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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!
Call for Panel Proposals and Panel Chairs
Occupy the Moment: Embracing Our History, Enhancing Our Impact
50th Anniversary of the Women’s Caucus for Art
Chicago, IL February 16–20, 2022
We invite you to submit a proposal for the WCA Conference in Chicago in February 2022. This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Caucus for Art. We are seeking panel chairs and proposals that address the conference theme, Occupy the Moment: Embracing Our History, Enhancing Our Impact. Harnessing the momentum of the recent change in America’s administration, the anniversary of the passing of the nineteenth amendment, and the women-led successes across the nation, our theme celebrates our strengths and accomplishments and explores how we move forward to embrace new agendas and support emerging voices.
Conference proposals should connect with this theme. Sessions are 90 minutes and may take the form of panels, roundtable discussions, or workshops. You may submit a proposal for a topic, with participants to be determined later, or a fully developed panel.
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
progress of work. City on edge. 10"x10"
Please DM me for any question, delivery, shipping or pickup. Link in BIO
#progressofrtwork #jentoughgallery #abstract #art #abstractpainting #artist #createeveryday #showyourwork #makeitshowit #markmaking #abstractartist #modernartwork #abstractpainter #artnow #contemporaryabstract #bayareaartist #mixsomeart #racheltirosh #artistalliance #colorful #acrylicpaintings #abstractcollage #accigallery #ncwca #museumofthepeople #WomensCaucusForArt
Truly honored to have two tapestries in the "Containment: Stories of Art in Isolation" exhibit, July 10- August 7th at the ARC Gallery, in San Francisco. Blood on Our Hands, and Twice Scared & Three Times Angry. Both from the COVID series.
#tapestry #tapestryartist #tapestryart #COVIDart #arcgallerysf #womenscaucusforart #americantapestryalliance #britishtapestrygroup #jewishartsalon #stlartist #fiber #fibre #fiberart #fibreart #fiberartistsofinstagram #fibreartistsofinstagram #tapestryartistsofinstagram #womenwhoweave
Day 135 of quarantine work. Posting top to bottom in separate images because it doesn’t all fit. Another piece made to prepare for #voices&visions art exhibit. This piece reflects the women in my family who have been affected by the BRAC1 gene mutation. $250 with 10% donation to theartcenterhp #breastcancer #ovariancancer #fuckcancer #artwillgetusthroughthis #artheals #workonpaper #wca #womenscaucusforart #wca_chicago #artist #curator #tachp #brca1 #brca #force
WIP, tapestry, as yet unnamed. Commentary & response to loss, brokenness, fear, community. Wool warp & weft.
#tapestry #tapestryweaving #tapestryart #tapestryweaversofinstagram #americanguildofjudaicart #agja #jewishartsalon #britishtapestrygroup #handweaversguildofamerica #womenscaucusforart #wgsl #fiber #fiberart #fiberartist #fiberartistoninstagram #fibre #fibreart #fibreartist #fibreartistsofinstagram #slowcloth
From our "Under the Bed Show" “Spring Green Skunk Cabbage” photography by Elsa Voelcker (Medium: Chromogenic Print, Size: 11.5" x 14") Browse the rest of our show. Link in bio 👆🏿
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#GallerySitka #ElsaVoelcker #fineartphotography #fineartphotographer #nharts #nhartist #naturephotography #womenscaucusforart womenscaucusforart
Judy Onofrio, my long-time friend, is 1 of 5 recipients of the 2020 Women Caucus for Art, Lifetime Achievement Award. Judy will be receiving the award on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Congratulations, my friend, it’s a major honor and so well deserved. Smooches 💋 judyonofrio #queenofminnart #womenscaucusforart #lifetimeachievementaward
And another painting has S.O.L.D. from She Radiates, the current exhibition theyarddc 🎉🎉🎉. Congrats to rosavera_art for shipping off ⚡️Emerging⚡️ to the great state of California 🐻. To see more artwork from this exhibition, please click on the link in bio and then the website’s banner ⬆️. #sellyourart #artbusiness #buildyourartbusiness #businessofthearts #todaysartreport #rosavera #california #wcadcorg #womenscaucusforart
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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Forty-two female artists from around the US are exhibiting in this powerful art exhibition about racial justice with wcadcorg. One of our own #DCAS artists, Sarah Jones has her work on display. The 3D Exhibition opens today! Visit wcadc.prg/seemycolor. Link also in Sarah's bio, sanaa_design_studios
Full list of artists juried into the exhibit:
Afi Ese
Allicette Torres
Angie Meche Kilcullen
Avrel Menkes
Bess French
Bonnie Askowitz
Camilla David
Carol Williams
Carolyn Bell
Carve Stone
Cherie Redlinger
Cindy Warch
Debbie Gibbs
Deborah Walmer
Dellis Frank
Eileen Shaloum
Ellen Maidman-Tanner
Gale Gladney-Anderson
Jenny Wilson
Jinny Isserow
Juliet Hossain
Karen Cohen
Kathy Turner
Linda Joy Kattwinkel
Linda Lowery
Lucy Julia Hale
Lynda A Levy
Madison Bolls
Mara Odette Guerrero-Williams
Margaret Parker
Marie Allen
Marla McLean
Maryann Riker
Maundy Mitchell
Megan King
Raven Featherstone
Rosa Ines Vera
Sandra Davis
Sarah Jones
Susan Lenz
Theresa Brown
Tronja
womenscaucusforart #womenscaucusforart
#femaleartists
#women
#socialjusticeart
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Lights in the Desert 30x24 oil on cradled panel. Look at a map of the southwest US and you see vast open spaces, desert, seemingly empty land. Enlarge that map and search around to find tiny groupings of homes, a solitary ranch. It seems bone dry and completely isolated yet it is inhabited. Where do they get water, fuel, groceries? How do they survive.
