Did you know about the following member benefit?

Utrecht offers a discount and other benefits to members of local alliances that support the arts including the WCA!

Utrecht offers:


10% discount for Philadelphia WCA on all purchases from our Philadelphia store locations

Coupons for deeper discounts sent out several times a year (for example, 20% off an order or 30% off one item)

Always free delivery on orders over $100

Price Match Guarantee: we will match the price of our competitors so you know you are getting the best deal.

OPPORTUNITIES

• From Pat at Girls Gotta Run: Barefoot Books of Reston, Va., is donating * 100% of the proceeds* of all online sales until the end of October to GGRF. Books are such great gifts for any occasion, perhaps especially for children. And Barefoot Books has a truly wonderful selection.. Top that off with the fact that at virtually no additional cost, you can help us provide support for the hard working girls on our partner teams in Ethiopia and...... how can you go wrong? So, if you have any beloved children in your life, please take a moment before you forget to check out the Barefoot Books selection and place an order. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
  Pat
• Apron Show- Call for Entries- Deadline:12/04/09
  The Young Women’s Caucus is proud to present
  THE APRON SHOW (A TOURING EXHIBITION)
  This exhibition will start in Hancock, MI. It will travel to St. Louis, MO and Denver, CO - spending a month on display in each city.
  Aprons are protective garments worn to keep clothing clean. Before the 1960’s, aprons were very popular for women to keep their “delicate” clothing from getting soiled. Aprons are also associated with women because of their “domestic, homemaker responsibilities”.
  QUESTIONS AND SUBMISSIONS? Email us! Youngwomenscaucus@gmail.com
  How to Participate: Make an apron or alter an old one!
  Details:
  Open to males and females, age 12 to 39.
  Open to all media.
  The apron should be mailed in a flat envelope, sized 11 ½” x 14 ½” or smaller.
  There is a $5 entry fee to defray shipping costs.
  If you want your piece returned, please include a SASE with sufficient posta...
• Request for Proposals for Fleisher’s Teen Lounge, a drop in afterschool program held onsite for teens age 13-18. We are still collecting submissions for projects with the teens, as they are currently wrapping up with their current artist-in-residence and will be selecting from the first round of proposals soon. http://www.fleisher.org/contact/job-posting6.php
• InLiquid and Greensgrow Farms are once again looking forward to partnering for A Very Kensington Christmas. We hope you will join us! This holiday market of arts, crafts, natural goods, Christmas trees and more will be taking place on Saturday and Sunday, December 12 & 13, and Saturday and Sunday, December 19 & 20, 2009 from 1 pm until 6 pm.
  Holiday related activities, refreshments and fun will include a selected group of InLiquid artists (open to members and non members alike) selling their works to visitors. The sale is set to take place in a heated greenhouse at Greensgrow Farms, an urban farm and CSA at 2501 E. Cumberland Street, Philadelphia (click here for map and directions).
  Entries: Open to all artists who design and produce their own work.
  All items for sale must be priced at $199 or below. Because this is a holiday related event, items to sell ought to be gift oriented.
  Artists are required to submit 3-4 digital sample images of the work they intend to sell. Please note that due to limited space, all artists will be screened for participation.
  Please send us application and images for screening by November 20, 2009 if you are interested.
  Click here to download the participation form with full details.

National Conference 2010 Update

Message from Janice Nesser, Conference Chair and President-elect:

Hello all-
I am in the process of setting up a hotel block for the February 2010 WCA conference in Chicago.
We have chosen the Hotel Allegro http://www.allegrochicago.com. It is a very nice, boutique hotel. It has great amenities and ample space for mingling. This will also be WCA headquarters and the place to go to pick up all your conference info.
The Allegro is about 5 blocks (.5 mile) away from the Cultural Center (LAA awards) and about 10 blocks (1 mile ) from the Hyatt (CAA). We have a great rate of $125 a night (2 double beds, queen or king) and $ 225 for a suite (1 king bedroom and living room with a fold out couch).

The CAA conference will run Wed. Feb 10 -Sat. Feb.13
The WCA conference will run Thur Feb 11-Sun Feb 14 with the Board
meeting on Mon Feb 15 until 3pm.

In setting up the room block, we have the following issues..
- once we use up the block we may not be able to add more rooms at
the at the same rate.
- we need to use 80% of the rooms we hold. If we do not WCA is
liable for the unused portion.
- this is Valentine's weekend so hotel space may fill up fast.

