FEATURED ARTIST
CALLS FOR ART
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.
Kick-Start!
EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 15, 2021
WCA/NH MEMBERS’ OPEN EXHIBITION
Use the theme of a shoe or shoes as the primary focus of the artwork to symbolize the kick-starting of our lives and to show how to encourage people to step out of the restrictions imposed on everyone this past year.
How can we represent a “kick-start” in energizing the launching of a new stretch of happiness? Is it an athletic shoe that will thrust us forward? Is it a work shoe that will take us back to the office? Is it a high heel that will send us clicking on the dance floor or skipping at a party? How about a sandal that will allow the sand to tickle our toes on the beach? Show a flip flop shoe that will “flip” us into a special happy mood. Maybe it is slippers to guide us to a good night’s sleep. Stomp around in the rain in your old galoshes! Or finally find your “solemate.”
Put some spring into your step and use the “shoe” as a catalyst to launch us into new adventures. The exhibit will be a tribute to the resiliency of women and to the many ways women have found to re-boot their lives since the onset of the corona pandemic. So just put your best foot forward!.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Announcing the 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
Chicago, IL February 17 – 20, 2022
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!
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.
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Sacred Vessel, from the Symbols Tell the Story series. An interpretation of a Maori symbol of similar meaning. Wool warp & weft. 9x8 inches (44x41cm) Finished in time to head to the American Tapestry Alliance exhibit. #tapestry #tapestryartist
#americantapestryalliance #renditions #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #slowcloth
#weaving #fiber #fiberartist #sacredsymbols #jewishartsalon #womenscaucusforart #mirrixlooms #shastacombs #mirrix #mirrixmade
It is happening now! Counting Tales, on the storefront of 317 Lenox Avenue, Harlem.
7 short videos created by the collective artformsus . Thanks lmcc_nyc for the grant !
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Summer series with our collective artformsus presents « Counting Tales », 8 short videos.
Friday, June 18th from 7:30 PM to 9 PM
Friday, June 25th from 7:30 PM to 9 PM
What is the video project about ArtFormsUs has created 8 original short videos related to the theme 'Counting.' The theme appears in myriad forms: from the sounds of whales echoing the belching sounds of a bus, the artist’s movements reflect the sounds of the city; Ripples in street puddles are chanting numbers of family members. The midpassage losses are given new echoes in our current times; Consumption is demonstrated by the artist, hooded in plastic, roaming the city as she knits an endless train of plastic bags; Jazz, trees, and breathing underscore a sympathy for humanity; Counting leaves symbolizes the litany of counting deaths by Covid; the surreal slapstick of 3 disparate artists converges into a bonding and a ritual examines two of the foundational objects that brought Latinos and African Americans to the “New World.”
Who is ArtFormsUs (AFU) is a collective of multi-national, multi-disciplinary Harlem-based artists that convenes regularly for an open conversation about their artistic paths and their roles as agents of culture. It is a "work" in progress.
The Artists Are: Capucine Bourcart, Dominique de Cock, Noreen Dean Dresser, Undine Groeger, Salem Krieger, Leah Poller, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, Xavier Roux and Allicette Torres
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My piece “Votes for Women” is in the Old Myths/New Stories Exhibit presented by the Women’s Caucus for Art at the Curtis Center for the Arts in Colorado. Juror’s Facebook Live Preview of show: Friday, NOV 6, 4PM. #vote #womenvote #curtiscenterforthearts #womenscaucusforart #suffragette •
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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
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
Debra Claffey / ‘The Reflected Insight II’ / Women's Caucus for Art: Breath of the Forest II Group Exhibition
Bernier Room Exhibition on view through 7/1/21
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Over the last couple of years, I’ve mentored several incredible young women artists in ncwca , a women’s art advocacy non profit organization. I’m so proud of their achievements but most importantly, I’ve benefited from making a lifelong connection with these amazing and inspiring women. I highly recommend that older artists take time to provide encouragement to younger artists . Most recently I formally mentored artbyrupy in the NCWCA mentor ship program. Her work was selected for the deyoung museum exhibit in San Francisco!
Weaving is done, finishing begins. Re-Entry, from the COVID series. 15x15. Wool warp & weft. 8epi WIP.
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Joan Hanley / ‘No Verb, No Noun’ / Women's Caucus for Art: Breath of the Forest II Group Exhibition
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“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
Submit to Artlines: Deadline Extended!
The Winter 2022 Artlines takes a global perspective on the 2022 WCA Conference theme, Occupy the Moment: Embracing Our History, Enhancing Our Impact.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
History and Development of WCA – Interviews with WCA Founders
Building on the Work of Foundational Feminist Artists, Art Historians, and Critics
Intergenerational Dialogs
New Communities for Artistic Enterprise
Collaborative Endeavors
Artlines is a semi-annual publication aiming to inform its readers on feminist art issues as they relate to the contemporary art world at large. We feature articles on current and historical women in the arts, art theory and criticism, and social justice and the arts filtered through the lens of contemporary feminism. Artlines’ mission is to illuminate the vast definitions and practices of feminism formed through cultural differences and affected by globalization whilst underscoring significant strides toward arts equity and inclusion.
The final form of your submission may be an academic essay or creative nonfiction. Final length will be determined in consultation with the editorial board. Please submit 1) a 250-word abstract describing your topic and approach; and 2) your current CV to margohobbs@muhlenberg.edu
Submissions will be evaluated by the Artlines managing editors. Contributors will be notified by the end of August.
Deadline for abstract extended: August 13
Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2018 WCA Lifetime Achievement Honoree and WCA member
https://www.columbusalive.com/story/entertainment/movies/2021/07/21/lynn-hershman-leeson-emerges-following-parenthesis-time/8043070002/?fbclid=IwAR07Ok5OBI34Lu9z728ZLp9KwnCcjueCHCKiKdHUkXp1KALw7lUiqRp08sU
Lynn Hershman Leeson emerges following a COVID-driven ‘parenthesis of time’
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The artist and filmmaker will participate in a virtual conversation via the Wexner Center on Thursday
Check out this article on Judy Chicago, 1999 WCA Lifetime Achievement Honoree and WCA member
 www.shondaland.com/inspire/a37117101/judy-chicago-isnt-finished-yet/
Judy Chicago Isn’t Finished Yet
www.shondaland.com
The iconic feminist artist on why she’ll continue to create from a place of joy.
Alison Saar 2020 WCA Lifetime Acheivement Honoree and WCA member
www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-07-27/alison-saar-armory-benton
Review: Alison Saar's poetic chronicles of Black womanhood
www.latimes.com
A sculpture survey shared by two Los Angeles art museums
Great review in LA Times today for Alison Saar, who was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Chicago 2020.
www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-07-27/alison-saar-armory-benton
Review: Alison Saar's poetic chronicles of Black womanhood
www.latimes.com
A sculpture survey shared by two Los Angeles art museumsUpcoming exhibition by 2020 WCA Lifetime Achievement Honoree Judy Onofrio
Barb Jordan you’d like this!
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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WCA Art Book Club
The WCA Art Book Club was formed in partnership with the WCA Colorado Chapter to foster understanding of women in the arts and their contributions. Books are chosen by members and discussed bi-monthly via Zoom. Join us!
2021 Upcoming Bookclub Dates: July 14, September 8, November 10 at 8 pm EST
If you are interested in cohosting a meeting or recommending a book, contact WCA-CO member, Annette Coleman at annettecoleman@yahoo.com or Laura Morrison at president@nationalwca.org
Click here to see the book club selections and to register via WCA Colorado
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