FEATURED ARTIST
The Women’s Caucus for Art stands in solidarity with the Asian community. As an organization that values social justice, we recognize discrimination and hatred at the intersections of race, gender, and class as offensive. Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan and Daoyou Feng were victims of racism, sexism and xenophobia. In the past year, 3,800 anti-Asian hate incidents, mostly against women, occurred.
WCA is an organization that believes in inclusivity and equity for its members and the global community. We are dedicated to transformative education and art activism.
Stop Asian hate. Let’s join the Asian Community in fighting white supremacy by unlearning racism and educating ourselves about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Resources:
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice: https://www.
advancingjustice-aajc.org/ - PBS docuseries on the history, contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans: https://www.pbs.
org/show/asian-americans/ - Stop AAPI Hate: https://stopaapihate.
org/ (link is working for me now) - National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum: https://www.napawf.org/
- W.O.W. Project: https://www.
wingonwoand.co/aboutwowproject
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.
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! Introducing the new Artlines. Link in bio or visit nationalwca.org/publications
The WCA Art Writers Committee was formed in June of 2020 by Past President Margo Hobbs (@mmh712) 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. Credit is also due to former WCA President Susan King for starting the process to refocus Artlines into an arts journal during her term.
The Winter 2021 issue, edited by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas (@rosemarymezadesplas) and Shantay Robinson (@thethirdeyesite), 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 (@allicette) and Sahiti Bonam (@visualliterature) makes space for longer form writing and ample illustrations. The managing editorial team Margo Hobbs, Patti Jordan (@pattijordanart), and Jess Long (@jess_xiaolong) are working on a call for participation for future issues. That call will come out later this spring in our newsletter, Pulse.
Our winter issue is digital due to budget constraints. Our next issue will offered in a print as well as digital and will be landing in your mailbox later this summer.
I hope you enjoy our new Artlines magazine!
Sincerely,
Laura Morrison (@lauramorrisonart)
WCA President
Artlines cover image: “Nakiya” by Maundy Mitchell (@maundymitchell)
#WomensCaucusforArt #internationalwomensday #womenartists
Today’s #wcw is the great Natalia Fabia. Her website describes “A graduate of the Art Center College of Design, Natalia Fabia began showing her art in group exhibitions around Los Angeles in the early 2000’s.
Fabia began making colorful, sultry scenes filled with people, lush environments, ornate fashion, light, interiors, glamour, graffiti, landscapes, punk rock music and an unapologetic sexiness entirely her own.
Fabia finds a genuine comfort and truth in the realness and imperfections within her subjects. She glorifies the individuality and unique aspects of her human figures. Hers is a colorful world celebrating the vibrant diversity and beauty of the life she lives and that exists around her.
Infused with Fabia’s signature style, vividly saturated candy color palettes and a dazzling spectrum of light, her work is a combination of fantasy narratives and actual moments captured from the artist’s life.”
We love her work and style!
nataliafabia #nataliafabia #figurativeartist #womancrushwednesday #ywc #youngwomenscaucus #wca #nationalwca #womenscaucusforart
The year 2020 marks a milestone in women’s history – the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment guaranteeing a woman’s constitutional right to vote. To celebrate the power of women’s voices and to spotlight women’s contributions to the visual arts, XX: Women 2020 will showcase the breadth and diversity of work created by contemporary self-identified women artists.
Juror: Beverly McIver
@wcacarolinas
Link in bio to view! #WomensCaucusforArt
WCA’s February Artist Feature of the Month is Kay Kang (@kaykangartist), A member of @ncwca!
Image: “It’s A Girl!”, 82"x55"x70", acrylic, charcoal, hemp ropes and dried red peppers on door jam, 1999
Kay Kang was born in Seoul, Korea and received B.S. in Audio Visual Education from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. She has a M.A. in printmaking from San Francisco State University. She is a conceptual and mixed media artist.
Her work reflects assimilation into American culture and the tension she experienced as a Korean-born artist living and adjusting to a different culture…avoiding conflict between traditional Korean culture and her westernized aspirations.” The Story of an immigrant’s journey into the American society is of special importance to her work – a journey filled with a myriad of hopes, joys, sorrows, fears and expectations.