I am trying to see how many rooms I need to hold.
Please email the following information to janice_nesser@nationalwca.org
ASAP:
1. If you plan on attending the conference
2. If you plan on staying at the Allegro
3. If staying at the Allegro, nights you plan on staying ie Wed-Mon

Thank you for your time and help.

Janice Nesser
President-elect, WCA
janice_nesser@nationalwca.org

NEW Member Dues Deal

The Women's Caucus for Art, founded in 1972 in connection with the College Art Association (CAA), is a national member organization unique in its multi-disciplinary, multicultural membership of artists, art historians, students /educators, and museum professionals.

If you pay 2010 dues before January 1, you will receive the remainder of 2009 free (plus exhibition eligibility in the upcoming November show.) This is for both local and national dues.

Contact us at phila_wca@yahoo.com for more information and a thorough list of benefits.

To download membership forms or pay online through the National Women's Caucus for Art:
http://www.nationalwca.org

(Lapsed members are also eligible for this deal.)
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If you are a member and would like us to share your news, please send copy and jpgs(no pdfs) with "for the blog" in the subject line to phila_wca@yahoo.com . We will try to post in a timely manner.

Member News: Carol Taylor-Kearney

Hello-
Before it goes away, I wanted to invite you to the closing reception (on Sunday, October 4th from 2 - 4) for my Gnome Project (Gnomenculture) at the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum. Gnomenculture is part of Projects '09, a residency and site specific installation project given yearly at the Carriage House of the Islip Museum. I feel very lucky to have had this opportunity and suggest that all my artist friends who think in terms of installation look into this, too.

Gnomenculture began for me from a visit to the Carriage House/Islip Museum when I found a gnome broken to bits in the parking lot. At first I wasn't sure if it was an installation (it was so perfectly distributed) or vandalism. After checking with the museum director, Mary Lou Cohallen, I photographed the debris and then collected it. This led me on an odessey of research both of gnomes and of the grounds and buildings of the Islip Museum and the Carriage House. The grounds there are lovely, sporting woodlands, a garden, historic buildings, even a lake with ducks, geese, and swans. This provided me with plenty of stuff to forage for installation materials. Research into the gnome including the Gnome Liberation Front, gnomes in literature (those "little people" in Rip van Winkle for example), and in modern culture (think Travelocity gnome and the gnome in the movie Amelie) provided other ideas. I restored the gnome (Art, is his name by-the-way) as an artist who recreates his own world via the Islip Museum for himself and other emboldened fellows.

Since many of you may not be available to see the exhibit, I am including some still shots. This cannot give you the full experience, but it may whet your appetite to envision more. Some details on materials-- there are close to 500 photographs, paper mache and clay gnomes, gnomes and small statuary collected from the local area, three reverse glass painted windows, hand-painted leaves, vines made of wire, and little scenarios involving the gnomes both in 3-d and pictures/collage. I hope that this is a little piece of whimsy that is as much fun to explore as it was to make.
I look forward to seeing or hearing from you!--Carol

Member News: Ellie Brown

EXHIBITIONS

A CHRONICLE OF LOVERS- SOLO EXHIBITION
September 23-December 5, 2009

Artist Talk: October 28th 6pm
The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10001
(212) 481-0295
http://www.centerforbookarts.org/

KOREAN NOTEBOOKS- SOLO EXHIBITON
Orange Coast College Photography Gallery
October 12- November 23rd, 2009
2701 Fairview Rd.
Costa Mesa, CA 92628
rkraft@occ.cccd.edu
Directions here

FAMILY TIES: THE FIRST WAVE
curated by Ellie Brown
October 6th-November 1st, 2009
Closing Reception: October 29th, 7-9pm

Fox Art Gallery
249 E. 36th Street, Philadelphia PA
Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday 9-5,Wednesdays 9-9

artgallery@specevents.net
Fox Art Gallery

POST OPEN STUDIOS: EAST OF BROAD
October 3rd and 4th, 12-6pm 2009
Mew Gallery
906 Christian St.
Philadelphia, PA
POST OPEN STUDIOS

GIRLS GOTTA RUN: BODIES IN MOTION
Holy Family University
October 6th-31st, 2009
Lower Level- Education and Tech Center
9801 Frankford Ave.
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.holyfamily.edu/sas/artgallery.shtml

THE ALTERED BOOK: ARTIST'S RE-IMAGINE THE BOOK
October 16, 2009-January 2, 2010
Reed Whipple Cultural Center in Las Vegas, NV
http://www.artslasvegas.org/vvbf/



ARTIST MARKETING!

