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UPCOMING EVENTS
Women’s Caucus for Art Conference 2022
50th Anniversary of the Women’s Caucus for Art
February 17–20, 2022, Chicago, IL
Occupy the Moment:
Embracing Our History, Enhancing Our Impact
This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Caucus for Art. Our theme celebrates our strengths and accomplishments and explores how we are moving forward to embrace new agendas and support emerging voices. The conference will include panels, workshops, a national member exhibition, the Lifetime Achievement Awards, and festive celebrations of this historic anniversary. We look forward to seeing you there. A block of rooms will be reserved at The Hilton Hotel near the Art Institute.
Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Awards 2022
50th Anniversary of the Women’s Caucus for Art
Saturday, February 19, 2022 at the Hilton Chicago Midtown, 720 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Linda Benglis
Photo credit: Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoxX Project Lynda Benglis, Cerrillos, New Mexico, 2021
Beate Minkovski
Gladys Nilsson
Lorraine O’Grady
Lorraine O’Grady, 2018. Photo by Ross Collab. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
Linda Vallejo
Sabrina Nelson
Ashley January
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement (LTA) Awards: Lynda Benglis, Beate Minkovski, Gladys Nilsson, Lorraine O’Grady, and Linda Vallejo. The recipient for the President’s Award for Art & Activism is Sabrina Nelson, and the new WCA Emerging Artist Award will be awarded to Ashley January.
The celebration kicks off on the evening of Saturday, February 19 with a cocktail reception from 4:30–5:30 pm. The Awards ceremony celebrating the life and work of these extraordinary women in the arts takes place from 5:30–7:30 pm and is free and open to the public. Doors for the awards ceremony will open to the general public beginning at 5:15 pm. A ticketed gala reception will take place from 7:30–9:30 pm. Guests purchasing gala tickets will be treated to food stations, butlered treats, an open bar, and the opportunity to meet and congratulate the awardees. Ticket counter is open.
CALL FOR ART & PROGRAMS
The Best of Women: Call for Art
Stola Contemporary, Chicago, IL
January 27- March 13, 2022
Deadline to submit: December 10, 2021
Members who are attending the National Conference are guaranteed at least one piece in the show. Because space is limited, make sure that one of your entries is 24” x 24” x 24” or smaller.
In celebration of the Women’s Caucus for Art’s 50th anniversary, the WCA Chicago Chapter (CWCA) will be exhibiting art created by members of The National Women’s Caucus for Art. This is a BEST OF exhibition which means there is no age limitation of the artwork submitted. In honor of the National WCA 50th Anniversary the piece you choose could be a new work, or one that is 50 years old. Just choose what you consider to be YOUR BEST or FAVORITE artwork, no matter what year it was created!
The entry fee is $35 for 1-3 pieces of work.
WCA Zoom Presentation & Panel Discussion
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 7 pm EST
Echoing the landmark feminist art project Womanhouse, led by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro in 1972, a gathering of a diverse array of 15 Detroit artists used consciousness-raising and collaboration to elevate and celebrate contemporary female perspectives.
Free registration via Eventbrite
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Finally done! Finished her last night. Spore LIXI is made with upcycled blue paper pocket folders. She is a slightly larger seeded spore measuring 6”. #papersculpture #papercrafts #recycledpaperart #flavialovatelli #columbiascartists #womenscaucusforart #womanartist #sundayfunday
Archival Mycelium -- Little Paris Group
The first presentations of the Women’s Caucus for Art Honor Awards were in Washington DC in 1979, where “the award ceremony marked the first time that women in the visual arts have been recognized on a national level, in the White House, for their accomplishments.”
Honored were Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
In an interview Loïs Mailou Jones states that she was approached as a potential recipient of the award, but she was a couple years shy of the age requirement (the WCA wanted to honor women 75 years or older). Jones says that she suggested Burke instead. See Jacqueline Trescott, “Words at the Library on Black Women’s Art,” Washington Post, February 2, 1979.
Image: College Art Association Newsletter, March 1979, p. 11. Photographer: Carole A. Rosen. Text (quoted above): Norma Broude.
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Woohoo! 🥳 Winner of the 2021 Women’s Caucus of Art t-shirt design competition, Evocative Visions.
