Chicago Artist Andrea Harris Opens Women of Courage Art Exhibit With Gallery Talk and Invites Nominations For Her Next Portra



Through her acclaimed portrait series, "Women of Courage: Beyond Boundaries," fine artist Andrea Harris opens windows to a world where the meekest seeming among us transcend those assumptions. Harris captures fearlessness in women: cancer patients turned cancer survivors, downtrodden souls winning at drug recovery, Bangladeshi sex trade victims determined to rise against the odds.

Harris's largely unknown subjects tap the same power that's led iconic women such as Rosa Parks to take a stand against racial discrimination and environmental journalist Stephanie Danielle Roth to save the homes of thousands of Romanian families. The portrait artist has captured on canvas these and other heroines; each beautifully painted 24" x 24" likeness instills in viewers a greater sense of self.

Harris's solo exhibition of "Women of Courage: Beyond Boundaries" will open at the Visual Arts Complex Gallery at Temple College in Temple, Texas. The 21-piece art show begins on September 27 with a 7 p.m. Gallery Talk event, and continues through November 8, 2007. Additional information about the Temple College art exhibit is available online at



Chicago Artist Andrea Harris Opens Women of Courage Art Exhibit With Gallery Talk and Invites Nominations For Her Next Portra