As featured in the April issue of Watercolor Artist, this year’s National Women’s History Month (March) honors “Women’s Art, Women’s Vision.” The following 2008 honorees will be celebrated in New York City this weekend for a culminating series of events (click here for the schedule):

Judy Chicago (1939- ), painter/printmaker/needleworker
Harmony Hammond (1954- ), painter
Edna Hibel (1917- ), colorist
Lihua Lei (1966- ), multimedia installation artist
Cecilia Rose O’Neill (1874-1944), painter/illustrator/sculptor
Violet Oakley (1874-1961), muralist/stained glass artist
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith (1940- ), abstract painter/lithographer
Faith Ringgold (1934- ), painter/quilter
Miriam Shapiro (1923- ), printmaker/painter
Lorna Simpson (1960- ), photographer
Nancy Spero (1926- ), painter
June Claire Wayne (1918- ), painter/lithographer

Also this weekend (March 29), The Fund for Women Artists launches the first Support Women Artists Now Day, or “SWAN Day,” a solidarity movement scheduled for the last Saturday of Women’s History Month. Find out how to get involved by clicking here.