Objectives: 1. To foster the awareness women’s art as this awareness is nessesary for the reappraisal of the contribution of the women artists in art.
2. To provide a platform for women artists of various cultural backgrounds to exhibit their works together under one roof so as to foster goodwill and international friendship.
3. To encourage women artists to express their innermost feelings and thoughts through visual art form for the enhancement of our cultural life.

The following four artists of IRIDA will submit their works for the Exhibition:
Klara Golitsyna, “Self portrait in blue dress”. Klara says “The picture should create itself. The author`s participation is minimal. The result of the game is unpredictable. This is my stimulus and interest. I believe the aurhor`s philosophic outlook on modernity realizes itself in his or her wish to opt out in the process of ceativity.

Svetlana Nekrasova, “Self portrait”, is of the opinion that an abstract form is the best way to express her feelings. Abstraction helps the author to avoid a pressure of a genre on the image and makes it possible to see the invisible through the visible.

Natalia Bazhenova, “Self portrait”, combines realism with expression of romanticism . It helps her to express personal image as a reflection of impulsiveness of her own character.

Maria Esmont, “Self portrait at a country side”. Contre-ajour of a portrait underlines the autor`s inner concentration, freedom from everyday problems. “Self portrait after the fashion of the sixties”
is a return to the beginning of the artist`s creative work. It is also a kind of experiment with a form of expression of a self-will of the youth and audacity of approach to herself.

A detailed report of the events that had taken place in Portland, Oregon, was published on the cover page of “The Asian Reporter” under the title “Her Presence in Colors IX features 84 women artists from 24 countries”. International art show in Littman Gallery displays the works of women artists from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, Germany, France, Finland and other states.
The founder and convener of a series of women artists` exhibitions in different countries of the world Dr Yuen Chee Ling (Penang, Malaysia) is the Head of INWAC council which includes 22 countries.
Maria Esmont, President of IRIDA has been elected a member of INWAC. She has already taken part in its work connected with planning a next international women artists` exhibition to be held in Vietnam in 2012. IRIDA has become a collective member of International Association of Women Artists – INWAA.

A present program of the exhibition in Portland included a number of actions which promoted fulfillment of main tasks of “Her Presence in Colors IX”, that is to arrange a meeting of women artists of different countries “under one roof”, to help them to make friends and to understand better each other, to promote women`s art in the practice of contemporary fine arts.

The halls of Portland State University and Littman Gallery housed the seminars and lectures and other meetings of women artists speaking about their creative work and their path in art. A special interest and appreciation were shown to a 10 minutes film about the women artists of IRIDA (dubbed in English) brought by its President to Portland .
An excellent reception took place in Portland City Hall with participation of the Mayor and officials of the city administration. A presentation of works was organized in Littman Gallery which attracted a lot of visitors.

Thus, the exhibition became an important public and cultural event not only for women artists but for the city on the whole.
Hospitable American women artists acting through Sister Teams helped their foreign guests to make acquainted with modern American art and with wonderful nature reserves of “Wild West”.