WOMEN AND WATER Opening at International House Philadelphia (March 16)

Virginia Maksymowicz even captured a bit of the Anna Crusis Women's Choir performance:

2011 National Women's Caucus for Art Conference in NY: Live Space: Women +Art + Activism (February 10-14)

Member News: Certain Circuits Collaborate Collaborators Exhibit (opens April 9, 7 p.m.)

Features WCA Philadelphia members: Alison Altergott, Ellen Bonett, Joanna Fulginiti, Bonnie MacAllister, Ruth Schanbacher (performance), Rachel Udell

certaincircuits.org

Artist's Talk: Ann Hamilton

16 March 2011 | 5:00–6:30pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

Ann Hamilton is a renowned and impressively versatile figure on today’s art scene: multimedia artist, photographer, videographer, sculptor, textile artist, performer, and more. Her career has included installations at the Venice Biennale and New York’s Guggenheim Museum, installations noted for the unexpected ways they respond to live and virtual presences in their specific locations. She will illuminate these presences and describe how the artist interacts with them.

Internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multimedia installations, Ann Hamilton creates liminal environments that are rich in accumulated material. Her installations create immersive experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites.

Born in Lima, Ohio in 1956, Hamilton received a BFA in textile design from the University of Kansas in 1979 and an MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 1985. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since 2001, she has been a Professor of Art at The Ohio State University.

Among her many honors, Hamilton has been the recipient of the Heinz Award, MacArthur Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, and the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She has represented the United States in the 1991 Sao Paulo Bienal, the 1999 Venice Biennale, and has exhibited extensively around the world.

Her major museum installations include The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988); The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (1991); Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994); The Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1994); The Art Institute of Chicago (1995); The Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1996); The Musee d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France (1997); Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan (2001); and The Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden (2002).

Hamilton's public sculpture projects include commissions for The San Francisco Public Library (with Ann Chamberlain), as well as The Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh and Teardrop Park, Battery Park City, New York (both with Michael Van Valkenburgh and Michael Mercil). Most recently, she participated in The Third Mind exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum with human carriage, a site-specific installation in the museum's rotunda. Her multimedia exhibition stylus opened at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis on July 9, 2010 and ran through January 22, 2011.

Program for our International Women's Day Opening

Annual International Women's Day Celebration:
Women, Water & the World

Wednesday, March 16, 7-9pm
International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut St.
Free, event will include refreshments

Join us for this exciting event celebrating the lives of women globally! This year we will examine the connection between water and women's lives across the globe.

Event will include:

Performance by the Anna Crusis Women's Choir
Art by the Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter
Panel discussion featuring Smita Gupta, Marni Sommer, Andrew Lamas, Lity Paxton

Contact Information shown@sas.upenn.edu

Event Sponsors: Penn's Provost Office for the "Year of Water," Penn Women's Center, Center for East Asian Studies, Middle East Center, South Asia Center, African Studies Center, United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia & International House Philadelphia

Smita Gupta is simultaneously a Senior Economist at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi since 2000 and a Gender Analyst at the Indian School of Women’s Studies and Development, New Delhi since 2006. Her main areas of research are political economy, employment, public finance, decentralization, agriculture, natural resource economics, gender studies and tribal issues. She worked on a comparative study of seven states on Empowering Local Governments and has completed a Study on Gender Issues in the People’s Plan Campaign in Kerala. She undertook two studies for the Planning Commission on Water Policy in Chhattisgarh and the Manipur State Development Report. She has a number of articles on the nature of Federalism and Fiscal Policy, the Agrarian Crisis, The Tribal Question, etc. She has worked on pro-people policy and legislations with mass organizations and Parliamentarians. She is a part of the Left movement and is currently engaged in a large survey on the resurgence of the putting out system and on microfinance.

Marni Sommer, DrPH, MSN, RN, has been working in global health and development on issues ranging from improving access to essential medicines to humanitarian relief in conflict settings. Dr. Sommer's particular areas of expertise include conducting participatory research with adolescents, understanding and promoting healthy transitions to adulthood, the intersection of public health and education, gender and sexual health, and the implementation and evaluation of multi-level interventions. Her doctoral research explored girls' experiences of menstruation, puberty and schooling in Tanzania, and the ways in which the onset of puberty might be disrupting girls' academic performance and healthy transition to adulthood. Dr. Sommer's current research focuses on the intersections of gender, health and education for girls transitioning to adulthood in sub-Saharan Africa.

