DECEMBER 2017 PRESIDENT'S LETTER IN THIS ISSUE. Thanks so much to those of you who submitted designs for the WCA Logo Call!

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1 View this in your browser DECEMBER 2017 PRESIDENT'S LETTER Thanks so much to those of you who submitted designs for the WCA Logo Call! I m excited to announce the two winners of the IN THIS ISSUE President s Letter President s Award for Art and Activism for 2018 Founding Gallery Director Kathy Gallegos and Feminist Art Historian Amelia Jones. WCA Annual Conference 2018 Call for Art: Reality Sandwiches Conference Spotlight Member at Large Tribute 2018 Lifetime Achievement Awards Artlines Article/Call for Proposals Kathy Gallegos founded Avenue 50 Studio, Inc., a nonprofit arts presentation organization located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park, to give artists a venue for their voices to be heard. Since 2000, she has served as the gallery s Founding Executive and Artistic Director. Previously she created a mural at the Plaza De las Madres in Managua, Nicaragua with Barbara

2 WCA Calendar WCA Membership Drive Member-At-Large Meet-Up #wcaartactivism: Send us your art How to Submit Your Chapter News * Amazon Smile Carrasco, Yreina Cervantez and Francisco Letelier. In , she painted and taught herself B&W photographic darkroom techniques in Honduras. In 1996, she taught teens photography, operated the gift shop, and organized exhibitions at the Aztlan Cultural Arts Center in LA s Lincoln Heights neighborhood. In fall 2014, Governor Jerry Brown appointed her to sit as a Councilmember on the Board of the California Arts Council. Call for Silent Auction Donations Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor at the Roski WCA CALENDAR December 8: Deadline for entering "Reality Sandwiches" December 15: Deadline for chapter news for the November issue of WCA e-newsletter. February 22-25, 2018: ART SPEAKS! LEND YOUR VOICE The WCA Annual Conference in Los Angeles. Mark your calendars! March 15, 2018 Deadline for Summer Artlines Proposals. School of Art and Design at University of Southern California. A feminist curator and a theorist and historian of art and performance, her recent publications include Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (2012), Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History (2012), coedited with Adrian Heathfield, the edited volume Sexuality (2014), and, co-edited with Erin Silver, Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (2016). Her exhibition Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art took place in 2013 in Montreal and she programmed the events Trans-Montréal (2015) in that city, followed by a related publication On Trans/Performance, a special issue ofperformance Research (2016). Her Live Artists Live performance and conference WCA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Renew now for 2018 and ask a friend to join! program took place at USC in Jones is now working on a retrospective of the work of Ron Athey and a book tentatively entitled Intimate Relations: A Critical Genealogy of Queer / Performance.

3 If you have been thinking of becoming a WCA Lifetime Member, the time to do it is now! The current Lifetime Membership is $500. On January 1st, 2018 the cost for a Lifetime Membership rises to $750. Show your support for WCA and sign up to be a Lifetime Member today! CLICK HERE TO RENEW/JOIN I will present their awards during the Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony from 6-7:30pm at the Double Tree Hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles on February 24, The ceremony is free and open to the public, and we will have a ticketed gala dinner afterwards where you can meet and speak with all of the awardees and VIPs attending the ceremony. I hope you will join us in celebrating their accomplishments! Susan King, PhD WCA President, president@nationalwca.org Members-At-Large: Let's meet up at the LA Conference! Image: Kathy Gallegos, Photo Credit: Jessica Rocha Image: Amelia Jones, Photo Credit: Paul C. Donald Now that we ve featured about eight Members-At-Large featured in PULSE, I would love to meet you in person and talk more about your art and practice. Let s have a get together! If you are a Member- At-Large and you re coming to the conference, contact me, Laura Morrison, Membership Chair, and we ll set it up! Remember, there are scholarships available to help fund your trip if you need it... Click here for more information. ART SPEAKS! LEND YOUR VOICE February in Los Angeles, CA The WCA Annual Conference will be held at the DoubleTree Downtown in Los Angeles, February 22-24, 2018 to coincide with the College Art #wcaartactivism Send us a sample of your art Association Annual Conference.

