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Announcing the Women’s Caucus for Art Conference 2022
Occupy the Moment: Embracing Our History, Enhancing Our Impact
50th Anniversary of the Women’s Caucus for Art
Chicago, IL February 17 – 20, 2022
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. Save the dates and plan to attend. We look forward to seeing you there. A block of rooms will be reserved at The Hilton Hotel near the Art Institute.
Save the dates! Details to come!
Call for Panel Proposals and Panel Chairs
Occupy the Moment: Embracing Our History, Enhancing Our Impact
50th Anniversary of the Women’s Caucus for Art
Chicago, IL February 16–20, 2022
We invite you to submit a proposal for the WCA Conference in Chicago in February 2022. This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Caucus for Art. We are seeking panel chairs and proposals that address the conference theme, Occupy the Moment: Embracing Our History, Enhancing Our Impact. Harnessing the momentum of the recent change in America’s administration, the anniversary of the passing of the nineteenth amendment, and the women-led successes across the nation, our theme celebrates our strengths and accomplishments and explores how we move forward to embrace new agendas and support emerging voices.
Conference proposals should connect with this theme. Sessions are 90 minutes and may take the form of panels, roundtable discussions, or workshops. You may submit a proposal for a topic, with participants to be determined later, or a fully developed panel.
Introducing the new Artlines!
The WCA Art Writers Committee was formed in June of 2020 as a way of enhancing the visibility of writers in the organization. The committee has been instrumental in the relaunch of Artlines as a substantive arts journal (with credit due former WCA President Susan King for starting the process).
The Winter 2020 issue, edited by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas and Shantay Robinson, features articles that consider the intersection of activist arts and social justice in relationship to the Black Lives Matter movement.
An elegant new design by Allicette Torres and Sahiti Bonam makes space for longer form writing and ample illustrations. The managing editorial team Margo Hobbs, Patti Jordan, and Jess Long are working on a call for participation for future issues. The call will come out later this spring in our newsletter, Pulse.
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Portrait of South African Singer and Activist Miriam Makeba. 2021. Gouache, ink and oil pastel on paper.
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Part of my ongoing series, “AMPLIFY,” a body of work dedicated to women artists and activists.
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I took a quick pic of Hedith painting while having a video call with her today. It is always exciting and interesting for me to see what she is working on. She is nearing completion of this beautiful piece. She mentioned she has been very focused on it for the past few weeks. Can’t wait to share the finished piece.
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This is my entry for the exhibit Beyond the Surface opening Jan. 22 through Feb. 7, a WCACO member show.
Considering the them Beyond the Surface, I thought about the current racial situation in the United States and what was simmering beyond or beneath the surface we are experiencing right now in 2020. Our nation was founded with an acceptance of slavery. For many years in its early history, states were added in a balance one slave state for one free state. The acceptance that slavery was an economic and political necessity meant the country was built on a flawed foundation. The liberty bell cracked when it was first rung. This to me was a symbol of the cracks in the foundation, the underlying currents that were going to simmer and boil throughout our history until this original flaw was corrected and indeed they have. The moral and humane obligation to abolish slavery was clear to some who were brave enough to act early in our history. The courage of slaves such as Harriet Tubman to escape and help others to safety, away from the cruel, inhumane and immoral reality of slavery strengthened our foundation as a country and got us closer to liberty for all. I chose to picture these brave people who exemplify what is still needed today. While slavery itself is abolished, its harsh impact is still hurting our country today, preventing us from being truly a place with liberty and justice for all. This painting is a reminder that all of us need to search inward and be open to ways to act to continue to strengthen our country’s foundation by understanding its faults and mending the cracks that adversely affect so many still.
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OLD MYTHS NEW STORIES
Opens Saturday @ #curiscen @ 10 a.m.
No reservations, 10 people at a time, masks required and social distance while in gallery.
LIVE PREVIEW!
Friday, November 6 @ 4:00 p.m. on the Curtis Center for the Art's Facebook page.
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Phantom Limb.
16x16 oil on panel in progress, or maybe done, I’ll have to stare at it a while before I decide.
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Small changes to the face.
16x16 oil on panel in progress, detail
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“California” - 2018
Acrylic on canvas
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“Shattering Power”
a painting I submitted.
This painting was done on silk fabric. I have used gutta resist and silk dyes to create the message for "Shattering Power". She is every woman and represents women of different cultures. She is tied by the age-old gender norms rooted in patriarchy and male dominance. She juggles all these societal barriers and carries a strength capable of breaking through the glass ceiling, shattering the oppressing and marginalizing forces that controlled her. Motherhood cannot be a restraint to the modern woman as she holds her motherhood and breaks the glass ceiling-uplifting the very nature of woman being the nurturer, the provider, and the protector. Empowering words are written as an art form to raise issues of equal pay, equal opportunities, and maternity leave to the forefront. The detailed patterns on the eyes of both women signifies the many silent strong women who hide behind makeup to cover domestic abuse while at work.
"Shattering Power" signifies that women standing together are unstoppable. #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #womeninbusiness #womenscaucusforart #womenscaucusnyc
Virtual Reception Tonight at 6pm EST! ~Link in bio~
Join juror Philippa PB Hughes and the exhibiting artists for a discussion of "Looking for America: DC" by The Women's Caucus for Art, Hera Hub and Client Raiser. I am excited to talk about my work, "Live at the National: The American Captain" and am so grateful to receive Third Place for my D.C. debut 😊 This work is of huge personal significance and it is so cool to be a thread in this American tapestry. See you there!
