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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
February 17–20, 2022, Chicago, IL
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!
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
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement (LTA) Awards: Lynda Benglis, Beate Minkoviski, Gladys Nilsson, Lorriane O’Grady, and Linda Vallejo. The recipients for the 2022 President’s Art & Activism Award and the new WCA Emerging Artist Award will be named late September.
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. Tickets will be available for purchase beginning mid-October.
CALL FOR ART & Summer Artlines
Occupy the Moment, Intersect History with Impact
DEADLINE: September 30, 2021
Juror: Dr. Maura Reilly
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.
In the Summer 2021 Artlines issue, five contributors offer their thoughts on the topic of Slow. Artists and art historians consider notions of time through lenses of curating, collaboration, comics, disability, trees, land, painting, and the deciphering of hastily scrawled text.
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Really appreciate all the inspiring feedback from visitors to Womxnhouse Detroit! Thank you for sharing how the artwork moved you💕#contemporaryart #installationart #installationartist #detroitart #womenartists #womanart #ecofeministart #ecofeministartist #emuartdesign #womenscaucusforart #norwestgalleryofart
“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.
#PollockKrasnerFoundation #LeeKrasner #GuggenheimMuseumBilbao #WomenArtists #WomensCaucusforArt #AbstractExpressionism #MoMA #SFMOMA #MFAHouston #VisualArts #ArtBook
Thinking about #slow with artists and art historians #artlines #womenscaucusforart meganjohnston1 alansonfistofficial estudio_magali.lara
Prepping another set of artists trading cards! NH artists - consider joining the Women’s Caucus for Art, NH Chapter for great exhibit opportunities and networking. Lots of fun & art to be had! ✨
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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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#susangrabel #sculpture #becauseartmatters #feministartist #artactivism #nycsculptor #womansculptor #contemporaryart #polychromesculpture #digitalsculpture #woodsculpture #womensart
#figurativesculpture #socialjusticeart #WomensCaucusForArt
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
WIP. Finding Our Way. About 3/4 done — one more “butterfly” to go. 8th in the COVID series
#tapestry #tapestryweaving #tapestryweaversofinstagram #wedgeweave #wedgeweaver #dinéinspired #COVIDart #womenwhoweave #jewishartsalon #jewishartsalonmembers #britishtapestrygroup #womenscaucusforart #weaversguildstl #americantapestryalliance #wip #workinprogress #stlartist #slowcloth
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.
#tapestry #tapestryart #tapestryweaversofinstagram #fiber #fiberart #fiberartist #fiberartistsofinstagram #fibre #fibreart #fibreartist #fibreartistsofinstagram #womenwhoweave #covidart #womenscaucusforart #americantapestryalliance #britishtapestrygroup #jewishartsalon #wedgeweave #stlartist
Tonight I'll be talking about two of my tapestries from the COVID series that are part of Arc Gallery exhibit "Containment: Stories of Art in Isolation." I'm one of 9 artists featured tonight. If you're in San Francisco, you can see the exhibit in person!
Zoom link for 5pm PDT, Thursday, July 22:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpf-yqrjwpGNbRm03u4tbz5rxODvZNgn_t
Preregistration required. Hope to see you tonight! Thanks for the support! Pictured: Blood on Our Hands, tapestries, wool warp & weft, 12x8 inches.
#tapestry #artistsoninstagram #artisttalk #jewishartsalon #americantapestryalliance #britishtapestrygroup #womenscaucusforart #exhibit #exhibition
There was the time when I curated several political art projects, some of them with my colleague and friend Hadieh Afshani. We were supported by the Women’s Caucus for Art and invited to the United Nations Assembly.
Photos: the UN Headquarter in New York - posting them on the International Day of Peace.
#unitednations #artists #politicalart #curator #artpeojects #internationaldayofpeace #unitednationsnewyork #womenscaucusforart
In the Kansas City area? Check out this exhibition featuring the work of 2020 WCA Lifetime Achievement Honoree Judy Onofrio
Pictured: Pure Cream, 36”h x 50”w 11 1/2”d, 2021
Now on view at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
sherryleedy.com/main/exhibitions/
READ ARTLINES SUMMER 2021 ISSUE ONLINE
“I have a proposition to make, that now is the time to be slow.”
-Rachel Epp Buller, Editor of Artlines Summer 2021 Issue
Members by now would’ve received the print edition of Artlines Summer 2021 Issue and you can read it online too: nationalwca.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Artlines_Sum-2021.pdf
Cover design/image by Binna Kim
If you are in Chicago, check out the exhibition by 2020 WCA Lifetime Achievement honoree and lifetime member - Michiko Itatani
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The National Women’s Caucus for Art invites members and non members to submit to our 50th anniversary conference show, ‘Occupy the Moment, Intersect History with Impact’ juried by Dr. Maura Reilly!!
Submissions are due September 30th, 2021.
Details and submission on entrythingy: www.entrythingy.com/d=nationalwca.org?start=list
The 2022 Conference and exhibit will be held in Chicago, IL in February.
The National Women’s Caucus for Art invites members and non members to submit to our 50th anniversary conference show, ‘Occupy the Moment, Intersect History with Impact’ juried by Dr. Maura Reilly!!
Submissions are due September 30th, 2021.
Details and submission on entrythingy: www.entrythingy.com/d=nationalwca.org?start=list
The 2022 Conference and exhibit will be held in Chicago, IL in February.
Litana Om
Pay artists for work, it isnt free.
In memory of Kristin Osgood Lamelas and in honor of Latinx History Month.
Kristin Osgood Lamelas is a Philadelphia born artist, currently living in New Jersey. She donated a kidney to her father in 2011. Since then, her mixed-media paintings reference aerial views of specific landscapes and images of cells from her own body. In her most recent work, she is exploring the issue of how environmental toxins and climate change affect her body and the earth.
Lamelas holds an MFA and a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design and an Art Education certification from Rowan University. She has traveled extensively and has studied classical painting at the Florence Academy of Art, Laguna College of Art, Studio Incamminati, Pennsylvania Academy of Art and SACI.
Lamelas worked as a Graphic Design and Photography teacher in New Jersey for the past 18 years and was President of the Women's Caucus for Art for three years. She revived the chapter and curated and hosted numerous exhibitions including "Old Enough to Know Better" which was juried by Eileen Neff and Diane Burko. Lamelas is a member of CAA, InLiquid, DVAA, and CFEVA
Lamelas passed away on March 12, 2021. Read her obituary here: mcgfuneral.com/tribute/details/209897/Kristin-Lamelas/obituary.html
You can see Lamelas' artwork on the WCA homepage at nationalwca.org and on her website at www.kristinosgood.com
Tomur Atagök: A Life Long Feminist Artist in Turkey
Tomur Atagök in front of Çatalhöyük Goddess, 1996 in her home Part I Biography Tomur Atagök a leading feminist artist from Turkey, was born in...
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2021 Upcoming Bookclub Dates: September 8, and November 10 at 8 pm EST
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