4 activism, in one sentence and one image and we'll post it in Pulse, on the WCA Facebook and Twitter. Art Speaks! Lend your voice. Send your art activism images and descriptions to Margeret Parker at CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATIONS The conference highlight will be Saturday s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony and gala reception. This year s honorees are Lee Bontecou, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Glora Orenstein, and Renée Stout. The President s Award for Art and Activism are Founding Gallery Director Kathy Gallegos and Feminist Art Historian Amelia Jones. The Juried exhibitions titled Art HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR CHAPTER NEWS FOR THE WCA E- NEWSLETTER Send your WCA chapter success stories in 100 words or less and a juicy photo jpg at 72 dpi (please include photo credits and descriptions) to the newsletter editor, Margaret Parker at mparkerst@gmail.com by the 15th of each month. If your story is longer, send a 50 word intro and a PDF of the whole piece that we can link to. Also pitch stories that might be good for future issues so we can look forward to them. You can also send out your national WCA Calls for Art through the e-newsletter. Send your information to us and we'll post it. Get artists from around the country entering your shows! Looking forward to hearing from you! Speaks! Lend Your Voice will be on view at Arena One Gallery and Reality Sandwiches will be at Artshare, LA. See the calls for art for Reality Sandwiches in this newsletter. The WCA/CAA panel, Recipes for the Revolution from Queer Feminists of Color, will be chaired by performance artist Tina Takemoto and art historian Jacqueline Francis, both of California College for the Arts in San Francisco. Other exciting events are in the works as well! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL FOR ART: Reality Sandwiches Deadline Extended: Dec. 8, 2017 Organized by the Young Women s Caucus of WCA ArtShare LA, Downtown Arts District

5 Margaret Parker WCA E-Newsletter Editor WCA Communications VP February 20-February 25, 2018 Reality Sandwiches seeks visually compelling works that speak to your current reality or the directions where your reality may be headed. Inspired by a volume of Allen Ginsberg s poems, SIGN UP FOR AMAZON SMILE AND HELP BENEFIT WCA this theme may be broadly interpreted from a personal, political, or conceptual standpoint in a variety of media. The call is open to all self-identified women artists between the ages of 18 and 35 resident in the USA. Artists may submit up to four images and are welcome to join WCA to submit at member's rates of $15 per entry. If you shop at Amazon, consider signing up for Amazon Smile and designate the donated proceeds to The Women's Caucus for Art. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP Internationally acclaimed artist Alison Saar is the juror. The exhibition is a featured event of WCA s 2018 Conference that runs concurrent with College Art Conference in February The conference theme is Art Speaks! Lend Your Voice. The Artist Reception and Conversations will be on Friday, February 23, 2018, 5 to 7 pm followed by an evening of curated performances at ArtShare LA. CALL FOR DONATIONS! Support the WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards with a donation to the WCA Silent Auction! The WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards event is fast approaching, and it is time to assemble items and services for the silent auction at the VIP reception. What would be an appropriate donation? Think high quality items that you'd NOTE: Ginsberg conceived of Reality Sandwiches as scribbled secret notebooks and wild typewritten pages created for one s own joy. Surprise us! Click here for additional details and to enter online via entrythingy WCA CONFERENCE SPOTLIGHT...

