PLEASE JOIN US!
EXHIBITS MEETING

APRIL 24, 2016 2-4pm

TENELY LIBRARY

4450 Wisconsin Ave. N.W. WDC

Street parking available/across from Tenely Town Metro.

 Find out what you've missed! Get involved with the planning! We'd love to see you. Please RSVP Jane Pettit @ janepettit1@verizon.net

The Powerpoint of the 195 WCA Lifetime Achievement Awardees that Barbara Wolanin did for the Katzen show is on the WCA National website home page.

Take a look at information about your favorite artistIf you missed it during the conference you can see it there - www.wcanational.org

Want to see more - click on the Awardees tab and read their essay/bio in a PDF of the catalog for the year they received the award.

MEMBER EVENTS

Jane Forth and Marilyn Hayes are in the Living Sky group show in "Art in the City," in Charlottesville too.

Please join the artists of Living Sky Foundation for their group show “Art in the City” at City Space located on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall at 100 5st street NE, Charlottesville, VA from

                                     April 1-25,   2016.  

Here's 2 U Dear Ella

You are cordially invited to the next Silver Spring Town Center Inc. (SSTCi) Film & Lecture Series on April 21, at 7:00 PM featuring Cynthia Farrell Johnson and Willard Jenkins in the Silver Spring Civic Building.

In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, Cynthia will explain how ten musicians inspired the paintings in her exhibition Art 4 All:Think Jazz, and Willard will describe the role they played in American cultural life.




The musicians are Dee Dee Bridgewater, Donald Byrd, Don Cherry, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae, Thelonious Monk, Esperanza Spaulding, and Randy Weston.

The program begins at 7:00 PM with the SSTCi Spring Potluck, immediately followed by the presentation at 7:30 PM. This event is FREE and open to the public.  Feel free to bring food or drink to share.  Please RSVP.

 

CALL FOR ARTISTS


MARY B. HOWARD ARTIST MEMBER EXHIBITION

The Greater Reston Arts Center is now accepting applications for its second biennial member exhibition. Juried by a distinguished outside guest curator, this group exhibition will feature multiple artists working in a variety of media and treating a wide range of themes. GRACE's Artist Member Exhibition has been renamed this year in memory of Mary B. Howard, an artist and longtime board member and supporter of GRACE. Mary's passionate advocacy of local artists, and her generous bequest to GRACE, are perfectly aligned with the meaning and purpose of the Artist Member Exhibition. 

More information and how to apply

"Earthly Delights" Exhibition 

CALL FOR ENTRIES 

SPONSORED by the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART

EARTHLY DELIGHTS CALL FOR ART - Deadline 4/25/16 Current members of the Southern California Women's Caucus for Art are invited to participate in the "Earthly Delights" exhibition. Works are sought that explore the theme of "Earthly Delights" whether celebrating (or defying) the simple pleasures of nature or joys of artistic expression or delving into the environmental and ever so human concerns of our day. The exhibition, which runs from May 14 through June 5, 2016 at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, is organized in celebration of our 40th anniversary.  Each renewed member may submit one artwork that does not exceed 30" in any direction. Media may include painting, prints, photography, drawing, digital art, mixed media, sculpture and videos. Artist must supply video equipment. Others may join (or renew) at www.nationalwca.org to participate in the show. No entry fees are required but work must be submitted in advance using the EntryThingy portal at www.entrythingy.com/d=scwca.org#show=2800 Work must be delivered to Avenue 50 Studio on Saturday, May 7 and picked up on Sunday, June 5, 2016 suitably framed and ready for installation. Artists must provide own insurance. The reception will take place on Saturday, May 14 with a closing event on June 5, 2016 at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park. Email scwcashows@gmail.com with questions. Entry deadline is April 25, 2016.

