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CURRENT PROGRAMS & EVENTS
SECOND SATURDAY SESSIONS in 2022
The Second Saturday Sessions are programs that were originally scheduled for the WCA National Conference in February 2022. The in-person conference was canceled but WCA has pivoted much of the programming to be offered for free to WCA members.
Registration is required to receive a link.
Past sessions that have been recorded can be viewed via the links provided here. If you have any questions, please contact Programming Chair Laura Morrison at laura.morrison@nationalwca.
Labor of Love
Zoom: Saturday, May 14 | 1–2:30 pm EST
The Alabama chapter members will present “Labor of Love”, a member exhibition and performance art installation, offering discussions of the hidden labor of women, our quality of life, and how to create the life you want even in an often hostile environment. The panel considers labor inequities at home and work, and calls for a redefinition of economics as a discipline dedicated to people’s well-being.
Panel Co-Chairs: Amanda Banks, Jessica Nunno
Panelists: Anna Sue Courtney, Sylvia Bowyer
WOMXNHOUSE DETROIT RESCHEDULED!
Sat June 11 | 3:30-5 pm Eastern / 12:30-2 pm Pacific
WOMXNHOUSE DETROIT:
The Art of Being Female in America Today
A freewill donation requested to benefit WCA Programming
Echoing the landmark feminist art project Womanhouse, led by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro in 1972, a gathering of a diverse array of 15 Detroit artists used consciousness-raising and collaboration to elevate and celebrate contemporary female perspectives. Open from Sept 19 thru Oct 31 2021, Womxnhouse Detroit offered a unique benchmark 50 years into feminist art answering the questions, What has changed for women? What remains the same?
Co-Curator and WCA member Laura Earle will give a short presentation on Womxnhouse Detroit with an introduction to all 13 artists. The panel discussion that follows will be focused on the women of color who participated in the project.
Panelists Asia Hamilton, Olivia Guterson, Dalia Reyes, Amelia Reyes and Sabrina Nelson will talk about being part of a project that was absent of the voices of women of color and discuss how change can happen going forward.
More about Womxnhouse Detroit at https://www.womxnhousedet.com/
Facebook @Womxnhousedetroit
Instagram @womxnhouse_detroit
UPCOMING EVENTS
Occupy the Moment,
Intersect History with Impact
WCA National Exhibition
Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
January 21 – February 25, 2022
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!
2022 Schedule: All meetings take place via Zoom at 8 pm Eastern
May 11 – Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
July 13 – Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
September 14 – Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara Bloemink
Author Talk and Discussion with Barbara Bloemink
November 9 – Art On My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks
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
See the book club selections and register via WCA Colorado
Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Awards 2022
50th Anniversary of the Women’s Caucus for Art
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
Sabrina Nelson
Ashley January
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2022 WCA Lifetime Achievement (LTA) Awards: Lynda Benglis, Beate Minkovski, Gladys Nilsson, Lorraine O’Grady, and Linda Vallejo. The recipient for the President’s Award for Art & Activism is Sabrina Nelson, and the new WCA Emerging Artist Award will be awarded to Ashley January.
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
👑Lorraine O’Grady👑
Congratulations 👏🏽💥👏🏽 💥 Repost • alexandergrayassociates Lorraine O'Grady will be among the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Honorees at the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Awards today, February 19, 2022. Congratulations!
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Lorraine O'Grady, 2018. Photo by Ross Collab.
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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.
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Winged Ram, gouache and gold leaf on tile, 1959. Mary Leonora Carrington (English, 1917-2011).
"I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist."
-Leonora Carrington
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Archival Mycelium -- Little Paris Group
The first presentations of the Women’s Caucus for Art Honor Awards were in Washington DC in 1979, where “the award ceremony marked the first time that women in the visual arts have been recognized on a national level, in the White House, for their accomplishments.”
Honored were Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
In an interview Loïs Mailou Jones states that she was approached as a potential recipient of the award, but she was a couple years shy of the age requirement (the WCA wanted to honor women 75 years or older). Jones says that she suggested Burke instead. See Jacqueline Trescott, “Words at the Library on Black Women’s Art,” Washington Post, February 2, 1979.
Image: College Art Association Newsletter, March 1979, p. 11. Photographer: Carole A. Rosen. Text (quoted above): Norma Broude.
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Final week to view
wcaphilly Exhibit
Avant Garde
at
The Henry Gallery
pennstate
Exhibit ends April 6
Make haste and get there!
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• kateeboyle Glory Gloves, (She Looks Like A Butterfly, She Stings Like A Bee), 2021.
9 in h; 8 in w; 4 in d.
Plaster, graphite scribed, vintage lace ribbon, enamel.
