The Women's Committee encourages and increases public interest in the Museum, as well as arranges receptions, dinners, special events and other fundraisers to promote and support the Museum's exhibitions and programs. The Committee has also marketed a cookbook which features paintings from the Museum's collection.

Photography Portfolio Competition

A jury of nationally recognized photography experts will select six entries for inclusion in a 16" x 20" portfolio to be published in an edition of 25 in fall 2010. Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art, will select one additional curator's choice entry to be sold as an individual print in a limited edition. The Museum will exhibit the portfolio and the individual print in fall 2010, and an event will be held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to celebrate the production of the portfolio.

For more information visit www.pmaphotocompetition.org.

Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show

The Women's Committee also presents the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, the single largest annual fundraising event for the Museum. The money raised is used to purchase works of art and craft for the permanent collections, fund conservation projects, and support exhibitions and programs for the Museum. Known as the nation's finest retail craft exhibition and sale, the Craft Show presents the work of approximately 200 of the finest and most dynamic craft artists in the United States and abroad. It is held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in early November.

For more information visit www.twcpma.org.