Opportunity: Golden Foundation Residency

Friends of the the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts,

We are delighted to share that The Golden Foundation Residency and Workshop programs are now online and accepting applications for our inaugural year.  Please go to www.goldenfoundation.org for details of the facility and this unique residency program.

Barbara Golden
Executive Director
Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Latest News: Meet & Greet National President Priscilla Otani & other events

Meet and Greet National President Priscialla Otani and Husband Mike Yochum  Sunday, Apr. 15, 2012 Learn About New Art Marketing Software including a demonstration of a how to "do-it-yourself" website and social networking. Bring your laptop computer. Priscilla will meet with WCA chapters across the country this year to hear their ideas and interests and to share her plans. This is your opportunity to ask questions and share your suggestions and thoughts about WCA and to learn new ways to market your art with Priscilla and her husband, Mike Yochum. This is your chance to have input into WCA's future. Schedule for the Day: 12:30 Meet and Greet 1-3:00 Program: Do It Yourself Website for Artists w/Priscilla Otani, Effective Use of Social Networking for Artists w/ Mike Yochum (Bring your laptop computer with 5 or more jpgs (low resolution -72 dpi) of images of your work which will be used to build your website. 3:00 Snacks RSVP hayesarts@yahoo.com by Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Please let her know if you are coming on the Metro so she can work out a schedule - when you RSVP she'll give you her phone number.) *You can still RSVP! Contact Marilyn Today!

Where & When   Marilyn Hayes house 2525 Ridgeview Road Arlington, VA 22207 Rosslyn Metro - make arrangements and someone will pick you up at the Metro)

Drawing Marathon  2012 WCADC Welcome

Drawing Marathon Description:  There are many variations that have been created over the years to fulfill the desire for a drawing marathon. Our format was created to allow as many of our members to participate as possible. Having numerous days throughout the year and at different locations, hopefully will facilitate your participation.  This program is designed as a yearlong project. The participants will be engaged in the drawing process at designated locations on specific dates. You may sign up for more than one session and it is fine to choose different studios each time. As artists you will create work based on your personal concepts and method of working, therefore how you choose to draw, what you choose to draw is ultimately your choice.   This is a free program for our members. Non-members may be invited to participate in the process. The marathon part of the program happens in two ways: Working in a space, foreign to one, creates a special dynamic. It is a challenge but it is about more than that. The act of making work in the presence of others creates a shared experience, creates a memory and that can be as enriching as the actual process of drawing. Someone suggested/asked if the work could be collaborative...absolutely. Below is the list of Hosting artists who are opening their studios for this process. And a list of materials we are going to work with.   How to Participate:   Contact Cherie M. Redlinger rcredlinger@comcast.net Each artists indicates which dates and studio has a time that they can commit to attending Each artist provides her own materials  Format: Host Artist's studio Sign up 3 to 6 members to 'host' mini drawing marathons in their studio. Each studio host will accommodate as many members as they can at their studio. The Studio host is responsible only for opening their space as a gathering place for work to be created. Over the course of the year,2012, these drawing marathons will happen at the specified time and place by the host. Some of the hosts will be offering more than one date at their studio  Details Theme: We would like to keep the work monochromatic. Black, White and Grays - Your grays are allowed full range of tint but should read as gray. There are red grays, blue grays, brown grays, purple grays, etc. Materials: charcoal, gesso, pencil, conte crayon, Crayons, watercolor crayons, inks, oil sticks, gesso (if the hosting artist can handle these media) Substrate: Paper Max. Size: 40" wide 60" high  WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARDS? At the end of the year, we propose creating an exhibit from the outcome of this work. Therefore the Work must be wall mountable to be in the exhibit. As long as the work is done on paper and can be wall mounted, you may give the work a 3D aspect. This is an acknowledgement that Sculptors have a hard time with 2D.   Where & When  HOSTING STUDIOS Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:00-9:00PM Art Center Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads 3440 S Jefferson St Falls Church, VA 22041 Linda Smith-Bugge's cell is 703-201-4443 in case anyone gets lost. Hope you will participate and take advantage of this Free event. See you there!!

Call for Participation: Drawing Marathon (April 26)

All members are encouraged to participate
A WCADC Program
 

WCADC DRAWING MARATHON: 2012

Welcome
There are many variations that have been created over the years to fulfill the desire for a drawing marathon. Our format was created to allow as many of our members to participate as possible. Having numerous days throughout the year and at different locations, hopefully will facilitate your participation.

This program is designed as a yearlong project. 


The participants will be engaged in the drawing process at designated locations on specific dates.You may sign up for more than one session and it is fine to choose different studios each time.

As artists you will create work based on your personal concepts and method of working, therefore how you choose to draw, what you choose to draw is ultimately your choice.

This is a free program for our members. Non-members may be invited to participate in the process.


Host Artist’s studio
Sign up 3 to 6 members to ‘host’ mini drawing marathons in their studio. Each studio host will accommodate as many members as they can at their studio. The Studio host is responsible only for opening their space as a gathering place for work to be created.
     
Over the course of the year 2012 these drawing marathons will happen at the specified time and place by the host. Some of the hosts will be offering more than one date at their studio

HOSTING STUDIO
Thursday, April 26, 2012
7:00–9:00PM
Art Center
Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads
3440 S Jefferson St
Falls Church, VA  22041
Linda Smith-Bugge’s cell is 703-201-4443 in case anyone gets lost.

