SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day) is a new international holiday that celebrates women artists. It will be an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of Women’s History Month (March). The first SWAN Day will take place on Saturday, March 29, 2008.

As explained on the SWAN Day site: as a symbol of international solidarity, there will be events all over the world featuring women artists on SWAN Day. The public will be encouraged to attend these events and to make donations to their favorite women artists.

By focusing attention on the work of women artists, SWAN Day will help people imagine what the world might be like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all of our lives. The long term goal of SWAN Day is to inspire communities around the world to find new ways to recognize and support women artists as a basic element of civic planning.

SWAN Day is a grassroots effort started by The Fund for Women Artists, a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to helping women artists get the resources they need to do their creative work. The Fund for Women Artists invites everyone and anyone to help create this new holiday. For more on SWAN Day and ways to get involved visit http://www.womenarts.org/swan/