6 love to have and might interest LTA award attendees. Items should also be portable. Here are some ideas--be creative! Air Miles, Hotel Nights, Weekend in Vacation Home, Travel Items, Professional Art Services, Gift Cards, New Art Books, Food & Wine gift certificates (e.g. nationwide chains, Blue Apron), Art Supply gift certificates, Carefully Crafted Goods (e.g. Silk Scarves, Jewelry Pottery, Purses, etc.), Unframed High Quality Prints in protective sleeves. For more information, please contact Margo Hobbs, Silent Auction Chair at Marketing Your Art With Photos and Video Created With Your Smartphone Speaker: Kim Foley Learn how to use video from your smartphone to maximize your social media and market presence. This hands-on session is designed for artists, gallery owners and art non-profits. Learn tricks of the trade for social media and powerful marketing techniques from Kim Foley, artist and founder of Smartphone Video Production Academy. As President of the Washington DC Chapter, she has shown her passion for helping artists, businesses and entrepreneurs join the video revolution. Date: Friday, Feb.23 Time: 8:30-10:00 am Location: DoubleTree Los Angeles, California Room MEMBER AT LARGE TRIBUTE Tammy Jo Wilson Oregon City, Oregon

7 I live in Oregon City, Oregon, a small town community on the south end of the Portland metropolitan area. I love my home here because I get the arts and culture that Portland has to offer from the comforts of a historic small town. As a WCA member I look for opportunities to connect to others around the country. I've enjoyed meeting fellow members at our conference and learned from their experiences. I m interested in the relationship between the fragility of the physical body and the expanse of the conscious mind. When the body changes or is changed, an awareness comes into play that creates an uncomfortable confusion. Questions around identity and vitality are raised and a person's place in relationship to society, cultural experience and self-awareness become unhinged. I m interested in bridging the degradation of the flesh with the simple elegance of organic form. Looking past the persona to the vessel carrying the life, I see nature s beautiful ebb and flow of breath, growth and death unfold. More information at tammyjowilson.com Image: Faces by Tammy Jo Wilson The WCA 2018 Lifetime Achievement Awards Celebration The Women s Caucus for Art (WCA) is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2018 WCA Lifetime Achievement (LTA) Awards: Lee Bontecou, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Gloria Orenstein, and Renée Stout. The recipients for the 2018 President s Art & Activism Award are the esteemed feminist art historian Dr. Amelia Jones and Avenue 50 Studio gallery director Kathy Gallegos who is a great champion of Latina/o and feminist art in Los Angeles. Please join us for the LTA Awards celebration on Saturday February 24, 2018 at the DoubleTree By Hilton LA Downtown Hotel, 120 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA The celebration kicks off with a pre-reception that includes a cash bar from 5 6pm. The Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony Awards will take place from 6 7:30 pm in the Golden State Ballroom. The pre-reception and Awards Ceremony are free and open to the public. Guests purchasing reception/dinner tickets will be treated to dinner and drinks in the beautiful Thousand Cranes/Kyoto Garden.

8 Download the Press Release CALL FOR PROPOSALS ARTLINES ARTICLE: 2018 SUMMER ISSUE In keeping with the WCA s commitment to recognizing the contributions of women in the arts, Artlines invites scholarly and analytical articles by women art historians, critics, curators, and educators for the Summer 2018 issue. We welcome reviews of exhibitions and projects, thematic essays, and interviews. Need an idea or have a query? Contact Margo Hobbs, WCA President-elect: margohobbs@muhlenberg.edu Suggested length: 500 words (flexible) Proposals due: March 15, 2018 Essays due: May 15, 2018 ARTLINES ARTICLE: 2017 SUMMER ISSUE In the coming months, we plan to feature one article each month from Artlines. Here is an article from our 2017 Summer Issue... Behind These Walls: Carrie Mae Weems' Own Brand of Institutionsl Critique in Her 2006 Museum Series by Alison Lechner DOWNLOAD ARTICLE

9 Image: Carrie Mae Weems, Guggenheim Bilbao, 2006-present, digital c-print, 72 x 60 inches, 73 3/8 x 61 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches framed, Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. GET CONNECTED, STAY CONNECTED The mission of the Women s Caucus for Art is to create community through art, education, and social activism Copyright 2017 Women's Caucus for Art, All rights reserved.

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