WCA 2009 CONFERENCE INFO
LA 2009 CONFAB, LOS ANGELES, CA
ART AND ACTIVISM - SHARE YOUR PASSION!
February 25 – March
2, 2009
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IMPORTANT- CUTOFF DATES - Purchase Lifetime Achievement Awards tickets online at www.nationalwca.org until 2/24/09; purchase WCA bus tickets online at www.nationalwca.org until 2/25/09, and at the WCA Table, Table “I,” in the CAA Book and Trade Fair. LA Convention Center
*Schedule Current as
of 2/19/09
NOTE: CAA events are in the Los Angeles Convention Center,
1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California 90015. There are several
restaurants in the Convention Center as well as concession stands.
Items marked CAA Conference Event are open only to CAA
conference attendees; or to attendees who purchase a one-day conference
pass from CAA registration booth.
Experience the CAA Book and Trade Fair. Books,
samples of art supplies and information re opportunities for artists, scholars
and teachers. Entrance fee, good for multi-day visits - $25; $15 for CAA
members; free for CAA conference registrants and for WCA members who volunteer
to sit at WCA’s table in the Fair for three hours. LA Convention
Center, Concourse Hall, Level 1, Thursday, 2/26 & Friday, 2/27, 9:00
am–6:00 pm; Saturday, 2/28, 9:00 am–2:30 pm
CAA website: www.collegeart.org
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PRICE SCHEDULE
For just $65 join us on the bus tour for networking, fun and information. To keep the Confab price low we are only charging attendees for the bus tours. Food costs for Saturday and Sunday mornings Chapters’ Council meetings and Sunday events are covered by donations.
$20 –Bus Tour, Friday Night, 2/27/09 to “Women Artists on Immigration” Exhibition and Reception, and the “5th WCA International Video Shorts”, Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery. (Bus departs approx. 5:45 PM from the LA Convention Center)
$45 –Bus Tour, Sunday, 3/1/09, 9:30 AM-4 PM, to WCA Art & Activism Day with WCA Town Hall and Chapters’ Council at American Jewish University, Buffet breakfast and lunch provided (Includes “Like Water on Rock” exhibition and reception and bus tour to Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University and other venues. (Bus departure time and departure point provided later)
$65 –BUS TOUR TOTAL
$105 –WCA'S 2009 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS & DINNER, 6:30-9 PM – Wilshire Grand Hotel, 930 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
$160 –WCA Current (2009) Members Only Package - in Honor of 30th Anniversary of the Lifetime Achievement Awards!! If you are a member and have not yet purchased your ticket to the Lifetime Achievement Dinner and Awards Ceremony choose the package price which includes the bus tours and the Lifetime Achievement Awards. Members must have renewed for 2009.
NOTE: If you have purchased the Lifetime Achievement Awards ticket for $105 after December 31, 2008, and want to upgrade please contact Karin Luner at karin@nationalwca.org
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2009 WCA CONFAB SCHEDULE
NOTE: CAA events are in the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California 90015. There are several restaurants in the Convention Center as well as concession stands. CAA website: www.collegeart.org
Wednesday, February 25
12:30 - 2 PM "Feminist Artists and Motherhood: 'Breakin
in Two'“
with Moderator: Margaret Lazzari, Chair of USC Fine Arts Department; preview
screening of film & roundtable with artists, writers and scholars. Concourse
Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, LA Convention Center. (free, open to public)
3:30-5 PM "WCA EcoArts Meet Up"
Eco Art Meetup now includes a visit to nearby Pharmaka Gallery to
see New Mythologies show. with Artist, Kim Abeles, at 408 S. Spring St, LA, CA 90013. Includes Artist Trading Card swap — email AnnIsolde@scwca.org for Artist Trading Card template. Take Metro to Pershing Square or Dash Bus.
7PM Gather for WCA Confab Dinner. Location to be determined.
