The Women's Caucus for Art is proud to announce the recipients for the 30th annual Lifetime Achievement Awards:  Maren Hassinger, Ester Hernandez, Joyce Kozloff, Margo Machida, and Ruth Weisberg. The Lifetime Achievement Awards were first presented in 1979 in President Jimmy Carter's Oval Office to Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Past honorees have represented a full range of distinguished achievement in the visual arts from artists to art historian to museum professionals.

 

This year's honorees represent a wide range of involvement and activism in the arts. 

 

Maren Hassinger is Director of the Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture at Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Hassinger is a visual artist who works in a wide range of media including public art and performance art. 

Ester Hernandez is a San Francisco visual artist who was a pioneer in the Chicana/Chicano civil rights art movement and is a strong political activist.  In the 1970s, she was involved with Las Mujeres Muralistas, an influential San Francisco Mission district Latina women's mural group.  Her artwork was recently featured in the inaugural opening of the Museo Alameda del Smithsonian in San Antonio, Texas. 

 
Joyce Kozloff is one of the founding members of the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970s and was central in the feminist art movement.  She executes her work in many media, including public art.  She has been the recipient of many grants and residencies, including the Jules Guerin Fellowship, Rome Prize American Academy in Rome, Italy.

 

Margo Machida is a renowned authority on contemporary Asian American art and visual culture.  She is an associate professor at The University of Connecticut, Storrs, and has published extensively on Asian American art.  

Ruth Weisberg is a renowned visual artist whose work is in the collections of   major museums in the US and Europe, including including the Getty Center; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Jewish Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Harvard University; Biblioteca Nazionale d'Italia (Rome); and Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.  

Please join us in Los Angeles for this celebration of art, women and activism.  Dinner tickets are $90 (if purchased by December 31, 2008, and $105 in Jan 2009) and include reserved seating for the ceremony. Tickets can be purchased on our website, www.nationalwca.org

 

 

The Wilshire Grand Hotel

930 Wilshire Blvd

Los Angeles, CA

30th annual lifetime achievement awards full article link

 

 

 

Holly Dodge

WCA/DC

P.O. Box 42145

Washington, DC 20015 

Write "website donation" on the memo line of your check your check.

 

Please note, donations are NOT tax-deductible.

 

Special thanks to those who have already donated to the WCA/DC fundraising campaign.  We have raised over $600 of the $3,500 goal.

 

Holly Dodge

Nancy Elizabeth Fitch

Jennifer Judelsohn

Mara Odette

Pat Ortman

Margaret Paris

Carole Lyle Shaw

Judy Sinkin

Katie Weaver

Louise Evans

Marcelle Pachnowski

Marilyn Hayes