LXDY PAINTXRS

At its core, LXDY PAINTXRS is about slowing down and honoring the natural connection that blossoms between women artists.

It provides a rare chance for women artists to meet each other at an intimate professional event to share their common language as makers, celebrate each other’s work and achievements, and share and develop resources together for the community’s benefit. Our platform champions inclusivity, mutual validation, and intersecting disparate art communities.

It is important to differentiate the Lady Painters’ programs from traditional gallery openings, standard professional networking events, or typical social gatherings. Our dinners reject the pressures of traditional networking events. We move gatherings out of rigid institutional spaces and into the warm, vulnerable environments of working studios and homes. We bring together recent graduates, emerging artists, self-taught creators, mid-career professionals, and established artists. The criteria for participation are a commitment to one's own creative practice and a genuine interest in contributing to the Lady Painters community.


OUR HISTORY

Lady Painters was originally founded in 2015 by Jenn Dierdorf and Kelsey Schwetz with a radical yet simple premise: women will be badasses naturally if you put them in the same room together. For five solid years, the organization operated as a lifeline and incubator for women in the arts. We hosted small gatherings, exhibitions, residencies and workshops and large events in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as Europe and Mexico, working with more than 350 artists. Our archive of past events can be viewed here. 

As Kelsey stepped back to pursue her graduate studies at Columbia University in 2020, Jenn stewarded the organization through the pandemic years into its current iteration in 2026 as LXDY PAINTXRS. Jenn’s past experiences as Director of SoHo20 Gallery and her leadership at A.I.R. Gallery, institutions that pioneered spaces for women artists, deeply helped shape the ethos of LXDY PAINTXRS.

Today LXDY PAINTXRS is a comprehensive ecosystem of curated events, opportunities and resources for womxn artists as they collaborate, grow and thrive in their own artistic careers. 


LEGACY

archive of events, names of artist participants

COMMUNITY

forum/postings for GIVE - ASK, calendar of events

EVENTS

upcoming dinners, workshops, events, etc

STUDIO

interviews w/ artists, writing/texts from newsletter

MEMBERSHIP

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