Andrew Lamas's scholarship focuses on the theoretical and practical dimensions, as well as the philosophical and religious bases, of social justice and economic democracy in the context of urbanization. He was a founding member of the Center for Community Self-Help, which provides financing for for small businesses, nonprofits and homebuyers in North Carolina, especially to low-wealth minorities and women; and the Reinvestment Fund, which provides financing for affordable housing and community development in the Greater Philadelphia area. He is also currently involved in the Bread & Roses Community Fund, and several other organizations. Andrew Lamas teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Urban Studies Program. He also lectures in other schools and programs at Penn, including the Wharton School and the School of Social Policy & Practice, where he teaches courses for students pursuing degrees and careers in economic development, community development finance, NGO/non-profit leadership, and related fields. He participates in the Global Gender Group sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, and he is an Affiliated Faculty of Women's Studies and the Alice Paul Center as well as a Faculty Affiliate of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center. Annually, since 2003, he has taught a term-long course for high school students through the volunteer faculty program at Masterman High School. For more than twenty years, he has been the coordinator of a cooperative, feminist, softball league for girls and young women (grades K-12) in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Mount Airy.

Member News: Bonnie MacAllister

Mirror Exhibit in St. Louis features three of Bonnie MacAllister's photos, 33 mm (negative to digital transfer):



‎"Mirror Image: Women and Photography" Exhibit Curated by Janice Nesser, February 28 -- March 31, 2011 Florissant Valley Contemporary Art Gallery STLCC-FV campus, 3400 Pershall Rd., St. Louis MO Reception: Thursday, March 3, 6-8pm

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Saturday, March 12 at 7 p.m.
Shubin Theatre
407 Bainbridge
A Green Light Arts Production

She Should Have Written It
A Story of Bohemian Surveillance

Celeste Walker as Enyo*
Maleka Fruean as Druka
Dan Baker as Dash
Written and Directed by Bonnie MacAllister

*Member of Actors' Equity Association

The play reveals what happens when a DIY artist and street dancer in the Free Republic discovers an unauthorized live feed on three channels.

http://sheshouldhavewrittenit.tumblr.com/

WOMEN AND WATER: RUNS MARCH 9-APRIL 8, 2011

WOMEN and WATER: An International Women's Day Show

International House Philadelphia

3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
March 2011

Wednesday, March 16th
Opening for International Women's Day celebration

Sponsored by: Penn's Provost office for the "Year of Water," Penn Women's Center, Center for East Asian Studies, Middle East
Center, South Asia Center, African Studies Center, United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia & International House
Philadelphia.

And here is additional info:

Women, Water & The World
Join us for the 3rd Annual International Women's Day Celebration. This year we examine the connection between water and women's lives across the globe. Event will include a reception with a performance by the Anna Crusis Women's Choir an art exhibit by the Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter; a poster session, highlighting student projects and Philly organizations doing work here and abroad; and a panel session, featuring local and international academics and activists.

RUNS MARCH 9-APRIL 8, 2011

Wed March 16th, 2011
7:00-9:00
International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut St.
FREE
Contact: Anastasia Shown shown@sas.upenn.edu

Event is sponsored by Penn's Provost office for the "Year of Water,"
Penn Women's Center, Center for East Asian Studies, Middle East
Center, South Asia Center, African Studies Center, United Nations
Association of Greater Philadelphia & International House
Philadelphia.

Exhibiting Artists:

Qaadira Allen
Joan Arbeiter
Alison Altergott
Cynthia Back
Rosalind Bloom
Ellen Bonett
Rachel Citrino
Katrina Carroll
Danielle Ferrell
Pamela Flynn
Michelle Frazier
Joanna Fulginiti
Gesshel
Veronica Gledhill
Marilyn Hayes
Martha Knox
Bonnie MacAllister
Virginia Maksymowicz
Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski
Jean Plough
Cherie Redlinger
Ruth Schanbacher
Rachel Udell

(c) 2011 images appear courtesy Pamela Flynn, Virginia Maksymowicz, Veronica Gledhill, and Martha Knox (Members Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter)