Walthall Artist Fellowship

WonderRoot's new professional development program intends to forever impact the participating visual and performing artists by providing them with the necessary tools, resources, and community-base to significantly advance and define their careers as artists. The call for applications to the Walthall Artist Fellowship is open through June 5th at 11:59 p.m. Fellows will be announced on June 8th. Program elements include: -Monthly symposia with Atlanta’s leading arts professionals, -Monthly roundtables in which Fellows lead discussion about critical issues to their practice -Individualized one-to-one informal mentorships for each Fellow -5-day residency on Ossabaw Island -Group exhibition featuring all twelve artists in Summer 2013 at MOCA GA. Symposium guests will include: Alex Brewer, Scott Ingram, Gyun Hur, Cathy Fox, Michael Rooks, Annette Cone Skelton, Shelby Hofer, Lauri Stallings and Alice Lovelace. Check out more info by downloading the pdf at http://www.wonderroot.org/programs/professional-development/walthall-artist-fellowship/. Applicants will be selected based on quality and rigor of work sample, need and readiness for intensive professional development, as well as the creation of a diverse and mutually-challenging group of fellows. Participation in all program elements will be mandatory and without fees. Apply here: https://wonderroot.wufoo.com/forms/walthall-artist-fellowship/

WCA GA Members' Exhibition Listings for May 2012

Artists: Maxine Hess, Flora Rosefsky, Simone Soltan

Website:  www.huc.edu

Show Title: Song of the Land

Location: Hebrew Union College - Institute of Religion

Address:  3077 University Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90007

Phone number: 213-765-2106

Show Dates: January 20-May 31, 2012

Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9am-5pm; Fri. 9am-3pm; closed Sat. and Sun.

Closed for Jewish and National holidays

 

Artist: Temme Barkin-Leeds

Artist Website: www.temmebarkin-leeds.com

Show Title: Nine Degrees: MFA Thesis Exhibition

Location: Katzen Museum at American University

Address: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20018

Phone Number: 404-375-7139

Artist’s Talk/Book Signing: Artist Talk May 5, 2012, 4 - 5 PM

Show Dates: April 22 - May 13, 2012

Hours: 11 AM to 4 PM Tuesday through Sunday

 

Artist:   Vicki BethelArtist Website:   www.vickibethel.com

Show Title:   Consumer CultureLocation:   Woman Made Gallery

Address:   685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Il 60642

Phone Number:   312 738 0400
Opening/Closing Reception:  opening, May 4, 6 to 9 pm
Show Dates:   May 4 to June 21, 2012
Hours:   Wed, Thurs, Fri 12 to 7 pm and Sat, Sun 12 to 4 pm
   
Show Title:   The Paper Chase: Celebrating 100 Years of CollageLocation:   Roswell Visual Arts Center
Address:   10495 Woodstock Rd, Roswell, Ga 30075

Phone Number:   770 841 3760
Show Dates:   April 13 to May 12, 2012
Hours:   Mon-Fri 9:30-6; Sat 9-1

 

Artist: Ellen Filreis
Artist Website: www.mypetitstresors.com

Show Title: American Guild of Judaic Art Members Online Exhibition

Location: ONLINE www.jewishart.org

Show Dates: March 16, 2012 - February 28, 2013
Hours: 24/7 online

Artist: Linda Page HudginsArtist Website:www.lindahudginsart.com
Show Title: Artisphere Artists of the Upstate

Location: Centre Stage
Address :501 River Street, Greenville, SC

Phone Number: 864-271-9355 or Liz Rundorff at liz@greenvillearts.com
Opening/Closing Reception: Wednesday, May 2  6:30 to 9 p m
Show Dates: May 2 to June 19, 2012
Hours: please call

Show Title: Art Trek TryonLocation: Upstairs Artspace and participating artists' studios
Address: 49 South Trade Street, Tryon, NC

Phone Number: 828-859-2828 or 571-216-6093
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, May 4, 5 to 8 p m
Show Dates: May 4 to May 19
Hours: 12 to 6 Tuesday through Saturday.

