EVENTS
- April 3: Saturday Salon at 11:00 am email Shelley Heffler for Zoom Link
- April 10: Selling your Art Online workshop (information below)
- April 15: Artist talk featuring Lorraine Bubar at 7:00 pm
- April 22: Land Art Day project, Finding the Feminine
- May 1: Saturday Salon at 11:00 am
- May 8: Healing Together — A Resilience Art Making Workshop
led by Cathy Salser from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
- June 1: Deadline Members Only exhibition A Lovely Day (more information coming soon)
- ONGOING: Join or Renew if you have not already done so (WCA)
- ONGOING: You can support SCWCA Scholarship Funds by purchasing SCWCA catalogs and promotional items online. (see information below)
|
|
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear SCWCA members and friends,
Spring is here and things are heating up at SCWCA. We have so many opportunities for you to participate and get involved with including art making, exhibitions and art dialogue. I am happy to report that we are networking with our Northern Chapter and our Washington DC Chapter to expand our offerings to you.
We will be starting a new talk series called Saturday Salon to be held on the first Saturday of each month beginning April 3, 2021. The first conversation will be centered around your favorite woman artist. Email me for the zoom link.
Our next call for entry is A Lovely Day online entrythingy, $10 for your submission.
Earth Day is April 22, 2021 and we are preparing to create our Land Art Day with your environmental art work to be presented on Zoom, April 25, 2021 at 5:00 pm. Details below..
Workshop with Cathy Salser May 8, 2021 at 10:00 am. The topic will be on leadership and personal healing. All are welcome to join.
Don’t forget our third Thursday artist talk April 15, 2021, Lorraine Bubar will be presenting her amazing artwork on Zoom at 7 pm. Email me with your interest.
We love seeing you on Zoom and cherish your membership. Lifetime membership for WCA is $750 and for an additional $250 you can have a SCWCA lifetime membership.
As always, we stand together. We have much to be proud of as an organization and as artists. Look for our Zoom meetings and opportunities to participate.
Send information about your future exhibitions by the 15th of the month to scwcaenews@gmail.com. We are here to support and appreciate your accomplishments.
|
|
- Saturday Salon In the tradition of female intellectuals of the past, we will be hosting “Salons” on the first Saturday of each month on Zoom. This is an opportunity to connect and converse with fellow artists on a variety of topics. Our first Saturday Salon is Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 11:00 am. The discussion will be focused on women artists who inspire you. Pictured below is Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas to inspire our conversations.
- The second Saturday Salon is scheduled for Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 11:00 am. This will be a joint conversation with the Greater Washington D.C. WCA and the topic will be focused on your process and materials. We do hope you will join us.
Please email Shelley Heffler for all Zoom access codes.
Email karen.j.schifman@csun.edu with questions or suggestions for future salons.
- Lorraine Bubar. Lorraine Bubar's painterly work, created from layers of colorful handmade papers, reflects the heritage of papercutting
 found in diverse cultures around the world and also captures the ecosystems where she has lived and traveled. Cutting with an x-acto knife, she creates images composed of layers of paper and layers of meaning. Much of Lorraine's work illustrates the hierarchy of flora and fauna in natural environments, including its predators and prey. Lorraine also creates work about current urban environments, illustrating the dramatic disparity in cities, including overdevelopment, homelessness, and traffic. She is working with paper, that appears fragile but is strong, as are the people and environments that she depicts. Lorraine's work illustrates what makes each ecosystem unique, such as in the National Parks where she has done Artist in Residencies, and in the changing Los Angeles that is her home.
Her Artist Talk is scheduled for April 15, 2021 at 7:00 pm. Please RSVP to Shelley Heffler for the Zoom link.
