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CURRENT PROGRAMS & EVENTS
SECOND SATURDAY SESSIONS in 2022
The Second Saturday Sessions are programs that were originally scheduled for the WCA National Conference in February 2022. The in-person conference was canceled but WCA has pivoted much of the programming to be offered for free to WCA members.
Registration is required to receive a link.
Past sessions that have been recorded can be viewed via the links provided here. If you have any questions, please contact Programming Chair Laura Morrison at laura.morrison@nationalwca.
Labor of Love
Zoom: Saturday, May 14 | 1–2:30 pm EST
The Alabama chapter members will present “Labor of Love”, a member exhibition and performance art installation, offering discussions of the hidden labor of women, our quality of life, and how to create the life you want even in an often hostile environment. The panel considers labor inequities at home and work, and calls for a redefinition of economics as a discipline dedicated to people’s well-being.
Panel Co-Chairs: Amanda Banks, Jessica Nunno
Panelists: Anna Sue Courtney, Sylvia Bowyer

WOMXNHOUSE DETROIT RESCHEDULED!
Sat June 11 | 3:30-5 pm Eastern / 12:30-2 pm Pacific
WOMXNHOUSE DETROIT:
The Art of Being Female in America Today
A freewill donation requested to benefit WCA Programming
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. Open from Sept 19 thru Oct 31 2021, Womxnhouse Detroit offered a unique benchmark 50 years into feminist art answering the questions, What has changed for women? What remains the same?
Co-Curator and WCA member Laura Earle will give a short presentation on Womxnhouse Detroit with an introduction to all 13 artists. The panel discussion that follows will be focused on the women of color who participated in the project.
Panelists Asia Hamilton, Olivia Guterson, Dalia Reyes, Amelia Reyes and Sabrina Nelson will talk about being part of a project that was absent of the voices of women of color and discuss how change can happen going forward.
More about Womxnhouse Detroit at https://www.womxnhousedet.com/
Facebook @Womxnhousedetroit
Instagram @womxnhouse_detroit
UPCOMING EVENTS

Occupy the Moment,
Intersect History with Impact
WCA National Exhibition
Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
January 21 – February 25, 2022

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!
2022 Schedule: All meetings take place via Zoom at 8 pm Eastern
May 11 – Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
July 13 – Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
September 14 – Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara Bloemink
Author Talk and Discussion with Barbara Bloemink
November 9 – Art On My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks
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
See the book club selections and register via WCA Colorado
Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Awards 2022
50th Anniversary of the Women’s Caucus for Art

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.
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
“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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👑Lorraine O’Grady👑
Congratulations 👏🏽💥👏🏽 💥 Repost • alexandergrayassociates Lorraine O'Grady will be among the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Honorees at the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Awards today, February 19, 2022. Congratulations!
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Lorraine O'Grady, 2018. Photo by Ross Collab.
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#LorraineOGrady #WomensCaucusforArt #AlexanderGrayAssociates #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist
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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Final week to view
wcaphilly Exhibit
Avant Garde
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The Henry Gallery
pennstate
Exhibit ends April 6
Make haste and get there!
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• kateeboyle Glory Gloves, (She Looks Like A Butterfly, She Stings Like A Bee), 2021.
9 in h; 8 in w; 4 in d.
Plaster, graphite scribed, vintage lace ribbon, enamel.
Currently on view / offered for purchase through
March 2022
wcaphilly
Avant-Garde
The Henry Gallery, Malvern pennstate Malvern
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from plain_sight_archive
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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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#aliceneel #louisenevelson #georgiaokeeffe
#womenscaucusforart #collegeartassociation #art #artist #nevelsonchapel
We All Have Scars. (detail).
In the exhibition Avant-Garde, opening tonight.
Join us on zoom.
Topic: Avant-Garde at Henry Gallery Virtual Opening Reception
Time: Jan 13, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787924282?pwd=Zis5Mm01dzNneVEyTWxvRGhkL2Vydz09
Meeting ID: 827 8792 4282
Passcode: 896655
#womenscaucusforart #wcaphilly #henrygallery #pennstategreatvalley #outofmycomfortzone
Friday February 25 is the last day to see the National Women's Caucus for Art's exhibition Occupy the Moment, Intersect History with Impact at Bridgeport Art Center. Grateful to juror maurareilly68 for including my sculpture in this show.
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Images include work by:
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“Luminal Imaginaries” is obscured in areas alluding to personal identities shifting through transitory states.
(Cross-Over 009), 2021
72 x 40 x 6 inches
Ink, Graphite, Metallic Paint, Archival Prints, Black Rubber and Nylon Cord, Push Pins.
#art #artistsoninstagram #contemporarydrawings #contemporaryink #ink #inkonpaper #inkdrawing #abstract #abstraction #womenscaucusforart #contemporaryart #drawing #worksonpaper #artcollector #collectors
Glory Gloves, (She Looks Like A Butterfly, She Stings Like A Bee), 2021.
9 in h; 8 in w; 4 in d.
Plaster, graphite scribed, vintage lace ribbon, enamel.
Currently on view / offered for purchase through
March 2022
wcaphilly
Avant-Garde
The Henry Gallery, Malvern pennstate Malvern
womenscaucusforart
#womenscaucusforart
#womeninthearts
#womencurators
#womenempowerment
#womensupportingwomen
#museumart
#artgallery
#kateeboyle
#artist
#artcurator
#artcollector
#artobjects
#sculpturalobjects
#kunstgalerie
#kunstwerk
Remembering when you actually could go into a gallery. My show at #statenislandarts dawelda and I Confluence: A Way Forward
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#figurativesculpture #socialjusticeart #WomensCaucusForArt

Artists 1011 and Capucine Bourcart in the exhibition Nebula.Protologo, Language Shifting Through Time and Space at Revolú Gallery by Allicette Torres
WCA Member Allicette Torres launches an alternative gallery space Revolú Gallery with the inaugural exhibition Nebula.Protologo: Language Shifting Through Time and Space
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MISSION & PURPOSE

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- 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
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