Meeting Agenda for Wednesday August 8th

1.Molly Crowley from "Rubia "will be presenting
information about their group which helps
women in Afghanistan.  This group wishes
to collaborate with the WCA on a project.
Possible ones are to distribute a piece
of embroidery to a group of artists and
allow them to incorporate the material
into a work of art.  They also have a project
called "Sew don't Grow" to provide
an alternative to growing poppies.
Darrai Noor,Afghanistan, is a poppy growing
region, which makesour work even more important
in the region. The poppy flower, which is beautiful,
has been incorporated by the women in Afghanistan
into manyof the embroidered designs. We could
present a similar design idea   
to a groupof artists and see
their interpretation
of the poppy flower.
(http://www.rubiahandwork.org)  

2) Member, Diana Riukas will speak about the recent grant she received. Diana was also the recipient of the grant that made the"Dress Project " possible.

3) We will talk about a book project for the "Magazine Stand" at the Baltimore Book Festival. Please see blog entry for "Mini Curated Micro-Books" for more details.

4) We are to come with ideas for workshops, trips, and places and themes for exhibits for the upcoming year.

4th Annual Art/Literary Competition

COMPETITION

4th Annual Art/Literary Competition

Theme: Communicating Universal Peace Through your Sculpture, Painting, and Poetry

Entry Deadline: August 28, 2007

Grand Prize Award for Sculpture Only: cover photo with a feature article.

First Place Award for Sculpture, Painting & Poetry: each one a feature article with photos.

Second Place Award for Sculpture, Painting & Poetry: each one a short article with photos.

Third Place Award for Sculpture Only: Artist's Profile and photos in

Creative Wisdom, our Online E-zine.

ELIGIBILITY

• Open to artists over 18. Student work/class-instructed work NOT eligible.
• Please submit images of original works created since January 2006.
• Works previously featured in articles in SP since January 2006 are NOT eligible.
• Employees, associates, or immediate families of SP and Hammer & Pen Productions may not enter.
• Sculptural Pursuit reserves the right to reject without notification work that does not meet this publication's standards. This includes sexually suggestive or explicit works, graphic language, ethnic slurs, or expletives.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

• Enter only high-quality digital images on a PC Platform CD accompanied by an SP Entry Form. The entry form can be downloaded here and will be available in the July 2007 issue of SP.
• Submit a minimum of 3 and maximum of 6 images in sculpture and/or painting. Submit a separate entry form for each category. Images for each category may be placed on one CD. Number and title each CD image to match the information of the entry form (include artist's name, title, medium, and size).
• Entry Fees: A credit card number, expiration date, and signature, or a check made out to Hammer & Pen Productions, or a money order for the required jury fee of $35 for subscribers and $50 for non-subscribers (in U.S. funds, drawn on a U.S. bank) Must accompany your entry.
• CDs will not be returned without a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope with sufficient postage.
• Sculptural Pursuit will not be responsible for the loss or damage of any CDs submitted to the competition.
• Incomplete entry forms, insufficient fees, and late entries will be disqualified.
• Do not call to see if your entry arrived. We do not confirm receipt of individual entries.

DIGITAL REQUIREMENTS

Image files must be taken, scanned in, and saved at 300 DPI, as JPEG or TIFF files, in a minimum 10" x 13" format, on a PC platform CD. The CD must open on a PC computer. Please DO NOT send images taken at a low resolution and changed in Photoshop to a higher DPI or larger print size. To be selected as a winner, high quality, professional images are necessary for magazine publication quality.

JURORS

Entries will be pre-judged by the editorial board of Sculptural Pursuit. All award winners will be selected by a panel of art professionals. Only properly prepared entries with high-quality images will be viewed and judged. The decision of the jurors is final.

NOTIFICATION

All winners will be notified by November 1, 2007 and presented in the Spring January 2008 issue of Sculptural Pursuit magazine. Winners will be listed in the December 2007 issue of CREATIVE WISDOM, our online free monthly Ezine publication. Non-winning entrants will be individually notified of the results. Your cancelled check or credit-card charge will be notification for receipt of your entry.

MAIL ENTRY

Mail CD postmarked no later than August 28, 2007 with a minimum of 3 and maximum of 6 images per category, accompanied by a completed, clearly printed entry form to: Art/Literary Competition, Hammer & Pen Productions, PO Box 749, Littleton, CO 80160. Application form and more info at <http://www.sculpturalpursuit.com/>.

Mini-Curated-Micro-Books

Mini-Curated-Micro-Books

A project of the Baltimore Book Festival

Eight page Xeroxed, ink jet and other low cost/low production printed books.

This year Magazine Stand will be a repository for 8 page curated books. We’re asking artists/curators to produce a small quantity of books that include multiple artists working with a theme, idea or anything you want. For those of you who haven’t made books an eight page book can be two double-sided 8 ½ x 11 Xeroxed pages folded and saddle stapled (we will saddle staple your pamphlets if you don’t have access to a saddle stapler).

If you are interested in participating let me know as soon as possible. After that I will need the title of the book and the artists by September 1. I will need the actual books by September 21. The Book Festival takes placeSeptember 28-30, 2007.

Please send up to ten copies of your mini-book. We will have eight for sale at the stand and keep two copies that will be used as floor samples. All proceeds of the sale of the books will go to the maker. We would like to sell everything for between 1 and 3 dollars. We can carry books that cost more. As always, everything isn’t insured. Loss and damage can occur and while we work hard to make it not happen we can’t guarantee that it won’t.

