Women's Caucus for Art
A National Membership Organization for Women in the Visual Arts with 14 Chapters throughout the United States
Susan Grabel
Leanna Leithauser Lesley
Jessica Rosen
Rosalind Bloom
Glenda Musilek
Frances Trainor
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Susan Grabel
Member-at-large
Susan Grabel is a feminist, figurative, multimedia artist, curator, and arts community organizer. Her work reflects the social and political narratives that shape our world, focusing on the human dimension of social issues. She served as president of the NYC chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art from 1992-1995 and was active at the national level and is currently president of Ceres Gallery, a feminist cooperative gallery in New York City.
susangrabel.com
Leanna Lesley
Alabama Chapter
Leanna Leithauser Lesley is an avid needle pointer motivated by the power of jazz music, the perseverance of the civil rights movement and an intention to elevate the perception of needlepoint as an art form through the complexity of stitching portraits. As a fiber artist, she is immersed in the idea of weaving together the quiet methodical ways of needlepointing with the often-unrestrained methods of jazz music and civil rights.
needlepointfaces.com
Jessica Rosen
Member-at-large
Jessica Rosen is both a visual artist and curator whose practice is rooted in feminist and queer theory. Her artwork aims to denaturalize conventional ideas about femininity and domesticity. She currently serves as the Assistant Curator at The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, where she curated the exhibitions Embracing the Parallax: Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland (2025) and Lines of Influence: Artists Teaching Artists (2026). After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art at Colgate University, Jessica went on to receive her Master’s degree from Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
jessica-rosen.com
Rosalind Bloom
Member-at-large
Transfer printing and collage create fractured visual histories that move the images away from the purely representational, while hand embroidery introduces a reference to what is traditionally women's work. By combining fragile materials with repeated acts of layering and stitching, I investigate how cultural ideas surrounding femininity, spirituality, and the body persist across time.
rosalindbloom.net
SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS
ART INSIGHTS BLOG
Stitching Through the Current: Art & Recovery
How Swimming Upstream Transformed Injury into Art and Healing
Healing rarely follows a straight line. Sometimes, it requires moving against the tide, learning to find weightlessness when everything feels heavy, and patient rhythm when the future feels uncertain.
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ART-RAGE: A CREATIVE REBELLION
Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) | Art Activism Pod Online Exhibition
WCA Kunstmatrix Gallery at NationalWCA.org
nationalwca.org/current-exhibitions/
Thru November 30, 2026
90 artists. 90 voices. One creative rebellion.
Inspired by the national Fall of Freedom project, Art-Rage brings together artists responding to our current cultural conditions through art that is unapologetic, raw, beautifully dangerous, truthful, funny, angry, mysterious, insightful—and sometimes impossible to categorize. The simple act of making art is, and always has been, a vital form of creative rebellion.
@FallOfFreedom #FallOfFreedom @womenscaucusforart #womenscaucusforart #ArtActivism @wcacolorado @wcadcorg @wca_nh_chapter @wcamass@wcacarolinas @scwcawomenartists @wca_chicago@wcaphilly @alabamawca @womenscaucusforart_indiana @tex.wca
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CARVING PATHS: Feminist Activist Artists From the 1960’s - 1970’s
Saturday, November 14 from 1-2:30 PM ET (12 CT • 11 MT • 10 PT)
Organized by Suzanne Benton, moderator and panelist, with Christina Biaggi, Betsy Damon, Leila Daw, Martha Edelheit, Susan Grabel, and Susan Schwalb
We will speak to what led us to strike out then and now. Many of us were moms, and maybe not with high expectations. We’ll share how the women’s movement inspired us and our artwork; how our collective coming together motivated us; what is unique about our individual paths; how we managed in our own ways to keep doing our art in spite of patriarchy and fiscal challenges.
Thousands and thousands of women artists throughout America and the world were inspired and activated by our actions and achievements. We will offer our lessons and experience. Time will be allotted for audience questions and response after the panelists’ presentations.
More at nationalwca.org/programs/
#womenscaucusforart #ArtActivism #feministart
@cristinabiaggiartist @susan_grabel
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CARVING PATHS: Feminist Activist Artists From the 1960’s - 1970’s
Saturday, November 14 from 1-2:30 PM ET (12 CT • 11 MT • 10 PT)
Organized by Suzanne Benton, moderator and panelist, with Christina Biaggi, Betsy Damon, Leila Daw, Martha Edelheit, Susan Grabel, and Susan Schwalb
We will speak to what led us to strike out then and now. Many of us were moms, and maybe not with high expectations. We’ll share how the women’s movement inspired us and our artwork; how our collective coming together motivated us; what is unique about our individual paths; how we managed in our own ways to keep doing our art in spite of patriarchy and fiscal challenges.
