A group of all women artists completed a showcase of their masterpieces at ATHICA art gallery Sunday.

The Women’s Caucus for Art of Georgia held their exhibition, STRETCH, beginning Aug. 1.

The 35-year-old organization is a chapter of the National Women’s Caucus for Art. Members include more than 100 artists, art professionals and art supporters from Georgia and surrounding states.

Helen DeRamus, one of the featured artists from Smyrna, who has been creating art for 30 years, said the organization serves as a community for women artists.

“It is an association of women artists who are dedicated to producing art for the public that speaks from a feminine point of view.”

The caucus strives to look for opportunities and venues for women to exhibit their art.

Virginia Tyler, an artist from Durham, N.C. who also is featured in the exhibition, said one of the group’s goals is to gain equal exposure for female artists.

“We show together, have regular meetings and promote our women so that they get as much attention as other artists,” Tyler said.

A diverse array of projects was shown at the exhibition, but each artist was encouraged to “stretch” to produce a piece that took their work to a new level.

Tyler’s project was inspired by a 14-year-old girl named Abena Dufee who she met in the village of Bu’oho on one of her multiple visits to Ghana.

Dufee’s career is breaking rocks to use for construction and she will perform this labor for the rest of her life.

“She has to break four to five pans of stone per day,” Tyler said.

“She basically uses a sledgehammer and hits rock with it.”

Tyler’s exhibit featured piles of stones that represented how many rocks per day the girl will have to break at specific age milestones.

She said its purpose was to convey the differences between America’s and Ghana’s ways of life.

DeRamus said her exhibit was inspired by her family.

Some of the major points of interest included a table with books containing photographs that represented the heart of the family and chairs surrounding it, representing each member of the family.

“I think what inspired me was the family travails that I have been going through with women in my family,” DeRamus said.

Gerry Sattele, an artist from Atlanta, produced a project entitled “Parallax” for the exhibition.

She said she stretched her abilities because she usually only makes wire sculptures, but her featured piece consisted of sculptures and drawings.

“In this particular piece, the drawings give me new positions,” Sattele said. “It’s all about the changing positions or additional positions.”

Along with Tyler, DeRamus and Sattele, “STRETCH” featured the projects of Barb Rehg and Mona Waterhouse from Georgia and Hunter Levinsohn and Rosie Thompson from North Carolina.