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March 30, 2009

Call for Female Artists: The Saartjie Project

Posted by abookwithoutacover under Art, Body Politics, Community, Culture, Gender, Healing, Helpful tips, Love for yourself, Political, Stereotypes, call for submissions
 

The Saartjie Project:
 is a black women artists collective
defies and explores body politics and stereotypes holds Saartjie (Sara) Baartman’s life as the catalyst for our work shines humanity in the face of dehumanizing forcesis pleased to put out a CALL FOR FEMALE ARTISTS– visual & performing– to participate in a HOMECOMING benefit showcase!

To celebrate the 7th anniversary of Saartjie’s homecoming to South Africa, The Saartjie Project is sending out a rallying cry to female artists — visual & performing — to participate in a benefit showcase on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) in Washington DC.We will be showcase bold women from diverse genres and disciplines who use “art as a catalyst for self- expression, re-definition & healing”.  Proceeds will go to support the Collective as we head to Minneapolis to perform at the the Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed International Conference!

Since our August ‘08 debut, we’ve performed in sold out shows extending into 2009. This summer we will debuting ‘The Saartjie Project South’ in Atlanta and performing at the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC.

If you choose to answer the call, email a link to your work and a brief bio to homecoming@thesaartjieproject.org for consideration. Deadline to submit your work for consideration is April 1, 2009.

Creatively yours,

Jessica Solomon

Web | www.thesaartjieproject.org
Email | jessica@thesaartjieproject.org
Address | Mail: P.O. Box 77041
Washington, DC 20013

Washington Printmakers Gallery announces its 12th National Small Works
Show

This year’s juror is Jane Haslem -

Director of Jane Haslem Gallery & a nationally known print dealer.

First prize is a solo show at Washington Printmakers Gallery, located in
Washington DC’s renowned Dupont Circle gallery district.

A prospectus may be downloaded at
www.washingtonprintmakers.com

Deadline May 25.

Appleton Mill Art Yard in Lowell, MA
Public art and landscape design project Call for entries/RFQ

Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2009 (materials received)

Eligibility: This project is open to all artists/landscape architects/designers/teams residing in New England. Designers and particularly teams with experience in the areas of landscape design, public art, community involvement processes, schoolyard or playground design are encouraged to apply.

The Revolving Museum and Fieldstone Property Group invite artists/landscape architects/designers/teams to forward qualifications for the Appleton Mill Art Yard project in Lowell, MA. The Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (UrbanArts) is administering this dual artist selection process that will result in the selection of an integrated artist/landscape architect/design team that will redesign the courtyard of a historic mill complex.

RFQ Website http://www.massart.edu/x1671.xml

_______________________________________________________
Christina  Lanzl
Project Manager
Urban Arts Institute
Massachusetts College of  Art and Design
621 Huntington Avenue -  Tower, top floor
Boston, MA 02115-5801     USA
617.879.7973   tel
617.879.7969  fax
christina.lanzl@massart.edu
http://www.urbanartsinstitute.org

Chair, Placemaking Network
Boston Society of Architects/AIA
http://www.architects.org/placemaking

To All WCA and WCAGA  members

The following is the final show of 2009 for WCAGA.
When Simone Soltan procured this venue for WCAGA to exhibit, we decided that Echo:Variations on a Theme
would be open to all WCA members to apply.

Expanding beyond our own chapter boundaries with exhibit opportunities will hopefully help us to feel connected to the National aspect of our WCA organization.

We look forward to seeing your work.

If you have any questions please direct them to me
Barb Rehg
brehgstudios@bellsouth.net

February 23 to March 25, 2010 Katherine E. Nash Gallery         Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
An exhibition of art and related programs that builds awareness,
provokes action, and poses solutions for the need to understand water as an universal human right.

We are at the threshold of a global water crisis. Because women play a central role in water provision and management, women must be central in planning for the future. Today, women from all geographies, cultures, and traditions are grappling with the questions and challenges of what must be done to sustain the water of the world, working from a variety of vantage points and perspectives. These expressions are a critical component to international dialogues about access to water and the need for creative solutions.