Thousands and thousands of women artists throughout America and the world were inspired and activated by our actions and achievements. We will offer our lessons and experience. Time will be allotted for audience questions and response after the panelists’ presentations.
More at nationalwca.org/programs/
#womenscaucusforart #ArtActivism #feministart
@cristinabiaggiartist @susan_grabel
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INSTAGRAM FEED
Austroboletus amazonicus, another endangered fungus from my quilt of nine. #fiberart #fiberartists #subversivesitch
#creativestitching #slowstitching
#contemporaryart #textil #broderie #handembroidered #artquilt
#Stitchedart #stitchingisart
#Embroidery
#Modernembroidery #slowstitching #endangeredanimals #endangeredplantart #saqa #saqain #saqanjny #AQN #surface_design #womenscaucusforart #endangeredfungi #fungi #Austroboletusamazonicus
Nov 3
I`m so pleased to have my poster/sticker design included in ART-RAGE: A Creative Rebellion, an online exhibit in solidarity with falloffreedom organized by the Women’s Caucus for Art`s Art Activism Pod. I also served on the curatorial committee. 90 artists. 90 voices. One creative rebellion. 🔥🔥🔥
DEI Now Tomorrow Forever
Mixed media: digital drawing and photo collage in Procreate
Like much of my work, this piece metabolizes rage into wit and subversion. Taking familiar images and lines of discourse, I reassign them, re-value them, and turn them into something else, in the name of something else.
DEI Now Tomorrow Forever hijacks and redirects two propaganda languages at once. The composition borrows from Aleksandr Rodchenko’s 1924 poster for the Lengiz publishing house (slide 2), made during the early Soviet campaign for mass literacy. His muse, the avant-garde figure Lilya Brik, shouts “Books in all branches of knowledge!” I traded his dark palette for vibrant color and put myself in Brik’s place—a 21st-century digital town crier, so to speak, defiantly and joyfully calling for diversity, equity, inclusion. 🤩🫶
The banner turns George Wallace’s 1963 vow, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” inside out. His promise of permanent exclusion becomes a righteous demand for communities grounded in open-heartedness, mutual regard, and radical care. WELCOME TO MY CUNTRY stages a new social contract, one that upends the tired old norms of the patriarchal state. 🩷🤠
The full show is online through November 30. Link (and in bio): https://nationalwca.org/current-exhibitions/
Rodchenko image: Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/books-in-all-branches-of-knowledge-poster-by-alexander-rodchenko-1924-endlos]
womenscaucusforart falloffreedom
#feministart #artactivism #ArtRage #FallOfFreedom #WomensCaucusForArt #conceptualart #DEI
Nov 3
"This Way Out," wedge weave tapestry, linen warp & churro wool weft, 8x13 inches unmounted, 6 & 12 epi.
Seems appropriate for today. Please vote.
#tapestry #tapestryart #tapestryartist #wool #resist #AmericanTapestryAlliance #handweaversguildofamerica #instahga #mofiberart #jewishartsalon #britishtapestrygroup #tapestryweaverswest #jewishartsalon #weavearealpeace #textilesocietyofamerica #womenscaucusforart #fiberart #fiberartist #workinprogress #weaversguildofstlouis #weavinginbeauty
Nov 3
ART-RAGE: A CREATIVE REBELLION
Women`s Caucus for Art (WCA) | Art Activism Pod Online Exhibition
WCA Kunstmatrix Gallery at NationalWCA.org
Link to WCA Exhibition in LinkTree
Thru November 30, 2026
90 artists. 90 voices. One creative rebellion.
Inspired by the national Fall of Freedom project, Art-Rage brings together artists responding to our current cultural conditions through art that is unapologetic, raw, beautifully dangerous, truthful, funny, angry, mysterious, insightful—and sometimes impossible to categorize. The simple act of making art is, and always has been, a vital form of creative rebellion.