So excited! And honored and humbled, coz this nationally represented group of women artists are super talented and awesome!
Will keep you posted when the t-shirts are on sale. Own one to show your solidarity with women from all walks of life, and their daily fight for equality and fairness.
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ENTER NOW! National Women's Caucus for Art - Occupy The Moment, Intersect History with Impact - In the last half century, the art historical canon has been uprooted and redefined. The canon was erected on categorized colonial narratives and invented racial rankings. The WCA has cast aside this “white male gaze” to define our own vision. This National WCA 50th Anniversary exhibition is seeking artistic works that address this moment of 2022. Artists are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly, considering the multiple paths of how we arrived here and what we envision moving forward. We encourage art that explores the ways that our identities and expressions intersect with such factors as environment, culture, time, and location. Artwork can be in any approach and form, subjects may range from the historic precedents set by political activism, to personal transformation, social engagement and beyond. JUROR: Dr. Maura Reilly, Founding Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. DEADLINE: September 30, 2021. Link in Bio.
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“Lee Krasner had defined her life’s purpose: to be a painter; more precisely, she wanted to be a ‘modern’ painter, an inhabitant of the aesthetic territory opened by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and other avant-gardists whose works were on view in the Manhattan galleries and museums she had begun to visit with friends.” – ratcliffcarter writes in his essay “Lee Krasner: The Unacknowledged Equal.”
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In Ratcliff’s essay, he details Krasner’s life and career through the early trials she experienced as a young painter to the later triumphs in her career. By receiving her traveling exhibition “Lee Krasner: A Retrospective” (1983-84), which opened at mfahouston, traveled to sfmoma, and arrived themuseumofmodernart right before her passing in 1984, Krasner fulfilled her ambition of being “major.” Krasner also obtained the 1979 Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts award by the womenscaucusforart, and currently “Lee Krasner: Living Colour,” a traveling retrospective of her work, is on view museoguggenheim.
Click the link in bio to download the digital version of the essay.
Image: Lee Krasner in her barn studio in 1962. Credit: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Photo: Hans Namuth.
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Remembering when you actually could go into a gallery. My show at #statenislandarts dawelda and I Confluence: A Way Forward
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Time to repost this, don’t you think?!
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Archival Mycelium -- Little Paris Group
Rebecca K. VanDiver rebeccakeeganvandiver unearthed the incredible archival story of the unrealized exhibit “Contemporary Afro-American Women Artists” meant to run concurrently with the 1979 Women’s Caucus for Art Honor Awards.
The WCA had asked Edith T. Martin and Tritobia H. Benjamin (1944-2014) to organize the exhibition, but then did not supply the necessary funding to bring it to fruition. Martin microfilmed materials submitted by 46 artists and deposited the reel in the Archives of American Art archivesamerart
-- a significant archival intervention that VanDiver documents and contextualizes in “Off the Wall, Into the Archive: Black Feminist Curatorial Practices of the 1970s,” Archives of American Art Journal 55.2 (Fall 2016): 26-45.
Disappointed with the WCA’s lack of support and funding, several of the artists organized a smaller exhibition at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Library. Included was Georgia Mills Jessup’s “Urban Renewal” (1970), today’s image. Jessup summed up the frustration with the situation: "We, the artists, shouldn't have had to find the money and the place. We should have been creating." Quoted in Jacqueline Trescott, “Words at the Library on Black Women’s Art,” Washington Post, February 2, 1979.
This event is one that represents, in VanDiver’s terms, “the lack of institutional support these artists felt within the larger feminist art movement of the 1970s” (36).
Image: Georgia Mills Jessup, “Urban Renewal” (detail), undated. Source (includes more information about Jessup and the Indigenous history of DC): https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/telling-dcs-story-who-are-indigenous-washingtonians
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The reason why I like giving back…
Almost everything I own and adore are gifts from the family, friends and even former students who are now friends forever. Thank you! ❤️
Here are the outfits I have made using very special fabrics bought as my birthday gifts each time my cousin went for a special trip with the girls at agnesirwinschool to Tanzania for the relationship her school build with the SEGA Girls School in Morogoro in Tanzania. You go girls!!