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Women’s Caucus for Art is holding an Annual T-Shirt Design Competition for t-shirts that will be made available for sale to members and friends. The competition is for members and the winning designer will receive 30% of the profit from the sales of the t-shirts. The designs should evoke a feminist perspective that advocates for women’s rights and equality as expressed by the power of Women’s Caucus for Art’s diversity, reach, and impact. The competition designs will be judged by the WCA Executive Board.
Entry for submissions opens closes on Tuesday, June 1. Submissions should be
formatted as jpg and the maximum file size is 5MB.
All entries should be submitted here: nationalwca.org/events/evocative-visions-t-shirt-competition/
Please contact shantay.robinson@nationalwca.org with any questions!
Evocative Visions T-Shirt Competition | Women's Caucus for Art
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EVOCATIVE VISIONS T-SHIRT COMPETITION! Women’s Caucus for Art is holding an Annual T-Shirt Design Competition for t-shirts that will be made available for sale to members and friends.
WCA’s May Artist Feature of the Month is Hwei-Li Tsao, A member of the Peninsula chapter!
Images: (R) “Quiet Whisper”, Oil on board, 24”x24” and (L) “Stunned”, Oil on linen, 30”x40”
Hwei-Li Tsao is a San Francisco-based artist. Her work has been shown at the de Young Museum, Triton Museum, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, MarinMOCA, Gallery 621, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Marin Falkirk Cultural Center, Jewelers Guild Gallery in San Rafael, College of Marin and around the Bay Area. She completed an MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art
Institute in 2011.
Hwei-Li has taught painting at the College of Marin and at San Francisco Art Institute Public Education. Currently she teaches online.
You can see Tsao’s artwork on the WCA homepage at nationalwca.org and on her website at www.hweili.com.
The WCA is saddened to hear of the passing of WCA 2019 Lifetime Achievement Honoree and lifetime member Mary Beth Edelson. She was an artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement, and deemed one of the notable "first-generation feminist artists." Edelson was a printmaker, book artist, collage artist, painter, photographer, performance artist, and author. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Tate Modern and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Image: Selected wall collage, 1972-2012, Tate Modern exhibit
To read more about her work and life:
nationalwca.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LTA2019.pdf
"I work with hair because I think that it is one of the ways that we can conjure our ancestors. It's the fiber that we grow, but in it is also our DNA."—Sonya Clark, textile and social practice artist.
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Artist Sonya Clark explores hair, race and culture in 'Tatter, Bristle, and Mend'Sonya Clark has 2 exhibitions up now at the DeCordova Museum near Boston - Monumental Cloth (about the Confederate Truce Flag and Heavenly Bound, which incorporates her hair.
Check out Art News article online about Emma Amos. I shared the post on my Face Book page
How Emma Amos’s Art and Activism Powerfully Confronted Racism and Sexism
Maximilíano Durón
BY MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN
April 30, 2021 4:31pm
In partnership with National, WCA Colorado is opening up their book club to include all WCA members on a bi-monthly basis beginning May 12, 2021. The book club was formed to foster understanding of women in the arts and their contributions. Books are chosen by members and discussed monthly via Zoom. *The book club meets on the second Wednesday of the month from 6 pm-7:30 pm Mountain Standard Time.*
Book Selection: May 12, 2021
*The Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase*
Host: Annette Coleman
CoHost: Leslie Lefferdink
Mark your calendar for May 12, July 14, September 8 and November 10, 2021. Book selections to be announced.
Click here to register via WCA Colorado www.wcaco.org/newsevents
Note: If you register but do not receive a link before the meeting, please text Annette Coleman at 303-941-8887 and she will send you the link.
A few guidelines–
Mute yourself until called on. Use the chat to pose questions. You don't have to have read the book. Books chosen should be available in the public library, used or available to download. Newer books will be considered when they become available in paperback.
If you are interested in cohosting a meeting or recommending a book, contact WCA-CO member, Annette Coleman at annettecoleman@yahoo.com.
Amalia Mesa-Bains
Amalia Mesa-Bains is an internationally renowned artist, scholar, and curator. Throughout her career, Mesa-Bains has expanded understandings of Latina/o artists’ references to spiritual practices and vernacular traditions through her altar installations, articles and exhibitions. In 1992 she was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. Her work has been shown at institutions that include: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, and the New Museum, as well as international venues in Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ireland, Sweden, England, France and Spain.
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Colorado Art Book Club
In partnership with National, WCA Colorado is opening up their book club to include all WCA members on a bi-monthly basis beginning May 12, 2021. The book club was formed to foster understanding of women in the arts and their contributions. Books are chosen by members and discussed monthly via Zoom. The book club meets on the second Wednesday of the month from 6 pm–7:30 pm Mountain Standard Time.
Mark your calendar for May 12, July 14, September 8, and November 10, 2021.
Book selections to be announced.
Note: If you register but do not receive a link before the meeting, please text Annette Coleman at 303-941-8887 and she will send you the link.
Click on the link below to register.
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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