Thursday, February 26
11:30 AM-12:30 PM “Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism,” Paperback Edition Book Signing at WCA Exhibits Table with Editors, Karen Frostig and Kathy Halamka and writers at WCA's table, Table in the CAA Book and Trade Fair. (Entrance fee)
12:30-2 PM ”CAA Committee on
Women Pan-Feminism" Panel
(free, open to public), Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, LA Convention
Center.
2-8 PM "Art, Wine & Books" in
Pasadena"
with Feminist Tour of Norton Simon Museum, Madeline’s Wine
Bar & ‘Broken Colors’ reading at Vromans’ Bookstore.
RSVP to avengernelson@scwca.org to attend and request a ride from downtown
LA by February 20.
4:30-5:00 PM “Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism,” Paperback Edition Book Signing at WCA Exhibits Table with Editors, Karen Frostig and Kathy Halamka and writers at WCA’s table, Table “I”, in the CAA Book and Trade Fair. (Entrance fee)
5:30-6:30 PM Artist/Gallerist Dialogue with Feminist Artist, Freyda Miller, on her "Fertile Dreams" Exhibition, before Mary Kelly Hammer Lecture (7 pm). Art Dimensions, 1326 Westwood Blvd, LA (Use own transport or check metro.net for bus routes)
Friday, February 27
10-12 AM Metro Art Tour of Public Art by Women
Metro Art Tour now includes three guest
artist — May Sun, Cheri Gaulke and Joyce Kozloff. Meet at
7th & Figueroa
Metro Station. Free. RSVP to WCAMetroTour@scwca.org by February
20. Meet
at 7th St. Metro Station (Metro Center), Free
1:30 PM "Broken Colors" Book
Signing at WCA Exhibits Table
with WCA member, Michelle Zackheim,
artist and novelist, at WCA’s
table, Table “I”, in the CAA Book and Trade Fair. (Entrance fee)
2:30- 5 PM “Inventive Concepts: Models
of Participatory Leadership in the Arts Panel”
Karen
Frostig, Lesley University; and Martina Reuter, Wochen Klausur; (CAA Registration
required). West Hall Meeting Room 502A, Level 2, LA Convention Center.
(Members: $125; Student and retired members: $90; Nonmembers: $160)
7-9 PM “Women Artists on
Immigration,” Exhibition
Reception
Exhibition Reception at Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (includes
WCA’s Video Shorts Festival Sceening), 5505 Wilshire Blvd, Los
Angeles. Includes full refreshments and Korean Music. (Bus
departs approx. 5:45 PM from the Figueroa Hotel, 939 S. Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
- walking distance from LA Convention Center)
LINK
to the Juror's
Statement
7-9 PM WCA 5th International Video Shorts
Festival Screening runs
concurrently with the “Women Artists on Immigration” Exhibition
Reception at Korean Cultural Center
Download PDF
Saturday, February 28
7:30-9 AM WCA Chapters’ Council Meeting (Business
Meeting)
with Chapter Networking, Regional Connections, Chapters’ Council
Board Members Nominations, Concourse Meeting Room 404A, Level 2, LA Convention
(All WCA members welcome) light breakfast provided.
9 AM-5 PM The Feminist
Art Project Day of Panels
LA
Convention Center Room 502A,
Level 2. (free and open to the
public)
9:00–10:30 AM
“Black Women, But, Are They Feminists?” with Suzanne Jackson, Senga Nengudi,
Carrie Mae Weems and Linda Goode-Bryant.10:45 AM–12:15 PM
“Salon des Refuses” or who was/is “in” and “out” of the recent feminist exhibitions with
Maren Hassinger, and Rachel Rosenthal.12:30–1:45 PM
“Transnational Feminism” with Yong Soon Min and Connie Samaras.2:00–3:15 PM
"Artists Converse on Feminism” with Maria Buszek, Andrea Bowers, Cheri Gaulke
and Catherine Opie.3:30–5:00 PM
“Women Performance Artists Today” with Jill O’Bryan.
