AWAW Artist Survey

Women’s rights and freedoms are under pressure in the U.S. and around the world, and artists are no exception!

In order to determine women visual artists’ wants, needs, and experiences, Anonymous Was A Woman has created a new survey which we urge you to take. For the purposes of this survey, we understand “women” to include cis women, trans* people, nonbinary people, genderqueer people, and any way of identifying as a woman not listed here. Women visual artists of all ages are welcome to complete the survey.  

If you would like to participate, please email survey@awawaward.org and we will send you a link!

Your participation is important to help us gain a better understanding of artists’ lives and careers, and the key factors contributing to your successes and challenges.  With your participation, this survey will contribute to a can help the field better understanding of women artists’ lives and careers, the key factors determining your successes, as well as key pain points where you could use more support.  

AWAW intends to use this information to identify areas where more support is needed. We will also present and distribute this data publicly, with the goal of using it to influence other decision-makers, like other funders, museum board members, and gallerists. Finally, we hope that artists can use this information for self-directed labor organizing and activist efforts.

Your responses will contribute to AWAW’s field-wide report, produced in collaboration with SMU DataArts and journalists Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin. It will be made publicly available on April 9, 2025 as part of a free talks program at New York University led by Loring Randolph and AWAW. Registration will be available on the AWAW website in the coming months. 

The survey will remain active until December 20, 2024. 

We greatly appreciate your willingness to participate. To ensure that we gather the best results possible, we ask that, upon completion, you share the survey with three (or more) of your artist friends. Sharing the survey is as important to its success as taking it–the more responses we get, the more comprehensive the data.