ASTORIA Painter Mary Tanguay Webb will be showing portraits of 11 Uniontown women from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at Studio 11, in conjunction with Womens History Month.

The show is a result of a project that Tanguay Webb began a year ago. All of the women have supplied biographical information about their lives that will hang next to their portraits.

Tanguay Webb said, All of these women are connected to me and to Uniontown by various happenstances during the almost six years we have lived in Astoria. I met them walking my dog in the hood, taking an acting class, rescuing feral cats, being a neighbor, going to a gallery, buying our house or going out for coffee. They are each delightful and interesting and trusted me to do this. I feel honored.

The artist reports that the group includes a librarian, a realtor, a ballet instructor, a printmaker, a grandmother, a glass artist, a retired British tennis player, a 93-year-old grand dame who ran a clothing store in Astoria for almost 30 years, a woman who runs a nonprofit for feral cats and two baristas.

The show will be more of a happening than a regular gallery show in that the paintings will hang for the two hours of the reception, and then each woman will take home her own painting.

Studio 11 is located at 453A 11th St. (the corner of 11th and Exchange streets). Refreshments will be served. A sample of the artists work can be seen at www.astoriaarts.com/mwebb