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CWCA NEWS  April 5, 2010
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In This Issue
Meeting TONIGHT April 5
ART CALL - Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres
ART CALL- "Men as Object: Reversing the Gaze"
REMINDERS
Proposals for CAA
Art Dates, News, Resources
WCA mission statement
BLOGS
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MEETING Tonight
Monday, April 5, 7:00 p.m.
at Arlene Rakoncay's house, 7615 N. Kildare, Skokie, 847.674-0321

Arlene lives just 2 houses north of Howard Street (7600 North) and Kildare is about 4300 west.  She is west of Crawford (which is Pulaski in Chicago,) about 6 streets, and east of Cicero which is Skokie Blvd. in Skokie.  If you are taking the expressway from the city, follow signs to Milwaukee or Wisconsin and get off at Touhy East (you will be on Cicero Ave. when you get off.  Go north, past Touhy, just past Lincoln and turn right (east) on Howard and take it past Kostner a stop light just 2 streets, turn left.  
Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres
Submission deadline is Monday April 19, 2010

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop
presents our 6th Annual Exhibition of Art by Women
Our annual exhibition of art by women, Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres is always an exciting exhibition of painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media work by local, national and international women artists. The work ranges from traditional to cutting edge contemporary and brings together women artists that are daring both inwardly and outwardly - artists who continue to make art with the knowledge that art made by women has been largely ignored throughout much of cultural history.

Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres exhibition dates are May 1 through June 12, 2010.

To submit work for consideration, email us a jpeg of your work to www.RaicesTaller222@aol.com or call us at (520) 881-5335 for more information.

We look forward to your submission and participation!

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop
218 E. 6th Street
(1/2 block east of 6th St. & 6th Ave.)
Tucson, AZ 85705
(520) 881-5335
www.RaicesTaller222.org

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop is Tucson's only Latino based nonprofit cooperative contemporary art gallery located in Tucson's Historic Warehouse District


"Men as Object: Reversing the Gaze"
Deadline to send images: Wednesday April 14th

Proposal: "Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze"
Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY
May 24th through June 18th, 2011

The Women's Caucus for Art (www.nationalwca.org), a leading supporter of women artists since 1972, is requesting art on the theme of "Men as Object: Reversing the Gaze". This proposal for an exhibition for Ceres Gallery is a collaboration between the Northern California, South Bay Area and Michigan WCA chapters and is open to all US women artists.

Send the following to karengutfreund@yahoo.com

Images that pertain to the theme
Image list with number, title, media, size and date for each image
Artist resume
Deadline to send images: Wednesday April 14th

The art we receive will be given to Ceres as a proposal for an exhibition. If we are chosen, we will have another call for art that will allow artists time to create new work. Please also email karengutfreund@yahoo.com if you would like to be kept on the mailing list for this and other feminist projects.

Prospectus for "Reversing the Gaze"
Since the early years of Feminist Art, women artists have responded to their subjugation in art by male artists by using their own bodies as the subject matter in their work. We credit feminist art of the 1970's with giving artists today the "permission to be personal".

There is a difference in women's art from the work of male counterparts. We see the nude woman from different angles. The feminist artist chooses a personal vantage point, apart from that seen in men's portrayals of women. The thesis of woman as both surveyor and the surveyed continues.
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of women in herself is male: the surveyed female...thus she turns herself into an object- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight". Ways of Seeing, by John Berger

The goal of this exhibition "Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze" is to turn the tables and to exhibit works that put the male in the position of subject and spectacle. Not only will the male be taking on the female role, but the surveyor is now female, no longer a "masculine" part of the female, thus creating a truly Feminist stance. The male is the spectacle for a woman's enjoyment or mere viewing.

This is effective in two ways: as the male viewer encounters the male nude, he is forced like many women before him to turn the mirror on himself and secondly to feel the powerlessness of being owned or submissive. The individualism of the artist, the thinker, the patron, the owner, and the woman is transformed. The person who is the object of their activities, the man, is treated as a thing or an abstraction. By reversing the unequal relationship between men and women that is so deeply embedded in our culture, men will do to themselves what they have done to women for centuries. They observe themselves and their own masculinity as women observe their own femininity.

This exhibition will explore women's responses to a male dominated world in a different way than an exhibition of women's images of themselves. It will mark an important development in Feminist Art which has long concentrated on images of women meant to challenge stereotypical notions of womanhood.

A gallery filled with works depicting men, created by women, comments on the prevalence of the male gaze in art and of the continued domination of male artists exhibiting in galleries and museums.
REMINDERS:

2010 Creative Chicago Expo Workshops
- April 10 - FREE
cwca blog
complete info on CAR

Chicago Fundraising Summit - April 27-28
http://www.cfnps.org/Chicago_2010.aspx?target=speakers
To learn more about the Summit, go to:
http://cfnps.org/Chicago_2010.aspx

http://cwcacalls.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicago-fundraising-summit-taking-place.html

Henri Matisse exhibition: "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913 - 1917," through June 20, The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan. The exhibit has nearly 120 of Matisse's paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures.

Caroll Michels - 6th edition of HOW TO SURVIVE AND PROSPER AS AN ARTIST: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
cwca blog
Proposals for panel, poster and open forum sessions for the CAA Conference 2011 in New York City
The Feminist Art Project and the Institute for Women and Art would like to invite College Art Association members to submit proposals for panel, poster and open forum sessions for the CAA Conference 2011 in New York City. We encourage you to propose sessions that address the theme of: Feminism, Diversity and Globalism.  That theme is one of several selected by CAA for their Centennial celebration . It was originally proposed by a coalition of groups including ArtTable, The Feminist Art Project, and Women's Caucus for Art , along with several CAA committees. The Feminist Art Project will be presenting TFAP@CAA, an extraordinary day of feminist art panels and performances on Saturday, February 12 organized by Johanna Burton and Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Thank you,
Ferris Olin and Judith Brodsky
Directors, Institute for Women and Art
Connie Tell
Project Manager, The Feminist Art Project
tfap@rci.rutgers.edu

http://cwcacalls.blogspot.com/2010/03/feminist-art-project-and-institute-for.html

http://www.collegeart.org/
Art Dates, News & Resources

For Gallery NEWS:
chicagogallerynews

CAR - another great resource:
www.chicagoartistsresource.org

Another Resource for opportunities:
http://artdeadline.com/

another "ART LETTER" from Paul Klein
http://www.artletter.com/

Red Tape Theatre
redtapetheatre

GUERRILLA GIRLS ON TOUR!
http://www.guerrillagirlsontour.blogspot.com/
WCA mission statement

WCA Mission Statement:

Statement of Purpose
long version
The mission of the Women's Caucus for Art is to create a community through art, education, and social activism.
short version
The mission of WCA 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
BLOGS:
Please visit the CWCA blogs for more information.
To do so you can use the links to the left or below to get the latest posts and more info:
The CWCA member blog has the latest posts on member info, exhibits and other information.
The CWCA calls blog has information on calls for exhibit and other opportunities.

To post to one of the blogs email to chicagowca@gmail.com the name of the event and details along with a photo if available. Please state in your email "To Post on Blog".
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Committed to supporting women in the arts.
  • Education about the contributions of women artists
  • Opportunities for the exhibition of women's work
  • Publication of women's writing about art
  • Inclusion of women in the history of art
  • Professional equity for all
  • Respect for all individuals without discrimination
  • Supporting legislation relevant to our goals
Funding for CWCA programs and events is provided by a City Arts Grant from The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
Chicago Women's Caucus for Art was Established in 1973
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