ART AND ACTIVISM - SHARE YOUR PASSION!
February 25 – March 2, 2009
Activities & Schedule Accurate as of January 14, 2009
In a dynamic return to our roots as a welcoming, activist community of women
arts professionals, Women’s Caucus for Art’s LA 2009 follows a “CONFAB”
style that features networking, tours, inspiring awards, exciting
exhibitions and many participatory events and encourages participation in
the conference offerings of the College Art Association (CAA) and the
Feminist Art Project (TFAP). Be sure to join us at our 2009 Confab in Los
Angeles. What has heart and meaning for you? Take this opportunity to
inspire others with your vision and to be inspired by theirs. Connect with
our national WCA community. Get the latest news and views concerning women
in the visual arts. Experience the power and inspiration of the Lifetime
Achievement Awards dinner and ceremony. See the schedule and hotel
information below.
Register online at www.nationalwca.org/conference/currentconfer.html
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are planning to attend our WCA LA 2009 Confab please
give us a heads-up so we can be prepared for you. Email Sandra Mueller at
sandramueller@scwca.org to provide her with your arrival and departure
dates.
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REMINDER: Please support our 2009 Lifetime Achievement Awards! If you have
not already made a donation, please go to our website to make a tax
deductible donation or purchase raffle tickets to win awesome art online at
www.nationalwca.org. Any amount is appreciated. You can also purchase
raffle tickets from your chapter president, or at our table at CAA’S Book
and Trade Fair, Table “I.” Not attending our Confab, why not buy a ticket
to the Awards dinner and give it as a gift.
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CONFAB PRICE AND SCHEDULE
For just $65 join us on the bus tour for networking, fun and information. To
keep the Confab price low we are only charging attendees for the bus tours.
Food costs for Saturday and Sunday mornings Chapters’ Council meetings and
Sunday events are covered by donations.
$20 –Bus Tour, Friday Night, 2/27/09 to “Women Artists on Immigration”
Exhibition and Reception, and WCA’s Video Shorts Fest, Korean Cultural
Center Art Gallery. (Bus departs approx. 5:45 PM from the LA Convention
Center)
$45 –Bus Tour, Sunday, 3/1/09, 9:30 AM-4 PM, to WCA Art & Activism Day with
WCA Town Hall and Chapters’ Council at American Jewish University, Buffet
breakfast and lunch provided (Includes “Like Water on Rock” exhibition and
reception and bus tour to Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University and
other venues. (Bus departure time and departure point provided later)
$65 –BUS TOUR TOTAL
$105 –WCA’S 2009 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS & DINNER, 6:30-9 PM
Wilshire Grand Hotel, 930 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
$160 –WCA Current (2009) Members Only Package (all bus tours & dinner)
in Honor of 30th Anniversary of the Lifetime Achievement Awards!! If you are a member
and have not yet purchased your ticket to the Lifetime Achievement Dinner and Awards Ceremony
choose the package price which includes the bus tours and the Lifetime
Achievement Awards. Members must have renewed for 2009.
NOTE: If you have purchased the Lifetime Achievement Awards ticket for $105
after December 31, 2008, and want to upgrade please contact Karin Luner at
karin@nationalwca.org
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2009 WCA CONFAB SCHEDULE
NOTE: CAA events are in the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 South
Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California 90015. There are several
restaurants in the Convention Center as well as concession stands. The
entrance fee for the CAA Book and Trade Fair is $25 unless you are
volunteering to sit at the WCA table for two hours. CAA website:
www.collegeart.org
Wednesday, February 25
12:30 – 2 PM “Feminist Artists and Motherhood: Breakin’ in Two” with Moderator:
Margaret Lazzari, Chair of USC Fine Arts Department; preview screening of
film & roundtable with artists, writers and scholars.
3:30- 5 PM “WCA EcoArts Meet Up” with Artist, Kim Abeles, at Evo Lofts, 1155 S.
