Thursday, March 6, 2008

Artists Respond to Environmental Concerns



I want to invite you to two weekend events I am very excited about.

1. Earth: A Microcosm, our WCA Southeastern Juried Exhibition opens with a public reception on Friday, March 7, 6-9 pm at the Ferst Center at Georgia Tech. We finished hanging the show Tuesday and it looks great! The exhibit includes artists from four states who work with a variety of media and approaches; it makes for an interesting mix.

Earth a Microcosm is on display in the Richards Gallery. The selected artists are: Peery Angelika, Linda Armstrong, Temme Barkin-Leeds, Marilynn Brandenburger, Margee Bright Ragland,(AL), Kate Colpitts, Jeannine Cook, Helen DeRamus, Marti Hand, Patricia Hetzler, Susan Leeb (NC), Jay Marsh, Lynne Moody, Judy Parady, Heidi Rolla, Flora Rosefsky, Ann Rowles, Gerry Sattele, Beatrice Schall (NC), Patricia Tinajero (TN), Virginia Tyler (NC), Marianne Van Der Haar, Mona Waterhouse, and Sally Wylde and the Art Factory.

Also on display in the Westbrook Gallery are works by the presenters in our program The Artist and the Environment: Mara Adamitz Scrupe (juror for "Earth: A Microcosm), Linda Armstrong, Norma Bradley, Bryant Holsenbeck, and Pandra Williams.


2. Our program The Artist and the Environment: A Day of Discussion with Five Environmental Artists will be held on Sunday, March 9, 1 - 6 pm in the Westbrook Gallery of the Ferst Center.

The Schedule is as follows:

1:00 - 2:00 pm - The galleries will be open to view the exhibition

2:00 - 3:00 pm - Keynote presentation by Mara Adamitz Scrupe

3:00 - 4:30 pm - Presentations by Linda Armstrong, Norma Bradley,
Bryant Holsenbeck and Pandra Williams.

4:30 - 5:30 pm - Panel Discussion and questions from the audience.

Below is the news release with more information. Attached is an invitation. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions:

Ann Rowles
404-347-8661
404-401-5861 mobile
awrowles@mindspring.com

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Artists Respond to Environmental Concerns

Water shortages, air pollution, dying ecosystems and other news stories bring environmental issues to our attention daily. Artists share these concerns and often use their artwork to address these topics. The Women’s Caucus for Art of Georgia (WCAGA) will bring five such artists together for a day of discussion titled The Artist and the Environment at the Ferst Center for the Arts on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta on Sunday, March 9, 1-6 pm. The program is free and open to the public.

The Artist and the Environment coincides with Earth: a Microcosm, a WCA juried exhibition on display March 7-30 in the galleries of the Ferst Center. The exhibit features work by 24 WCA members from Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee selected by the program’s keynote speaker Mara Adamitz Scrupe. There will be an opening reception for the artists on Friday, March 7, 6-9 pm. The exhibition will be open for viewing from 1 – 2 pm before the March 9 program.

Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Chair of the Art Department at Columbus State University in Columbus, GA will open the program at 2 pm. Scrupe is an environmental artist working with renewable energy systems and native plants in the creation of projects for museums, arboretums, landscapes, and public spaces. Recent projects include commissions for I Bienal Internacional de Arts al Aire Libre (Venezuela), Fota Arboretum (Ireland), Europos Parkas Open Air Museum (Lithuania), Grand Arts, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University School of Landscape Architecture, and the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Scrupe’s talk will be followed by presentations by five other southeastern environmental artists: Linda Armstrong (Atlanta, GA), Norma Bradley (Asheville, NC), Bryant Holsenbeck (Durham, NC) and Pandra Williams (Atlanta, GA). A subsequent panel discussion will further explore issues of ecology and aesthetics.

Sculptor Linda Armstrong is Program Director for the Emory College Visual Arts Program and has received numerous fellowships, grants, and residencies including the Caversham Centre for Artists & Writers (Balgowan, South Africa), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, the Georgia Council for the Arts and the Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts. Collecting Excursions, her upcoming exhibition at Emory “will explore the evocative qualities of specimens and images gathered from disparate locales – Georgia and South Africa – through a sculptural installation that intertwines and highlights aspects of both places and gives the viewer pause to consider the oneness of our planet.”


