WCA/DC: CELEBRATE THE CENTENNIAL OF THE 1913 WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MARCH!!!!! JOIN WCA/DC!!!

CELEBRATE THE CENTENNIAL OF THE 1913 WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MARCH!!!!!   JOIN WCA/DC ON   Sat. March 2 & Sun. March 3 2013   Saturday, March 2 - 10:00-2:00 pm, Panel and Exhibit Celebrating the Centennial of 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade Free and Open to the Public Come One or all Events! 1. 10:00 am - Meet at the Foggy Bottom Whole Foods 2201 I St NW Washington, DC near Foggy Bottom Metro 2. 11 am-12:30 PM - Attend Panel, "72 Years of Fighting for the Vote," The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium, 21st at H Streets, NW 3. 12:45 pm - 1:15 - Arrive Metro Center Subway Stop, 13th Street NW Exit. 4. 1:00 - 2:15 pm Walk to Food Court & have Lunch, The Shops at National Place, 14th St NW 5. 2:15 pm - View the the 1913 Suffrage Parade Exhibit ,Lobby of Nat'l Press Club, 529 14th St NW(just south of F St.), 13th Floor NOTE: You are welcome to join us at any point.  Call Marilyn that day if you plan to join the group later! Sunday, March 3, 2013, 8:30am  A March to Commemorate the 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade -  1. 8:30am - WCADC Members & Friends Meet at the white marble Peace Monument on the west side of the Capitol. The 44-foot-high monument stands in the circle to the west of the Capitol at Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street, N.W. 2. 9:00 a.m. - The Parade begins at the Capitol, proceeds down Pennsylvania Avenue with an assembly on the National Mall for closing remarks. The entire parade route is approximately 3.1 miles. RSVP to Marilyn Hayes at hayesarts@yahoo.com by Thursday, February 28th if you are interested in joining WCADC at these events.   Please be sure to let Marilyn know which event(s) you plan to attend, and please include your cell phone number in your response. When you respond that you are coming to an event Marilyn will confirm your response & send you her cell phone number via email. If you RSVP for the parade, she will also include an image of the Peace Monument in her response to assist you in finding it. For additional info go to www.nwhm.org, the National Women's History Museum's website)   WCA/DC  Meeting March 10th Come and learn about upcoming events! Members get Interviewed! Get your 10 minutes of Fame get interviewed and share your art with a wider audience. Your interview and your artwork  will be on WCA/DC Blog, my blog  and other links. Contact Cindy for details Meeting Sites Do you know of some arts related meeting sites? Let us know? Calendar 2013 More Details to Follow April 6th A Bluebell Paint Out at Bull Run State Park in Manassas, VA Contact: Elena Maza May Free Talk Art Basel Adah Rose of the Adah Rose Galler Contact: CIndy Renteria   June   14th Street Galleries Contact: Cherie M Redlinger July    Hirshhorn Museum Visit Needs Coordinator August - SYMBOLS, SERIES, SELVES 2013 -EXHIBIT DATES: Sunday, August 4-Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 Opening Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 1:30pm-3:30pm  Glenview Mansion Gallery  Rockville, MD, September Planning Meeting and Art Share  Needs Coordinator  October- Skyline Drive Paint Out 1.Host: Elena has a Lifetime National Parks Senior Pass; she can take 3 Artists in her car and can get into the park free. Park entry fee is $15. 2. Marilyn Hayes offered her home in that area for day visit and Apple Harvest       November- Visit O Street Mansion Needs Coordinator December - Holiday Bunch in Community Room Contact:Marguerite Beck-Rex Do you have events for the group let us know? WCA  Exhibit  Opportunities Posted on National WCA Material Witness -- Call for Art The exhibition Material Witness seeks to broadly represent artwork defining our time. This is a national call for art by women. All media is encouraged.Organized by the Georgia chapter of the WCA in collaboration with Agnes Scott College, the exhibit will present the perspective of women artists from across the USA working in a variety of media. Through their art they process the world around them, their work becoming a document of these times. A panel of three prominent women in the arts will curate the exhibit: artist and curator, Lisa Alembik, artist and educator, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, gallery owner, Marcia Wood. See website for juror bios and links. http://www.wcaga.org/page/the-jurors Exhibit opens September 26, 2013 at the Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College, Atlanta GA. Color catalog. $1500 in awards. Submissions are accepted online through CaFE, deadline April 1, or by mail, deadline March 15, 2013. WCA members qualify for discounted entry fee of $30. At checkout use discount code: 2013wca. See website for prospectus and links, http://www.wcaga.org/page/material-witness-1, or contact us at exhibit@wcaga.org. Violence - A Juried Exhibition Dear Colleagues: Please disseminate this Call for Art. The exhibition is being sponsored by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art. Current members of the New York City and Washington, DC Chapters are eligible to submit work.We live in a violent world. Sandy Hook, Nickel Mines and Columbine. September 11 and Oklahoma City. Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea and two World Wars to end all war. JFK, RFK, MLK and Harvey Milk. Lisa Steinberg and JonBenét Ramsey. And the millions of others whose names we've forgotten or have never known. When is violence justified and when it is not? Are violent acts committed by ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances to be judged differently? If nature itself is inherently violent, is human nature any different? We are seeking artworks that address these complicated questions. They might offer hope; they might scream out in despair. They might be political; they might be very personal. http://www.nationalwca.org/newspanel/index.php?cat=2  The other "F word" -- CALL For ART P The BHCC Art Gallery will Present: International Women's History Month 2013*note the term "F Bomb" has just been entered into the Webster's Dictionary The Future of Feminism Today March 7 through April 5 2013 Artists' Reception: Thursday, March 14, 6 - 8pm A300/Art Galley "Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere." http://www.nationalwca.org/newspanel/index.php?cat=2   Contact Cindy Renteria cindyart1@yahoo.com Cindy K. Renteria President WCA/DC   Jane Forth Vice- President WCA/DC

