Women's Caucus for Art

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On the 19th day of Women's History Month, WCA celebrates the life and work of 2005 Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Honoree Betty Blayton-Taylor.
“Betty Blayton-Taylor (July 10, 1937 – October 2, 2016) was an American activist, advocate, artist, arts administrator and educator, and lecturer. As an artist, Blanton-Taylor was an illustrator, painter, printmaker, and sculptor. She is best known for her works often described as "spiritual abstractions".
Blayton was a founding member of the Studio Museum in Harlem and board secretary. She served on the board for over 10 years from 1965 to 1975. Bayton-Taylor was co-founder and executive director of Harlem Children’s Art Carnival (CAC), and a co-founder of Harlem Textile Works. Contributing her services to many causes, she was on the board of Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop from 1978-1998. Her old friends say that she was always busy organizing something. Jim Hatch, of the Hatch Billops cultural arts archive, said “there might never have been a Hatch Billops Collection if she had not shown us how to become a not-for-profit corporation.” Always eager to share her knowledge and do the most good, she also wrote Making Thoughts Become, a handbook on the creative process for teachers and adults.
She was also an advisor, consultant and board member to a variety of other arts and community-based service organizations and programs.”
To read more about all our honorees in 2005: Betty Blayton-Taylor, Rosalynn Carter, Mary D. Garrard, Agnes Martin, Yoko Ono, and Ann Sutherland Harris
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Women's Caucus for Art

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On the 18th day of Women's History Month, WCA celebrates the life and work of 2013 Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Honoree Suzanne Lacy

Suzanne Lacy is a visual artist whose prolific career includes performances, video and photographic installation, critical writing and public practices in communities. She is best known as one of the Los Angeles performance artists who began active in the Seventies and shaped and emergent art of social engagement. Her work ranges from intimate, graphic body explorations to large-scale public performances involving literally hundreds of performers and thousands of audience members.
In 1977, Lacy and collaborator Leslie Labowitz combined performance art with activism in Three Weeks in May. The event included a performance piece on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall and self-defense classes for women in an attempt to highlight and curb sexual violence against women. The artists updated a map with reports from the Los Angeles Police Department, printing the word "rape" on spots on a map of the greater Los Angeles Area.
In the mid-seventies, she curated the first exhibition of women's performance art at Womanspace Gallery at The Woman's Building.
Lacy produced many performances in various sites around the world, mostly focusing on race, class and gender equity. During the first two decades of the 2000, she reworked earlier performances, including WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, based upon the venues and objectives. In 2012, she re-created the 1977 performance for the Getty Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival. Three Weeks in January, was an anti-rape performance based on her landmark 1977 project; this time the map was installed prominently on the Los Angeles Police Department's main campus.

To read more about all our 2012 Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Honorees who were honored during WCA's 40th anniversary: Whitney Chadwick, Suzanne Lacy, Ferris Olin, Bernice Steinbaum, and Trinh T. Minh-ha

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Women's Caucus for Art

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On the 17th day of Women's History Month, WCA celebrates the life and work of 2010 Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Honoree Senga Nengudi.

Senga Nengudi is a visual artist best known for her abstract sculptures that combine found objects and choreographed performance. " She was Interested in the visual arts, dance, body mechanics and matters of the spirit from an early age these elements still play themselves out in ever changing ways in her art. She has always used a variety of natural (sand, dirt, rocks, seed pods) and unconventional (panty hose, found objects, masking tape) materials to fashion her works, utilizing these materials as a jazz musician utilizes notes and sounds to improvise a composition. The thrust of her art is to share common experiences in abstractions that hit the senses and center, often welcoming the viewer to become a participant.
Along with doing art Nengudi is strongly committed to arts education. Along with teaching courses at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in the Visual Arts and Performing Arts Department, she has always been involved with bringing arts programs emphasing diversity to the communities in which she resides. Besides her individual efforts she has belonged to a variety of organizations with similar goals.
"Sharing each others cultures through the arts provides a true bridge to a healthy respect for one another and arts education in general provides a means to stimulate the mind and exercise creative problem solving."

To read more about all our 2010 WCA Lifetime Achievement Honorees.Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Mary Jane Jacob, Senga Nengudi, Joyce J. Scott, Spiderwoman Theater (Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel, Muriel Miguel)
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Women's Caucus for Art

4 days ago

On the 16th day of Women’s History month, we look at and honor the work of 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree Judy Onofrio.