 

Show Title: Art in BloomLocation: Tryon Fine Arts Center
Address:34 Melrose Avenue, Tryon, NC

Phone Number: 828-859-8322
Opening/Closing Reception: May 13
Show Dates: May May 7 to 27
Hours: please call

 

Artist: Kathy MeliopoulosArtist Website:  www.kmeliopoulosart.net
Show Title: Georgia Artists: A Juried ExhibitLocation: Abernathy Arts Center
Address: 254 Johnson Ferry Road, NW Atlanta, GA 30328

Phone Number: 404-613-6172
Opening/Closing Reception: Friday, May 4, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (Opening)
Show Dates: May 4 - June 15, 2012
Hours: Call for Hours

 

Artist:  Mona Waterhouse

Artist Website:  www.monawaterhouse.com

Show   Title:  Wallbound

Location: The Art Institute of   Atlanta.

Address: One West Court   Square, suit 110, Decatur, GA

Show Dates: March 2 - May 14,   2012

Hours: Monday - Thursday 9 - 8 PM,   Friday 9 - 5 PM 

 

Artist: Marie Weaver
Artist Website: www.marieweaver.com
Show Title: Callanwolde Spring Clay Show by Pottery Assistants & Instructors

Location: Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Address: 980 Briarcliff Rd., Atlanta, GA 30306

Phone Number: 404-872-5338
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 7:00-10:00 pm
Show Dates: May 4-6, 2012
Hours: Saturday/Sunday 10-5

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Day on Fire Apocalypse in Contemporary Art

Dear Artists,

We invite you to send submissions for the upcoming juried exhibition “A Day on Fire: Apocalypse on Contemporary Art” at the Slocumb Galleries from August 20 to September 14, 2012.

The postmark deadline for entries is July 1, 2012. For additional information, please email contreraatetsu.edu. Attached is a detailed Prospectus. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Furthermore, the Slocumb Galleries' Committee regularly review exhibition proposals for solo or curated group exhibitions. Interested parties may submit a one-page exhibition concept discussing the show's theme, media and logistics; proposals must include images and artist statement via CD. Please refrain from submitting images via email. Thank you and best regards!


Cordially,

Karlota I. Contreras-Koterbay
Director, Slocumb Galleries
Department of Art & Design
Box 70708 East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN 37614

The Day on Fire Apocalypse in Contemporary Art

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Department of Art & Design at East Tennessee State University invites artists to submit work in any media on the subject of the apocalypse. Any work that directly or indirectly relates to visions of the end of the world, aftermath, nuclear winter, localized images of collapse, upheaval of thought, and post-apocalyptic depictions are welcome in this exhibition that takes a wide-angle perspective to the theme. The end of times has been a preoccupation for artists for centuries – this exhibition expressly planned for 2012 frames this theme at the doorstep of the Mayan and Nostradamus “Dooms Day” prophecies.

Works will be jointly curated and juried by the Slocumb Galleries’ Exhibition Committee.


IMPORTANT DATES

July 1, 2012 – Submission deadline

July 21, 2012 – Notification of accepted artwork

August 15, 2012 – Accepted artwork must be received

August 20 to September 14, 2012 – Exhibition at ETSU Slocumb Galleries


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

-       CD containing 3–5 images, Inventory Sheet (title, medium, size, date), Bio/CV (with email, address and contact no.), Artist Statement

-       Images must be saved as high quality JPEGS no longer than 2000 pixels in the longest dimension

-       Label images in the following format: lastname_firstname_01.jpg

-       $20.00 Entry Fee, made payable to Slocumb Galleries

Send above to: Apocalypse Exhibition Committee
Karlota I. Contreras-Koterbay
Director, Slocumb Galleries
Box 70708, Department of Art & Design
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN 37614