Norma Bradley is a fiber artist and landscape architect who creates collaborative “earth quilts” – site specific gardens – for schools, community centers, hospitals, group homes and public sites. Her visiting artist residencies, projects and installations have been supported by state and federal grants, arts councils, local agencies and industry. Bradley states: “Quilts tell the stories of our lives through their shapes, colors and textures. They hold a history of their makers as well as the people who care for them. They become sacred treasures. Gardens are about hope and the creation of sacred space. Both help us to go beyond the ordinary moments and to enter into a world of deeper meaning and beauty. They help us connect with a body of knowledge, with ourselves and with other people.”

Bryant Holsenbeck began her arts career as a basket maker and has evolved into an environmental artist who makes large-scale installations that document the waste stream of our society. She has shown and taught throughout the United States, and received two North Carolina Arts Council Fellowships, a Project Grant and an NEA Arts and Learning Grant. Her installation River of Caps (2004) was a 105 ft. fluid design of bottle caps and jar lids collected over a period of 10 years, made in collaboration with 85 high school students in Winston-Salem, NC. A community artist who likes to work with groups of people using the “stuff” of our society, Holsenbeck is currently working on WHAT DO KIDS CARE ABOUT? A Labyrinth of Shoes with Souls Attached.

Pandra Williams studied art, sculpture and ceramics at the Atlanta College of Art, Georgia State University, the New School of Social Research, Kansas City Art Institute, and New York School of Visual Arts. A solo show of her ceramic sculpture is on display through February 23 at Kiang Gallery in Atlanta. She is currently working on Return of the Native Garden at Hurt Park in Downtown Atlanta, part of Urban Interventions sponsored by The Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University. “An area within the park will test the hypothesis that abandoned brownfields surrounding warehouses on the Beltline can be revitalized with a native succession garden…The design and plant media will build upon the idea of growth and change over time.“ This project began fall 2007 and will be celebrated on the Spring Solstice, March 24, 2008.

The Ferst Center for the Arts is located at 349 Ferst Drive NW, on the Georgia Tech campus, Atlanta, GA, 30332. The Ferst Center offers parking to patrons at no cost at night and on weekends. Handicap parking is available in the visitors’ lot on Ferst Drive. Directions available: 404-894-2787 or on the website: http://www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu/pages/plan/directions.php.

The Women’s Caucus for Art of Georgia (WCAGA), a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization is a regional chapter of the National Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA). Based in Atlanta, WCAGA’s membership is comprised of over one hundred artists, art professionals, and art supporters from Georgia and other Southeastern states. For more information, go to or email .
Funding for this program is provided in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the General Assembly, as administered by the Fulton County Arts Council, the GCA-designated Grassroots agency. Funding for the Fulton County Arts Council is provided by the Fulton County Commission under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

WCAGA Exhibition Listing for March

Women’s Caucus for Art/Georgia Chapter (WCAGA)
Member Show Listing for March


OPENING IN MARCH

Artist: Kathy Meliopoulos
Show Title: "Sights and Insights" (Southeastern Regional Biennial Art Exhibition)
Location: Chastain Arts Center
Address: 135 West Wieuca Road, NW, Atlanta, GA 30342
Phone Number: (404) 252-2927
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 5:00-7:00 pm
Show Dates: March 1 - April 11, 2008
Hours: Monday – Thursday, 9:30 am - 9:30 pm; Friday – Saturday, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Artist: Eilis Crean
Show Title:LaGrange National Biennial XXV
Location: LaGrange Art Museum and the Lamar Dodd Art Center of LaGrange College
Address: LaGrange Art Museum, 112 Lafayette Parkway, LaGrange, GA 30240 and Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, 302 Forrest Avenue, LaGrange, GA 30240
Phone Number: (706) 882-3267 (LaGrange Art Museum) and (706) 880-8211 (Lamar Dodd Art Center)
Opening/Closing Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2008 (awards presentation, banquet and gala receptions at the LaGrange Art Museum and Lamar Dodd Art Center)
Show Dates: March 1 – April 23, 2008
Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Saturday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (LaGrange Art Museum)