Time to showcase art's neglected women
The May 26 obituary for Mary Beth Edelson, “Feminist art movement’s leader had a theme: Empowerment,” rightly acknowledged her days in Washington and impact on feminist art. The Post pictured her 1972 “Last Supper” collage, in which Edelson replaced Leonardo da Vinci’s apostles with living female artists. She gave Washington painter Alma Thomas a seat at the table, but 69 more faces surround the scene, among them six D.C. artists: Enid Sanford, Lawra Gregory, Cynthia Bickley, Rosemary Wright, Jennie Lea Knight and Joan Danziger.Edelson showed at Henri Gallery, then a major stop on the P Street gallery strip. In the collage “22 Others,” she placed herself and her gallerist Henri Ehrsam with D.C. friends such as Post critic Paul Richard, Washington Star (and later Post) critic Benjamin Forgey, curator Walter Hopps and artists Gene Davis, Ed McGowin and Paul Reed.
Of 82 “Last Supper” women, only sculptor Danziger remains active in the D.C. area, her work shown at the Katzen Arts Center (2012) and visible now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Luce Center. Some of these artists became “names” early on, while others had to wait or missed out on recognition altogether. With dealers and historians now focused on art’s neglected women, the time seems right for an exhibition that invites them all to the table.
Jean Lawlor Cohen, Chevy Chase
The writer is an independent curator and co-author of “Washington Art Matters: Art Life in the Capital
1940-1990.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/readers-critique-the-post-invite-neglected-...
WCA’s June Artist Feature of the Month is Melissa Potter a member of the Peninsula chapter!
Melissa Hilliard Potter is a feminist interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited in venues including White Columns, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, to name a few. Her films featuring the lost histories and traditions of women have been screened at international film festivals, such as the Cinneffable and the Reeling International LGBT Film Festival. Potter developed research, documentary and advocacy projects with ethnographers and intangible heritage experts to protect, interpret and archive endangered women’s handicrafts and social customs. Her awards include three Fulbright Scholar grants for her work in the Balkans. Her hand papermaking project with Maggie Puckett, An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank publication now lives in an art collection in the Global Seed Vault mountain in Svalbard, Norway. As a curator, Potter’s exhibitions include “Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art” with Jessica Cochran and “Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice” with Neysa Page Lieberman. A prolific writer, her critical essays have been printed in BOMB, Art Papers, Metropolis M, Hand Papermaking, and AfterImage among others. Potter is a Professor at Columbia College Chicago.
You can see Potter’s artwork on the WCA homepage at nationalwca.org and on her website at www.melpotter.com
Welcome to our new series, WCA Tech Workshops, a collection of workshops focusing on marketing and communication tech. This summer we are providing several tech workshops from social media to Google Drive to help you get comfortable with integrating tech in your art practices and use them effectively in setting and achieving goals for you and your WCA chapter. Sign up here (note: Please read class prerequisites): tinyurl.com/yk5yubba
Stories 20x16 oil on cradled panel. The southwest US holds so many unknown or untold stories of past peoples and cultures, of thriving communities, struggles and accomplishments. The land is harsh, dry and unforgiving yet large communities flourished. The traveler here needs to slow down, look, study and appreciate. www.karibellart.com
Join us tomorrow at the Women's Caucus for Art “Changing the World: Women Role Models virtual art reception! 🖼Honored to jury this event! ❤️RSVP here www.wcadc.org/changingtheworld #womenrolemodels #womenscaucusforart #yemonjapaints #wcadc #changingtheworld You can also via by logging in via Facebook live!
Amalia Mesa-Bains
Amalia Mesa-Bains is an internationally renowned artist, scholar, and curator. Throughout her career, Mesa-Bains has expanded understandings of Latina/o artists’ references to spiritual practices and vernacular traditions through her altar installations, articles and exhibitions. In 1992 she was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. Her work has been shown at institutions that include: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, and the New Museum, as well as international venues in Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ireland, Sweden, England, France and Spain.
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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.
Note: If you register but do not receive a link before the meeting, please text Annette Coleman at 303-941-8887 and she will send you the link.
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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
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WCA is a networking organization for women in the arts.
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