Upcoming Member Events

Glenview Mansion Art Gallery
April 3-22, 2016
Margaret Paris

“Collaborations:” Glenview Mansion, 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville, MD 20851 – April 3 – 22, 2016 Gallery Hours – Mon, Wed., Fri.  9am-4:30pm; Tues.,-Thurs. – 9am-9:pm

Margaret Paris & Phyllis Jacobs, Lynda Smith-Bugge & Rima Schulkind, and Susan Feller & Janet Wheeler and other artists

Jane Forth and Marilyn Hayes are in the Living Sky group show in "Art in the City," in Charlottesville too.

Please join the artists of Living Sky Foundation for their group show “Art in the City” at City Space located on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall at 100 5st street NE, Charlottesville, VA from April 1-25, 2016.  

Come Join Us! THIS SUNDAY!

At Pyramid Atlantic for the next meeting on Exhibits for 2015-2016

March 20, 2016 2-4pm

Pyramid Atlantic 8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD

RSVP: Cynthia Farrell Johnson cfjfinearts@verizon.net

Free parking in parking lot, walking distance from Silver Spring Metro

MEMBERS OF WCA/DC FEATURED IN THE WASHINGTON POST REVIEW OF EXHIBIT AT THE ATHENAEUM

Washington Post

Cherie Redlinger

Mark Jenkins

March 4, 2016

Wings From Chains

Wonder Woman and a little girl do laundry. Stock images of a 1950s housewife are printed on an apron. A woman emerges from a flower whose petals are gray flatirons. Such comic images of domestic emancipation are commonplace in “Wings From Chains,” organized by the Athenaeum on the occasion of the national meeting of the Women’s Caucus for Art last month in Washington.

The 14 local artists’ contributions are well made and often witty, even if some of the jibes appear dated. A collaged landscape has mountains made of female nudes, probably cut from magazines such as Playboy, whose “philosophy” is little studied these days. And although statistics indicate that women still do more housework than men, washing and ironing are perhaps not as central as they once were.

More contemporary are Ann Stoddard’s series of headscarves and wedding veils, demonstrating shared aspects of Muslim and Western women’s garb, and Cherie Redlinger’s charcoal of a female figure, altered by breast-cancer surgery yet essentially intact. It’s one of the simplest pieces here, and one of the most powerful.

Wings From Chains Was On view through March 13, 2016 at the Athenaeum, 201 Prince St., Alexandria

 

REMINDER FOR CALL FOR ART!

VENUE: Saint Mary's College Museum of Art Moraga, CA (outside of Oakland) 
EXHIBITION DATES: September 18-December 11, 2016 
ARTIST OPENING, PANEL AND CAMPUS EVENTS: Sunday, September 18, 2016 
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 31, 2016



This exhibition at St. Mary's College Museum will also be accompanied with an online gallery of all images, an online catalog and a print catalog. Works will be chosen for the physical gallery spaces and also additional works that will be projected onto a large wall in a continual slide show. 

READ MORE AND ENTER HERE: http://www.gutfreundcornettart.com/social-justice-it-happens-to-one-it-happens-to-all-2016-saint-marys-college.html#dashboard

CALL FOR ART
"Vision: An Artist's Perspective"

Presented by UniteWomen.org and Gutfreund Cornett Art. Selected works will be on display at Kaleid Gallery in San Jose, California and receive online, national attention through UniteWomen.org and Gutfreund Cornett Art though an online gallery, online catalog, and social media and art writers.



GUEST JURORS: Suzanne Gray, Seager Gray Gallery and Michelle Nye, SFMoMA Artists Gallery

 EXHIBITION DATES: July 5 - 29, 2016
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 22, 2016
ARTIST OPENING and PANEL: July 16, 2016
ELIGIBILITY: All self-identified women artists

READ MORE AND ENTER HERE: 
http://www.gutfreundcornettart.com/vision-an-artists-perspective-2016.html#dashboard

IMPACT: PUSHING BOUNDARIES WITH ELLOUISE SCHOETTLER

Celebrating International Women's Day,  MARCH 8, 2016 at the Katzen Arts Center



BWolanin, CFJohnson, MHayes



audience

Ellouise Schoettler

UPCOMING EVENTS

IMPACT! The Legacy of the Women's Caucus for Art was co-organized by Barbara Wolanin and Jaimianne Amicucci with American University Museum and curated by Leslie King-Hammond.  The exhibition honors all 194 women who received the WCA Lifetime Achievement Award since the first ones at the White House in 1979 with selected art and publications on view.





