On Women in Art

ArtNet ran an interesting article on why there are so few women represented in today's art scene... and why no one seems to find that unusual. Since women are reportedly more likely to be right-brained and creative, this anomaly makes little sense to me.

I belong to several arts organizations and the sizable percentage of members in each group is female. (Of course, this might mean only that women are more likely to join art associations than are men, who may prefer to "go it alone.")

My hunch is that no matter how many women are creating art these days, men may be:

• more aggressive about promoting their work
  
• more forthright about anouncing thier "vision", and
  
• more proactive about handling the business aspects of being an artist.
  

Read the article here: www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/davis/davis3-12-07.asp. (It's written by a man, if you care about that kind of thing.)