News Archives 2013
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Half the Sky Delegate Team is Formed
The delegate decision making process was a difficult one all around from the potential delegates' complex applications to the final decisions by the committee. We had many fabulously talented and qualified women to consider and ultimately tried for as much diversity in skill sets, geography and personality within the sixteen delegates we could bring to Shenyang.
We are:
S. A. Bachman
Alli Berman
Audrey Chan
Sherri Cornett
Jing Deng
Christine Giancola
Kay Kang
Mido Lee
Elana Mann
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
Neda Moridpour
Katie Morton
Sandra Mueller
Brenda Oelbaum
Priscilla Otani
Jill Waterhouse
The delegates are forming working groups to focus on documentation, events, installation, and publicity as well as getting to know each other in preparation for building community with the Chinese women artists. April 2014 is coming up quickly and with all of these incredible women involved, we will be ready!
The delegate decision making process was a difficult one all around from the potential delegates' complex applications to the final decisions by the committee. We had many fabulously talented and qualified women to consider and ultimately tried for as much diversity in skill sets, geography and personality within the sixteen delegates we could bring to Shenyang.
We are:
S. A. Bachman
Alli Berman
Audrey Chan
Sherri Cornett
Jing Deng
Christine Giancola
Kay Kang
Mido Lee
Elana Mann
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas
Neda Moridpour
Katie Morton
Sandra Mueller
Brenda Oelbaum
Priscilla Otani
Jill Waterhouse
The delegates are forming working groups to focus on documentation, events, installation, and publicity as well as getting to know each other in preparation for building community with the Chinese women artists. April 2014 is coming up quickly and with all of these incredible women involved, we will be ready!
Dr. Terri Weissman selects Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art Essayists
Contemporary art practices, collaborations with community organizations, artists' relationships with aesthetics, documentation practices and social interventions. Our Juror For Essays Terri Weissman, Ph. D. and Assistant Professor of Art History and the History of Photograhy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, considered essays covering all of these topics before choosing the four that will, together, provide another layer of documentation and thought-provoking text in the catalog for Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art. We are grateful to Dr. Weissman and congratulate our essayists.
Betsy Damon, "Betsy Damon: Knowing Water"
Sandra Mueller," 'Pearls of Wisdom' — A Personal Account"
Natalie Phillips, "To Belie the Dragonflly: Elisabeth Subrin's Rhetoric of Silence"
Sherry Saunders, "Celebrity and Gender in Graphic Design"
More information will be added to our Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art Essay & Essayists page.
Alma Ruiz selects Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art Artists
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Our Call for Art for Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art was answered by one hundred fifty artists with almost three hundred fifty submissions - a pleasant surprise in number and variety. Alma Ruiz, our juror and Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles considered paintings, photographs, installations, sculpture, drawings, video, social practice art documentation. fiber art and prints as she narrowed her selections in a blind process to the thirty pieces we could bring to the Luxun Academy in Shenyang, China. Our artists and their works are:
More information is available on our the Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art Art & Artists page.
- T' Alyne, "Sunshine", fabric installation
- Susan Armington, " Talking Suitcases Projecta", social practice art documentation
- Louder Than Words (Bachman + Moridpour), "Actions Speak: The Tyranny of Silence", video documentation
- Suzanne Beutler, "Hope for India", painting
- Elizabeth Bisbing, "Metamorphosis", stop action video
- Cheryl Bookout, "I CAN: Requiem for I Can't", video
- Jessica Burke, "Vanessa as Darth Vader of the Empire", Drawing
- Audrey Chan/Elana Mann, "Myths of Rape (2012)" video
- Laurie Edison, "Nakamura Fumiko", photograph
- Danielle Eubank, "Mozambique IX", oil painting
- Joanna Fulginiti and Eva Preston, "Ties That Bind", digital photography
- Christine Giancola, "Eighteen Years Later", photograph
- Sara Beth Goncarova, "The Bird Feeder", photography
- Guerilla Gowns, "Guerrilla Gowns: Orange County's Ghostly Performance Art by Evan Senn", documentation
- Maki Hajikano, "Accumulation #1 C", cast glass
- Aram Han, "Grain of Truth", installation
- Maxine Hess, "A Binder of Women", video installation
- Kay Kang, "It's A Girls!!", installation
- Sinan Leong Revell, "Vamp/Goddess", lenticular photograph
- Rosemary Meza-Des Plas, "Cry, Die, or Just Make Pies", hair sewn on canvas
- Sandra Mueller/Sherri Cornett, "Points of Many Connections", installation
- Mary Neubauer, "Data Visualizations", sculptures
- Brenda Oelbaum, "The Sky is Falling", installation and video
- Priscilla Otani, "Wind Traveler", installation
- Min Kim Park, "Zummarella Maggie", photograph
- Jaye Phillips, "Composing", photograph
- Marjorie Durko Puryear, "Ancestry: Address Book 2", fiber art
- Wendy Simmons, "Kaokoland region (himba tribe), Namibia", photograph
- Virginia Tyler, "Ten Hours' Work for Abena Duffee", installation
- Margi Weir, "Antimacassar 2", installation
More information is available on our the Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art Art & Artists page.
