Suwanee Arts Center puts women artists front and center

Suwanee Arts Center puts women artists front and center

The face in the painting doesn’t quite meet your eyes. She gazes somewhere past you. The piece is called “Americans of Samana.” The artist is Marsy Santos. The award ribbon attached to it, blue and white and official, reads Best in Show. Santos made the work in mixed media — acrylic, texture, accumulated material — as a translation of her grandmother’s story and the stories of the women who came before her in the Dominican Republic’s Samaná Peni…