- Land Art Day — Finding the Feminine
Join us for a collaborative land art project while exploring the natural world on Earth Day on April 22. You’ll create wherever you are — backyard or park— followed by a weekend closing to share images and stories. More details below. To learn about the story behind Land Art, we highly recommend watching this PBS short film The Case for Land Art
- The application for the SCWCA Professional Development Award sponsored by our scholarship fund is on our SCWCA website. You may now spread the word.
|
|
|
When joining or renewing your membership online at nationalwca.org, under the chapter membership dropdown menu at the bottom of the page, please select “CAS Southern California” for your membership to become active with our chapter. You can also select a national caucus and provide additional information about your background. Please note if you do not select “CAS” you will not have local Southern California chapter membership and will not be eligible for member only programs and exhibitions.
To Join/Renew and pay by check, please contact Treasurer, Karen Schifman at: karen.j.schifman@csun.edu.
New members, please send an email to scwcaenews@gmail.com to be added to our email list.
- National WCA annual dues are: Regular $75, Contributing $100 and Student or Subsidized $50 (must include Student ID and pay by check)
- You must be a current SCWCA chapter member to have a free page on the Member Gallery.
- To learn more about joining the SCWCA online Artist Registry, please contact our Artist Registry Coordinator
- If you wish to purchase a National WCA Lifetime Membership, the rate is $750. You would still need to renew your SCWCA membership separately for $25 each current calendar year. However, once you have have purchased the National WCA Lifetime Membership, you are eligible to purchase an SCWCA Lifetime Membership for $250 at the local level directly with Treasurer Karen Schifman.
- All members are eligible to join chapter committees and national caucuses and committees
- Without selection of a local chapter affiliation (eg “CAS” for Southern California) when joining or renewing at nationalwca.org, you will be a “National WCA Member at Large” and not eligible for chapter-specific programs and events. This choice is not recommended.
|
|
|
|
Dwora Fried has a piece titled Reciprocity at Woman Made Gallery and runs thru April 3, 2021.
|
|
A book of Dwora's latest assemblages titled Boxart, has just been published with an introduction by Mat Gleason.
|
|
|
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS
|
|
|
Land Art Day — Finding the Feminine
What: Land Art Day
When: April 22 with a Zoom Art Share on Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 5:00 pm
Where: In nature and/or wherever you are.
Who: Fabulous you!
Join us for a collaborative land art project while exploring the natural world on Earth Day weekend. You’ll create wherever you are — backyard or park—followed by a closing on Sunday April 25th to share images and stories. And the time is flexible too - just be done by Saturday the April 24, 2021.
RSVP by emailing Susan Spector with your name and the area / neighborhood where you’ll be working.
To learn about the story behind Land Art, we highly recommend watching this PBS short film The Case for Land Art .
And be sure to document your creation with photos as we’ll be uploading them for the Artshare and posting them on our exhibitions web site.
PS — If you choose to work in a public space be sure to follow their usage guidelines.
|
|
|
We have been invited by the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art to attend an Artist Success Workshop Series with Martha Zlatar. Next in this series is:
April 10, 2021 Selling Your Art Offline
Registration fee $29.00
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ooTn-8PtRkWyAS6CxP5vYw
Do you think that selling your art requires you to be pushy or manipulative?
Are you confused about what to do or say when someone walks into your studio to look at your work?
Do you frequently wonder how the art sales process works and how to do it right?
If you answered YES to any of these questions then this workshop is for you!
Selling your art does not have to be hard. There are stages to the sales process and if you learn and practice these stages you will start to see results, You may even start enjoying selling your work and getting to know your buyers and collectors.
In this two-hour online class you will learn:
• The top 6 limiting beliefs that most artists have about the sales process that keep them from making more sales or selling their art all together
• A new paradigm for selling that feels more authentic, engaging and fun
• The 8 stages of selling art (from meeting buyers to closing the sale) giving you a clear framework on how to handle the sales process
• How to speak about your art in a way that is more interesting and engaging so that people are more likely to buy
• Tips and ideas on how to cultivate collectors
|
|
|
Healing Together — A Resilience Art Making Workshop
Saturday, May 8, 2021 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (limited enrollment)
Led by Cathy Salser, this hands-on art making workshop will offer durational practices to anchor healing, grounding and transformation. With breathing space to imagine and create art as a resource we can "live into”, the workshop will include opportunities for ongoing connection and leadership resources to ground personal healing as well as activism.
