Featured Member Artist: Veronica Gledhill

Veronica Gledhill was born in Philadelphia. From Chestnut Hill to Greysferry, the childhood city neighborhoods of her youth were rich in various cultures and economic diversity. She spent many weekends in “the country” on her architect-grandfather’s farm in Bucks County, PA. Gledhill’s art reflects that range of experience as her choice of painting subjects can be the still beauty of a person, place, object, abstract expression, or, a sometimes stark allegorical image. Veronica’s teachers have been the Philadelphia area museums, libraries and art galleries as well as private lessons, adult classes and the long closed Lewis Institute of Art in Lansdowne, PA.

Her work has been viewed in juried exhibits and other art exhibits:

• “Women & Water” – March 2011 – WCA, International House Philadelphia
• White Horse Village Gallery – Newtown Square - February 2011
• 2010 Women’s Day Celebration – International House, Philadelphia
• “Stitch by Stitch” - WCA & Rubia Project: Collaboration with American and Afghan Women artists – see www.marycrowley.com/rubia
• Penn State Library 40^th Anniversary Exhibit – Brandywine Delaware County Campus
• “The Dress Project” – Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) Highwire Gallery - Philadelphia
• “Making History - Here and Now” - WCA - Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia
• WCA – “Women’s Artist Conference” – Washington, DC
• “Well Fed Artists Gallery” Member – Third Street, Old Philadelphia

• The Tim Mark Endowment at Penn State - Brandywine Delaware County
• The Creese Gallery at Drexel University
• Delaware County Community College - Media

Veronica’s work is published in local poetry chap books and has been featured in the international publication, “The Global Village”.

Gledhill teaches “Painting with Pastel” - Adult Night Classes for the Rose Tree Media School District and produces a line of hand-painted note cards locally sold in the following fine art galleries:

• “Tyme Gallery” on Eagle Road in Havertown
• “SOTA: Spirit of the Artist” at 1022 Pine Street, Philadelphia
• “Seven Stones” Gallery on State Street in Media
• “BeaDazzle Artisan Boutique” in Wallingford, at the Community Art Center

Veronica is a registered artist with Media Arts Council and a member of the Women’s Caucus for Art in Philadelphia, www.mediaartscouncil.org

Gledhill co-produced and directed two Philadelphia Fringe Festival events at

“The Ethical Society” in Philadelphia and was the Art Director, writer and performer

in a collaborative creative project, the short film titled, “This Way Out”. www.artsyvideo.com/thiswayout

Moore Senior Show Awardee: Pamella Reimers

Each year the Philadelphia Chapter presents an award at Moore College of Art and Design. This year our jurors were Alison Altergott, Bonnie MacAllister, Joanna Fulginiti (not pictured), Ana Vizcarra Rankin (not pictured), and Ellen Bonett (not pictured.) Alison and Bonnie presented the award to Pamella Reimers. We are excited to award Pam a cash award and a one year membership to our chapter and the National Women's Caucus for Art. Pam will also join the Young Women's Caucus.

Thank you to Moore College of Art and Design's Elizabeth Gilly, President Happy Fernandez, and Belena Chapp (not pictured) for such a tremendous show!

Art Retreat

Zip line, boat, fish, music, art, sun, fun

Sponsors:
Midwives Collective
Square Peg Artery and Salvage
Adventureland Day Camp & Picnics
Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter

Event is ticketed. Bring your own food and alcohol.

To buy early bird tix: here

Kids are FREE.

Terrarium Workshop
Projections by Certain Circuits
Open Stage

Zip Line

Boats

Proceeds donated to Arts Street Textile Studio: Handmade with the Homeless

image courtesy of Eleanor Leonne Bennett

If you would like to perform at this event (dance, music, face painting, performance, theater, poetry, etc) or if you would like to lead a workshop (art, yoga, etc) please send an email to ruthschanbacher@gmail.com

Facebook event: here

Review: Battle of the Sexes (Delaware Art Museum

By Tara Lynn Johnson

Correspondent, Montgomery Media

"Pink is for girls and blue is for boys. Women are more fragile than men. Right?

Gender stereotypes have existed for centuries. One exhibit is challenging them by asking: Do male and female artists create certain kinds of works? Can you tell just by looking at them?