Artist: Sarah Hatch, Curator
Gallery Website: http://www.vsaartsga.org
Show Title:10 for 10: 10th Anniversary Show
Location: Arts for All Gallery, The Healey Building
Address: 57 Forsyth St. NW, Suite R-1, Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone Number: (404) 221-1270 x202
Opening/Closing Reception: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 5:00-8:00 pm
Artist’s Talk/Book Signing: Lois Curtis creating portraits during reception
Show Dates: February 26 - March 28, 2008
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Artist: Cindy Sheffield Michaels
Artist Website: http://www.myspace.com/cindysheffieldmichaels
Show Title: "Decade of Light"
Location: Atlanta Fulton County Library
Address: 1 Margarget Mitchell Square, Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone Number: (404) 730-1700
Opening/Closing Reception: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 6:00-8:00 pm and Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6:00-8:00 pm (both receptions are part of Turner First Thursdays Art Walk)
Show Dates: March 5 - April 25, 2008
Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm; Friday - Saturday, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm; Sunday, 2:00-6:00 pm

Artists: WCAGA Members: Peery Angelika, Linda Armstrong, Temme Barkin-Leeds, Marilynn Brandenburger, Margee Bright Ragland, Kate Colpitts, Jeannine Cook, Helen DeRamus, Marti Hand, Patricia Hetzler, Susan Leeb, Jay Marsh, Lynne Moody, Judy Parady, Heidi Rolla, Flora Rosefsky, Ann Rowles, Gerry Sattele, Beatrice Schall, Patricia Tinajero, Virginia Tyler, Marianne VanDerHaar, Mona Waterhouse, and Sally Wylde
WCAGA Website: http://www.wcaga.org/
Show Title:Earth: A Microcosm” (Juried Exhibition)
Location: Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
Address: 349 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0468
Phone Number: (404) 894-9600
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, March 7, 2008, 6:00-9:00 pm
Artists’ Talk:The Artist and the Environment”, Sunday, March 9, 2008, 1:00-6:00 pm
Show Dates: March 7-30, 2008
Hours: Tuesday-Thursday, 11:00 am-1:00 pm, and during performances

Artist: Jeannine Cook
Show Title: "Full Circle: A Tribute to the Cultural Diversity of Women's Art"
Location: The Pen and Brush
Address: 16 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
Phone Number: (212) 475-3669
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 2008, 3:00-5:00 pm
Show Dates: March 5-31, 2008
Hours: Thursday - Friday, 4:00-7:00 pm; Saturday - Sunday, 1:00-5:00 pm

Artist: Yvonne Wilhelmi
Artist Website: http://www.yvonnewilhelmi.com
Show Title:Follow the Yellow Brick Road” (a celebration honoring the construction of the New Spruill Center for the Arts)
Location: The Atlanta Athletics Club (invitational event)
Address: 1930 Bobby Jones Dr., Duluth, GA 30097
Show Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Hours: Friday, 6:30 pm - 12:00 am

Artists: Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Linda Armstrong, Norma Bradley, Bryant Holsenbeck, and Pandra Williams
WCAGA Website: http://www.wcaga.org/
Symposium Title:The Artist and the Environment: A Day of Discussion” (Presentations by five southeastern environmental artists followed by a panel discussion. This event coincides with the WCAGA juried exhibition, “Earth: A Microcosm”. The program is free and open to the public)
Location: Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
Address: 349 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0468
Phone Number: (404) 894-9600
Symposium Date: Sunday, March 9, 2008, 1:00-6:00 pm
Symposium Hours: 1:00-6:00 pm

Artist: Susan J. Ross
Artist Website: http://www.sistagraphy.org
Show Title:Sheroes
Location: The Douglass Theatre
Address: 355 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Macon, GA 31201
Phone Number: (478) 742-2000
Opening/Closing Reception: Sunday, March 9, 2008
Artist’s Talk/Book Signing: Sunday, March 9, 2008, 3:00-5:00 pm
Show Dates: March 3-30, 2008
Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Artist: Yvonne Wilhelmi
Artist Website: http://www.yvonnewilhelmi.com
Show Title:Women’s History Celebration
Location: The USDA Government Offices (invitational event)
Address: 934 College Station Ave., Athens, GA 30606
Show Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Hours: Thursday, 2:00-8:00 pm

Artist: Jeannine Cook
Show Title: "Seasons on Sapelo: a National Estuarine Research Reserve at Thirty"
Location: Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, Emory University School of Law
Address: 1301 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone Number: (404) 727-6816
Show Dates: March 14 - April 30, 2008
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm; Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm; Saturday –Sunday, 1:00-5:00 pm