Join Barbara there on Saturday March 5th at 11:00 to see all four exhibitions of art by women now on view.  Please come on March 8th at 6:00 pm to hear Ellouise Schoettler's "Pushing Boundaries" storytelling performance she is doing for us free of charge. RSVP to museum@america.edu


American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 20016  Hours Tuesday-Sunday11 am-4 pm.
There is free parking under the museum on weekends and after 5:00 pm

The four exhibitions are:
Impact! The Legacy of the Women's Caucus for  Art
Renee Stout: Tales of the Conjure Woman
Circle of Friends
Maggie Michael: A Phrase Hung in Midair as if Frozen

Artist - Ann Stoddard

You are invited to the March 12, 5-8 p.m. Opening Reception of “SEEING THINGS,” an exhibition of my new videos and installations at the 39th Street Galleries.   “Seeing Things” is one of 3 exhibitions opening at 39th Street Galleries that evening, and will be on view from March 12 through April 23.  An Artist’s Talk will be announced at a future date.  Gateway Arts Center, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, MD








Artist- Cynthia Farrell Johnson
On Saturday, March 5, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., the Watergate Gallery will host a closing party for The Magic Within.  Thirty-four artists  participated in this exhibition.  Each presented their interpretation of what magic means to them or how magic relates to their lives.  Come and celebrate The Magic Within!


Artist- Jane Pettit
Two very fun shows with my work in them are opening this weekend.  Both present out of the box challenges for me to have fun with.

SHOW #1: Every year I try something new for March150. Come see my bead and copper foil work! 

6th Annual March150 Exhibition Fundraiser
Saturday, March 5 - Sunday, March 20

Target Gallery’s popular annual fundraising exhibition returns to raise money in support of the Gallery’s special exhibitions and programs.
This show features more than 170 square panels created by more than 100 artists. All work in the show is priced at $150, but during the Art Party on Friday, 3/18, work is priced at $100.

   All proceeds benefit Target Gallery.March150 is a great time for new art collectors to buy their first original work and introduces more veteran collectors to new local artists. On view at The Torpedo Factory, 105 N Union Street, Alexandria, VA

SHOW#2: The Box Show also inspires me to try something new every year. My box this year is deconstructed, painterly and creates great shadow.




BOXOLOGY
In praise of the Box at TAG/The Artists Gallery


March 4-19
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY, March 5, 5 - 9 PM

CLOSING RECEPTION
Saturday, March 19, 5 - 8 PM
TAG/THE ARTISTS GALLERY 216 North Market Street
Frederick, MD  21701 




Artist Sandra Davis:

                                      Art Critic Exhibit

Gallery Miriam

March 4 -31 2016

Decatur, GA

Reviews

 WCA exhbiition at AU was reviewed in the Washington Post yesterday in the Weekend section https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/?nid=menu_nav_entertainment-museums

Call For Art

OPEN CALL FOR ART - INTIMATE SPACES

Dear Artists and Art Professionals, The Alabama Women's Caucus for Art (ALWCA) is hosting a juried exhibition Intimate Spaces. We invite all artists from Alabama to submit small-scale works reflecting upon artistic and poetic imagination and how this relates to space, memory, and intimacy. The ALWCA is a chapter of the national Women's Caucus for Art organization. The Women's Caucus for Art was established in 1972 with the mission to create community through art, education, and social activism. Please consider entering your work and sharing our prospectus. Instructions for entry are included in the prospectus available as a downloadable PDF through our website: http://alwca.weebly.com/exhibitions.html.

