Exhibits & Events
Benefit Art Show for Women’s Way
Jed Williams/JWS is having a benefit art show for Women’s Way, the Greater Philadelphia region's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of women, girls, and gender and racial equity.
Women’s way’s mission: is To inspire and mobilize the community to invest in organizations and leaders that will advance the rights of and opportunities for women and girls, and achieve gender equity for all. , according to their website—
Their key pillars are:
Advancing reproductive justice and sexual health-Increasing safety against gender-based violence-Promoting economic self-sufficiency & justice-Developing the leadership of girls and young women.
JWS will be donating $50 of all sales proceeds to Women’s Way.
Jed Williams is a renowned Philadelphia art and studio-gallery owner. He owns a studio-gallery (JWS) located at 615 Bainbridge St in Philadelphia .Mostly he does painting, along with, starting in the past few years, sculpture and printmaking:linocuts, monoprints, and some screen printing. He has shown extensively, in NJ, NYC, Portland OR Miami FL and more. His art collectors range from corporate collections to buyers in Los Angeles, New York City, Princeton, Philadelphia, France, Eastern Europe, among other locations.
He has also owned an art studio since 2010. Having in the past featured many local artists as well from Tristate area/NJ, Jed currently focuses on showing and developing mainly his own art and merchandise such as prints. Jed is inspired by his experience of emotions, mental joys/illlnesses filtered through different types of symbolism, hazy schematized figures and holistic views of cultures. Most recently Jed has been blending and juxtaposing cathartic, abstract color-fields tion with hazy, schematized figuration inspired by trees, roots, and their relationship to the Yoruba culture and spirituality Recent press includes a TV interview on Channel 12/WHYY “You oughta know” segment.
Joanne Gallery has spent time in many countries over the past 20 Joanne Gallery has spent time in many countries over the past 20 years, including New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, Mexico and Hawaii and Mainland USA. According to Joanne Gallery, “I have found nature to be a source for inspiration no matter what the environment. Early in my career I created Photographic Paintings of my subject but have evolved to let the emotion of the environment and my feelings influence the colors and hues of my art”. http://www.saatchiart.com/joannegallery
Pauline Houston-McCall is a multimedia artist, vocalist activist based in Philadelphia. She earned a BFA in Printmaking at Moore College of Art and now paints, draws, sculpts, and creates murals often about the rise and fall of the human spirit. She is also the lead vocalist, co-songwriter, and co-creator of Soul music venture MOKA and co-founder of SPIRITUAL THUNDER and REGGAE THUNDER. She is the founder and director of nationally acclaimed women’s artist collective “WOMEN HOLLER,” which premiered an exhibition “Intimate Exposures” at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia and was featured on CBS 3’s “EYE ON PHILADELPHIA.
Since 2023 McCall directs/owns her own art center in Philadelphia.
