Women’s Caucus for Art
A National Membership Organization for Women in the Visual Arts with 14 Chapters throughout the United States
Melissa Reischman
Afi Ese
Abby Spangel Perry
Donna Catanzaro
Kay Westhues
Marilynn Host
Lyndy Bush
Betsy Orbe Lester
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FEATURED ARTISTS 2024
Betsy Orbe Lester
Florida Chapter
An award-winning mixed media artist, Betsy Orbe Lester teaches where she learned, both at Eckerd College (BA) and formerly, USF (MFA). Permanent collections: Tampa Museum, Gulf Coast Museum, Neiman Marcus and private and corporate collections. Recent exhibitions: Denis Bibro Fine Art, NYC; Brevard Art Museum; Boca Raton Museum; and Tampa Museum.
Lyndy Bush
Colorado Chapter
I am a contemporary Southwest oil painter that focuses on painting landscapes and scenes around me. I have a background in anthropology and this tends to skew my work towards a more humanistic approach. My work is my story as a contemporary Artist raised in Southern New Mexico.
Marilynn Host
Peninsula Chapter
I am a 3-D and 2-D mixed media artis. I work in encaustic, acrylic, and ceramics.
I use papers, fabric and found objects.
Kay Westhues
Indiana Chapter
Her art explores the ways in which rural tradition and history are understood, acted on, and recreated in everyday life. She approaches her projects with a sociological and narrative lens and seeks not the most literal content but the most human and personal.
Donna Catanzaro
Lifetime Member
Donna creates pieces to amuse and inspire herself and the viewer: including her political, ironic and funny digital collages, her mixed media pieces made from her trash, and her humorous pop-up books. She lives with her wife in NH, taught Graphic Design for many years, and has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.
Abby Spangel Perry
Carolinas Chapter
The work Abby Spangel Perry creates focuses on our often difficult relationship with the environment and its smaller components. Her award-winning paintings, drawings, textiles, and found objects have been shown from Washington State to New York State.
Afi Ese
Texas Chapter
Afi Ese is a Black American figurative narrative artist living in Houston, Texas. She holds a master of science in forensic psychology with a concentration in art therapy. Ese’s work focuses on Black urban portraiture juxtaposed with African diasporic history. Her paintings are conceptualized narratives of the African plight through the eyes of a self-aware Black American.
Melissa Reischman
Southern California Chapter
Melissa Reischman was born in Portland, OR. She studied graphic design at the Colorado Institute of Art earning an AA degree. She now lives and works in Los Angeles. While she was working as a designer, she followed the urge to pursue her own artistic vision. She studied painting with Richard Bunkhall and Ray Turner at Art Center College of Design, and Art History at Glendale College. She is now focusing full time on her art.
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The Fight For Respectability and Freedom: American Life During The Second Great Awakening, Activism, and Women Run Tea Rooms in the 1830s.
I draw the curtain. I could show you other pictures more pathetic in their hopelessness, but refrain. Lessons in making home neat and attractive; lessons in making family life stronger, sweeter, and purer by personal efforts of the woman; lessons in tidiness of appearance among women; lessons of clean and pure habits of everyday life in the home, and thus bringing to the women self-respect and getting for them the respect of others; how to keep the girls near the mother, and many other kindred subjects, need to be given to this class of women to-day.”
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📣BUSINESS OF ART: Building Your Digital Art Portfolio
with Shantay Robinson
🗓 Saturday, September 14
1-2:30 Eastern / 12 Central / 11 Mountain / 10 Pacific
The way an artist’s work is presented to the world makes a lasting impression. A digital portfolio is ideal for housing pictures of your art, bio, and artist 5 so those interested in your art can find out more about it. In this workshop, we will determine some best practices for creating online portfolios. The goal of the workshop is to walk away with ideas for developing your bio, artist statement, and online portfolio to represent your artistry.
FREE FOR WCA MEMBERS! No need to register...