@FallOfFreedom #FallOfFreedom @womenscaucusforart #womenscaucusforart #ArtActivism @wcacolorado @wcadcorg @wca_nh_chapter @wcamass@wcacarolinas @scwcawomenartists @wca_chicago@wcaphilly @alabamawca @womenscaucusforart_indiana @tex.wca
Nov 3
CARVING PATHS: Feminist Activist Artists From the 1960’s - 1970’s
Saturday, November 14 from 1-2:30 PM ET (12 CT • 11 MT • 10 PT)
Organized by Suzanne Benton, moderator and panelist, with Christina Biaggi, Betsy Damon, Leila Daw, Martha Edelheit, Susan Grabel, and Susan Schwalb
We will speak to what led us to strike out then and now. Many of us were moms, and maybe not with high expectations. We’ll share how the women’s movement inspired us and our artwork; how our collective coming together motivated us; what is unique about our individual paths; how we managed in our own ways to keep doing our art in spite of patriarchy and fiscal challenges.
Thousands and thousands of women artists throughout America and the world were inspired and activated by our actions and achievements. We will offer our lessons and experience. Time will be allotted for audience questions and response after the panelists’ presentations.
More at https://nationalwca.org/programs/
#womenscaucusforart #ArtActivism #feministart
@cristinabiaggiartist @susan_grabel
Oct 27
ART-RAGE: A CREATIVE REBELLION
Women`s Caucus for Art (WCA) | Art Activism Pod Online Exhibition
Opens October 2, 2026
90 artists. 90 voices. One creative rebellion.
Inspired by the national Fall of Freedom project, Art-Rage brings together artists responding to our current cultural conditions through art that is unapologetic, raw, beautifully dangerous, truthful, funny, angry, mysterious, insightful—and sometimes impossible to categorize. The simple act of making art is, and always has been, a vital form of creative rebellion.
Online Artists’ Reception: October 3, 4–5:30 p.m. ET
WCA Kunstmatrix Gallery at NationalWCA.org
@FallOfFreedom #FallOfFreedom @womenscaucusforart #womenscaucusforart #ArtActivism @wcacolorado @wcadcorg @wca_nh_chapter @wcamass@wcacarolinas @scwcawomenartists @wca_chicago@wcaphilly @alabamawca @womenscaucusforart_indiana @tex.wca
Sep 28
ART-RAGE: A CREATIVE REBELLION
Women`s Caucus for Art (WCA) | Art Activism Pod Online Exhibition
Opens October 2, 2026
90 artists. 90 voices. One creative rebellion.
Inspired by the national Fall of Freedom project, Art-Rage brings together artists responding to our current cultural conditions through art that is unapologetic, raw, beautifully dangerous, truthful, funny, angry, mysterious, insightful—and sometimes impossible to categorize. The simple act of making art is, and always has been, a vital form of creative rebellion.
Online Artists’ Reception: October 3, 4–5:30 p.m. ET
WCA Kunstmatrix Gallery at NationalWCA.org
@FallOfFreedom #FallOfFreedom @womenscaucusforart #womenscaucusforart #ArtActivism @wcacolorado @wcadcorg @wca_nh_chapter @wcamass@wcacarolinas @scwcawomenartists @wca_chicago@wcaphilly @alabamawca @womenscaucusforart_indiana @tex.wca
Sep 27
ART-RAGE: A CREATIVE REBELLION
Women`s Caucus for Art (WCA) | Art Activism Pod Online Exhibition
Opens October 2, 2026
90 artists. 90 voices. One creative rebellion.
Inspired by the national Fall of Freedom project, Art-Rage brings together artists responding to our current cultural conditions through art that is unapologetic, raw, beautifully dangerous, truthful, funny, angry, mysterious, insightful—and sometimes impossible to categorize. The simple act of making art is, and always has been, a vital form of creative rebellion.
Online Artists’ Reception: October 3, 4–5:30 p.m. ET
WCA Kunstmatrix Gallery at NationalWCA.org
@FallOfFreedom #FallOfFreedom @womenscaucusforart #womenscaucusforart #ArtActivism @wcacolorado @wcadcorg @wca_nh_chapter @wcamass@wcacarolinas @scwcawomenartists @wca_chicago@wcaphilly @alabamawca @womenscaucusforart_indiana @tex.wca
Sep 26
MISSION
The mission of the Women's Caucus for Art is to create community through art, education, and social activism
We are committed to:
- recognizing the contributions of women in the arts
- providing women with leadership opportunities and professional development
- expanding networking and exhibition opportunities for women
- supporting local, national, and global art activism
- advocating for equity in the arts for all
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
WCA is a networking organization for women in the arts.
Become a Legacy Donor
Leaving WCA in your will is one of the most valuable and lasting ways you can support women artists for years to come. It costs nothing during your lifetime, but will have a powerful impact on future generations.
Legacy Giving Members will be honored on our Legacy Wall
WCA’s Legacy Wall recognizes donors who are pledging at the $1K or greater level.
