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WomenArts, (http://www.WomenArts.org), is a non-profit organization that was created by Martha Richards in Northampton, MA. It was incorporated under the name The Fund for Women Artists on January 12, 1995.

Since 2008, WomenArts has coordinated an annual international celebration of women artists called Support Women Artists Now Day or SWAN Day (http://www.WomenArts.org/swan).

SWAN Day was co-created by Martha Richards, the Founder and Executive Director of WomenArts, and Jan Lisa Huttner, a Chicago film critic and the founder of WITASWAN (Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now).

SWAN Day is celebrated on the last Saturday of March (Women's History Month) and the surrounding weeks. In March 2009, the League of Professional Theatre Women organized a SWAN Day panel discussion at Lincoln Center Library that featured women who had designed or directed shows on Broadway. NBC News 4 New York covered the event. The film clip was posted on the WomenArts website at: http://www.womenarts.org/videos/nbc.htm