An exclusive Zoom link will arrive in all current WCA Member's inboxes a week before, and the morning of, the event.
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#ThrowbackThursday to Mexican photographer Flor Garduño (b. 1957)
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Lovers and Friends! Please join me for this beautifully provocative artshow! More info at NCWCA.org or DM me @deenasante !💫 #NCWCA #access #feministart #activistart #EqualAccess #justice #equity #NCWCA #womenscaucusforart #supportwomenartists #womeninart #womenartists #artnews #womenartexhibition #AlicePaul #susanbanthony #genderequality #ReproductiveRights
After last week’s #RejectProject2025 stamp, here’s a post talking about my take on resistance art and a permeant link to the template for the stamp. 💙
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Tonight, I went to the reception for Claiming Space: Women Artists in Philadelphia at City Hall. The exhibition was put together by creativephl and juried by pattijordanart and sarahrbloom, both from the Women’s Caucus for Art. It is part of the larger city wide refocus2024 festival. My photograph “She Haunts Those Who Refuse To Help” was hung beautifully in a case with a number of other fantastic works. I was more than a little chuffed to see my piece mentioned in the juror’s statement. The whole show is beautiful and I love that it is on view for any and everyone who walks the corridors of City Hall. Art should be part of civic life. Especially art that speaks to issues experienced by constituents of the city, which so much of the work in this show does. The show is up until April 12, so if you are in center city and have some time, go check it out! 📸 of me by oddanchorite 💗 #artexhibition #philadelphiaartists #creativephl #womenscaucusforart #photography #ghoststory #selfportraitphotography
Tonight, I went to the reception for Claiming Space: Women Artists in Philadelphia at City Hall. The exhibition was put together by creativephl and juried by pattijordanart and sarahrbloom, both from the Women’s Caucus for Art. It is part of the larger city wide refocus2024 festival. My photograph “She Haunts Those Who Refuse To Help” was hung beautifully in a case with a number of other fantastic works. I was more than a little chuffed to see my piece mentioned in the juror’s statement. The whole show is beautiful and I love that it is on view for any and everyone who walks the corridors of City Hall. Art should be part of civic life. Especially art that speaks to issues experienced by constituents of the city, which so much of the work in this show does. The show is up until April 12, so if you are in center city and have some time, go check it out! 📸 of me by oddanchorite 💗 #artexhibition #philadelphiaartists #creativephl #womenscaucusforart #photography #ghoststory #selfportraitphotography
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Come join the movement!!!
Participation packets available September 22nd.
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harmoniainstitute
the_calling22
tamisjewells
#internationalart #womenartists #womenempoweringwomen #femininejourney #feminineart #thesacredfeminine #thefemininejourney #the6000circleproject #collaborativeartproject #collaborativeart #globalcollaboration
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Happy to have a couple of my paintings in juried exhibitions currently - One at the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont as part of the FRCC student show, and one at The Collective in Lafayette, as part of WCACO‘s “Finding Common Ground in an Uncommon World.” Stop in for a look if you’re in the neighborhood! #wcacolorado #womenscaucusforart #firehouseartcenter #coloradoartist #longmontart
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Happy to have a couple of my paintings in juried exhibitions currently - One at the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont as part of the FRCC student show, and one at The Collective in Lafayette, as part of WCACO‘s “Finding Common Ground in an Uncommon World.” Stop in for a look if you’re in the neighborhood! #wcacolorado #womenscaucusforart #firehouseartcenter #coloradoartist #longmontart
#oilpainting #coloradoart
Posted withregram • mixedmedia_marcia Book Craft. Another re-worked old collage on watercolor paper 6x6” with acrylic and graphite
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Posted withregram • mixedmedia_marcia Book Craft. Another re-worked old collage on watercolor paper 6x6” with acrylic and graphite
#collageclub #analogcollage #womanartist #collageworldwide #femmecollage #brooklyncollageclub #pariscollagecollective #collagecommunity
#contemporaryabstract
#decollage
#discoveringcollage #instacollage
#modernabstract
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Winged Ram, gouache and gold leaf on tile, 1959. Mary Leonora Carrington (English, 1917-2011).