These are the things I treasure most in life. What are the things that make you feel happy?
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Hole in Our Hearts II, 8th in the COVID series. No other commentary needed; there are holes in our hearts. Wedge weave, wool warp & weft. 12x10 inches.
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Today is #GivingTuesday! Every dollar raised will help fund the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards (LTA). Help us reach our $5000 goal by donating today and help build a legacy for women in the arts!
Donate at www.facebook.com/donate/1609635196052803/
The 2022 WCA LTA Awardees are Lynda Benglis, Beate Minkoviski, Gladys Nilsson, Lorriane O’Grady, and Linda Vallejo. The President’s Awardee for Art & Activism is Sabrina Nelson, and the new WCA Emerging Artist Awardee is Ashley January. The awards will be presented to these amazing women in Chicago, IL on February 19, 2022.
Since 1979, WCA has honored over 200 women for their work, their vision, and their commitment. Help us to continue to honor and recognize women in the arts.
Learn more about the LTA Awards at nationalwca.org/awards/
#givingtuesday- Facebook pays all the processing fees for you, so 100% of your donation goes directly to the nonprofit.
Today is #GivingTuesday! Every dollar raised will help fund the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards (LTA). Help us reach our $5000 goal by donating today and help build a legacy for women in the arts!
Donate at www.facebook.com/donate/1609635196052803/
The 2022 WCA LTA Awardees are Lynda Benglis, Beate Minkoviski, Gladys Nilsson, Lorriane O’Grady, and Linda Vallejo. The President’s Awardee for Art & Activism is Sabrina Nelson, and the new WCA Emerging Artist Awardee is Ashley January. The awards will be presented to these amazing women in Chicago, IL on February 19, 2022.
Since 1979, WCA has honored over 200 women for their work, their vision, and their commitment. Help us to continue to honor and recognize women in the arts.
Learn more about the LTA Awards at nationalwca.org/awards/
#givingtuesday- Facebook pays all the processing fees for you, so 100% of your donation goes directly to the nonprofit.
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A National Membership Organization with 21 chapters throughout the United StatesDedicated to creating community through art, education and social activism FEATURED ARTIST Michigan Chapter For over 40 ...
NOVEMBER ARTIST OF THE MONTH: IDELLE HAMMOND-SASS
For over 40 years Idelle Hammond-Sass has been making tangible objects and jewelry. She is rooted in her foundational studies at the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 1975), Oxbow School of Art and Penland School of Craft, and in her experience as a member of Artemisia co-op Gallery in Chicago.
Her current studio practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan is an extension of her work in painting and sculpture. She is interested in asymmetrical balance, texture, architectural construction and the juxtaposition of gemstones; and ultimately how these forms can be worn on the body. The meditative aspect of metalsmithing offers her calm awareness. Judaica and ceremonial objects add additional meaning as the use of these objects brings them to life and to fulfilling their purpose.
Early exposure and work in the jewelry industry led to design positions and showing her work in national jewelry, trade and retail craft shows, workshops, exhibits and commissions. She is represented in the book “Art Jewelry Today”, earned an AGTA ‘Spectrum Award’ for colored gemstone jewelry and was selected for a juror's choice award in the 2018 Charles-Lewton-Brain fold forming competition for an eternal light (Nir Tamid) “Forest Dawn”.
Idelle is also a trained facilitator of the Open Studio Process (OSP), an immersive experience in artmaking and writing that offers people a direct way of knowing their inherent creativity. Tapping that energy has invigorated her teaching adult classes in metalsmithing and enameling, volunteering with art classes for the homeless and facilitating OSP for Narrative Dimensions “Living Well with Illness” workshops.
You can see Hammond-Sass' artwork on the WCA homepage at nationalwca.org and on her website at www.idellehammond-sass.com.
Tomorrow is GivingTuesday! Every dollar raised will help fund the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards (LTA). Help us reach our $5000 goal by donating today and help build a legacy for women in the arts!
Donate at www.facebook.com/donate/1609635196052803/
The 2022 WCA LTA Awardees are Lynda Benglis, Beate Minkoviski, Gladys Nilsson, Lorriane O’Grady, and Linda Vallejo. The President’s Awardee for Art & Activism is Sabrina Nelson, and the new WCA Emerging Artist Awardee is Ashley January. The awards will be presented to these amazing women in Chicago, IL on February 19, 2022.
