CWA's 2025 Annual Members' Juried Show
Art League of New Britain
April 5 through May 2
Opening Reception April 5, 1-3pm
Closing Reception May 2, 6-8pm
Welcome to the 2025
Members' Juried Show
"I am pleased to welcome you to CWA’s 2025 Members' Juried Exhibition at the Art League of New Britain. The artists featured represent some of Connecticut’s finest professional talent.This exhibition is the second of four in our 2025 season. We began with the Council show at UCONN’s Jorgensen Gallery in January. Our third exhibition is the Members' Exhibition at the Monastery Gallery of Art in West Hartford (May 9-August 31), with applications available on their website. The fourth is our National Show at the William Benton Museum in Storrs (May 30-July 28). We’re focused on offering more opportunities for members in incredible spaces as we prepare for our 100th anniversary at the Slater Museum in 2029. If you’re not a member and wish to join this vibrant group of Connecticut Women Artists, you can apply in August."
Warmly,
Janet Leombruni, CWA President
Opening and Closing Reception Info
The work of the participating contemporary artists is on display from April 5 - May 2, 2025 at The Art League of New Britain, 30 Cedar St., New Britain, CT.
Opening reception and awards ceremony: April 5 2025, 1-3 pm.
​Closing Reception: May 2, 6-8pm​
​Show Committee: Jennifer Muller, Patricia Carrigan, and Margaret Wilson​
Reception Chair: Gwendolyn Quesaire-Presutti

2025 Members' Juried Show, Best in Show Award
Cynthia Cooper, Pleased as Punch
Meet Our Juror, Cat Balco
Cat Balco is a Professor and Chair of Visual Art and Culture at Bates College in Lewiston Maine, and a New Haven-based artist and writer who has exhibited nationally. Her writing has been published in Art New England. A visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Swarthmore College, Pratt Institute at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, and Yale University, Balco has also received numerous awards and residencies.
Juror's Statement
Award Winners
Best in Show Cynthia Cooper, Pleased as Punch
President’s Award Jeanette Compton, Resilience
Dorothy Alden Hapgood Award Elizabeth Scott, Orange
Edith Briscoe Stevens Award Susan Schapira, Rustbelt Reemergence Muriel Alvord Ward Award Michelle Tragakiss, Abstract 4
Ruth Rising Goldie Award Jeanette Maxey, Tangled Tendrils
"The world turns, times change, good things turn to bad and back again, – and through it all, thank goodness, artists - like those represented in the Connecticut Women Artist’s gloriously varied 2025 members’ exhibition – make art. During this tumultuous time, these faithful artists have stayed the course. They’ve noticed and lifted up the light on a set of mason jars, the green arch of a curling bunch of herbs, the bright rhythm of a checkerboard of circular shapes, the tactile pleasure of fabric collage, and, so, so much more – all of which is evident in this delightfully idiosyncratic show. I hope visitors to this exhibition enjoy this great group of works as much as I have, and I hope they leave, as I did, renewed, reinvigorated, and even more committed to maintaining their own practices of attention and love, which are always at the core of creative work. Keep making art everyone! It’s never been more important."