WCA/DC Links http://www.wcadc.org/ http://wcadc.blogspot.com/

WCA Conference

The WCA Conference started at 7:30 am with  Chapters' Council Meeting & Elections. I felt honored to represent the Philadelphia Chapter and share all of our great chapter events. In March, the Philadelphia Chapter had been inspired by Penn’s “Year of Games”, International Women’s Day 2012 at International House Philly highlights the interdisciplinary landscape of women’s health and the challenges to achieving justice. This summer exhibit, RE/Using our RE/Sources, an Eco-Art Performance and Exhibit, had its opening reception on Sunday, June 24, 2012 at the Sandy Springs Museum in Sandy Springs, Maryland. This exhibition and performance was a combination of efforts by the Washington DC and Philadelphia Chapter. In the fall, Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter members led an anonymous band of sketchers through Old City First Friday in September 2012.

Additionally, Holy Family University invited us to hold a month long exhibition. Members and HFU Faculty spoke on a panel about Women and Technology. This winter, Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia Chapter Ragdoll Project Chair Joanna Fulginiti and Co-President Bonnie MacAllister submitted our Ragdoll Project video to Philly DoGooder.  We also have a call for art to our Philadelphia Members and the DC and NYC chapters. The representatives then voted for the national board members.

I had time to network with some wonderful chapter representatives. In fact, the New Hampshire chapter had a great fundraiser idea. They printed notecards of members' artwork and sold the notecards to sustain thier scholarship fund. Of course, I bought the notecards and will bring them to the April meeting.

Then it was off the Brunch with Luminaries at Mangia Restaurant, 50 West 57th Street. Luminaries were Emma Amos, Diane Burko, Faith Ringgold, and Ruth Weisberg and Cynthia Navaretta.

The afternoon was spent at lectures- the WCA/CAA Panel WCA Blockbuster Shows: Renewal, Activism & Innovation and the  WCA/CAA Panel Building a Legacy for Women Artists. 

If you have never been to a WCA conference, I would highly recommend it. The connections that I made were amazing. Everyone was so enthusiastic, positive and welcoming!

Guest Post: Permanent Wave Philly Events

Happy last day of February!  Try not to be sad as the months fly by because Permanent Wave would like to invite you to a whole slew of March events--from dance parties to photo shoots to open mics. Read on and join us for the last month of our "Create Chaos!" art show and programming at Eris Temple Arts.

