Member News: Ana Vizcarra Rankin

Come Check out Ana Vizcarra Rankin's studio tomorrow evening. She the first studio on the right, on the 9th floor #910.  Hope to see you there.

OPEN STUDIO NIGHT

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.   

SAMUEL M.V. HAMILTON BUILDING

ADMISSION TO OPEN STUDIO NIGHT IS FREE   

Meet the next generation of artists at this year's Open Studio Night. Studios of students enrolled in PAFA's MASTER OF FINE ARTS, BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS, CERTIFICATE, and POST BACCALAUREATE programs will open their studios to the public, allowing visitors the rare opportunity to meet fine arts students and view their work in their space. Please enter the Hamilton Building through the side entrance on Lenfest Plaza.

Student Art Sale

8th floor, Room 810

Visit Room 810 to purchase donated student art work throughout Open Studio Night. All proceeds go to Neighborhood Foods, a local urban farming and grass-roots community development organization.

Extend your visit to GALLERY 128 (located on the lower level of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building) to view works from PAFA students. Gallery 128 offers a schedule of exhibitions of student and faculty work juried by PAFA instructors and Museum curators.

In the event of inclement weather Open Studio night will be held Friday, February 17, 2012.

Ana Vizcarra Rankin
www.avrankin.com

Exhibition (Opens March 14-June 4) : "Gender Games" for International Women's Day 2012: Panel on Global Women's Health

Exhibition runs March 14-June 4


Inspired by the theme "Gender Games: Strategies for Achieving Justice in Women's Health Worldwide," the Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter offers a challenging exhibition which toys with the idea of gender, the roles offered, societal prescriptions, global impact, creative reasoning, and socialization.


Alison Altergott
Joan Arbeiter
Qaadira Allen
Ellen Bonett
Megan Driscoll
Danielle Ferrell
Pam Flynn
Martha Knox
Bonnie MacAllister
Heather Penn
Jean Plough
Eva Preston
Ana Vizcarra Rankin
Simone Spicer
Sar Suleman
Rachel Udell


For an exhibition preview, click here.


To RSVP on Facebook, click here.

International Women's Day 2012: Panel on Global Women's Health

Date: 

 Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: 

International House Philadelphia, South America Room 3701 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

See map: Google Maps

This International Women’s Day event, inspired by Penn’s “Year of Games," will highlight the interdisciplinary landscape of women’s health and the challenges to achieving justice. "Gender Games: Strategies for Achieving Justice in Women's Health Worldwide" is a night of celebration, discussion, and networking with health practitioners, policy advocates, and educators working toward justice in women’s health.

Each panelist will focus on the ways women’s health can benefit from a “games approach,” such as developing innovative strategies for success, teamwork toward common goals, and using creative tactics to win. Dr. Felicity Paxton, Penn Women’s Center Director and Lecturer in theAnnenberg School of Communication, will moderate the panel, interweaving the theme of games in a discussion with attendees.

The art and performances will feature artists who express the need for justice in women’s health through their individual art forms.

Partners for this event include several GPA members and others doing important international work in the Philadelphia region:

• UPenn Educational Resource Centers, including African Studies Center, South Asia Center, Center for South Asian Studies, and the Middle East Center
• UPenn Women's Center
• Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women
• Excelano
• United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia
• International House Philadelphia
• Women's Caucus for Art
• Women's Campaign International
• The Anna Crusis Women's Choir
• Usiloquy
• Tune Up
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

For more information, contact Melissa J. DiFrancesco, Assistant Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, at meljen@sas.upenn.edu  or by phone at (215) 573 - 8367.

http://globalphiladelphia.org/events/international-womens-day-2012-panel-global-womens-health

Event: Rachel Lloyd Book Reading and Signing (March 16th)

The Women’s Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter and Circle of Hope Church proudly announce that Rachel Lloyd, founder and executive director of GEMS: Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, will join us on March 16 at 7pm at Circle of Hope Church for a book signing and reading of her memoir, Girls Like Us

Dolls fromThe Ragdoll Project will be on display, and light refreshments will be served. Paperback copies of Girls Like Us will be available for purchase.

Rachel Lloyd is the Executive Director and Founder of GEMS and the author of Girls Like Us (HarperCollins). She earned her BA in psychology from Marymount Manhattan College, and an MA inapplied urban anthropology from the City College of New York. She has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Reebok Human Rights Award. Lloyd is an Ashoka Fellow and a Prime Mover Fellow, and was a leading advocate for the Safe Harbor for Exploited Youth Act, which makes New York the first state to protect, not prosecute, sexually exploited children. She lives in New York City.

GEMS website: www.gems-girls.org
Very Young Girls: http://www.gems-girls.org/get-involved/very-young-girls
Rachel’s latest interview in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/01/24/girls-
for-sale-rachel-lloyd-human-trafficking-exploitation/


Facebook e-vite here: http://www.facebook.com/events/293664130690181/