Opportunity: Call for Artists

PHOTOGRAPHY 28: a juried exhibition of photography by regional artists,
professional, student and amateur at the Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown
Gallery. The juror is Debra Klomp Ching, Co-director of Klompching Gallery in
Brooklyn, NY.

AWARDS: 10 Juror Awards for Artistic Excellence and exhibited works will be
offered to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Woodmere Art Museum and Johnson
& Johnson World Headquarters Corporate Collection.

SUBMISSION: Work must be hand delivered and received on Friday, January 9th
between 10:00 am and 3:30 pm and on Sunday, January 11th between Noon and 4:00
pm. Artists may enter up to three works at an entry fee of $8 per work.

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, January 31st
from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

SHOW DATES: January 31, 2009 through March 1, 2009, Thursday and Friday 10 am
to 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday Noon to 4 pm.

LOCATION: Perkins Center for the Arts, 395 Kings Highway, Moorestown, New
Jersey 08057,

QUESTIONS/PROSPECTUS: p 856-235-6488, f 856-235-6624, www.perkinscenter.org,
create@perkinscenter.org.

Artist Trip Opportunity

I am leading a group of painting students to Mexico from February 27 to march 8,
for painting, drawing, and enjoying the wonderful colonial town of San Miguel de
Allende. We will stay in a fabulous villa with a view of the town, a pool and a
beautiful garden. Painting instruction is available every morning with lots of
time to explore. All levels of experience and all media are welcome. The trip
last year was really successful, as those who went will testify! A non-refundable
deposit of $100 is required to hold a place. Total cost is $1,070 for lodging and
tuition; air fare is extra but I can help find flights. Please email me, lynnbden@earthlink.net
for more information. There are 5 spots left!

"It was a trip of a lifetime for me and set me on a path of painting more than
I've ever painted".- Kathy Sandecki

Hope you can join us!
Lynn Denton
lynnbden@earthlink.net

Minutes from November Meeting

Agenda for Meeting

ACTIONS REQUIRED

FROM MEMBERSHIP

It is time to renew dues to remain eligible for 2009 shows. You can mail to Virginia Maksymowicz, our treasurer:
3719 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215/387-9706
vam@tandm.us
http://tandm.us

To download the form, visit
http://www.nationalwca.org/wcadocs/application2008.pdf

Be sure to pay before December 31st because National Dues increase after January 1st, 2009. Local dues remain $15.
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FROM EXHIBITIONS COMMITTEE

Irving Sandler Database Update (Deadline November 28th)
Please update your Irving Sandler Artist Files as we need to submit images to several galleries who have contacted us about a WCA group show. The deadline for updates is November 28.

For the instructions on how to create or update your Irving Sandler file, please visit http://home.earthlink.net/~philawcamembers/id4.html
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CALL FOR WCA PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS (deadline Wednesday, January 7th)

WOMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT (A Juried Exhibition)
showing with “Women Helping Women: Stitch By Stitch” and St. Louis

All work submitted, and dropped of at Marie Elcin's House by Wednesday January 7th, 2009.

We can photograph on the 9th, 10th, or 11th and mail a disc for the entire chapter.

Women and the Environment - March 2009

a juried exhibition for members of WCA- St Louis MO and WCA-Philadelphia

Work will be juried January 16th, and Notification sent January 30

WCA-Philadelphia exhibition committee will organize the jurying via digital images and the shipping to the gallery by February 20th.

Unaccepted work can be picked up at the February WCA Phila meeting.

$5 entry fee per piece. All mediums accepted but no ceiling suspended work.

Limit to 3 entries per artist.

The work will be displayed from March 2 - April 2 2009, and the Rubia/WCA quilt will be displayed simultaneously.
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OPEN TO ALL 2009 DUES PAYING MEMBERS:

WCA Philadelphia showing March 2009
Plastic at the Plastic Club
(with solo shows from Diana Riukas and Pam Flynn)
247 South Camac Street

Philadelphia, Pa 19107

215-545-9324
http://www.plasticclub.org/

WCA Philadelphia hosts Girls Gotta Run exhibition at Holy Family University Gallery, September-October 2009

http://www.girlsgottarun.org/

About the Foundation: “The Girls Gotta Run Foundation (GGRF) is a volunteer organization founded in 2006 to raise money to provide support for impoverished Ethiopian girls who are training to be runners. Training to be athletes allows them to stay in school, avoid early marriage, and gain personal independence. Besides athletic shoes, GGRF provides money for training clothes, extra food ("calorie money"), coach subsidies, and other training-related expenses.