Test your gender preconceptions at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington during the “Battle of the Sexes” exhibit. Thirteen pairs of artworks sit side by side letting viewers vote on which of each pair was created by a man and which by a woman.

The exhibit was organized by the Philadelphia Women’s Caucus for Art, whose mission is to create community through art, education and social activism. The group invited 13 women to participate; then those women asked a man to pair up with them. Artists’ first names do not appear on exhibit labels (or in this article) to keep their gender hidden.

Viewers fill out ballots to vote on the gender of each artist in each pair. The results will be tallied May 7 (the exhibit runs through May 22) and posted on the museum’s website (www.delart.org)."

Read the whole story here.

Networking Day: May 21 with DC Chapter

Sign up using this form. Let us know if you would like to carpool at phila_wca@yahoo.com. This is a terrific networking event!

Battle of the Sexes: Meet the Artists May 8

There will be a gathering for artists and guests at the Delaware Art Museum on Sunday, May 8th, 1-3 pm to coincide with the big reveal of voting tallies and genders.

Delaware Art Museum 2301 Kentmere Parkway Wilmington, Delaware 19806 Battle of the Sexes Meet the Artists May 8 1-3 p.m. Show runs: March 5, 2011 – May 22, 2011 Organized as a participatory experience by The Philadelphia Women’s Caucus for Art, Battle of the Sexes presents works by women artists, each of whom has invited a male artist to exhibit with her. Artists’ names will not appear on labels identifying the works. Visitors will receive ballots, on which they may vote on whether each work was created by a female or male artist. The results will be tallied and posted on this website on May 7th, along with the names and genders of the artists. Results will also be published on the Philadelphia-WCA blog, and emailed to voters who request the results on their ballots. In accord with The Women’s Caucus for Art’s mission to create community through art, education, and social activism, Battle of the Sexes will have you looking, thinking, talking, voting, and coming back to see the mysteries revealed. Battle of the Sexes features the following pairs of artists: C. Back & B. Tobia E. Bonett & F. Kane P.R. Burgoyne & M. H. Elcin C. Carter & N.P. Dul K. Hoffman & M.H. Pachnowski T. Kline & D. McCarthy B. MacAllister & V. Thompson J. Craven & A.D. Murray R. Holcomb & D. Riukas V. Maksymonicz & E. Russell M. Wilson & R. Wuilfe A. Altergott & K. Mitchell D. Knox & M. Knox

Young Women's Caucus at Feminist Tea Party at NYFA Gallery (4/14)

Thursday April 14, 2-4pm
“Activism in Performance: Representing Women”
co-hosted by Jaimianne Amicucci, Autumn Horne and Bonnie MacAllister

Jaimianne, Autumn and Bonnie are members of The Young Women’s Caucus, an internal caucus of the National Women's Caucus for Art.
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Jaimianne Amicucci is one of the head officers of the YoungWC and a board member of the National Woman’s Cacus. She is also a graduate of Finlandia University and will soon enter the graduate program in curatorial studies at MICA in Baltimore. In her art practice her preferred medium is porcelain. http://www.ceramicthought.com

Autumn Horne is an actor, aerialist, dancer, visual artist, martial artist, fight choreographer, narrative dance/movement choreographer, puppeteer, playwright and one-time zookeeper. She is originally from South Florida, now living mostly in New York City. Her newest project is Fight or Flight Response, creating ground/aerial performances rooted in the earliest forms of story communication; gesture, dance, music, theatre. She performs with other artists, masked or unmasked, on the earth, on each other, and in the trees and sky, using aerial apparatus such as silks, static trapeze or lyra. She is dedicated to being a lifelong student as well as a teacher and performer. http://www.autumnhorne.com

Bonnie MacAllister is the Performance Chair of the Young Women's Caucus, a board member of the International Committee, Past President of the Philadelphia Chapter and belongs to the Philadelphia, New York and DC chapters. She is a graduate of Albright College (BA, English-French-Women's Studies) and Temple University (MEd). She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris (Cinema and Semiotics) and the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Fulbright-Hays, History, Culture, and Migration). As a playwright and multimedia performance artist, she combines super 8, video, painting, photography, slide installations, with deconstructed breath verse. Her first large scale piece in Philadelphia was the "A-pop-ca-lipstick Burlesque Carnival" (2004). Her latest work is "She Should Have Written It: A Tale of Bohemian Surveillance" (Shubin Theatre). bonniemacallister.com

A Feminist Tea Party, a project that at its inception was meant to last only an afternoon, has continued now for over a year. After several shows in a variety of venues, we are very excited about our first solo exhibition, at the NYFA Gallery.

