci.rutgers.edu Website: iwa.rutgers.edu Professor Judith Brodsky and Dr. Ferris Olin, Co-directors