Kang’s work has been exhibited in Mills College Art Museum, University of Pacific in Stockton, Eureka State University, Eureka, Ca, Broward College in Pembroke Pine, Florida, Luxun Academy of Art in Shenyang, China, Kyungin Museum in Seoul, Korea.
You can see Kang’s artwork on the WCA homepage at nationalwca.org and on her website at www.kaykangart.com (link in bio). #WomensCaucusforArt
Edit: Deadline postponed to March 5
The 2021-2022 WCA Featured Artists Program is taking on a fresh new direction this year!
The WCA “Featured Artists” will be selected by a young curator who will choose the 12 artists from the WCA Member Gallery. The "Featured Artist" section on WCA’s Homepage includes the artist's name, three rotating images, and a link to the artist's website. Each selected artist will also be featured in our newsletter, PULSE.
This year’s curator is @jess_xiaolong, an active member of the WCA Art Writer’s Committee. Jess Xiao Long is a first-year graduate student in the Art History & Museum Studies program at Case Western Reserve University, and a Cleveland Museum of Art fellow. She graduated from the Ohio University Honors Tutorial College in 2020, earning a BA in Art History, minors in History, Studio Art, and Business Administration, and a Museum Studies Certificate. Jess Xiao Long is a contemporary art historian with experience working for art museums and nonprofits, and her research interests include performativity, feminism, body politics, popular culture, colonialism, and consumerism. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the history of women in the tattoo industry and the changing cultural symbolism of the tattoo, specifically on female bodies. Jess Xiao Long is passionate about equity in the arts and dedicated to the mission of decolonizing cultural institutions.”
Deadline March 1:
March 1, 2021 is the deadline to update or enter your website into the WCA Member Gallery for the opportunity to have your work selected as a WCA Featured Artist. You must be a current 2020 member to have your work selected. Selected artists will be contacted on or before April 1, 2021. The roster of artists will be announced in the April 1, 2021 issue of Pulse.
To enter and or update your website to the Member Gallery, send Karin Luner at admin@nationalwca.org a square image along with your name, link to your website and your chapter affiliation.
Link in bio to visit the WCA Member Gallery #WomensCaucusforArt
“The Space Between” alfagallery womenscaucusforart
(See previous post for details).
September 5 thru 26, 2020
Physical Exhibition Now Open!
This art exhibition explores the relationship between female identity and the environment, evaluating women’s perceptions of place amidst a complex social climate through a myriad of perspectives.
Helaine Soller
“My photographs are an extension of my physical presence.
A document of how I think and go about the world.
An art form informing my creative process as I paint in my studio.
A new reality has heightened sensitivity to experiencing the old normal while walking or peering into skies unlimited. Finding oneself between worlds of reality. Peering out into the world through windows or by media screen. Locked in by shutdowns, peering out of windows or from a balcony perch; signatures of urban life prevail, yet it’s been transformative. Traditional women’s roles neutralized by needs for existence; ordering in, ordering groceries ordering supplies and all life’s necessities. Social media interaction, limited movement, travel limits, provide time to regain focus and to create new art. This is part my new series of photographs “Social Isolation 2020.”
#wca #womenscaucusforart #thespacebetween #helainesoller #womenintheartsfoundation #virtualexhibition #physicalexhibition
Two friends. Oil on canvas. 2020
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#friendship #paint #portrait #paintersofinstagram #womenartists
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A couple of recent portraits I’ve been working on.
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#oilpainting #contemporaryartist #portrait #portraitpainting #figurativeart #figurativepainting #nhart #nhartist #womeninart #feministart #artstudio #madeinnh #womenscaucusforart
International Caucus Chair @allicette wrote an article about art, living in Harlem, and curator Connie Lee (@connieleecurated)!
“Harlem, New York has always been a universe unto itself, forever moving through time effortlessly, still seemingly living anew, setting the pace and trends for us all. This place, my home, knows how to evolve under pressure, and its denizens are prismatic diamonds walking these asphalted, gridded streets reverberating in staccato colors.” Link in bio to read rest of the article. #WomensCaucusforArt
Image: NID-DE-POULE #1 | fine art photo paper | 17 x 18 x 1 in | Artist and © Capucine Boucart
WCA’s March Artist Feature of the Month is Bonnie MacAllister (@bonniemacart), A member of the Philadelphia chapter (@wcaphilly) and DC chapter (@wcadcorg)!
