Chico Women's Club

09/09/2025

Waking Bird

Why does the waking bird sing
with all her might?
She sings to welcome the light,
sing, sweet, sing,
for the morning is bright.
Whispers from the Heart

Artist: Gillian Rule Art - Autumn Sunrise

09/06/2025

09/05/2025

Art: Anna Mazur

08/31/2025

Art: Elena Loginova

08/20/2025

Art: Tarn Ellis

08/13/2025

We are one

08/09/2025

Share your wedding photos with us!

Ever since we announced that we’d be replacing our 93 year old floors, we’ve been hearing everyone’s wedding stories and we would love to share them with our community.

If you’re willing to share, please send us your wedding photos, the year you were married, and any fun antidotes you’d like us to share.

08/06/2025

Anita Nowinska (British artist)
"Growth", 2021
Acrylic on canvas

08/01/2025

Lammas blessings!

Image from https://www.paintingdreams.co.uk/

07/31/2025

"I may not be beautiful, but I am real."
The image shows the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo with her husband, the renowned painter Diego Rivera.
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) was a Mexican artist best known for her colorful self-portraits that explored themes of identity, the human body, and death. Although her work is often categorized as surrealist, she rejected that label.
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) was a famous Mexican muralist known for his large-scale works depicting the history and people of Mexico.
The couple married in 1929, went through many ups and downs, divorced in 1939, and remarried in 1940.
Both artists were key figures in post-revolutionary Mexican art and played a major role in shaping Mexican cultural identity through their powerful and symbolic work.

07/31/2025

When Johanna “Jo” van Gogh married Theo van Gogh, she could never have predicted she would become the force that changed the course of art history. Within just two years, both her husband Theo and his brother Vincent were gone—one to illness, the other to despair.

At just 28, Jo was left a widow with an infant son and a collection of paintings by a virtually unknown artist. Vincent van Gogh had sold almost nothing in his lifetime. Critics had dismissed his work, and the world saw little value in his art.

But Jo saw something deeper. In every painting, she recognized Vincent’s spirit—his anguish, his hope, his brilliance. She read the letters he had exchanged with Theo, filled with raw emotion and insight, and understood that his voice needed to be heard.

Returning to the Netherlands, she supported herself by running a boarding house and began the patient, determined work of building Vincent’s legacy. She organized small exhibitions and, most crucially, shared the deeply personal letters between the brothers—letters that revealed a visionary, not a madman.

In 1905, Jo curated the first major Van Gogh retrospective in Amsterdam. It marked a turning point. Critics took notice. Museums began collecting his work. The world started to pay attention.

Today, Vincent van Gogh is among the most revered artists in history. But without Jo, his genius may have been lost to time. Her unwavering belief and quiet perseverance transformed his obscurity into global recognition. She reminds us that legacies are not only shaped by those who create, but by those who champion their worth.