Anne Zill to mount an exhibition of photographs by American women artists in Paris

Anne B. Zill, Director of the UNE Art Gallery, has been invited by the Educational and Cultural division of the UN, UNESCO, to mount an exhibition of photographs by American women artists in Paris for the month of March 2011, Women’s History month.

There will be an Opening Reception at UNESCO in Paris at 6 p.m. on March 8, International Women’s Day.  On March 10, from 3-5:30 she will conduct an Educational Symposium at UNESCO with three of the artists represented in the exhibition, Barbara Goodbody, Maine fine arts photographer, Paola Gianturco, author of Celebrating Women and Women Who Light the Dark, and Donna DeCesare, University of Texas professor of Documentary Photography and Fulbright Fellowship winner.  They will discuss how they came as artists to focus on women’s lives, some of the subject matters they share in common as well as differences in their approaches.  They will also offer some of the stories behind the images in the UNESCO exhibition that illuminate the current state of women and girls around the world today – both the progress and the challenges that remain.

This is the third exhibition Anne Zill has mounted in connection with the United Nations.  The show will continue through March 25.

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