We will be serving tea, sweets, and joining guests in conversation every day from April 11th to April 15th in our installation, a recreation of a mid-century parlor.

Each day a different co-host or team of co-hosts will present a conversation or event, engaging guests in conversation surrounding a topic related to feminism that they have chosen for this time and space. Please see our schedule page for more details.

As always, everyone is welcome regardless of your gender, your political persuasion or whether you identify as feminist. Please join us, and make our collaboration your own.

We hope to see you there!

A Feminist Tea Party
The NYFA Gallery
New York Foundation for the Arts
20 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY
April 11th-15th
12noon until 5pm daily

Monday April 11, 2-4pm
“Feminist Swag : Bitches and Hoes in contemporary Rap and Hip Hop”
with Jenn Dierdorf

Tuesday April 12, 2-4pm
“Pop Music and Feminism”
with damali abrams

Wednesday April 13, 4:30-6pm
“Male / Female (Check One)
A discussion of how our gender defines (and/or doesn't) our everyday life”
with Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida

Thursday April 14, 2-4pm
“Activism in Performance: Representing Women”
with Jaimianne Amicucci, Autumn Horne and Bonnie MacAllister

Friday April 15, TBA

http://afeministteaparty.wordpress.com/

Featured Member Artist: Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski

Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski holds her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Maryland and her BA in painting and drawing from the American University in Washington, DC. She has exhibited on national and international levels and her work is in numerous collections which include the Malt Beach Art Center in Tampere, Finland, the College of Charleston, the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY, University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Department and many private collections. She has taught at the University of Maryland, Western Carolina University, Columbus College, Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Gibbes Museum School in Charleston, SC to name a few.

When Marcelle lived in the mountains of North Carolina she negotiated with county and state officials to start an arts council. She successfully organized many fundraisers, art festivals and regularly brought artists-in-residence to their public schools. When she lived in Atlanta, Georgia she was an artist-in-residence on the city, county and state levels that were funded by local arts councils, the Georgia Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

While living in Atlanta, Marcelle was the first visual artist to be involved in an artist-in-residence in a homeless shelter for women and children. She also lobbied for art advocacy in Atlanta. She left the Atlanta area and lived in rural Appalachia continuing as a working painter and also taught art education, art history and studio classes at Cumberland Community College in Middlesboro, KY. Following living in east Tennessee, Marcelle moved to Brooklyn, NY and became active in the American Society of Contemporary Artists, the Salmagundi Club and the National Association of Women Artists. Marcelle served as President, vice President, and Governing Board member of the National Association of Women Artists. Marcelle then moved to Marlton, New Jersey and continued to actively exhibit her artwork in and around New York City in addition to the Philadelphia area and with the Tri-State Artists Equity.

Marcelle, a working artist, has lived the past four years in the Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. She is remains active in the Women’s Caucus for Art and in particular the DC and Philadelphia chapters. Marcelle often paints locally in “live” music jam session.

“Painting is my passion. The act of painting--the movement, the gesture, the process of selecting brushes, palette knives, paints and colors, textured mediums, the music underlying and reinforcing the process— is an exuberant ritual. All five senses are part of this painting / ritual process that has been the essence of my adult artistic life.
My concern for not “being” identified from a specific region of the country or identified with a specified style of painting has at times been isolating, but it is central to my creative process, and to my quest for recognition, validation and acceptance. My place as a woman artist - wife, mother, and grandmother - raised and educated in a male-dominated society is also at the heart of my process. Heartache, grief, loss, pain, joy, love, bliss, lust, excitement… look at my paintings as a mirror of my life. This is who I am, a colorist in a digital age.”

http://www.marcelleharwellpachnowski.com/