Since 1979, WCA has honored over 200 women for their work, their vision, and their commitment. Help us to continue to honor and recognize women in the arts.
Learn more about the LTA Awards at nationalwca.org/awards/
#givingtuesday- Facebook pays all the processing fees for you, so 100% of your donation goes directly to the nonprofit.
Help to build a legacy for women in the arts for Giving Tuesday! This Giving Season, every dollar raised will help fund the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards (LTA). Help us reach our $5000 goal.
Donate at www.facebook.com/donate/1609635196052803/
The 2022 WCA LTA Awardees are Lynda Benglis, Beate Minkoviski, Gladys Nilsson, Lorriane O’Grady, and Linda Vallejo. The President’s Awardee for Art & Activism is Sabrina Nelson, and the new WCA Emerging Artist Awardee is Ashley January. The awards will be presented to these amazing women in Chicago, IL on February 19, 2022.
Awardee Linda Vallejo creates work that visualizes what it means to be a person of color in the US. Her work reflects the experiences and knowledge gathered over four decades of study in the Latino, Chicano, and American indigenous communities. In 1970 – 1980s Los Angeles she worked in the Chicano community with Self Help Graphics; the feminist community at the Women’s Building and African American community at William Grant Still Community Arts Center and Brockman Gallery. She owned Galeria Las Americas presenting contemporary Latino and Chicano artists and established A to Z Grantwriting beginning a lifelong career as a nonprofit consultant, instructor and coach.
Learn more about the LTA Awards at nationalwca.org/awards/
#givingseason- Facebook pays all the processing fees for you, so 100% of your donation goes directly to the nonprofit.
Help to build a legacy for women in the arts for Giving Tuesday! This Giving Season, every dollar raised will help fund the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards (LTA). Help us reach our $5000 goal.
Donate at www.facebook.com/donate/1609635196052803/
The 2022 WCA LTA Awardees are Lynda Benglis, Beate Minkoviski, Gladys Nilsson, Lorriane O’Grady, and Linda Vallejo. The President’s Awardee for Art & Activism is Sabrina Nelson, and the new WCA Emerging Artist Awardee is Ashley January. The awards will be presented to these amazing women in Chicago, IL on February 19, 2022.
Awardee Lorraine O’Grady is a conceptual artist and cultural critic whose work over four decades has employed the diptych, or at least the diptych idea, as its primary form. While she has consistently addressed issues of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity and has emphasized the formative roles these have played in the history of modernism, O’Grady also uses the diptych’s “both/and thinking” to frame her themes as symptoms of a larger problematic, that of the divisive and hierarchical either/or categories underpinning Western philosophy. In O’Grady’s works across various genres including text, photo-installation, video and performance, multiple emotions and ideas coexist. (Photo credit: Ross Collab)
Learn more about the LTA Awards at nationalwca.org/awards/
#givingseason- Facebook pays all the processing fees for you, so 100% of your donation goes directly to the nonprofit.
WCA 50th Anniversary Interviews: Barbara Wolanin
Dr. Barbara Wolanin joined the Women’s Caucus for Art back in 1978, only a few years after its founding in 1972. Since then, she has been quite active in WCA’s Washington DC chapter and has served on WCA’s National board as Southeast Regional Vice President. She was also Vice President for Chapter Relations from 1998 to 2010 and President of WCA’s DC chapter from 1998 to 2001.
MEMBERSHIP & PROGRAMS
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Video by Washington DC Chapter Member, Kim Foley.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
WCA Art Book Club
The WCA Art Book Club was formed in partnership with the WCA Colorado Chapter to foster understanding of women in the arts and their contributions. Books are chosen by members and discussed bi-monthly via Zoom. Join us!
January 12 at 8 pm EST
The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean
If you are interested in cohosting a meeting or recommending a book, contact WCA-CO member, Annette Coleman at annettecoleman@yahoo.com or Laura Morrison at president@nationalwca.org
Click here to see the book club selections and to register via WCA Colorado
MISSION & PURPOSE
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.
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