POP!sicle Artist Marketing
Marketing and Funding Help for Artists. See Coupon at bottom of email for the Fall Sale!

PUBLICATION
TEN DAYS IN THE CAPSULE
Buy the book here

WWW
Video from the First Person Arts Salon about
Ten Days in the CAPSULE
Part. 1, Part. 2, Part. 3

The Journal of Family Life
(from Two Girls: My Sisters 1996-2006)
http://www.journaloffamilylife.org/

Article published in Plateform Magazine (in French)
http://www.plateformag.com

Current Sale at Etsy shop for Altered Books.

Best Wishes,
Ellie Brown

Opportunity: Members Show at Cafe Postale

Open to all current and new members (dues recently received):

Meeting for Cafe Postale Show

Saturday, October 17th

noon (bring something to share)

1712 W. Girard Ave (corner of 17th and Girard)

Show is at 19th and Popular across from Post Office

If work is ready, please bring it for drop off. If not ready, please bring images and dimensions. Larger work is welcome.

Please bring resumes, cards, and exhibition tag information:
Name
Title
Medium
Dimensions
Price

Current Exhibitors:
Alison Altergott
Gina D'Emilio
Kathy Dobash
Pam Flynn
Joanna Fulginiti
Katie Haegele
Bonnie MacAllister
Deb McCarthy
Rachel Udell

Opportunity: Welcome House

The Welcome House needs volunteers!
WCA Member Michelle Wilson and Mary Tasillo are participating in the Welcome House public art project in Love Park on Friday, October 9, as part of this Design Philadelphia and First Person Arts event. We will be engaging park visitors in making pulp prints and drawings about the park space. We are seeking volunteers on October 9, for the whole day or only for part of it, to talk to interested passers-by about the Welcome House project to while the Michelle or Mary are engaged with other visitors. We would love to have some folks there to lend a hand on our day who might be interested in learning about papermaking or screen printing - though no experience is neccessary.

There is a chance that volunteers will receive free First Person Arts tickets. I have included our press release about the project below.
The Welcome House project (www.thewelcomehouse.net) is getting some great press (see the new City Paper cover story). If you are willing to lend us some of your time, or have any questions, you can email me at
michelle_print@yahoo.com. First Person Arts can also be contacted directly. Dan is the guy doing volunteer coordination: dang@firstpersonarts.org.
Thanks so much!

BOOK BOMBS SHELTER
PART OF THE WELCOME HOUSE PROJECT

October 9, 2009
10am-6pm

Press Release

welcome house


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Philadelphia, PA - Sept. 22, 2009 -

Philadelphia's First Person Arts Festival is proud to host BOOK BOMBS as
part of the Welcome House Project. BOOK BOMBS is a collaboration between
artists Mary Tasillo and Michelle Wilson. The Welcome House is a 10 foot by
10 foot transparent cube installed in Philadelphia's own Love Park,
featuring artist projects by day and video of the day's activities by
night. On October 9, 2009, 10am-6pm, as part of their day-long residency,
BOOK BOMBS will utilize handmade paper and community participation to
create a site-specific one-night installation called Book Bombs Shelter.
This event is free and open to the public.

BOOK BOMBS is a collaborative, site-based zine project examining
Philadelphia parks and benches as social spaces, shelters and art
galleries, and will culminate next year as a component of PHILAGRAFIKA
2010. (See bookbombing.blogspot.com.) For Book Bombs Shelter, Tasillo and
Wilson invite the population of Love Park, including office workers,
skateboarders, protesters, passers-by, and the homeless, to create works in
handmade paper about Love Park. The resulting papers will be attached while
still wet to the interior of the Welcome House, creating an evolving visual
conversation about the nature of urban public space in general and Love
Park in particular. In addition, the pieces will be documented on the
project blog and used as material for the upcoming zine publication about
shelter, homelessness, and urban space during PHILAGRAFIKA 2010.

The Welcome House is a project conceived and curated by artist Marianne
Bernstein and presented by First Person Arts in collaboration with
InLiquid.com. Designed to re-imagine art spaces, art practice, and
community engagement, artists were invited to propose one-day residencies
using the space as a nexus for public interaction. All daytime events will
be filmed by klip collective videographer Ricardo Rivera and projected onto
the cube at night for public viewing. Following the project will be an
exhibition of the works created in the Welcome House at the Painted Bride
Art Center, located at 230 Vine Street in Philadelphia, in November 2009.
The exhibition will remain on display during the First Person Arts Festival
and through the end of 2009.