By LINDA VALLEJO "The Brown Dot Project" keynote presented for the panel Transhistorical Feminist Agency: A Matter of Gender, Race, Time, and Place as a part of the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference 2021 Data pictographs that illustrate the advancement...
In 1971, three white Americans opened the Muckamuck restaurant in Vancouver, advertising Northwest Coast First Nations cuisine.[1] The owners hired mainly Indigenous staff.
Friend or Foe? Access, Art and the Perfunctory Nature of Artificial Intelligence on Creative Process Written By: Chiara Atoyebi Featured Image : AI-Generated Portrait of Me from Lensa, 2022 Last year marked the 50th anniversary for the National Women’s Caucus for Art...
Selma Hortense Burke is one of the few African-American women sculptors who achieved a high level of national recognition during her lifetime. She received national recognition for her relief portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt which was the model for his image on the dime. She was committed to teaching art to others, so she established the Selma Burke Art School in New York City and opened the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
WCA Member Allicette Torres launches an alternative gallery space Revolú Gallery with the inaugural exhibition Nebula.Protologo: Language Shifting Through Time and Space
Margo Hobbs, PhD is a feminist art historian and past WCA President (2018-20). Our interview is part of the WCA Leadership Project in honor of the organization’s fiftieth anniversary. In our conversation Dr. Hobbs shares her memories and experiences about her work and WCA.
Mary D. Garrard interviewed by Margo Hobbs. Mary D. Garrard was the second president of WCA from 1974 to 1976. She is an art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, who earned her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, her MA at Harvard, and her BA at Newcomb College. She is an expert on the work of Artemisia Gentileschi and has written four books on the painter; the most recent is Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe (Reaktion Books, 2020).
WCA 50th Anniversary Interviews: Linda Vallejo Linda Vallejo Visualizing what it means to be a person of color... By Marianne McGrath What an honor to interview artist Linda Vallejo! This interview is part of a series of interviews organized by the WCA Art Writers...
bell hooks entered my life when I was considering leaving Los Angeles and taking a break from acting. I had just guest-starred on the CBS network's Judging Amy, in a role that was emotionally taxing and left me wondering what next? During my time on the show, which...
Ruth Weisberg is a prolific multidisciplinary artist whose work traverses the genres of painting, drawing, and mural-sized installation. She has an avid interest in Jewish heritage and Feminist subject matter that oftentimes incorporates...
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