Call For Art-- Dolls in the City

Art Exhibit WCAGA member Exhibit Opportunity:

All WCAGA members are invited to apply to this curated exhibit. Submission Deadline: April 14, 2013

Exhibit dates: May 3 – June 29.

“DOLLS IN THE CITY:” The major objectives of this exhibit are to raise awareness that sex trafficking is a problem in the Atlanta metro area and to provide an educational platform for the local organizations that are available to help. By encouraging community dialogues around this subject, we hope to help save some of our young people who are victims or potential victims of sex trafficking.

The 2 Rules Fine Art gallery opened in 2011 and is just off the Historic Downtown Marietta Square. Curators: Lois and Becky Rule, owners of 2 Rules Fine Art Calendar:

Exhibit dates: May 3 – June 29, 2013

Submission Deadline: April 14, 2013

Image acceptance notification: April 20, 2013 Artists’ Reception: May 3, 6-9 p.m.

Show Closes: June 29, 2013

Pick up Work: June 30 – 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

General Information: Applications must include:

* An artist’s statement

*An artist’s resume or biography, including name, address, phone number, and email contact information

* Three high resolution jpeg images of artwork (300 pixels per inch, preferably at least 1200 pixels on longest side)

* A detailed description of the media, size and price

* $30 non-refundable application fee (to help cover the cost of receptions & programs) Type of art considered: * 2D with a maximum size of 48” any side

* 3D with a maximum weight of 40lbs.

Floorspace may be limited. Use of Images: Some images or parts of images submitted with applications may be used for publicity. Sales of Artwork: Commissions will be collected on art sales. 25 percent will be donated to a charity that helps young people escape from sex trafficking. 50 percent will go to the artist. 25 percent will go to the gallery to help cover overhead expenses.

Application Submission: Send application materials by email to Loretta Paraguassu at eyelandone@hotmail.com Label each image as follows: number_FirstnameLastname.jpg Example: 1_LorettaParaguassu.jpg (Number your artwork in the email description, so the image number corresponds to the art piece.)

Mail check to: Loretta Paraguassu, Exhibit Chair 130 Arrowood Court Alpharetta, GA 30009-1838 Make check out to WCAGA in the amount of $30 and note that it is for DOLLS IN THE CITY EXHIBIT.

WCAGA Website HOW-TO at the ACAC

Meet with us at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on Saturday March 2 to learn how easy it is to use our new website. Knowledgeable helpers will be on hand to assist you with becoming a website member, posting your photos to your own portfolio page, navigating the website, and more.

If you have a laptop, please bring it. We will be able to load your sign in info onto your own computer for easier future access.

Time: March 2, 2013 from 1:30pm to 4pm

Location: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

535 Means Street NW,
Atlanta, GA 30318

Let's get to know our Members--Kate Landishaw

Lattice (LM/PARC Series)

Mixed Media

Kate Landishaw was a the founding Member of the WCA in, not only Georgia but in North Carolina as well. She has been juried into several WCA Shows in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. She is a winner of awards and an avid artist. While concentrating on her business career, she would put up a temporary studio, even in the kitchen, to paint and create. Her father, an artist and her mother, a poet, gave her her first art lesson at age eight. 

Brambled Sky (PARC Series)

Mixed Media

Trees are the main theme in her work. In these art there is atmosphere of melancholy and memory. Concentrating on the bare branches and trunks relay the strong earthiness and near immortality of the trees. The lines of the branches and the stark colors create an abstraction.

“IN THE PARC SERIES I USE INKS, WATERCOLORS AND ACRYLICS (AND THE OCCASIONAL CRAYON) ON VARIOUS SUBSTRATES, CREATING DRAWINGS TO CONVEY A FEELING – PERHAPS INVOKE A MEMORY – OF THE SOARING AND SHELTERING NATURE OF TREES.” (Art and Light)

To see more work and contact details please visit Kate Landishaw Website.

Corlia

Shaping the Landscape: Melted, molded paintings featured in JSU exhibit

Shaping the Landscape: Melted, molded paintings featured in JSU exhibit: In today’s on-demand culture, it’s easy to forget the process it takes to create good work. With easy access to top-of-the-line computer equipment, software programs, specialized applications and m...

