‘Celebrate Women’ art exhibit opens in Poway

Come out and celebrate women with a new art exhibit open now at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts.

The 25th annual “Celebrate Women” art exhibit is being hosted by the Poway Woman’s Club. It will run through Wednesday, March 25 in the lobby of the PCPA, 15498 Espola Road.

The gallery is available for viewing 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Viewing the gallery is free.

A reception will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15. The artists will be available at the reception to meet and discuss their work.

The Poway Woman’s Club is a non-profit organization that was organized in February of 1960 and has been serving the women of Poway ever since.

The group meets the second Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. in the Porter House great room at Old Poway Park.

The art show began 25 year ago, and was originally shown for several years in the former Homestead Bank building at the corner of Poway and Pomerado Roads, said Barbara Lerma of the Poway Woman’s Club.

This year, the exhibit will feature art from 41 female artists from Poway and the surrounding communities. This is a juried show.

The art on display features a wide variety of mediums, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, colored pencil, photography, mixed media, charcoal, pen and ink, graphite and collage.

The judge this year is Heidi Hensey, who teaches drawing and painting at Poway High School. Hensey studied fine arts at the University of San Diego, where she majored in art with an emphasis in photography and ceramics. She concurrently earned her California Single Subject Teaching Credential, and taught at Chula Vista’s School for Creative and Performing Arts for six years.

Hensey works with mixed media in her own art, combining such materials as clay, photography, found objects, wire, thread, bones, feathers, and paper. She also creates designs for paper crafting and has created works for many Broadway shows and actors, including Rosie O’Donnell.

Artists in the exhibit will be judged based on craftsmanship, attention to detail, strength of composition, content, creativity and originality. Winners will be announced later in March.

For more information on the Poway Woman’s Club or exhibit, visit www.powaywomansclub.org or www.powaycenter.com.