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TFAP
The Feminist Art Project
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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.
SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS
Art Insights BLOG
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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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