Artist: Linda Armstrong
Artist Website: http://visualarts.emory.edu/events/index.html#lindaarmstrong
Show Title:Collecting Excursions
Location: Emory Visual Arts Gallery
Address: Emory University, 700 Peavine Creek Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone Number: (404) 727-6315
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 20, 2008, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Special Earth Day Reception: Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 7:00 pm
Show Dates: March 20 - April 24, 2008
Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm; Saturday, 12:00 - 4:00 pm

Artist: Temme Barkin-Leeds
Artist Website: http://www.artscuttlebutt.com/temmebl
Show Title:Collage
Location: Dalton Gallery, Dana Fine Arts Building, Agnes Scott College
Address: 141 East College Avenue, Decatur, GA 30030-5361
Phone Number: (404) 471-5361
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, March 28, 2008, after 5: 30 pm lecture
Show Dates: March 28-29, 2008
Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm; Saturday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00 pm

CLOSING IN MARCH

Artist: Laura Monk
Artist Website: http://www.lauramonk.com
Show Title:Common Ground – Coexist” (jurors: Erika Greenberg Schneider, Bleu Acier Gallery, and William Jeffett, The Dali Museum)
Location: Studio@620
Address: 620 First Avenue S., St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Phone Number: (727) 895-6620
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, February 8, 2008, 6:00-9:00 pm
Show Dates: February 8 - March 1, 2008
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00-4:00 pm

Artists: Pam Beagle-Daresta, Andrea Emmons, Katherine Garrou, Lorien Jordan, and Marie Weaver
Show Title: Paint in the Pods: “Taking Off” Exhibit (Atlanta Printmakers Studio)
Location: Sun Dial Restaurant, Bar & View
Address: 210 Peachtree St., Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone Number: (404) 589-7506
Opening/Closing Reception: Thursday, February 7, 2008, 7:00-10:00 pm
Show Dates: February 7, 2008 – March 3, 2008
Hours: Call restaurant for hours

Artist: Bobi Dimond
Artist Website: http://www.bobidimond.net/ ; http://www.womeninfocus.us/Photographers/Bobi%20Dimond/bobidimond.html
Show Title:PHOTO EXHIBIT/Retrospective
Location: Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, Emory Law School
Address: 1301 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone Number: (404) 727-6816
Show Dates: January 3 – March 10, 2008
Hours: Monday – Thursday, 7:15 am – 12:00 am; Friday, 7:15 am - 10 pm; Saturday, 9:00 am – 10:00 pm; Sunday, 10:00 am – 12:00 am

Artist: EiLis Crean
Artist Website: http://www.myartspace.com/
Show Title:23rd Annual International Exhibition
Location: Meadows Gallery, The University of Texas at Tyler
Address: 3900 University Blvd., Tyler, Texas 75799
Phone Number: (903) 566-7237
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, February 1, 2008, 6:00-7:30 pm
Show Dates: January 28 - March 21, 2008
Hours: Call gallery for hours

Artist: Beatrice Schall
Show Title: "Artists Make Altars"
Location: Long View Gallery Contemporary Spiritual Art
Address: East Hargett Street at Moore Square, Raleigh, NC
Phone Number: (919) 828-6500
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, February 1, 2008, 6:00-9:00 pm
Artist’s Talk/Book Signing: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 7:00 pm
Show Dates: February 1 - March 22, 2008
Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm; First Fridays, 6:00-9:00 pm,
or by appointment

Artist: Helen DeRamus
Artist Website: http://www.helenderamus.com
Show Title:11th Anniversary Group Exhibit” in conjunction with ATLart[08]
Location: Bobbe Gillis Gallery
Address: 1000 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30318
Phone Number: (404) 347-9016
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, February 22, 2008, 6:00-9:00 pm
Show Dates: February 22 – March 22, 2008
Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm; Saturday 11am – 4pm