We were inspired by the spirit and determination of the girls in the December 29, 2005 Washington Post article written by Emily Wax, "Facing Servitude, Ethiopian Girls Run for a Better Life." She relates not only the tremendous challenges and difficult problems faced by Ethiopian girls, but also how female Ethiopian athletes, especially runners, are serving as role models and inspiration for them.
By providing support for these aspiring athletes, Girls Gotta Run gives Ethiopian girls the chance to improve not only their lives, but also their families and communities.”
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HOLIDAY PARTY

December 7th at the home of Martha Knox in Germantown.
Bring a small wrapped piece of your original work for the holiday exchange (Pollyanna style).

Party is 12-3

Martha Knox
49 Ashmead Place South
Philadelphia, PA 19144
330-242-4742
marfknox@gmail.com
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THERE IS NO MEETING AT MOORE IN DECEMBER!
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OPPORTUNITIES:
PAINTING AND HOLIDAY DRAWING IN MEXICO
$100 NON-REFUNDABLE TO HOLD SPOT
$435 DUE DECEMBER 20
$535 DUE EARLY FEBRUARY 2009
Classes by Lynn Denton (Moore Professor and distinguished artist). Email her at lynnbden@earthlink.net
Website: www.sanmiguelrentals.com
(Thanks to Qaadira Allen for bringing this to the meeting. She will be on the trip.)

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Trip opportunity
Join Bonnie MacAllister in a carpool to
Annual WCA/DC Holiday Brunch
Dec 6th, 2008 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Program/Event at Bombay Room (East Indian Room), 3001 Veazey Terrace, NW, Washington, DC 20008
Event Description
Join us for our annual Potluck Holiday Brunch and Corinne Mitchell Award Presentation! This is a great opportunity to connect with WCA members and honor an outstanding woman in the arts. Friends and family are welcome!
download flyer:
http://www.wcadc.org/files/events/81ab9df2679011fbabf0f6bfcf3ff806.pdf

NewCourtland Fellowship

Apply NOW- 2009 NewCourtland Fellowship

Deadline February 15, 2009

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), in partnership with NewCourtland is pleased to offer Philadelphia area artists the opportunity to participate in an exciting, new, community-based fellowship. Through the NewCourtland Artist Fellowship, eight artists will be selected to bring innovative and engaging art-making to residents of the vast NewCourtland network (http://www.newcourtland.org). In order to apply, artists are asked to develop an intergenerational project that brings NewCourtland’s residents together with school age children/teens to create a meaningful experience and an exciting artistic project. Work created by residents and their school age partners during the 2009 Fellowship Program will be exhibited with the work of the artist fellows in a large, well publicized exhibition.
Accepted artists will receive a fellowship award of $2,500 (to be paid in two $1,250 installments). Once artists receive this award they will be responsible for conducting ten 1.5 hour workshops weekly for NewCourtland residents (10-15 residents) and their student partners (10-15 students). Artists will also be required to attend several preliminary meetings, one aging sensitivity training session and participate in the spring 2010 exhibition http://www.cfeva.org/publications.aspx
For more details and an application please contact Genevieve Coutroubis at 215 546-7775 x11 or Genevieve@cfeva.org. Applications can be downloaded at http://www.cfeva.org/Publications/NewCourtlandApplication2009.pdf

Meeting This Wednesday, November 12th

Join us for the Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia
Chapter Monthly Meeting on November meeting,
Wednesday, November 12th, 7 p.m.

We will have Heather Bryson, artist and owner of B
Square gallery with us to talk about her dual role as
artist and gallerist. Heather has hosted a WCA member
show in the past, is a graduate of Moore College, and
is a jeweler whose work focuses on nature-inspired
forms. Please join us and bring a friend!

Moore College of Art
19th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway
www.moore.edu for directions

Report to the security desk to be directed to the
meeting room.

The Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia Chapter
http://phila-wca.blogspot.com
http://home.earthlink.net/~philawcamembers/index.html
http://www.marycrowley.com/rubia/ (Collaborative Project with Rubia)
http://www.inliquid.com/wca/framset.html
A Partner of Inliquid

Member News: Kathy Dobash

Kathy Dobash facillitated the following:

An exhibit of the art created will take place during the week of
November 24, 2008. Hazleton YM/YWCA, Hazleton, PA.

The participants are school-aged children between the ages of
6 and 12 years old. This after school activity is a great way for area youth to unwind at the end of the week and learn how to express themselves through art.

Classes meet on Fridays. The next two sessions are
Friday, November 14TH and friday November 21ST.

The children are creating abstract expressionistic landscapes.
Various landscape paintings by Vincent Van Gogh inspire their painting styles. Some of the collaborative works will be donated for exhibition and educational purposes in Luzerne County.

"Painterly Abstract Expressions of Luzerne County Landscapes"
is made possible by The Scranton Area Foundation, which administers funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Partners in the Arts(PPA).

Location: Hazleton YM/YWCA