"I didn`t have time to be anyone`s muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist."
-Leonora Carrington
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Winged Ram, gouache and gold leaf on tile, 1959. Mary Leonora Carrington (English, 1917-2011).
"I didn`t have time to be anyone`s muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist."
-Leonora Carrington
#wingedram #maryleonoracarrington #leonoracarrington #britishmexicanartist #gouacheandgoldleaf #femalebritishartists #englishwomenartists #englishartistsinmexico #womeninsurrealism #surrealistartist #surrealistartists #maxernst #krioskhrysomallos #flyingram #ramsinart #symbolicram #animalsymbolism #dwennimmen #artistsinmexico #chelseaschoolofart #ozenfantacademy #womeninart #womenscaucusforart
Opening tonight!
I am pleased to share that The Portals - Grassland Fog 1, 04.26.23 (limited edition archival pigment print) has been selected for PORTALS, a juried Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art (ncwca) exhibition opening tonight at arcgallerysf in San Francisco, CA.
Portals seem to be a common theme at the moment and I find this unifying force fascinating. Inspiration is arriving for many, and infinite possibilities are available for all. I am honored to have my work included in a show that explores a theme that is so accurately in line with my current inspiration.
Sharing my work with juror karengutfreundart, exhibition director Elizabeth Addison, and this new audience is yet another important piece to the ongoing expansion of my Portals project. Thank you ncwca for this opportunity, and thank you to the dozens of women involved who are committed to sharing our work with the world. I am grateful for your time and efforts imagining and bringing this exhibition to life!
June 17 - August 12, 2023
Arc Gallery
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Opening Saturday, June 17th, 6-9pm
(nancyboyart Thank you for sharing this opportunity with me. I am always grateful for your support. 💙)
Opening tonight!
I am pleased to share that The Portals - Grassland Fog 1, 04.26.23 (limited edition archival pigment print) has been selected for PORTALS, a juried Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art (ncwca) exhibition opening tonight at arcgallerysf in San Francisco, CA.
Portals seem to be a common theme at the moment and I find this unifying force fascinating. Inspiration is arriving for many, and infinite possibilities are available for all. I am honored to have my work included in a show that explores a theme that is so accurately in line with my current inspiration.
Sharing my work with juror karengutfreundart, exhibition director Elizabeth Addison, and this new audience is yet another important piece to the ongoing expansion of my Portals project. Thank you ncwca for this opportunity, and thank you to the dozens of women involved who are committed to sharing our work with the world. I am grateful for your time and efforts imagining and bringing this exhibition to life!
June 17 - August 12, 2023
Arc Gallery
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Opening Saturday, June 17th, 6-9pm
(nancyboyart Thank you for sharing this opportunity with me. I am always grateful for your support. 💙)
This piece titled “Strong Ties 6” will be in a ncwca group show coming up called “Access: An Ordinary Notion” at Arc Gallery in San Francisco. Since 2019, I have hand-built assemblages from discarded wood in a series called “Strong Ties.” The title comes from a brand of mending plates used in the construction trades. Using simple construction methods, pieces of found plywood are attached together with other scrap pieces. A design is created from the functional placement of these connectors. This work demonstrates the strategies of solidarity, attention and care that we maintain to protect and support equitable, sustainable relationships.
I’ll be at the reception on Saturday, June 15 from 7-9 PM at Arc Gallery 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco and I hope to see you there!