6:30-9 PM
WCA's 2009 Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Awards Dinner & Ceremony
at the Wilshire Grand Hotel, 930 Wilshire Blvd. Dinner at 6:30 in
Golden State Room & Ceremony at 7:30 in the Los Angeles Room (Cheaper
parking on Figueroa across from hotel.) Lifetime Achievement
Awardees are Maren Hassinger, Ester Hernandez, Joyce Kozloff, Margo Machida,
and Ruth Weisberg. President’s Awardees are Susan Fisher Sterling
and Catherine Opie.
Sunday, March 1
WCA Art & Activism Day, 9:30-4 PM
WCA Art & Activism Day, 9:30-4 PM at American Jewish University, 15600 Mulholland Dr., Los Angeles. (Bus offered- Bus loads from hotels; be there for the bus at following times: 8:00 am-Vagabond; 8:15 am-Hotel Figueroa; 8:25 am-Wilshire Grand Hotel; bus returns to hotels. Coffee, tea, breakfast pastries and lunch provided)
9:30-10:00 AM - WCA Chapters’ Council Election Chapters’ Council members elect their representatives to the national board.
10-11:30 AM - WCA Town Hall – an interactive session to share what matters most to each of us. Includes “Meditation on Time,” a silent performance piece by Barbara T. Smith.
11:30AM-1:30PM, “Like Water on Rock” JWAN Exhibition Reception, Platt/Borstein Gallery, American Jewish University, 15600 Mulholland Dr., Los Angeles (free, open to the public)
Downlaod PRESS
RELEASE
Bus to SPARC, the Social and Public Art Resource Center, to see an
exhibition that includes models of 400 Youth / 1 Wall and other current projects
by mural activist Judy Baca at 685 Venice Blvd., Venice. And, then
on to see "Gallery 32 and Its Circle" featuring activist work
of Betye Saar, Suzanne Jackson, David Hammons, and Emory Douglas
at Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University 1 LMU Dr., Los Angeles (near
LAX airport).
Bus tour now includes three destinations – We will also
be going to SPARC, the Social and Public Art Resource Center, to see
an exhibition that includes models of 400 Youth/1 Wall and other current
projects by mural activist and prior Lifetime Achievement Awardee, Judy Baca,
at 685 Venice Blvd., Venice.
Monday, March 2
8:15 AM - 3:30 PM WCA National Board Meeting
The
Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles. WCA members
are welcome. Attendees pay for breakfast and lunch, price TBD – attendees
MUST RSVP)
WCA members are invited to join in all events and encouraged to meet up with other members for meals & explorations. WCA ‘home’ during CAA (Thurs – Sat) is Table “I” in the Book & Trade Fair.
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RELATED ACTIVITIES - OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Thursday, February 26, 12:30–2:00 PM, Feminist
Curatorial Intervention Now
Concourse
Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Midori Yoshimoto, New Jersey City University; Tracy
Fitzpatrick, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State
University of New York
The Women of Metal Project: Innovation, Connection, and Education
Susan Messer and Teresa Faris, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Women beyond Borders
Anette G. Kubitza, California State University, Channel Islands
The Offering Table: Women Artists and Activists from Korea
L. Inson Choy, independent curator, Menlo Park, California
After Wack!
Cornelia Butler, Musuem of Modern Art
Discussant: Jacki Apple, Arts Center College of Design
Thursday, Feb. 26, 5:30 to 7 PM, Reception for Suzanne Lacy for Public Art Achievement Award, Room 411, Level 2, LA Convention Center. (CAA Conference event)
Thursday, Feb. 26, 5:30 to 7 PM,
"Mothers of Innovation II: Exploring Mixed Media, New Media"-
CWAO is the Coalition of Women’s Arts Organizations, and is
the lobbying organization which supports women artists’ political issues.