Crossing Into Abstraction--call for art

Crossing Into Abstraction
Our next WCAGA Member Exhibit Opportunity
Exhibit dates: March 5 - May 3, 2013
APPLICATION FOR EXHIBITION
GEORGIA PERIMETER COLLEGE
JIM CHERRY LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER GALLERY
BY THE WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ART OF GEORGIA

OPEN TO ALL WCAGA MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING

Crossing into Abstraction
abstraction |abˈstrakSHəәn|
noun
1 the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events: topics will vary in degrees of abstraction. • something that exists only as an idea: the question can no longer be treated only representationally. 2 freedom from representational qualities in art: geometric and organic imagery
• an abstract work of art.
3 a state of preoccupation: it’s what happens with artists when they are working.
4 the process of considering something independently of its associations, attributes, or concrete accompaniments: giving objects the power to represent more than its reality.
5 the process of removing something, deleting non essentials, like form, lines, color that tell our eyes it is something from the real world
6 Why? the question that invariably arises. (see #1)
ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin verb abstrahere ‘draw away’ (see abstract) .

Calendar
Exhibit Dates: March 5 - May 3, 2013
Submission Deadline: Friday, February 18, 2013
Image notification: February 19, 2013
Hand Deliver Work: Sunday, March 4, 2013 – 10 to noon
Artists Reception: TBA - 6 to 8pm
Show Closes: May 3, 2013
Pick up Work: May 4, 2013 - 10 to 12 noon

General Information
This exhibit is open to all WCAGA members in good standing. It will be held in the Jim Cherry Resource Center Gallery at Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston GA. Work accepted must remain on view for the entire exhibition. This show is open to the first 35 applications submitted.

FOR PROSPECTUS VISIT WCAGA WEBSITE

Upcoming Events

January ArtShare: Time: January 27, 2013 from 3pm to 5pm.
Art Share: members bring a piece of work to share in a critique style format with other artist members. Beverages provided by WCAGA, you may bring a snack to share.

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Carolee Schneemann: Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands: Rose English, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Alexis Hunter, Carolee Schneemann
January 23-March 8, 2013 | 10:00 am-6:00 pm
Richard Saltoun Gallery
111 Great Titchfield Street,, London, England W1W 6RY

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Lifetime Award--Proclamation
February 4, 1pm. Atlanta City Council meeting. 

Tina Dunkley the Director of Clark University Galleries is one of the women receiving the WCA Lifetime Award for 2013. National WCA has contacted the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs about the award, and Tina will be receiving a proclamation at the Atlanta City Council Meeting on February 4 at 1 pm. Ann Rowles will be present to make brief remarks about this award, WCA and Tina Dunkley.

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 JWAN DIASPORA show Artist Reception: DIASPORA, Time: 

February 16, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: New Century Artists Gallery

February 5 -February 16, 2013, New Century Artists Gallery, 530 W.25th St. Suite 406,(between 10th and 11th Ave. in the heart of Chelsea) New York, NY 10001. 212-367-7072Juror: Laura Kruger, curator at Hebrew Union College Museum. Artists Reception, February 16, 2013 6-8 pm. Gallery hours: Tues. through Sat. 11am-6pm. Show sponsored by Jewish Women's Artist Network (JWAN() a group within the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA). According to the prospectus, diaspora is a scattering, a dispersion, a migration, a loss of homeland. Artists were asked to create original works that examined what it meant to be separated from your roots, your center, your power, your ancestors, your community, your culture, your land, your home, your people - real or imagined, physical or metaphorical. Is repatriation or reconciliation possible? Desired? Wide interpretations were encouraged. www.newcenturyartists.org

(image: DISENTANGLED no.1 - collage, photograph cutouts) by Flora Rosefsky. One of the works selected for DISAPORA. Catalog available.

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How To Questions relating to WCAGA Website

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Or
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2. How to Sign Up on the WCAGA Website.
Click on the words Sign Up. You can find this either in the top left corner or in the left top box under the Logo.
You will now see a box with space where you can put your email in and create a password. Do not click on create a new account. If you find it difficult to type the CAPTCHA click on the little circle arrows above the little speaker until you see words you can recognize. Or ask a friend to help.
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After confirming your e-mail address and approval of the board you will then be able to use the website and page.

3. How to add events.

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4. How to to share and post.

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