The unparalleled threat to the world’s water can only be met if we understand that we depend on the health of our ecosystem for our own lives. The global water justice movement is united in the belief that water must be seen as a basic human right and must not be denied to anyone. We believe water is a “commons.” The commons is everything we inherit and belongs to all of us. Our charge is to protect this water wealth. We must pass it on undiminished to future generations.
MEETING  at MCAD, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2500 Stevens Av.S., Mpls, MN
* a report on the recent CAA and WCA conference in LA
* Updates on the Exhibit, Calls for Art, website womenandwater.net, new connections and logo
* Plus our Visioning process that will include more ways to connect WCA and WARM
* March 28th , Saturday, Meeting at MCAD, Minneapolis College of Art and Design at 10 am -noon, Room 101

Dear Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA), As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we are thrilled to announce that we are two steps closer to the creation of a Presidential Commission on Women.  But we’re not there yet, and we need your help. We have exciting news: Legislation to create a Presidential Commission on Women is moving forward in Congress.  We need your support. If you have not already signed on as a supporting organization, please join us now as a partner in this effort. We are also excited by the recent news that President Obama signed an executive order creating a White House Council on Women and Girls. In doing this, the new Administration has taken an important step in recognizing the responsibility that political leaders have to address the inequalities that women still face. The new White House Council is similar to the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach that was created by President Clinton and subsequently closed by President Bush. It’s wonderful news that it will be reinstated. But, we still need a Presidential Commission on Women. It’s the next step. The White House Council and the Presidential Commission on Women are perfect companions and can work together to improve the future of women in this country. Here’s why the Commission and Council are different, and why they will complement each other so well:
A Presidential Commission on Women will be a vehicle for a national conversation among the best thinkers with diverse backgrounds to address problems faced by women in America today. The White House Council will work from within the Administration to advance the policies and agenda of the sitting president. So, the Presidential Commission on Women will have a more external focus.

A Presidential Commission on Women is bipartisan and would truly reflect the commitment of our new leadership to respect the opinions and input of a broad spectrum of leaders.

A Presidential Commission on Women would include a significant grassroots component, allowing hundreds of women’s organizations and millions of women to participate in the work of the Commission.
The bottom line is we need both. Since the announcement of the White House Council, there has been tremendous support for the creation of a Presidential Commission on Women – the next step. We have tens of thousands of petition signatures and dozens of supporting organizations – including the Ms. Foundation for Women, National Congress of Black Women, National Women’s Political Caucus, Women’s Media Center, and Young Democrats of America. Click here http://cts.vresp.com/c/?WomenCount/3b0408a40c/d7b6c01e03/9d75f1e495  to see the full list of supporting organizations. But we need more. Be a part of the movement that will participate in this important initiative as it moves through Congress – sign our petition here <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?WomenCount/3b0408a40c/d7b6c01e03/3c35a2bc70>  and become a supporting organization now. To confirm that you want to join the growing list of supporting organizations, please contact: dale@womencount.org.  Together we can make this happen! Sincerely,
The  WomenCount Team

12×12x122 Summer Show: The first 122 artists to enter will have their works exhibited (according to guidelines - actual work will not be accepted for delivery until the end of May).

Exhibition:                    12×12x122
Exhibition Dates:          June 6, 2009 - July 18, 2009
Opening Reception:     June 6, 2009 from 6pm-8pm

What: BECA gallery’s 2009 Summer Show titled 12×12x122 is an experimental, gallery packed show of 488 unframed works on canvas sized 12×12 inches (30.5 cm x30.5 cm) at a stretcher depth of no more than 1.5 inches. Works need not be flat but all of it must be secure on the canvas and not extend beyond the 12×12 inches (30.5 cm x30.5 cm) size.

Where: BECA gallery, 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130  (Gallery Directors will choose up to 10 exhibiting artists to feature at www.becagallery.com <http://www.becagallery.com/> )

Why: The purpose of this non-juried experimental, group exhibition ‘12×12x122′ is to discover and highlight new approaches by emerging contemporary artists, as well as those established artists who are stretching their work into unfamiliar territory, working within the parameters of a format of 12×12 inches on canvas. We are encouraging artists to experiment. The only criteria is that the work must be unframed on (or somehow be incorporated into/onto) stretched canvas size 12×12 inches (30.5 cm x30.5 cm) (no smaller, no larger) with a stretcher depth of no more than 1.5 inches.

