WCA E-News - the Women`s Caucus for Art

WCA E-News
Summer 2016 Edition
WOMEN DO IT
WCA WORKS IN NEW ORLEANS
The WCA International Caucus
recently announced the sale of the
"Women Do It" collection of 500
postcards that traveled to
6 venues in 2 years. The
International Caucus, open to all
WCA members, supports our work
as a United Nations NGO or nongovernmental organization.
(Bottom L to R: Margo Hobbs, Yuriko Takata, Margaret Parker, Rona
Lesser, Sandra Mueller, Tabatha Jarmulowicz. Top L to R: Nonney
Oddlokken,Laura Morrison, Susan King, Karin Luner, Noreen Dean
Dresser.)
View the online gallery and
email Priscilla Otani for more
information.
Our summer board meeting in New Orleans was amazing!
We were joined by members of the Louisiana Chapter for
Challenged New Orleans," listened to music in Frenchman
Street, and even consulted the spirits in the seance room
at Muriel's restaurant on Jackson Square!
We experienced the New Orleans art scene
firsthand, including a tour of the Joan Mitchell Center with
Director Gia Hamilton, a talk with Creative Alliance
founders Jeanne Nathan and Bob Tannen in their
remarkable home, evening events at the Ogen Museum of
Southern Art and New Orleans Museum of Art, guided
tours of Julia Street galleries, and a visit to StudioBE—
Clare Falkenstein has a major
a suite of murals by activist Brandan 'Bmike' Odums. The
retrospective at the Pasadena
mural topping this email is outside Odums' enormous
Museum of California
Bywater warehouse StudioBE.
Art. Awarded a Lifetime
Achievement Award in 1981, she
Susan M. King
was one of America's most
experimental and productive
artists of the twentieth century.
Her exhibition
CAA CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
DEADLINE AUG 30, 2016
closes September 11, 2016.
WCA members (who also join CAA) can now submit a
In almost every year since 1979,
the WCA has honored women in
the visual arts for their lifetime
achievements. The Lifetime
Achievement (LTA) Awards
Ceremony is usually held during
our winter conference with the
250-word abstract for a potential paper topic related
to the WCA-sponsored CAA panel "Maternal Art
Activism." Following CAA guidelines for
panelist submissions, email your abstract to co-chairs
Rachel Epp Buller and Margo Hobbs by August 30,
2016. Buller and Hobbs seek paper presentations by both
parents and non-parents.
College Art Association. Every
year it is an incredibly moving
experience!
More information is available on the CAA website. The
"Maternal Art Activism" panel is on page 12 of the
prospectus. Beyond this panel, current CAA members can
Beyond the LTA Awards, we
encourage members to
propose a poster session (deadline Sept 15) or
professional workshop for the NYC CAA 2017 conference.
honor loved ones or artists special
to them by making a donation in
their name to the Women's
MINNESOTA WCA
Caucus for Art. Legacy donations
will be acknowledged on the WCA
WOMEN & MONEY PROJECT
website and in the 2017 LAA
OPENS SEPT 6
Catalogue.
After two years of planning and fundraising, Minnesota
FEATURED ARTIST
WCA President Ellen Schilace (image right) and her
hardworking chapter will launch The Women and Money
Project on September 6th with the opening of a
and money, as well as financial
exchange and social
hierarchies. The exhibition features
works by 28 artists. In related public
forums, women
will voice unique perspectives and
raise complex questions
about money.
Marian Yap of the
Northern California and Pennisula
chapters is the Featured Artist for
Artist Credit: MZ Direct (Jeanne Phillip/Judith Huacuja/Susan Byrnes/
Tess Cortes.)
August on WCA's home page.
SAVE THE DATES
F*CK U! IN THE MOST
LOVING WAY
FEB 15-19, 2017 IN NYC
!A special program at the United Nations is planned for
the 2017 New York conference. It will include a tour of the
UN featuring WCA's work as a UN NGO, the UN art
collection, and how the UN continues
to advocate for women around the world. We'll share more
on this exciting event soon!
This fall look for the "Call for Art" for the WCA national
exhibition Wage On! Women, Art and Money at Ceres
Gallery in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. The
exhibition will run January 31 to February 25, 2017 with a
reception on Thursday night, February 16 during the
The Northern California Chapter
conference.
(NCWCA) just announced a call
for art for the exhibition, "F*ck U!
In the Most Loving Way." Selfidentified women artists from
across the US can submit works
about women's responses to
sexist and discriminatory
During the New York Conference, we'll also honor this
year's Lifetime Achievement Awardees on Saturday night,
February 18 at the New York Institute of Technology. The
LTA cocktail party and ceremony will follow The Feminist
Art Project's day of panels at the Museum of Art and
Design.
communication in the domestic
sphere, at work, and in the public
realm.
We will soon announce the awardees on the WCA website
and in our next enews! Chapters may want to place ads in
the awards catalogue. LTA tickets will go on sale in the
opportunities for exhibitions and
exhibitions or conference programming in New York, email
events are
WCA VP for Programming Sandra Mueller.
listed on nationalwca.org.
STAY CONNECTED
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Special thanks for
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the connections you bring to the
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The mission of the Women's
password to log into MY MEMBERSHIP. If you don't know
Caucus for Art is to create
your member ID, send Karin Luner an email with "Need
community through art, education,
Member ID" in the subject line.
and social activism.
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