International Caucus makes connections at UN Commission on the Status of Women Conference
Ragdoll Project
Chi shared her Igbo matriarchal culture
Bridget of Egypt talked about the effect of flooding on women & children there
The Women's Caucus for Art had its largest presence at the UN in many years last week. Five members of the International Caucus spread out to attend the Consultation Day, Circle Gatherings, Panel Discussions and then followed up with many of the organizations with whom they connected and which are interested in WCA's ability to create art platforms to bring attention to issues affecting women and/or our planet. We also placed an ad in the conference handbook to invite attendees to look for us or find us on the web.
Joanna Fulginiti, director of the WCA Philadelphia Chapter's Ragdoll Project, which focuses on sex trafficking, sent many of the dolls, doll-making kits and flyers about the Project to NYC so that Maureen Burns-Bowie and Sherri Cornett could use them at an artisan fair to bring attention to the Project but also to start conversations about WCA's mission.
As the director of our caucus' new committee, the UN Program, Maureen began solidifying its scope and bringing together the many caucus members who have expressed an interested in the UN. Their collective energy is already moving forward with some intriguing ideas.
Women who are leading the effort to have a 5th World Conference on Women/Global Women's Conference talked with Sherri about using art to bring attention to the need for such a gathering. Sherri has started brainstorming with them about how to do this.
Elizabeth Sowell-Zak, Alli Berman and Ana Koshkin attended panels, introduced themselves and WCA and shared our new WCA International Caucus Arts & Activism brochures, which Amanda Moyer and Alli pulled together for us days before this conference.
Ragdoll Project
Chi shared her Igbo matriarchal culture
Bridget of Egypt talked about the effect of flooding on women & children there
The Women's Caucus for Art had its largest presence at the UN in many years last week. Five members of the International Caucus spread out to attend the Consultation Day, Circle Gatherings, Panel Discussions and then followed up with many of the organizations with whom they connected and which are interested in WCA's ability to create art platforms to bring attention to issues affecting women and/or our planet. We also placed an ad in the conference handbook to invite attendees to look for us or find us on the web.
Joanna Fulginiti, director of the WCA Philadelphia Chapter's Ragdoll Project, which focuses on sex trafficking, sent many of the dolls, doll-making kits and flyers about the Project to NYC so that Maureen Burns-Bowie and Sherri Cornett could use them at an artisan fair to bring attention to the Project but also to start conversations about WCA's mission.
As the director of our caucus' new committee, the UN Program, Maureen began solidifying its scope and bringing together the many caucus members who have expressed an interested in the UN. Their collective energy is already moving forward with some intriguing ideas.
Women who are leading the effort to have a 5th World Conference on Women/Global Women's Conference talked with Sherri about using art to bring attention to the need for such a gathering. Sherri has started brainstorming with them about how to do this.
Elizabeth Sowell-Zak, Alli Berman and Ana Koshkin attended panels, introduced themselves and WCA and shared our new WCA International Caucus Arts & Activism brochures, which Amanda Moyer and Alli pulled together for us days before this conference.
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Chi shared her Igbo matriarchal culture
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How WCA UN representatives will reach out at UN Commission on the Status of Women
As the liaison between the Women's Caucus for Art and the United Nations and other NGOs, our International Caucus is developing ways to develop collaborations with the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and other women-focused NGOs. Our new UN Alternate Representatives Maureen Burns-Bowie and Elizabeth Sowell-Zak as well as Sherri Cornett, our International Caucus Chair,will be attending parts of the CSW 57 Conference at the United Nations in March. We are also hoping to have a presence at that conference with the Ragdoll Project - an ongoing project by the Philadelphia WCA chapter that educates the public on human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation and supports survivors and at risk women and children. The Ragoll Project is an excellent example of how artists within WCA can use an art platform to bring attention to issues affecting women. Here is a video of the Ragdoll Project.
http://www.phillyinfocus.com/topics/community/video/bonnie-macalliser-the-ragdoll-project/
We have a new contact page on this website and will be printing a brochure that shows past WCA art activism projects and ideas for future collaborative efforts.