DANCE PARTY TO BENEFIT LADYFEST PHILLY

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

9:00PM

@ERIS TEMPLE ARTS 602 South 52nd Street

FREE

In light of our discussion at the Cocktails, Schmocktails event last month, we're having a dance party! We all agreed that we wanted more spaces to drink and dance freely without all the crap that sometimes comes along with misogynist bar culture. So let's do it! Proceeds benefit Ladyfest Philly, an activism, music, and arts festival happening in Philly from June 7-9, 2013, 10 years after the first Ladyfest Philly! 

Featuring:
DJ JULIA FACTORIAL
[WPRB / Clean Yr Room / England Belongs To Twee DJ, brings a bag of beats and anthemic dancefloor insurrection and resurrection]
PHLASH (Tittie City)
DJ GRRRL AFRAID
RSVP on Facebook

FEMINIST PHOTO SHOOT + LIVE SKETCH

SATURDAY, MARCH 9
12:00PM

@ERIS TEMPLE ARTS 602 South 52nd Street 

FREE

Consider this a wild and free opportunity to reframe the visual understanding of gender though art!  We'll photograph and be photographed in manners that speak to our mutability as people.  We aim to re-visualize what it means to be a female/male, feminine/masculine or a socially gender-coded subject by being the subjects and creators of our own feminist photo shoot!

To shoot, BYOC(bring your own camera, or $5 to take one of our disposables)

Followed by a live sketch beginning at 3:30PM.

Send us an email if you'd like to model.
RSVP on Facebook

OPEN MIC + OPEN JAM

SATURDAY, MARCH 23
7:00PM@ERIS TEMPLE ARTS 602 South 52nd Street

FREE

Time to Create Chaos!  Show up and share something: music, poetry, story-telling, performance, whatever! Or just show support to the talented folks of our community. Open jam will follow.

SKILL SHARE + CRAFT SESSION

SUNDAY, MARCH 24

2:00PM

@ERIS TEMPLE ARTS 602 South 52nd Street

FREE

We love DIY fun!  At the last PW skillshare, we learned to screen print, play ukulele, and move in ways we didn't know we could.  Check back on the PW page in the next few days to see what skills we'll be learning this time around.  Get in touch if you've got a skill to share.

COMING SOON!CREATE CHAOS! FESTIVAL

More details TBA.

ABOUT CREATE CHAOS!

Create Chaos! is a group exhibition presented by Permanent Wave Philly and Eris Temple Arts that showcases female-identified artists, musicians, filmmakers and performers. This show aims to exhibit work and performances based around the theme of chaos and discord from a female perspective.

This multimedia event runs from January 12, 2013 to March 31, 2013 and will feature music and performance events, workshops, film screenings and other out-of-the-box events. 

View the full list of featured artists here.

RECENT EVENTS 

TALKIN ABOUT SEX 'N STUFF WITH REBECCA KATHERINE HIRSCH

@ERIS TEMPLE ARTS
Thanks to all who made it out to this conversation.  We couldn't watch it at the time, but Rebecca recommended this Swedish sex ed video called Sex on the Map if you're wondering what sex-positive sex education can look like. 

RECOMMENDED

WOMYNSFEST @ the Rotunda, March 9, 7:30pm (after the PW Shoot/Sketch)

Vitamin D Productions has been putting this on for 13 years.  Free and all ages.

THANK YOU!

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To get involved with Permanent Wave Philly, respond to permanentwavephilly@gmail.com to be added to the PW member listserv, which is a list dedicated to planning and discussion within the group.  

Member News: Virginia Maksymowicz

Congratulations to our Treasurer, Virginia who is published on the Art Blog: Read "Bell’Italia Art New and Old – Observations on art in Italy in three parts, Part 1"  by Virginia Maksymowicz & Blaise Tobia here

National Conference: "We Can"

The "We Can" montage created by Amanda Moyer at the Lifetime Achievement Awards in NYC.  Members created original art using their hands to illustrate "we can."  

For some great coverage of the conference, click here.