Judy Onofrio is a self taught artist who has been creating art for over fifty years. Beginning with ceramics in the 1970s, Onofrio moved through a wide range of materials and exploration of form. She has created large-scale installations, sculptural fire performances, and elaborately carved and obsessively embellished sculpture. Her most recent works are monumental and made entirely of bone. They speak to the transitory nature of life.
Onofrio’s dedication to Minnesota’s art community has been a life long focus. She was the founding director of the Minnesota Crafts Council, served as Acting Director of the Rochester Art Center, and founded the highly regarded children’s Total Art Day Camp at the Rochester Art Center.
In 2005, Onofrio was awarded The McKnight Foundation Distinguished Minnesota Artist Award in recognition of her ongoing contribution as an artist and educator. She is a recipient of the Rochester Art Center Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 A. P. Anderson Award and the Minnesota Crafts Council Lifetime Achievement Award. Grants and fellowships include, Minnesota State Arts Board, Arts Midwest/NEC, the Bush Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation. Her work is found in the national and international collections including:

To read more about all our honorees in 2020:
Joyce Fernando, Michiko Itatani, Judy Onofrio, Alison Saar and Judith Stein; and President’s Award for Art & Activism - Rose B. Simpson visit:
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We are asking for you to help support the legacy of women in the arts by donating to the Women's Caucus for Art and the WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards during Women’s History Month.
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The WCA's Lifetime Achievement Awards are one of the most prestigious awards given to women in the visual arts. For many awardees, the award is the most significant recognition of their life's work. The awards represent the WCA's ongoing commitment to building a legacy for women in the arts. Over the last 50 years, 209 awards have been presented to women artists, historians, educators, arts administrators, and museum professionals. Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O'Keeffe were the first recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Awards. President Jimmy Carter presented the awards to them in 1979 in the Oval Office. Recipients have included Lorraine O’Grady, Tina Dunkley, Whitney Chadwick, Beverly Buchanan, Sylvia Sleigh, and Renee Stout.
For more information on the awards and WCA: nationalwca.org/past-honorees/
Help WCA build a legacy for women in the arts!
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The Women's Caucus for Art has been advocating for women artists and art professionals for over 50years.
The mission of the Women's Caucus for Art is to create community through art, education, and social activism
WCA is 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

We hope you'll consider contributing. Every little bit will help. Help WCA build a legacy for women in the arts!
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Women's Caucus for Art

5 days ago

Today on the 15th day of Women's History Month, WCA celebrates the life and work of 1996 Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Honoree Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell is an American painter and mixed media artist. Her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing the intersecting issues of racism, feminism, violence, slavery, and exploitation. She is known for the wide variety of techniques and materials used in her artwork; she has created abstract paintings, collages, "video drawings," and "process art."
From Artnews 2018- “The beauty of these works feels effortless, but it took Pindell more than two decades to arrive at total abstraction. She can date her interest in art back to the third grade, when a teacher at her school in Philadelphia in the early 1950s told her parents that their daughter was a budding artist and that they should be taking her to museums and studios. They quickly got to work. “My parents are very multicultural in terms of their interests, so I met not only white artists and black artists, but also women artists,” Pindell said. “When I entered the art world in New York, it was a big shock for me that it was so segregated.”

To read more about all our honorees in 1996: Bernice Bing, Alicia Craig Faxon, Elsa Honig Fine, Howardena Pindell, Marianna Pineda, and Kay WalkingStick.
nationalwca.org/past-honorees/

We are asking for you to help support the legacy of women in the arts by donating to the Women's Caucus for Art and the WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards during Women’s History Month.
www.facebook.com/donate/572820904782105/

The WCA's Lifetime Achievement Awards are one of the most prestigious awards given to women in the visual arts. For many awardees, the award is the most significant recognition of their life's work. The awards represent the WCA's ongoing commitment to building a legacy for women in the arts. Over the last 50 years, 209 awards have been presented to women artists, historians, educators, arts administrators, and museum professionals. Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O'Keeffe were the first recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Awards. President Jimmy Carter presented the awards to them in 1979 in the Oval Office. Recipients have included Lorraine O’Grady, Tina Dunkley, Whitney Chadwick, Beverly Buchanan, Sylvia Sleigh, and Renee Stout.
For more information on the awards and WCA: nationalwca.org/past-honorees/
Help WCA build a legacy for women in the arts!
www.facebook.com/donate/572820904782105/

The Women's Caucus for Art has been advocating for women artists and art professionals for over 50years.
The mission of the Women's Caucus for Art is to create community through art, education, and social activism
WCA is 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

We hope you'll consider contributing. Every little bit will help. Help WCA build a legacy for women in the arts!
www.facebook.com/donate/572820904782105/

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