Gary Kachadourian

Visual Arts and Arts & Humanities Grants Coordinator

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts

7 East Redwood Street, Suite 500

Baltimore, MD 21202

410-752-8632 (office)

443-263-4339 (direct)

410-385-0361 (fax)

gkachadourian@promotionandarts.com

www.promotionandarts.com

Member Shows

 August 4-5 at Germantown & Chelten.People's Festival.
Karin Morris 
http://peoplesfestival.com/

Karin will also be part of the October Gallery
juried show
22nd Philadelphia International Art Expo
November 9-11 at Temple University's
Liacouris Center.
http://www.octobergallery.com



July 20-September 7, 2007
Bonnie MacAllister
1460 Wall Mountables,
 DC Arts Center,
3438 18th Street,
Washington, DC 20009
http://www.dcartscenter.org

September 5 - September 25, 2007
Alison Altergott & Bonnie MacAllister
Katrina Diaries WCA-DC Members' Exhibit
Ratner Museum 10001 Old Georgetown RD
, Bethesda, MD 20814
RECEPTION Sunday, Sept. 9, 1:30-3:30pm
http://www.wcadc.org

September 14-October 21
"Rules of Civility" Solo installation
 by Virginia Maksymowicz
Landmarks Contemporary Projects,
Powel House Museum
244 South 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-5 PM
Sunday 1-5 PM
http://www.philalandmarks.org/projects.aspx

November 1-30
Solo installation by Michelle Wilson
Landmarks Contemporary Projects,
Powel House Museum
http://www.philalandmarks.org/projects.aspx

From the New Co- Presidents

First of all, we must congratulate Marie Elcin
(co-President), Virginia Maksymowicz (Treasurer), and
Sonia Sherrod (Secretary).  I (Bonnie MacAllister)
will be serving as co-President with Marie.  We are
all here to help with any questions, take suggestions,
and help you make the most of your WCA membership.  We
are planning exhibitions, outings, and workshops, and
we will soon announce these offerings.  Our next
meeting is Wednesday, August 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Moore
College of Art and we hope you attend with your own
ideas on where you'd like to travel, where you'd like
to have an exhibition, exhibition themes, what you'd
like to teach, and what you'd like to learn.
 
Please let me know if you have any updates for our
websites, the Inliquid site and our blog.  We would
love to know and publicize your upcoming shows and
offer links to your new websites.  Please send these
along soon because I'd like to do an update on
Inliquid before the August meeting.
 
If you have any questions about how to make your
membership current, renewal addresses, or how to
format your show listing, please feel free to email
bmacallister@earthlink.net or call me at 215.262.9227.
 
 
We all look forward to an amazing year for the WCA,
Philadelphia Chapter!
 
Thanks,
Bonnie MacAllister
Co-President (with Marie Elcin)
 
The Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia Chapter
http://www.inliquid.com/wca/framset.html
http://phila-wca.blogspot.com
 

And this from Marie Elcin

Next meeting is strategic planning-bring a list of 3 places you'd be interested in visiting as a group, 2 techniques/workshops you'd either like to learn or teach, and 1 idea for a theme or realistic venue for an exhibition. Make WCA what you want it to be! If you have an idea or goal, share it with us and we can help make it happen!

Marie

Member News

Congratulations to WCA member Virginia Maksymowicz.
She is the featured artist on the National WCA website,
www.nationalwca.com. Virginia has been a member of the
Women's Caucus for Art since 1978.
We are extremely lucky to have her!

--

Sackler this Saturday

Are you free this Saturday? We are arranging to go to the Brooklyn Museum of Art to see the Elizabeth Sackler Center & Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Table" (among other great things at the museum) www.brooklynmuseum.org

One member has already offered to drive. We'll try to leave around 9:30 AM and be back to Philly around 6 PM. Please call Marie Elcin at 215-423-4884 to RSVP to make further carpool arrangements.

And don't forget- monthly meeting July 11th 6:30 pm at Moore College of Art for our Summer Critique Session!

Trips, Elections, Next Meeting etc...

The trip to the Brooklyn art museum was postoned to Saturday, July 7th. Please respond if you are interested in attending!!!

Our next meeting is Wednesday, July 11th 6:30 pm at Moore College of Art and Design. It will be our summer critiques session!! Please bring pictures or actual work (3 images) to share.

It's time for our yearly officer elections! Please respond to this email to cast your vote. Please inform us of any concerns or ideas you may have for the chapter!

We thank Allison Altergott, Angela Victor, and Jessica Holster for their service over the past year! At the June meeting, the following nominations were put forward:

Co-presidents: Marie Elcin & Bonnie McAllister

Treasurer: Virginia Maksymowicz

Secretary: Sonia Sherrod

Marie has been active in trying to plan activities for the chapter. She feels chapter activities should be fun, engaging, help us feel connected with the larger artistic community, and encourage our own artistic practice.

Bonnie has been working very hard trying to raise the visibility of the Women's Caucus for Art and attract new members. She recently was a presenter on a grant-writing panel at the DC chapter's Networking Day and organized our tables at Art Star Craft Bazaar and Art for the Cash Poor.

Virginia has been a dedicated WCA member, helping the Philadelphia chapter through thick and thin. She is well-versed in the business side of art and will capably manage chapter finances.

Sonia is the creator and manager of our chapter blog, and it's about time we gave her an official title! She has consistently attended chapter events, and will be able to keep us all informed.

Three Month Residency in London

Are you in touch with any *non-UK*, *mid-career* artists who would benefit from a three-month research-focused residency in London?

If so, please can you help to distribute this call for the new TrAIN/Gasworks residency - to artists, to galleries, to art schools - any individuals or organisations who might help generate strong proposals.

All terms and conditions - and details re. the application process - are below or at the following url:http://www.gasworks.org.uk/residencies/detail.php?id=314