How to Participate:
Contact Cherie M. Redlinger
rcredlinger@comcast.net 

Opportunity: Third Annual Feminist Art History Conference, American University

Third Annual Feminist Art History Conference, American University

Sessions and keynote will be held on AU’s campus in Washington, D.C., with additional events at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in conjunction with its 25th Anniversary celebration.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please submit via e-mail a one-page, single-spaced proposal and two-page curriculum vita by May 15, 2012 tofahc3.cfp@gmail.com.
Notification of acceptance by July 1, 2012.

This conference builds on the legacy of feminist art-historical scholarship and pedagogy initiated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard at American University. To further the inclusive spirit of their groundbreaking anthologies, we invite papers on subjects spanning the chronological and geographic spectrum to foster a broad dialogue on feminist art-historical practice. Speakers may address such topics as: artists, movements, and works of art and architecture; cultural institutions and critical discourses; practices of collecting, patronage, and display; the gendering of objects, spaces, and media;
the reception of images; and issues of power, agency,
gender, and sexuality within visual cultures.

Keynote Address

"Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Feminism, Art History and the Story of a Book"
Whitney Chadwick, Professor Emerita of Art History
San Francisco State University

Drawing Marathon

MARK YOU  CALENDAR and JOIN US AT  DRAWING MARATHON

     Drawing Marathon: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 7:00–9:00PM
     Art Center
     Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads
     3440 S Jefferson St
     Falls Church, VA  22041    Linda Smith-Bugge’s cell is 703-201-4443 in case anyone gets lost.

First Drawing Marathon Report:

5 in attendances
All worked at serene pace on their own passion.
All successfully finished their drawings within the 2 hours.
Because of the space and success we decided to meet at least twice a month.

From our participants:

Hi Cherie
The Drawing Marathon was great.  I loved working on my work in the company of other artists and having the opportunity to look at what they were doing at the end of the evening.  I spend too much time working alone.  Best of all - it was really great to work some other medium besides watercolor.  I had the opportunity to rediscover my love of pastels.  Thanks for providing this great opportunity to get together and work in an art space for our chapter. I will definitely be there as often as possible and hope it continues for many years.

 Marilyn Hayes

Dear Cherie,

Thank you for organizing this time and room of ones' communal own.  It was a great opportunity to be alone with one's ideas and thoughts--together.  It's so hard in this world to sit down and start to focus.  These sessions are great opportunities. Next time I hope to progress on a project I'm starting to put together.

Best,
Nancy Abeles

Opportunities: Activities for Women's History Month

Artisphere Activities for Women's History Month

Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington VA 22209, 703) 875-1100

www.artisphere.com

EXHIBITION:  FRIDA KAHLO: HER PHOTOS

The celebrated artist's life revealed through personal photographs
Free public opening reception: Thu Feb 23 / 7-10pm 

Feb 23-Sun March 25, Free Terrace Gallery

U.S. PREMIERE:  Artisphere is the first and only venue in the United States of America to present this exhibition of photographs revealing moments of this extraordinary figure's private life.

Music/Dance from Mexico Related to Exhibition:

RANA SANTACRUZ

Part of the Frida Kahlo: Her Photos CelebrationSAT FEB 25 / 8 PM
$15 advance/$18 door
Dome Theatre

LA SHICA: FLAMENCO FUSION ARTIST, $15 advance/$18 doorPart of the Frida Kahlo: Her Photos CelebrationFRI MARCH 9 / 8 PM
Dome Theatre

WOMEN IN SALSA SHOW + DANCE PARTY $10 advance/ $15 door

Dancing
Part of the Frida Kahlo: Her Photos Celebration
Ballroom, SAT MARCH 24/ 8 PM

Artisphere is Celebrating Women Filmmakers on Fridays in February"Marie Antoinette, Director, Sofia Coppola
FRI FEB 10 / 8 PM -     $6
Dome Theatre

NATIONAL MUSUEM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS - www.nmwa.org

1250 New York Ave., NW Washington, DC 20005-3970
202-783-5000

Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections
February 24, 2012–July 29, 2012
Featuring 77 paintings, prints, and sculptures from 1750 to 1850—a tumultuous revolutionary era—Royalists to Romantics celebrates these rare works, many of which have never been seen outside of France.

New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Chakaia Booker
March 8, 2012–March 9, 2014
Internationally renowned sculptor Chakaia Booker has been selected as the second artist for the New York Avenue Sculpture Project, the only public art space featuring changing installations of contemporary works by women artists

R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita
March 9, 2012–July 15, 2012
Featuring 62 eye-popping prints created between 1963 and 1967, the exhibition showcases the bold graphic language that Sister Mary Corita developed to communicate her vision of peace and love in the 1960s

Call for Art for Members of Woman Made Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL,

gallery@womanmade.org

Member News: HIRO

From our member artist, HIRO:


I've been working on my art programs and booklets.  Several of them are now part of the Asian Collection of the Library of Congress, and forthcoming -- I am to be interviewed by staff and students of the Univ. of Maryland.  I'm continuing to develop additional art booklets, combining the "word" with my "art."   

This past year I was in Seattle to unveil my painting of a pioneer Japanese American woman who celebrated her 100th birthday.  This diptych painting is now in the collection of the  Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial and the forthcoming Museum.  Also, for the U.S. Navy Medical facility at Corpus Christi, Texas, I presented  a slide/lecture of my artworks and did a hands-on Creative Expression Workshop Through Painting followed by a discussion with the medical staff participants.  It was most fulfilling.  

Best for the future, 

HIRO

http://www.hiro-artist.com/