WomensCaucusForArt, arcgallerysf, susanbhouse, alicepaulinstitue, karengutfreundart, elizabethaddisonart #ncwca #access #feministart #activistart #equalaccess #justice #equity #ncwca #womenscaucusforart #supportwomenartists #womeninart #womenartists #artnews #womenartexhibition #alicepaul #susanbanthony #genderequality #reproductiverights
This piece titled “Strong Ties 6” will be in a ncwca group show coming up called “Access: An Ordinary Notion” at Arc Gallery in San Francisco. Since 2019, I have hand-built assemblages from discarded wood in a series called “Strong Ties.” The title comes from a brand of mending plates used in the construction trades. Using simple construction methods, pieces of found plywood are attached together with other scrap pieces. A design is created from the functional placement of these connectors. This work demonstrates the strategies of solidarity, attention and care that we maintain to protect and support equitable, sustainable relationships.
I’ll be at the reception on Saturday, June 15 from 7-9 PM at Arc Gallery 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco and I hope to see you there!
WomensCaucusForArt, arcgallerysf, susanbhouse, alicepaulinstitue, karengutfreundart, elizabethaddisonart #ncwca #access #feministart #activistart #equalaccess #justice #equity #ncwca #womenscaucusforart #supportwomenartists #womeninart #womenartists #artnews #womenartexhibition #alicepaul #susanbanthony #genderequality #reproductiverights
I’m thrilled to have this piece, Madonna of the Dinosaurs, in the exhibition ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion at Arc Gallery SF. In a desolate and apocalyptic background representing the violence our culture is enacting on mothers, the Madonna, dressed in irisvanherpen couture, takes a moment to feed her babe. Access to reproductive and maternal healthcare shouldn’t even be a question, yet our country is more restrictive than ever. This painting is a prayer that we rebuild the support for mothers which we have systematically eroded and to provide the structure that allows each new generation to flourish.
On display at arcgallerysf
I’ll be at the opening this Saturday. I’d love to see you there!
ncwca WomensCaucusForArt susanbhouse alicepaulinstitue karengutfreundart elizabethaddisonart
#ncwca #access #feministart #activistart #equalaccess #justice #equity #ncwca #womenscaucusforart #supportwomenartists #womeninart #womenartists #artnews #womenartexhibition #alicepaul #susanbanthony #genderequality #reproductiverights
I’m thrilled to have this piece, Madonna of the Dinosaurs, in the exhibition ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion at Arc Gallery SF. In a desolate and apocalyptic background representing the violence our culture is enacting on mothers, the Madonna, dressed in irisvanherpen couture, takes a moment to feed her babe. Access to reproductive and maternal healthcare shouldn’t even be a question, yet our country is more restrictive than ever. This painting is a prayer that we rebuild the support for mothers which we have systematically eroded and to provide the structure that allows each new generation to flourish.
On display at arcgallerysf
I’ll be at the opening this Saturday. I’d love to see you there!
ncwca WomensCaucusForArt susanbhouse alicepaulinstitue karengutfreundart elizabethaddisonart
#ncwca #access #feministart #activistart #equalaccess #justice #equity #ncwca #womenscaucusforart #supportwomenartists #womeninart #womenartists #artnews #womenartexhibition #alicepaul #susanbanthony #genderequality #reproductiverights
MISSION
The mission of the Women’s Caucus for Art is to create community through art, education, and social activism
We are committed to:
- recognizing the contributions of women in the arts
- providing women with leadership opportunities and professional development
- expanding networking and exhibition opportunities for women
- supporting local, national, and global art activism
- advocating for equity in the arts for all
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
WCA is a networking organization for women in the arts.
Become a WCA Legacy Giving Member!
Leaving WCA in your will is one of the most valuable and lasting ways you can support women artists for years to come. It costs nothing during your lifetime, but will have a powerful impact on future generations.
Legacy Giving Members will be honored on our Legacy Wall.
WCA’s Legacy Wall recognizes donors who are pledging at the $1K or greater level.
Mailing Address
Women's Caucus for Art
PO Box 1498
Canal Street Station
New York, NY 10013
Director of Operations
Karin Luner
k.luner@nationalwca.org
212-634-0007
WCA President
Sandra Davis
sanda.davis@nationalwca.org