DC SWAN Day is the final Saturday of March, which this year is March 26 -- the day before Easter.  We will be reading plays and poetry from 12noon to 2pm at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Here is a link to last year's DC SWAN Day info:

http://www.icontact-archive.com/uY4CWN-9Ks3YKNfz1682CUms_6cVk2Tw?w=2

                                         Please Join Us!

Sunday, February 28, 2016 2:00-4:30
Tenely Library

WCA has gotten gallery agreements to have three shows in 2016!! Brookland, DC and Rockville are the locations. Get in on the ground floor by coming to the planning meeting! We'll be deciding such things as: -juried or curated? -2D and/or 3D? -visitor activities -demos -social media and other visibility to attract viewers and buyers! -volunteer assistance/fee as a prerequisite for show participation We need everyone's participation to make this happen.  Look forward to seeing you!  RSVP/Questions, Jane Pettit janepettit1@verizon.net, 202-494-4801 Tenely Library is located on Wisconsin Ave. across the street from Tenely Town Metro. Hope to see you then.

                             

                             Please Join Us!

Sunday, February 28, 2016 2:00-4:30
Tenely Library

WCA has gotten gallery agreements to have three shows in 2016!! Brookland, DC and Rockville are the locations. Get in on the ground floor by coming to the planning meeting! We'll be deciding such things as: -juried or curated? -2D and/or 3D? -visitor activities -demos -social media and other visibility to attract viewers and buyers! -volunteer assistance/fee as a prerequisite for show participation We need everyone's participation to make this happen.  Look forward to seeing you!  RSVP/Questions, Jane Pettit janepettit1@verizon.net, 202-494-4801 Tenely Library is located on Wisconsin Ave. across the street from Tenely Town Metro. Hope to see you then.

WCA/DC AT WCA NATIONAL CONFERENCE





Katzen Art Museum

Linda Smith-Bugge, Marilyn Hayes, Hiro, Cindy Renteria

Susan king, WCA Nat'l President, Michelle Frazier, WCADC President, Dean Dresser, Past WCA President,

New member, WCA Michigan President.

Leslie King-Hammond, Barbara Wolanin

Barbara Wolanin, Jack and Jamainne

Gender Studies Labors of Love Art Exhibition Launch and Party

  Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm                  

Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall , Room 404 66 West 12th Street , New York, NY 10011

Please join us for the opening of the second annual Gender Studies art exhibition.  The show will be on view during the month of March 2016 on the 3rd and 4th floor skywalk spaces between 65 W. 11th Street and 66 W. 12th Street. The 3rd floor skywalk exhibit, organized by Hazel Clark, Terri Gordon, and Tracyann Williams, will be devoted to New School student work and the 4th floor to work by the Freedom Gallery for Girls.  Freedom Gallery for Girls projects include The Ragdoll Project, Priya’s Shakti, acrylic painting by Tremain Smith, work by Rachel Bliss, and embroidered portraits by Bonnie MacAllister.

The launch panel will address gender violence, sexual trafficking and art as activism.  Speakers include Ram Devineni and Lina Srivastava, producers of Priya's Shakti, and Joanna Fulginiti and Bonnie MacAllister, founders of The Ragdoll Project.  There will also be a performance by spoken word artist Ursula Rucker. Julie Rosen, founder of the Freedom Gallery for Girls, will moderate the event.

A light reception will follow the panel.

Sponsored by the Gender Studies program at The New School. Co-sponsored by Parsons School of Design.  FREE.



WCA NATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION

CAN’T GO TO THE WHOLE CONFERENCE? - GO TO A SINGLE EVENT or TO AN EVENT THAT'S FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

If you can’t go to the whole conference, register for one of the events or register for the Conference and go to meetings and Caucus meetings

HERE’S A SHORT LIST OF WHAT IS AVAILABLE – PRICES ARE A LA CARTE PRICES FOR WCA MEMBERS ONLY – See the website for non-member prices

Thursday, February 4, 5:30-10:0 pm - LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS GALA - Walk Around Meal, Meet Awardees & Special Seating at Awards Ceremony, dessert & coffee reception after -  at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC. www.nmwa.org - $155