Artist to Artist

Yesterday we met in Vickie Martin's studio, ostensibly to talk about Ann Truitt's art and writings. Conversation kept straying. As artists, we need to talk about the issues in art, the forces that drive us -- and discourage us, too. Is it worth going forward? Little recognition and little remuneration is par for the course. The question of whether it is still harder for women to get recognized than men. We threw that around for a  while. It seemed that some in the group didn't want to believe that. Nevertheless, it's a fact that there are virtually no women listed among the most successful (by whatever standards the marketplace uses) currently. It makes you take a deep breath. We're a women's group of artists. What can we do to make that dent? For the most part, it seems more like a ceiling made of steel than glass.

5th World Conference on Women

VERY IMPORTANT:  This is an opportunity for all of us to participate and make a difference:
Thank you emails needed to UN Secretary General for proposing a 5th World Conference on Women.

From Jean Shinoda Bolen:
It’s now been over a month since the Secretary General and President of the UN General Assembly said that it was high time for 5WCW and proposed that there be one in 2015. Since the March 8 Joint Statement, they have heard from those opposed to 5WCW.

We need to send a FLOOD of emails and letters to the SG & PGA, from individuals who will list their affiliation and positions with organizations. The next step will be to get the organizations you belong to—to officially support 5WCW. Full text of Joint Statement: http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=5904

Your email should go to: President of General Assembly Al-Nasser <al-nassern@un.org>, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon <bkm@un.org>
with cc: Executive Director UN Women Michelle Bachelet <bachelet@un.org> and me: jeanbolen@gmail.com

Please write your own emails or letters right away, write your networks, and get them on it!

Very simple letter or email.

Send thanks and appreciation to the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary General of the United Nations for their joint statement on March 8, 2012 in which they proposed UN 5th World Conference on Women.
Praise them for taking this initiative and leadership.
Encourage them to continue to support 5WCW and assure them that there is support for what they are doing.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Statements
www.un.org
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http://wcainternationalcaucus.weebly.com/

http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com/

National Museum of Women in the Arts' 25th Anniversary

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is the only significant Museum, worldwide, to focus solely on promoting and validating women's contributions in the Creative fields.  This museum is celebrating it's 25th Birthday. It has an interesting history. Like many women-based businesses it started in a home. Specifically in the home of Wilhelmina Holladay. After existing in this form it officially changed into it's current form on April 7, 1987

As women we feel embarrassed by the need to have a "women's museum" because we feel that it degrade  the value of our work, but it is a sad truth that museums and galleries like this one are essential to our continued existence as creators, since women tend to slip through the cracks of a broken history. 

It is to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the National Museum of Women in the Arts that Atlanta's Culture Club have a presentation on April 25th, at 6:30pm. Spalding Nix, founder of the Culture Club leads this Presentation. He will focus on talking about women overcoming cultural customs and conditions to empower themselves. Reminiscent of Alan Avery's "Shattering the Glass Ceiling" it promises to give insight in the struggle women faced in the past. 

It is so easy for younger women to forget about the effort their mothers and grandmothers put into freeing themselves and their daughters. It is so easy to give the word feminism a negative meaning but without the  feminists making a path for their ancestors and their children, women will not have the opportunities they take for granted today. Feminism is not a curse word, it is a part of our history we can be proud of. 

The Culture Club give us this wonderful night to come together and listen to a part of our history. Spalding Nix founded the Culture Club in 2003. The main goal of this club is to "give Atlantans the opportunity to experience presentations by world class experts on all things cultural" (Spalding Fine Art Website). Spalding Nix himself can be seen as a world class expert on things cultural. He has a BA in Art History and Studio Art. He worked for Jackson Fine Art, National Gallery of Art, and the General Counsel's Office of the Smithsonian. He passed the Georgia Bar and did consulting work for Novo Arts and Sotheby. He is also an Accredited Member of the American Society of Appraisers.