Artists: Evelyn Mayers Breit and Heidi Rolla
Show Title:ART Station Member Juried Exhibition
Location: ART Station
Address: 5384 Manor Drive, Stone Mountain, GA 30083
Phone Number: (770) 469-1105
Opening/Closing Reception: Saturday, January 19, 2008, 7:00-9:00 pm
Show Dates: January 19 - March 23, 2008
Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm; Saturday, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Artist: Ann Stoddard
Artist Website: http://www.wofford.edu/library/content.aspx?id=37866
Show Title:Ann Stoddard: Sculptural Paintings
Location: Sandor Teszler Library, Wofford College
Address: 429 North Church Street, Spartanburg, SC 29303-3663
Phone Number: (864) 597-4300
Opening/Closing Reception: Saturday, February 9, 6:00-7:30 pm
Artist’s Talk: Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 7:00 pm (Lecture with Karin Olah at the McMillan Theatre, Campus Life Building)
Show Dates: February 9 - March 28, 2008
Hours: Monday – Thursday, 8:00 am - 12:00 am; Friday, 8:00 am - 7:00 pm; Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm; Sunday, 1:00 pm - 12:00 am

Artist: Mary O'Horo (with David Knox and Laura Noel)
Show Title:Selections from the Studio
Location: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Address: 535 Means Street N.W., Atlanta, GA 30318
Phone Number: (404) 688-1970
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 2008, 7:00-9:00 pm (Free to members; non-members $5.00 admission)
Show Dates: February 8 - March 29, 2008
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm; Thursday, 11:00 am – 8:00 pm - Free on Thursdays

CLOSING IN APRIL

Artists: WCAGA members: Clara Aguero, Temme Barkin-Leeds, Karen Barron, Marilynn Brandenburger, Mariah Spann Buchanan, Jan Chenoweth, Melinda Crider, Angela Dachs, Bonnie Diamond, Ellen Filreis, Betty Handmacher, Beverly Harding, Kym Hepworth, Donna Horn, Linda Hudgins, Jane Jaskevich, Lorien Jordan, Marjorie Jordan, Mercy Lang, Vickie Martin, Helen Oller, Mary Grace Perkins, Ann Rhodes, Simone Soltan, Michelle Stein, Audrey Ward, and Yvonne Wilhelmi
WCAGA website: http://www.wcaga.org/
Show Title:WCAGA Red” (annual members exhibition)
Location: Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus
Address: 555 North Indian Creek Drive, Bldg. CF-2230, Clarkston, GA 30021
Phone Number: (678) 891-3556
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 28, 2008, 6:00-8:00 pm, Fine Arts Bldg. F
Closing Reception: Thursday, April 10, 2008, 5:30-7:00 pm
Artists’ Talk: Thursday, February 28, 2008, 6:00-8:00 pm
Show Dates: February 28 – April 11, 2008
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8:00 am – 10:00 pm; Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Artist: Cindy Sheffield Michaels
Artist Website: http://www.myspace.com/cindysheffieldmichaels
Show Title: "Photographer's Choice"
Location: Atlanta Photography Group Gallery
Address: 75 Bennet Street NW, Space B-1, Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone Number: (404) 605-0605
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, February 29, 2008, 7:30-10:00 pm
Show Dates: February 29 - April 12, 2008
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00-4:00 pm

Artists: Susan Hightower Loeb and Flora Rosefsky
Artist Website: http://www.florageart.com
Show Title:In the Beginning”, sponsored by JWAN (Jewish Women’s Artist Network)
Location: The Women’s Museum: An Affiliate Museum of The Smithsonian
Address: 3800 Parry Avenue, Dallas, TX 75226
Phone Number: (214) 915-0860
Opening/Closing Reception: museum patron evening reception: Thursday, February 21, 2008, 6:00-8:00 pm; public afternoon reception: Sunday, February 24, 2008
Artist’s Talk: Sunday, February 24, 2008, part of WCA conference discussion on “Art and Connectivity
Show Dates: February 21 – April 27, 2008
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00-5:00 pm. Closed on Mondays.


Who We Are:

The Women's Caucus for Art, founded in 1972, is a national organization with 30 local and regional chapters throughout the USA. WCA has a multicultural membership of artists, art historians, students, educators, gallery and museum professionals, and others involved in the visual arts. During its 30-year history, it has focused attention on the contributions of women and people of color to the history of art. WCA has also established a national network through research, exhibitions, conferences and honor awards for achievement.

The Women's Caucus for Art of Georgia was established as a regional chapter in 2000 and is based in Atlanta. Chapter activities include exhibitions, art discussions, critiques, workshops, lectures and visits to museums and galleries.

Our website: http://www.wcaga.org/