Kyra Belan is organizer and moderator of the panel “Mothers of Innovation
II: Exploring Mixed Media, New Media” and
panelists are Kay Kang, Alejandra Chaverri, and me. Alejandra is the immediate
past president of the South Bay chapter.
Meeting in the Concourse Meeting Room
404A on Level 2.
Friday, February 27, 2:30-5 PM - Awardee Ruth Weisberg interviewed by Barbara Isenberg at CAA’s ARTspace, West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2 (CAA Conference event.) CAA
Friday, February 27, 6-8 PM – Awardee
Joyce Kozloff and Phillip Earenfight, the author, will be signing
Co+Ordinates, a new publication about her art.
Hennessey & Ingalls bookstore in the new shopping complex
at 1520 N. Cahuenga @ Hollywood Boulevard (the nearest entrance to the
store is at Ivars and Sunset).
7-10PM – February 27, Awardees, Maren Hassinger and Betye Saar in “Quiet as Kept: Change, A Performance Ritual“ at California African American Museum, LA - RSVP
8AM - 5 PM March 1, The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) Bus Tour of Public Art Works by Women with Jerri Allyn, Meg Cranston, and Debra Padilla, depart from the Westin Bonaventura Hotel 404 S. Figueroa. Price: Advance (Register at CAA website) $20, Onsite $25;
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WCA CONFAB HOTELS
Three hotels to choose from.
NOTE: CAA and TFAP conference events will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
CAA provides shuttle service from the Wilshire Grand to the Convention
Center for CAA members registers for CAA conference only.
For WCA members who are not CAA members. The Figueroa Hotel is within walking distance to the Convention Center. The Vagabond Inn is a mile from the Convention Center or ride the Dash bus to /from the Convention Center from 6:30am – 6:30pm.
Hotel Figueroa, 939 S. Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, ($148 a room, single and double occupancy) 213-627-8971, Reservations 800.421.9092 www.figueroahotel.com
Wilshire Grand Hotel, 930 Wilshire
Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90017
($189 a room, single and double occupancy) 213- 688-7777; Reservations
1-888-773-2888, www.wilshiregrand.com . If
you have a CAA Conference Pass there is a shuttle to convention
center.
Vagabond Inn, 3101 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90007, ($85 a room, single and double occupancy), 213-746-1531, Reservations: 800-522-1555, www.vagabondinn.com/los-angeles
TIPS ON GETTING TO AND FROM THE LA AIRPORTS:
By Shuttle and Bus www.lawa.org/flyaway <http://www.lawa.org/flyaway>
A free, frequent shuttle bus connects LAX with the Metro Transit
Authority’s Green Line Light Rail that then comes into downtown LA.
The FlyAway Bus Service provides frequent, nonstop transportation between LAX
or Burbank Airports and Union Station in downtown LA. FlyAway departs from Union
Station and LAX every 30 minutes from 5 AM to 1 AM, and each hour from 1t o 5
AM. FlyAway buses run 24 hours a day. Costs $5 each way and takes 30-70
minutes depending on traffic and time of day. Once at Union Station, you can
grab a Dash Bus, ride the Red Line to 7th & Fig for hotels or change to the
Blue line to go to Pico station for the convention center. (If arriving in Terminal
7, the bus sometimes gets filled up - you may want to catch an inter-terminal
shuttle and shift to terminal 1 or 2.0
Other Shuttle Services: Express Shuttle (310-323-7222) or SuperShuttle
(310-222-5500)
By Taxi: Yellow Cab Company (310-965-5816) offers transportation from LAX
to hotels. Regulated fare from LAX to downtown is $42.
Metro Rail & Bus System: Six fast, easy-to-use, color-coded subway,
light-rail, and rapid bus transit lines. www.metro.net <http://www.metro.net/>
DASH Downtown: Six quick bus routes depart every 5-10 minutes between 6:30AM
and 6 PM weekdays and every 15 min. between 10 AM-5 PM weekends.
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For 2009 Lifetime Achievement Awards info click here.
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