Currently on view / offered for purchase through
March 2022
wcaphilly
Avant-Garde
The Henry Gallery, Malvern pennstate Malvern
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Friday February 25 is the last day to see the National Women's Caucus for Art's exhibition Occupy the Moment, Intersect History with Impact at Bridgeport Art Center. Grateful to juror maurareilly68 for including my sculpture in this show.
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Images include work by:
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We All Have Scars. (detail).
In the exhibition Avant-Garde, opening tonight.
Join us on zoom.
Topic: Avant-Garde at Henry Gallery Virtual Opening Reception
Time: Jan 13, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 827 8792 4282
Passcode: 896655
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“Luminal Imaginaries” is obscured in areas alluding to personal identities shifting through transitory states.
(Cross-Over 009), 2021
72 x 40 x 6 inches
Ink, Graphite, Metallic Paint, Archival Prints, Black Rubber and Nylon Cord, Push Pins.
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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
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Lorraine O'Grady will be among the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Honorees at the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Awards today, February 19, 2022. Congratulations!
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Lorraine O'Grady, 2018. Photo by Ross Collab. alexandergrayassociates
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WCA Featured Artist for May: Susan Schwalb
Susan Schwalb is one of the foremost figures in the revival of the ancient technique of silverpoint drawing in America. She was born in New York City and studied at the High School of M&A, and at Carnegie-Mellon University. Schwalb has been in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2010,’07, ‘92,’73), the MacDowell Colony (1989, ’75,’74), Yaddo, 1981 and has had two residencies in Israel in 1994 at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Schwalb’s oeuvre ranges from drawings on paper to artist books and paintings on canvas or wood panels; many of these panels are carefully beveled so that the imagery seems to float off the wall. Her work is represented in most of the major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery, Washington DC, The British Museum, London, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England.
Her current drawings juxtapose a wide variety of metals (silver, gold, brass, copper, platinum, pewter, bronze and aluminum) to obtain soft shifts in tone and color. Horizontal bands evoke an atmosphere of serenity, and the shimmer of light on the surface, created by the metals, is quite unlike any of the usual effects of metalpoint.
Image: Harmonizations XIV, 2020, 24x24x2", silver/gold/aluminum/zincpoint, carmine gesso on wood panel
Congratulations to Amalia Mesa-Bains, WCA 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient; WCA lifetime member; and member of the honors selection committee.
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The 15 artists who received the awards are at various stages in their careers.
Susie Gablik Women’s Caucus for Art 2003 Lifetime Achievement Recipient and WCA lifetime member has passed.
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Suzi Gablik, Well-Connected Critic Who Asked Tough Questions, Dies at 87
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She wrote one of the most important books on Pop art and the first English-language biography of Magritte.
Women’s Caucus for Art is holding The Second Annual T-Shirt Design Competition as a WCA fundraiser. The theme is Evocative Visions. The designs should evoke a feminist perspective and vision that advocates for women’s rights and equality as expressed by the power and vision of Women’s Caucus for Art’s diversity, reach, and impact. WCA will be celebrating our 50th Anniversary in 2022! So, designs that promote our 50th Anniversary will be especially appreciated.
The competition is for WCA members and the winning designer will receive 30% of the profit from the sales of the t-shirts. The design will be printed on high quality t-shirts that will be made available for sale to members and friends via the fundraising platform, Custom Ink.
The designs will be judged by the WCA Executive Board. Entry for submissions opens on May 1 and closes on June 30. 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 2022.
✨Announcing WCA’s New President Elect: Sandra Davis✨
For the past ten years Sandra has been focusing on her art career while simultaneously working for the financial services industry. She has been focusing on the use and experimentation of mixed media, utilizing components like acrylics, fabric, found paper, newspaper and magazines keeping a “recycled” theme. Her current work is a direct response to issues happening in our country, including present grievances, inequality, housing, faith, education and identity of others are all common themes. Sandra has recently created an interview series highlighting members of WCA DC and has begun to create curatorial projects to support her focus and to encourage dialogue. One of the highlights of Sandra’s work is the ability to partner and share art with women’s shelters, churches, schools, and corporate environments. Art belongs to everyone not just galleries and museums.
Sandra attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh from 1978-1981. She resides in Gaithersburg, MD with her husband and two adult children. You can read more about Sandra on our website at nationalwca.org/presidential-elections/.
Congratulations
Welcome aboard
Sandra will be great at this job!!!
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Last year, we started a t-shirt fundraiser with the goal of selling 100 t-shirts. We met our goal! Thirty percent of the proceeds went to Durba Sen, the artist with the winning design. This year, we're bringing back the fundraiser, and we're excited about all the designs we will receive. Submissions open on May 1 and the deadline is June 30.
Send us pictures with your WCA t-shirts on. We'd love to see how you style them, and we'll post them on social media.
WCA 50th Anniversary Interviews: Margo Hobbs
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.
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MISSION
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education, and social activism
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- 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
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
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