Call for Art: Material Witness (Agnes Scott College, GA)

The exhibition "Material Witness" seeks to broadly represent artwork defining our time. This is a national call for art by women. All media is encouraged.

Organized by the Georgia chapter of the WCA in collaboration with Agnes Scott College, the exhibit will present the perspective of women artists from across the USA working in a variety of media. Through their art they process the world around them, their work becoming a document of these times.

A panel of three prominent women in the arts will curate the exhibit: artist and curator, Lisa Alembik, artist and educator, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, gallery owner, Marcia Wood. See website for juror bios and links. http://www.wcaga.org/page/the-jurors

Exhibit opens September 26, 2013 at the Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College, Atlanta GA. Color catalog. $1500 in awards.

Submissions are accepted online through CaFE, deadline April 1, or by mail, deadline March 15, 2013.

WCA members qualify for discounted entry fee of $30. At checkout use discount code: 2013wca.

See website for prospectus and links,http://www.wcaga.org/page/material-witness-1, or contact us at exhibit@wcaga.org.

Guest Post: Small But Might Arts Grant (featuring our outgoing Co-President, Bonnie MacAllister)

CREATE. SUSTAIN. RETAIN. Bonnie MacAllister, Philadelphia Artist We Support Small But Mighty ARTISTS! Small But Mighty Arts seeks to provide Philadelphia artists with small grants of $200 - $1,000 and additional resources at critical points in their creative careers to serve as a catalyst to further their work while living and creating in Philadelphia. The SBM Arts Grant is funded in part, thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The SBM Team is currently working to raise the matching funds needed to make Small But Mighty Arts a reality for Philadelphia artists! Stay Connected READ THE WHOLE NEWSLETTER HERE. www.smallbutmightyarts.org

Small But Mighty Arts | 1315 Walnut Street, Suite 320 | c/o CultureWorks | Philadelphia | PA | 19107

National Conference: Photos by Ana Vizcarra Rankin ("Bound" Reception, Phoenix Gallery, NY)

Member News: Bonnie MacAllister :: SPECTACLE (Opens 4/6, iMPeRFeCT Gallery)

Chapter News: Philly DoGooder (Congratulations to the Ragdoll Project Video that was nominated for a PhillyDoGooder Award)

Watch the Ragdoll Project Video Here 

Only 1 Week until we Get Funky!

And Mayor Mike Nutter will be on the dance floor to help celebrate our honorees!

For those who haven’t got their tickets: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Buy Tickets Here: http://hmc.ticketleap.com/philly-dogooder-awards-night/
 

Attire is Business/Cocktail, so come fashionable and ready to light up the red carpet.

REMINDER

Share a picture of someone "Doin' Good" with #phillydogooder and you could win 2 Tix plus get spotlighted on Philly.com

More info here.

David Gloss and Kevin Colahan Team Philly DoGooder MEDIA Inquiries: michelle@skaibluemedia.com RSVP: http://www.hmc.ticketleap.com/xyz Info: http://www.phillydogooder.com Where UArts Hamilton Hall 320 South Broad St Phila 19103 When Thurs, Feb 21st, 2013 @7pm RSVP Purchase tickets HERE now before they sell out.

National Women's Month: Guest Blog from WCA/DC

National Women's Month. WCADC's March chapter event involves participating in a national event of major importance to women nationwide. It is the March on Saturday, March 2 organized by the National Women's History Museum to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Movement march in 1913 thatresulted in Women gaining the right to vote. Let's honor our foremothers by participating in the parade and other events. website http://www.nwhm.org/ See more info below.

Judith Kaplan NWHM Board Member is also a WCA Florida Chapter member

 

WCADC is planning to join the march and probably will be able to house some people who wish to participate in the events that weekend. 

 

Women's History Month 2013-
The 1913 Suffrage March down Pennsylvania Avenue was a significant turning point in the push for a woman's right to vote. 

If you are in Washington March 1-3 join NWHM and Sewall-Belmont House & Museum in cooperation with AAUW, DAR, and NWHP among others who are working with DC Cultural Tourism, the National Press Club and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority to create a great weekend of activities from March 1-3, 2013.

