Women's Caucus for Art

WCA’s June Artist Feature of the Month is Melissa Potter a member of the Peninsula chapter! Melissa Hilliard Potter is a feminist interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited in venues including White Columns, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, to name a few. Her films featuring the lost histories and traditions of women have been screened at international film festivals, such as the Cinneffable and the Reeling Int...ernational LGBT Film Festival. Potter developed research, documentary and advocacy projects with ethnographers and intangible heritage experts to protect, interpret and archive endangered women’s handicrafts and social customs. Her awards include three Fulbright Scholar grants for her work in the Balkans. Her hand papermaking project with Maggie Puckett, An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank publication now lives in an art collection in the Global Seed Vault mountain in Svalbard, Norway. As a curator, Potter’s exhibitions include Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art with Jessica Cochran and Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice with Neysa Page Lieberman. A prolific writer, her critical essays have been printed in BOMB, Art Papers, Metropolis M, Hand Papermaking, and AfterImage among others. Potter is a Professor at Columbia College Chicago. You can see Potter’s artwork on the WCA homepage at nationalwca.org and on her website at www.melpotter.com

Welcome to our new series, WCA Tech Workshops, a collection of workshops focusing on marketing and communication tech. This summer we are providing several tech workshops from social media to Google Drive to help you get comfortable with integrating tech in your art practices and use them effectively in setting and achieving goals for you and your WCA chapter. Sign up here (note: Please read class prerequisites): https://tinyurl.com/yk5yubba

ONE MORE WEEK TO SUBMIT! #WomensCaucusforArt is holding an Annual T-Shirt Design Competition for t-shirts that will be made available for sale to members and friends. The competition is for members and the winning designer will receive 30% of the profit from the sales of the t-shirts. The designs should evoke a feminist perspective that advocates for women’s rights and equality as expressed by the power of Women’s Caucus for Art’s diversity, reach, and impact. The competitio...n designs will be judged by the WCA Executive Board. Entry for submissions opens closes on Tuesday, June 1. Submissions should be formatted as jpg and the maximum file size is 5MB. All entries should be submitted here: https://nationalwca.org//evocative-visions-t-shirt-compet/ Please contact [email protected] with any questions!

Women's Caucus for Art of Greater Washington, DC Changing the World: Women Role Models is now up to view from now to June 30! The goal of this exhibition is to honor and highlight the women in our lives that have impacted us directly and indirectly that helped to shape us into the women we are today. This could range from family, friends, educators, politicians, writers, clergy, scientists, artists, and entertainers in traditional and nontraditional roles. We are living in a time where women are making huge strides in their perspective fields. This exhibit explores the figurative form and women as role models, and challenges artists to share their stories and perspectives on how women are changing the world. Visit the exhibit here: https://wcadc.org/changingtheworld

*WCA Board Positions Open* GET INVOLVED! Now it’s easier than ever to be a part of the national board. All of our meetings are organized via virtual meeting platforms such as Zoom. There are several volunteer opportunities available. We are searching for a President Elect, VP for Development, Programming Chair, Conference Chair and Student Clubs Chair. If any of these positions spark your interest, or if you are interested in serving on any of our committees, please contact WCA President, Laura Morrison at [email protected].

With November 3rd right around the corner, Tomashi Jackson’s timely collage works unpack American myth by weaving together complex narratives that highlight the ways in which illusions of democracy and equity exist in a system designed to oppress. Jackson’s artistic process and final works make visible the convergences between the past and present, patterns in experiences of public space, and frames issues of governance, policy, and law through people’s lived experience. https://www.artnews.com//tomashi-jackson-interview-123457/

Cauleen Smith is a filmmaker and multimedia artist. She is best known for her experimental works that address the African-American identity, specifically the issues facing black women today. Smith is best known for her feature film Drylongso.

As two bills were passed by Congress in early October to better address the epidemic of violence Indiengous women face, a new exhibition of photographs and other artwork organized by the Ziibiwing Centre of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, brings additional awareness to the issue. "Boontak! (Stop It!): Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island" is on view online and at the center until May 5. The photographs of Indigenous women taken by photographer Marcella Hadden remind viewers what it means to be an ally, and how important it is to continue to participate in the grassroots efforts supporting the movement to protect Indigenous women. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/n/mmiwg-exhibition-michigan

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Women Who Work by WCA Florida This portrait exhibit Celebrates Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. Women artists honor diversity and achievements of St Petersburg FL women. By bringing women out of the shadows, they see the larger view representing the legions of women whose efforts and achievements deserve to be included in the historical record. Exhibit at Eckerd College Cobb Gallery View gallery: https://womenscaucusartflorida.squarespace.com/womenwhowork