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Northern California WCA
Choice
WEBSITE: 4choice2013@comcast.net

EXHIBITION CHAIR/CONTACT INFO:
      Kelly Hammargren
      P.O. Box 728
      Berkeley, CA 94701-0728

DATES/LOCATION:  Exhibition December 12, 2013 to  January 12, 2013
 The exhibition  will be at the Arc Studios and Gallery,  www.arc-sf.com,  1246  Folsom, San Francisco, CA.


DESCRIPTION: 
Northern  California Women’s Caucus for Art (NCWCA) www.ncwca.org is
the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the national organization of Women’s  Caucus for art 
www.nationalwca.org. In observance of the 40th anniversary of Roe vs Wade,  the Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art (NCWCA) is sponsoring the juried  exhibition Choice with a national call to self-identified women artists residing  in the United States.  Women are  invited to create artwork in a broad range of media and genre that give voice to  women’s reproductive rights. Women are asked to give thought to the meaning of  choice. Artwork may include personal or collective experiences of women, past  and present or projections about the future, the broader context of changes in  reproductive rights during the artist’s lifetime and/or differences in  reproductive rights in different parts of the country. Creative interpretations   are encouraged. Works may be abstract, representational or incorporate language   with visual representation.  With respect to the United Nations
  issues and Human Development Index and Human Development Reports, maternal  deaths and teen pregnancy are on the rise in the United Sates.   The UN statistics should be concerning and alarming. Maternal deaths per  100,000 births in the US were: 1990 - 12, 2000 - 14, 2005 - 18 and 2010 - 21.   Teenage pregnancies per 1000 women aged 15 - 19 were: 2000 - 50.5, 2005 - 43.1,  2008 - 35.9 and 2010 - 41.2.  

        Choice implies giving women the  ability to determine, when and how often to become pregnant and when to  terminate a pregnancy.  Unintended   pregnancy places women at risk for poverty especially when pregnancy occurs   where families are living on the economic edge or when education is impacted.   Recent legislation restricting access to abortion can push early termination to   later stages and places limits at the time when serious complications become   evident.  There is the additional  fallout of closing clinics which offer other preventive health  services.
        With the artist call still open,  interpretation of the theme Choice is unknown, however, the underlying issues  of maternal health, poverty, hunger, child health, violence against women,  women’s leadership and participation and women’s economic empowerment are all  closely tied to women’s reproductive rights. 
      
 An installation of letters in planned to accompany the  exhibition choice. While stories/letters have been collected at various times to   tell the need for access to safe legal abortion, the mission for NCWCA as  artists is to create a visual mass of letters to build community among women and  those who love them. The exact  numbers of women having an abortion are unknown, but given the data that is  available one in three women in the United States has an abortion during her  lifetime.  The average number of  years between onset of menstruation and menopause is 39 years. Women are   stigmatized for seeking abortion and are therefore largely silent about the  need for care.  It is this silence  that allows access for safe legal reproductive care to be legislated away and   withdrawn.  We have created our website and a post office box so that submission of stories/letters can be made anonymously.    
REFERENCES:
 
http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/36806.html
 http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/indicators/89006.html
 http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html

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Philadelphia WCA
VIOLENCE - A Juried Exhibition 

 Sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia Chapter in cooperation with the Montgomery County Guild of Professional Artists 

EVENT DIRECTORS:   Karen Love Cooler and Virginia Maksymowicz

EVENT/PROJECT TYPE:  Juried Exhibition 
Jurors:
Karen Love Cooler, artist, former Gallery Director of Montgomery County Guild of Professional Artists; Exhibitions Coordinator for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art.  
Virginia Maksymowicz: artist, Associate Professor of Art at Franklin & Marshall College; Treasurer for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art

THEME(S) ADDRESSED:   Artworks that address VIOLENCE -  self-defense, torture, war, guns, human trafficking, mental illness, child abuse, rape, battered women, gay bashing, etc. 

DESCRIPTION: We live in a violent world. Sandy Hook, Nickel Mines and Columbine. September 11 and Oklahoma City. Irag, Afganistan, Vietnam, Korea and two World Wars to end all war. JFK, RFK, MLK and Harvey Milk. Lisa Steinberg and JonBenet Ramsey. And the millions of others who names we've forgotten or have never known.

When is violence justified and when it is not? Are violent acts committed by ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances to be judged differently? If nature itself is inherently violent, is human nature any different?

This event seeks artworks that address these complicated questions. They might offer hope; they might scream out despair. They might be political; they might be political; they might be very personal.  

DATE(S)/LOCATION: April 09 - May 03, 2013
SPP Galleries
The Philadelphia Inquirer Building
Route 23
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania

DIGITALIZED DOCUMENTATION/WEB LINKS: 
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/20418941@N06/sets/72157633244361101/
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NATIONAL WCA
Petroleum Paradox: For Better or for Worse

CONTACT: Marcia Annenberg, m.anenberg[at]att.net
UN-RELATED THEME: Environmental Sustainability

DESCRIPTION:  This exhibit seeks to raise awareness of the imminent danger of uncontrolled  climate change.

DATE(S)/LOCATION: 

April 06,  2013  -  May 18,  2013 
Reception/Artist Talk: April 14, Noon - 3 pm, 2013
Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River,  MA

 PARTICIPATION: 72 American artists

DOCUMENTATION: 

denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2340

 insidenewyork.com/2012/05

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