Eligibility: All artists at least 18 years of age from any country may participate according to the guidelines posted at http://becagallery.typepad.com/my_weblog/artist-submission-opptys.html

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BECA gallery - Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
527 St. Joseph Street (across from the Contemporary Arts Center)
New Orleans, LA 70130

View our exhibitions online at: www.becagallery.com <http://www.becagallery.com/>
Read BECA news at: http://becagallery.typepad.com <http://becagallery.typepad.com/>

Gallery Hours: TH/FRI. (1pm-6pm), Sat/Sun (11am-6pm) and also by appointment +1 504.566.8999

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Orleans-LA/BECA-gallery/137271890561

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/becagallery

FOR IMMEDIATE  RELEASE:

What:      Cultural Sensibilities IV:  Group exhibition of Korean women and

                                                   Members of Oregon Women’s Caucus for Art

Where:       Littman Gallery / Portland State University / Smith Center / Rm 250

                                          1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR       (503-725-5656)

Exhibition Dates:      April 3 to April 29, 2009

Gallery hours:      Monday-Friday   12pm to 4pm

Reception:       FIRST FRIDAY, April 3, 5-7pm

Artists’ Presentations:      Wed, April 1^st, 9:30-11:30

                                              Portland State Art Building, Room 290

                                              2000 SW 5^th Ave., Portland, OR 97201

For more information, please contact Una Kim at unakim1@yahoo.com, or

Karen Swallow, President of OWCA, at swallowtales@comcast.net.

Chronology:

We are proud to announce the exhibition - CULTURAL SENSIBILITIES IV.

The exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by women artists from South Korea and members of the Oregon Women’s Caucus for Art (OWCA).

More than thirty works from South Korea and twenty works from the US will be on view during the exhibition.

This, the fourth Cultural Sensibilities, is part of a series of exhibitions that have been about cultural exchanges, friendship building, and cultural understandings between artists across the Pacific Ocean.  We have held seminars in the past, and this time we will have a presentation by five artists who will be visiting Portland (see above for detail information). 

OWCA, the sponsoring organization, hopes to share this rare opportunity with the community in the Portland area by sharing our art along side art work from South Korea.

OWCA is a local chapter of the National Women’s Caucus for Art, an NGO and an affiliated organization of College Art Association (CAA).  This project is generously supported by a grant from the REGIONAL ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL, of Portland.

Cultural Sensibilities Exhibitions: 

2001  CS I      Daegu Cultural Center, Daegu, South Korea

2004  CS II     Littman Gallery, PSU, Portland, Oregon

2006  CS III    Art Center, Kyungbook University, Daegu, South Korea

2009  CS IV   Littman Gallery, PSU, Portland Oregon

Here’s the latest happening in Cascadia in the next lunar cycle

• two exhibitions and presence at the Green Festival
•  You can see the details on my updated Z space (you don’t have to join to view).

http://www.zmag.org/zspace/alicedubiel

• Also, I have an account with Twitter  in real time, and I can post from our activities in Portland with the artists from Korea the first week of April.
• There are many Dubiels tweeting, so you can look me up as Alice Dubiel  or my screen name, odaraia (also my live journal screen name).

http://twitter.com

Finally, the Medieval Women’s Choir is performing Italian and contemporary music, A Peaceable Kingdom, in May and recording a cd. More updates coming, and in the meantime, see

http://www.medievalwomenschoir.org

Other links:

• http://www.varoregistry.com/dubiel/
• http://www.planetart.us/

Home: Loving It, Losing It, Leaving It
Entry Form & Information

Having a house and home is part of the American dream. Currently, more people are losing their homes than any other time since the Great Depression, and Michigan has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Add to this the crises of homelessness and natural disasters that sweep away whole communities, and we see a population in distress. For migrant communities, often less visible and sometimes here illegally, moving from one temporary space to another takes a continuous toll. Yet we are a nation of immigrants who never give up the urge and the courage to move on.

What does it mean to families, children, women and men to lose their physical surroundings? What are the emotional consequences of being cut adrift? Home is often considered the “woman’s domain”. What does it feel like to lose that center of control, often a woman’s work of a lifetime? Is there a freedom in leaving everything behind?

This exhibit is as much about the home space as it is about packing up and moving on. With this in mind, packing (shipping) materials may become part of the installation at the discretion of the gallery committee. Packing materials may be planned as part of the artwork, or not. And yes, it will get messy!

Home …is a project of Michigan Chapter of Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA-MI)
hosted by The Gallery in the Duderstadt Center on the North Campus at the University of Michigan. For more information about the gallery, maps, hours etc. go to:

www.dc.umich.edu