Some examples of past and ongoing WCA exhibitions and projects that are in line with UN goals:
The Ragdoll Project
http://phila-wca.blogspot.com/2011/08/call-for-art-rag-dolls.html
Woman + Body collaborative exhibition with Korean women artists, held in South Korea
/woman--body-2012south-korea.html
Honoring Women's Rights
http://www.honoringwomensrights.org
Petroleum Paradox http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2340
Sustaining Our Environment Postcard Show
http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html
Zero Nuclear Weapons, Zero Weapons of Mass Destruction: Create a Culture of Peace Now!” post card show - UN DPI/NGO Conference in Mexico City.
http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html
As the liaison between the Women's Caucus for Art and the United Nations and other NGOs, our International Caucus is developing ways to develop collaborations with the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and other women-focused NGOs. Our new UN Alternate Representatives Maureen Burns-Bowie and Elizabeth Sowell-Zak as well as Sherri Cornett, our International Caucus Chair,will be attending parts of the CSW 57 Conference at the United Nations in March. We are also hoping to have a presence at that conference with the Ragdoll Project - an ongoing project by the Philadelphia WCA chapter that educates the public on human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation and supports survivors and at risk women and children. The Ragoll Project is an excellent example of how artists within WCA can use an art platform to bring attention to issues affecting women. Here is a video of the Ragdoll Project.
http://www.phillyinfocus.com/topics/community/video/bonnie-macalliser-the-ragdoll-project/
We have a new contact page on this website and will be printing a brochure that shows past WCA art activism projects and ideas for future collaborative efforts.
Some examples of past and ongoing WCA exhibitions and projects that are in line with UN goals:
The Ragdoll Project
http://phila-wca.blogspot.com/2011/08/call-for-art-rag-dolls.html
Woman + Body collaborative exhibition with Korean women artists, held in South Korea
/woman--body-2012south-korea.html
Honoring Women's Rights
http://www.honoringwomensrights.org
Petroleum Paradox http://denisebibrofineart.com/exhibition/view/2340
Sustaining Our Environment Postcard Show
http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html
Zero Nuclear Weapons, Zero Weapons of Mass Destruction: Create a Culture of Peace Now!” post card show - UN DPI/NGO Conference in Mexico City.
http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html
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Sherri Cornett
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International Caucus Annual Meeting 2013
The connections and ideas generated at our annual meeting on at the American Folk Art Museum in NYC on February 14th continue to expand and develop. Possibilities in Toronto, China, the Middle East, Brazil and with the UN. Solidifying our internal caucus with committees populated by energetic women. We are just one year old as a formal caucus within the 41 year old Women's Caucus for Art, but we certainly didn't dawdle. We miraculously pulled of the collaboration of women artists from WCA and South Korea with the Woman + Body show in Korea last fall and are using that momentum and experience to propel other exciting opportunities forward. Thank you to all who attended the meeting and/or have been working on our various explorations. Some of your faces are below. Please send your photo to Sherri if you would like to be included. More reports to come.
The connections and ideas generated at our annual meeting on at the American Folk Art Museum in NYC on February 14th continue to expand and develop. Possibilities in Toronto, China, the Middle East, Brazil and with the UN. Solidifying our internal caucus with committees populated by energetic women. We are just one year old as a formal caucus within the 41 year old Women's Caucus for Art, but we certainly didn't dawdle. We miraculously pulled of the collaboration of women artists from WCA and South Korea with the Woman + Body show in Korea last fall and are using that momentum and experience to propel other exciting opportunities forward. Thank you to all who attended the meeting and/or have been working on our various explorations. Some of your faces are below. Please send your photo to Sherri if you would like to be included. More reports to come.
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Sherri Cornett & Hye-Seong Tak Lee (co-directors of the Korean Woman + Body exhibition), Faith Ringgold (past WCA Lifetime Achievement Awardee), Priscilla Otani (WCA President) and Brenda Oelbaum (WCA President Elect) at the Brunch with Luminaries. Photo by Liz Dodson
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