This year's exhibition, juried by Barbara Koenen, will feature drawings, paintings, photographs, sculpture, and mixed-media works by 40 artists and will runch through March 27, 2008.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Barbara Koenen earned her M.F.A. at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an exhibiting artist, curator and writer. In 2007 she curated the group show "Consuming War" for the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Koenen serves as Project Director for the Cultural Planning Division at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Her extensive exhi bition record includes the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Artists include: Louise Atkinson, Claudia Berns, Audrey Brown, Corinne Butler, Mo Cahill, Margot Ceddia, Sharon Davie-Barrett, Rachael Marie Demeo, Tracy Featherstone and Krista Connerly, Stephanie Fosnaugh, Rachel Gibson, Sharon Gilmore, Sara Holwerda, Beth Kamhi, Phyllis Lear, Yen-Hua Lee, BiLan Liao, Joetta Maue, Lily Mayfield, Sonia McKenna, Monika Merva, Heather Muenstermann, Althea Murphy-Price, Aria Newton, Sarah Nguyen, Mary Lou Novak, Beth Oberholtzer, Pamela Paulsrud, Bonnie Peterson, Joyce Polance, Jennifer Reis, Marybeth Rothman, Vlasta Smola, Kristina Sparks, Melissa Steckbauer, Victoria Szilagyi, Susan Tennenbaum, Vadis Turner, Jessica Vaughn, Erin Williams, and Marjorie Woodruff.

In addition to the 11th International Open WMG is proud to present solo shows by Colorado artist Mary K. Connelly, first prize winner of the 10th International Open and Shelly Jyoti who resides in Baroda, Gujarat in India.

Connelly describes her paintings in "Topophilia: New Interiors" as studies of the domestic interior where the familiar notion of "home" is fraught with conflicting feelings of entrapment and private repose. The images are created by a distillation of perception and memory, where color and light convey a world psychologically and spiritually charged.

Shelly Jyoti is an international exhibiting artist, writer, poet and fabric and fashion designer. Her paintings in "Beyond Mithila: Exploring the Decorative" are a fantasy of heritage, patterns and confluence of traditional art forms and references of embroideries and embellishments from India. -- www.womanmade.org