Linda Denny, a NWHM Board member, is chairing the Committee to kick-off this celebration. In addition to the 2013 March on Sunday, March 3, the events begin on March 1-2 when there will be exhibits, readings and a performance of Take What is Yours, a play about Alice Paul focusing on her arrest, imprisonment and hunger strike in the quest for suffrage. Please contact Linda Denny at ljdenny@gmail.com. Stay tuned for email updates and information posted on www.nwhm.org as the activities unfold. Spread the word to friends and associates to join in this historic weekend.THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM. 2013 LOOKS LIKE THE YEAR FOR US TO GET THE WASHINGTON DC SITE ON OR NEAR THE MALL!
Moving Forward in 2013

NWHM Commission Legislation -Topping our Priority List is securing the passage of the NWHM Congressional Commission Legislation. With the election of new women Senators and Representatives, we have the largest contingent of women in the Congress in our Nation's History and they bring a new sense of awareness and support for a Museum honoring American Women.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION : Petition Drive - NWHM, its members and Coalition Partners have turned in 20,000 signatures urging action on our legislation to members of Congress when they return for the 113th Congress. Keep the signatures coming to show your Members of Congress that you support a National Women's History Museum and encourage your members to do the same. Add your names to the petition online Women's History Month 2013- The 1913 Suffrage March down Pennsylvania Avenue was a significant turning point in the push for a woman's right to vote.

Additional Information About Events 

General Public Events:

The 1913 Suffrage Parade Exhibit
Throughout March in the lobby of the National Press Club
529 14th Street (just south of F St.), 13th Floor, Washington, DC 10045
Learn about key figures from the historic suffrage parade and the role of the press in helping to turn public opinion in favor of women’s voting rights. Created by the National Women’s History Museum with support from the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, the exhibit is free and open to the public. Press Club restaurant, The Fourth Estate, is on the 13th Floor and open to the public. The Metro Center Metro stop is two blocks away.

72 Years of Fighting for the Vote 
Saturday, March 2, 11 AM-12:30 PM—The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium
21st at H Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20052
Up front seating included in VIP Package
Learn more about how women’s right to vote was won after a 72-year fight, involving three generations of women. Enjoy a not-to-be-missed panel of experts moderated by Ann Lewis, Chair of the Commission on Celebrating Women’s History and Counsel to President Bill Clinton. No ticket necessary. Near the Foggy Bottom Metro stop. 

TAKE WHAT IS YOURS by ancedota
Saturday, March 2 at 2pm or 8pm—The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium
21st and H Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20052
For tickets-GW Lisner Auditorium Box Office: www.lisner.org 202-994-6800
Ticket included in VIP package with preferred seating
Experience New York theater company anecdota’s special multimedia staged readings of its Off Broadway play about Alice Paul, TAKES WHAT IS YOURS, as a fundraising event for NWHM. Four years in the making and composed in the words of Alice Paul, the National Woman’s Party and documents of the time, the play earned New York Times and Backstage Critics’ Picks and rave reviews. The New York Times dubbed it “a psychological thriller about the woman’s suffrage movement …riveting …powerful.” Being adapted by Erica Fae and Jill A. Samuels for large audiences as a fundraiser for the NWHM, the 70-minute staged reading will feature two actors, video segments from the play, and the stunning original sound score. It will be followed by a post-reading discussion with actress Erica Fae and director Jill A. Samuels and others. Located at 21st and H Streets, NW near the Foggy Bottom Metro stop. 

“First Ladies: Hidden in Plain Sight” 
Cokie Roberts and Professor Catherine Allgor 
Monday, March 4 5:30-7pm--The Arts Club of Washington, DC 2071 I (Eye) St, NW 
For ticket purchase: http://nwhm.ticketleap.com/first-ladies-hidden-in-plain-sight/
Ticket included in VIP Package
Journalist Cokie Roberts, author of two books on America’s First Ladies of the infancy of the country, will talk with Professor Catherine Allgor, author of a recent biography of Dolley Madison and Director of Education at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA. They will focus on the challenges of telling the stories of the First Ladies. Wine and cheese will be served. Near the Foggy Bottom and Farragut West Metro stops. 

The Women's Caucus for Art of Greater Washington DC

Website:  www.wcadc.org