One of the goals of the Women's Caucus for Art of Georgia is to educate. It is my goal to educate by giving information on cultural symbols like the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Culture Club and Feminism.

Regards Corlia.

Ann Rowles: Artist/Leader/Best Daughter Ever

National's latest newsletter has a fantastic article about Ann Rowles:

Meet Ann Rowles: Southeast Regional VP Love & Strength Thru Fiber Art 

Southeast Regional VP Ann Rowles has made her living as a distinguished artist and educator. After receiving her MFA in sculpture from the University of North Carolina, she taught at several institutions including UNC-Chapel Hill, received many grants and awards including a five-year residency at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, had her works exhibited widely in the US and abroad, and added to collections, including The William King Regional Art Center in Abingdon, Virginia. Rowles has been active with the Women's Art Movement since 1980, and a national affiliate member of SOHO20 since 1992. She also co-founded the WCA Georgia chapter and has served on the National WCA board since 2004. She currently maintains a studio at the B-Complex in Atlanta.

Rowles had an active and engaged life as an artist and a leader in the artist community both locally and nationally, when her mother had a slight fall, a few years ago. That seemingly minor injury led to complications and serious diagnoses. Her mother now suffers from a life-long disability. As an "only child and good daughter," Rowles made the decision to be her mother's caregiver. She could no longer count on spending hours at her studio, creating works from a laminated fabric technique she developed, nor devote the kind of energy she previously gave to her organizations.

This unexpected turn in her life shifted Rowles' priorities, but not her desire to create art. Looking for a new way of working, she turned to the past.  The craft of crochet, which she learned as a child from her great-grandmother was a perfect medium. It was something portable which she could carry to doctors’ appointments and hospital bedsides. Crocheting involved a single stitch, repeated over and over in multiple variations. For Rowles, this repetitive and meditative process tied together her unraveling life and created a tangible relic of her attempts to control the uncontrollable as well as record the passage of time spent with her mother.

At first these sculptures dealt with the physical and psychological manifestations of her mother’s illness.  Her health conditions ― advanced osteoporosis, digestive complaints and obsessions ― was Rowles' topic. Eventually,  she became curious about the abstract, formal and spatial possibilities of the technique. Rowles tried various yarns, twines, wires, and other fiber-like materials, and added sewn elements to create multiple layers. Although references to the body and disease remain, their representation diminished in importance. The installation process became a crucial part of the work, transforming the original object into multiple variations and interpretations. Rowles' current goal is to develop large scale site-adaptive installations, combining hanging crocheted forms with free-standing pieces and floor work using a variety of materials and techniques.

Ann Rowles recently discussed her role as Southeast Regional VP and Georgia chapter member:

Q. How did you become involved with WCA?
A. I have been involved with the women's art movement since the 1980's and it changed my work and my life for the better. I joined WCA as a member-at-large and began attending National Conferences in 1990. I moved to Atlanta in 1995 after 20 years in Durham, North Carolina.  I was very lonely, and found it difficult to connect with other artists.  In 1999 Beatrice Schall, an old friend and the WCA Southeast VP at the time, connected me with Cherie Redlinger who was living nearby in Marietta.  Cherie had been a member of the DC chapter and missed it!  Together we called a meeting in February 2000 to see if enough people we knew were interested in starting a chapter in Georgia.  Eleven women showed up and decided to give it a try.  In 2005 the Georgia Chapter hosted the National Conference, and as a result I connected with members from all over the country and became a member of the WCA Board.

Q. Tell me about your region.
A.The Southeast region encompasses the eastern states south of Maryland and east of Texas. There are four active chapters currently: DC, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana.The Charleston, SC chapter is currently inactive.

Q. How would you "sell" WCA to potential members?
A. I believe in WCA as a positive force for personal and aesthetic growth. I personally find it easier to work when I have a supportive community of artists for exchanging ideas, critiquing work, and sharing ups and downs. I believe we can accomplish more by working together to bring about the things we want to see happen.