Grand – 3 blocks from LA Convention Center
Thursday, February 26
12:30-2 PM ”CAA Committee on Women Pan-Feminism” Panel (free), LA Convention Center
2-8 PM “Art, Wine & Books” in Pasadena” with Feminist Tour of Norton Simon
Museum, Madeline’s Wine Bar & ‘Broken Colors’ reading at Vromans’
Bookstore. Email avengernelson@scwca.org - transportation included.
5:30-6:30 PM Artist/Gallerist Dialogue with Feminist Artist, Freyda Miller,
on her “Fertile Dreams” Exhibition, Art Dimensions Gallery, 1326 Westwood
Blvd, Westwood (Use own transport)
Friday, February 27
10-12 AM Metro Art Tour of Public Art by Women meet at 7th St. Metro Station
(Metro Center), Free
1:30 PM “Broken Colors” Book Signing at WCA Exhibits Table with WCA member
Michelle Zackheim, artist and novelist, at WCA’s table, Table “I”, in the CAA Book and Trade Fair.
2:30- 5 PM “Inventive Concepts: Models of Participatory Leadership in the
Arts Panel” with Karen Frostig, Lesley University; and Martina Reuter, Wochen
Klausur; at the Los Angeles Convention Center
7-9 PM “Women Artists on Immigration” Exhibition Reception at Korean Cultural
Center of Los Angeles (includes WCA’s Video Shorts Fest), 5505 Wilshire
Blvd, Los Angeles. (Bus departs approx. 5:45 PM from the LA Convention
Center)
Saturday, February 28
7:30-9 AM WCA Chapters’ Council Meeting (Business Meeting) with Chapter
Networking, Regional Connections, Chapters’ Council Board Members
Nominations, LA Convention Center (All WCA members welcome)
9 AM-5 PM The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels LA Convention Center (free
and open to the public)
9:00–10:30 AM “Black Women, But, Are They Feminists?” with Suzanne Jackson,
Senga Nengudi, Carrie Mae Weems and Linda Goode-Bryant.
10:45 AM–12:15 PM “Salon des Refuses” or who was/is “in” and “out” of the
recent feminist exhibitions with Maren Hassinger, and Rachel Rosenthal.
12:30–1:45 PM “Transnational Feminism” with Yong Soon Min and Connie
Samaras.
2:00–3:15 PM “Artists Converse on Feminism” with Maria Buszek, Andrea
Bowers, Cheri Gaulke and Catherine Opie.
3:30–5:00 PM “Women Performance Artists Today” with Jill O’Bryan.
6:30-9 PM WCA’s 2009 Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Awards Dinner &
Ceremony at the Wilshire Grand Hotel, 930 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
Sunday, March 1
WCA Art & Activism Day, 9:30-4 PM
9:30-11:30 AM - WCA Town Hall & Chapters’ Council national board members
election at American Jewish University, 15600 Mulholland Dr., Los Angeles (Bus
offered-departure time/location to be determined, buffet breakfast and
lunch provided)
11:30AM-1:30PM -“Like Water on Rock” JWAN Exhibition Reception at
Platt/Borstein Gallery, American Jewish University, 15600 Mulholland Dr.,
Los Angeles
Bus to “Gallery 32 and Its Circle” Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount
University 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles (near LAX airport), an exhibition
featuring the activist work of Betye Saar (WCA Lifetime Achievement
Awardee), David Hammons, and Emory Douglas.
Monday, March 2
8 AM - 3:30 PM WCA National Board Meeting, Los Angeles Museum of
Contemporary Art, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles.
All WCA members invited to participate in all events.
OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES
2:30-5 PM - February 27, Awardee Ruth Weisberg interviewed by Barbara Isenberg, CAA,
6-8 PM - February 27, Awardee Joyce Kozloff reads Co+Ordinates at Hennessey & Ingalls in Hollywood
8AM to 5:00 PM March 1 - The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) Bus Tour of Public Art Works by Women with Jerri Allyn, Meg Cranston, and Debra Padilla, lunch at the Getty Museum, Price: Advance (Register at CAA website) $20, Onsite $25; Limited availability.