Image (L to R): “Aurora Borealis” & “In the Midst”
The muscle memory of sewing is guided by recollections, stringing the grit and tooth of obstacles, the furrows of seams and seeming, of life stories fought out, patched out before paint would dry, better rather knit, pounded out in coarse intermingling of fibers, torn out and restitched, a forgiving medium where every loop can be redone and undone, tacked and basted anew.
My portraits on handmade felt are crafted through embroidery, created from that original figure drawing, transforming it into needlepoint, a quilt of pores, threaded with twenty or more colors, bounded and knotted with each physical perforation, a performative puncture onto the self-healing felt.
After learning to spin and weave as part of my Fulbright Hays to Ethiopia, I became determined to continue my story through textiles. My studio is filled with vats of organic dyes and experiments including turmeric, quebracho rojo, indigo, and Himalayan rhubarb. I produce my own yarns and threads on a spinning wheel, and I create a palate from kitchen and garden items that can be used to produce color on fabric and other textiles. I embroider and felt portraits on these fabrics.
You can see MacAllister’s artwork on the WCA homepage at nationalwca.org and on her website at www.bonniemacallister.weebly.com (link in bio). #WomensCaucusforArt
Hedith’s process of starting a new painting begins with an inspiration. Perhaps an image, a memory of a place she visited as a young child comes to mind. She enjoys focusing on the details of the scene, the colors and shapes. Once she feels she has done her very best and it is complete, she signs it.
#art #arte #oiloncanvas #oilpainting #pinturaaloleo #landscapepainting #artlovers #landscapeart #painting #pintura #landscape #fineart #canvaspainting #canvaspaintings #fineartpainting #latinamericanartists #womenscaucusforart #womenscaucusforartgeorgia #wcadcorg #atlantafineart #artinspiration
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WCA’s April Artist Feature of the Month is Roberta, A member of the Southern California chapter!
Image: “LES BRANCARDIERS (THE STRETCHER BEARERS)”
Roberta Levitow grew up with sketchbooks in a family of cartoon artists, based in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. Throughout a 40-year career as one of America’s pioneer women theatre directors, she continued to follow her interests in visual art making while her theatre work emphasized visual storytelling. National and international theatre work has been featured in The New York Times, AMERICAN THEATRE Magazine and other publications. A graduate of Stanford University in 1972, she continued to study at the Otis College of Art & Design - oil painting, Old Masters techniques, trompe l’oeil, life drawing and anatomy.
A graduate of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, she worked in various capacities in the film industry including animation ink & paint for MGM, Filmation and Mimosa Films, South Africa. She served on the theatre faculty at UCLA and Bennington College in Vermont and she taught as a Fulbright Specialist at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), Makerere University (Uganda), The National University of Theatre & Cinematography (Romania) and Chinese University of Hong Kong. In recent years, she has pursued a special interest in the egg-tempera techniques used in the Russian-style traditional iconography of the Prosopon School, leading towards a unique fusion of these eclectic influences.
You can see Levitow's artwork on the WCA homepage at nationalwca.org and on her website at www.robertalevitow.com.
Thank you, WCA!
Roberta, you are so amazing. I am in awe.
I'm loving all six. Holy cow. And gilt. Love this! 💝💖💞
Announcing the 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. 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 on Thursday, April 1 and closes on Tuesday, June 1. Submissions should be
formatted as jpg and the maximum file size is 5MB. All entries should be sent to shantay.robinson@nationalwca.org with the subject line: [Your name] WCA T-Shirt Design Competition
2021.
2020 WCA Lifetime Achievement HonoreeMichiko Itatani - “Starry Night”, 2016, Gouache, ink and prismacolor on board, 10” x 8”
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The following are resources and organizations that you can refer to:
•Asian Americans Advancing Justice: www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/
•PBS docuseries on the history, contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans: www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/
•Stop AAPI Hate: stopaapihate.org/
•National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum: www.napawf.org/
•W.O.W. Project: www.wingonwoand.co/aboutwowproject
Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
Nazanin Hedayat Munroe is an artist, designer and historian specializing in textiles and costume.
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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.
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- expanding networking and exhibition opportunities for women
- supporting local, national, and global art activism
- advocating for equity in the arts for all
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