Friday, Feb. 5, 3:30-8:30 pm. TRENDING, A SPECIAL EVENING OF CONVERSATIONS AND ART. Board a chartered bus at 3:30p at the Marriot Conference Hotel and travel to Alexandria, VA for the exhibition opening and reception for WCA’s national exhibition, “Trending” and explore the Alexandria art scene - $50

Saturday, Feb. 6, 5:00-8:00 pm.  Join us at American University’s Katzen Art Center from 5:00-6:00pm for a special preview of the Lifetime Achievement Awardees exhibition that will include a private reception and gallery talk. From 6:00-8:00pm join us for a moderated discussion with selected awardees, followed by an opportunity to view the exhibitions.- $60

COME TO EVENTS THAT ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 7:30-9:00pm - Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony at the National Museum of Women in the Arts– An Awesome Life-Changing Experience – www.nmwa.org

Saturday, February 5, 2016 - 9am - 4:30pm - The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) Panels at National Museum of Women in Arts.  feministartproject.rutgers.edu

Saturday, February 5, 2016 - 6:00-8:00pm – At American University’s Katzen Art Center - a discussion with selected awardees on the Legacy of the Woman’s Caucus for Art 1972-2016, moderated by exhibition curator, Leslie King- Hammond, followed by an opportunity to view the exhibitions.  www.american.edu/cas/katzen

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DETAILS – GO TO THE NATIONAL WCA WEBSITE TODAY TO REGISTER – www.nationalwca.org.

__ $50 Conference Registration Fee (All WCA members must pay the registration fee)

Includes registration bag, WCA button, IMPACT Conference program, and entry to all the special interest caucus meetings, and passes to WCA Welcome Session and Panel Impact Conversation on Contemporary Arts Organizing—In and Out of the Art World.

__ $155 IMPACT 2016 Lifetime Achievement Awards and Celebration at the National Museum of Women in Art -Thursday, Feb. 4, 5:30-10:00 pm. This is a special rate for WCA members and only 1 ticket may be purchased per member at this reduced rate. Additional tickets may be purchased at the general ticket price of $165. The event starts with a cocktail reception from 5:30-7:00 pm. The reception includes three food stations, an open bar and the opportunity to congratulate the awardees. The Awards Ceremony (free and open to the public) will take place from 7:30-9 pm and a coffee and dessert reception will follow from 9-10 pm.  Please note the Celebration ticket does not include the bus to and from the event. Bus must be purchased separately.         

__ $20 Bus ticket to the WCA Lifetime Achievement Gala. This ticket is only available to those WCA members who bought a Gala ticket. This is a special rate for WCA members and only 1 ticket may be purchased per member at this reduced rate.   

__ $50 Trending—A Night of Conversation and Art (includes charter bus transportation) Friday, Feb. 5, 3:30-8:30 pm. Space is limited so purchase your ticket early!

Join us for a special evening of conversations and art. Board a chartered bus at the Marriot Hotel at 3:30p and travel to Alexandria, VA to the Torpedo Art Factory to attend a special presentation by 2016 National Exhibition Juror, Elizabeth Garvey, on trends in artmaking and in the commercial art world. This is followed by the exhibition opening and reception for the national exhibition Trending. Then explore the Alexandria area art scene/art openings and dine on your own. The bus will return to the Marriot hotel.                         

__ $60 Impact—Legacy of the Woman’s Caucus for Art 1972-2016 (includes charter bus transportation)

Saturday, Feb. 6, 4:30-8:30 pm. Space is limited so purchase your ticket early! Board a chartered bus at the Marriot Hotel and travel to American University’s Katzen Art Center for a special preview of the exhibition that will include a private reception and gallery talk. Enjoy reserved seating at a discussion moderated by exhibition curator Leslie King-Hammond and selected Lifetime Achievement Awardees on the Legacy of the Woman’s Caucus for Art 1972-2016.  After a fun evening of art, food, drink, lectures and panels, the bus will bring you back to the Marriot Conference Hotel.