RSVP to csalser@awbw.org
Cathy Salser is the founder of A Window Between Worlds, celebrating 30 years of supporting communities to use art to transform trauma.
|
|
|
SCWCA MEMBER GALLERY —
Noreen Larinde
|
|
|
|
The featured artist for this month is Noreen Larinde. She describes herself as
a neo-romantic in a coarse age of externals. She uses the pen and brush as
extensions of the inner self, caught in a time and place. Events, environment
and studies in philosophy and aesthetics have been dominant in provoking
the subjective response. (See Soccorso painting above).
The landscape tradition of the Japanese taught the lesson of yojo, or resonance, the expressive power of simplicity, suggestion and nuance in poetic expression so that her images are radically reduced, with shape and color the bases of evocation.
In addition, the cacophonic complexity of the city environment provoked multi-evocative imagery, while experiences of rural life in various countries promoted the exploration of Satori, the notion of interrelatedness of all things, and the aesthetic of Yugen, which derives from Noh, which is Zen drama.
Yugen is the dark, hidden, mysterious inner nature of the self, especially woman, who is seen as unknowable through rational processes, glimpsed only through the artistic experience. This concept has been the core of her work for the past decade.
https://scwca.org/noreen-larinde/
The Member Gallery is a free benefit for SCWCA Members. If you wish to create or update a page, please email Ann Isolde at artistregistryscwca@gmail.com.
You must be a current SCWCA member for your Member Gallery page to remain on the scwca.org website.
|
|
|
|
|
|
 ARTFUL AMPHORARead Karen's monthly blog at ARTFULAMPHORA
|
|
|
WOMAN AROUND TOWN
At last many local museums are starting to open and many galleries are back to business. There is lots to see out there. Just in case you are not ready to venture out, you may want to check out this wonderful podcast featuring Betye Saar, Working My Mojo
|
|
|
My first outing will be to see the current exhibition of paintings by Amy Sherald at Hauser & Wirth. Sherald notes her subjects are positioned as “symbolic tools that shift perceptions of who we are as Americans, while transforming the walls of museum galleries and the canon of art history–American art history, to be more specific.”
Runs thru June 6, 2021
|
|
|
I will then dash over to Culver City to check out the current exhibit at Roberts Projects where Brenna Youngblood: The Light and the Dark is on view. Youngblood’s experience navigating the difficulties of last year and applying her lived experiences – endured as two separate but simultaneous realities – to her practice. From a deadly pandemic to a global movement for equitable racial justice, 2020 was defined by its world-shifting events. The works on view hold space for light and dark, and the material representation of both by taking into account their own considerations and possibly different ideas surrounding each, but as a whole the show is committed to Youngblood’s highly personal response to her particular memories and experiences addressing the events and issues we have seen unfold so far. the LIGHT and the DARK brings together sixteen energy-filled mixed-media collages on canvas and board.
Runs thru May 15, 2021
|
|
As a collage artist, I am particularly anxious to see Paper Cuts, a group exhibition at nearby Walter Maciel Gallery. Works by: Barry Anderson, Carolyn Castaño, Walt Cessna, Colin Doherty, Doug Hall, Cynthia Ona Innis, John Jurayj, Andy Kolar, Hung Liu, Brendan Lott, Greg Mocilnikar, Dean Monogenis, Maria E. Piñeres, Pepa Prieto, Robb Putnam, Lezley Saar, Lisa Solomon and Dana Weiser (image pictured to the left).
Runs thru May 15, 2021
|
|
|
|
Koplin del Rio Gallery presents Michelle Muldrow: The Language of Place. a survey of paintings spanning from 2006 - 2021. The paintings in The Language of Place present a chronology of the artist's continued examination of the landscape and its physical and symbolic implications. The artist explains, “Landscape writes, erases, rewrites and erases. Each altered layer reveals new context, fresh narratives. Landscape has meaning; its meaning is complex, it is not static. Because landscape outlives human history, to understand history, I must interrogate the landscape."
Runs thru May 1, 2021
|
|
|
Made in LA 2020: A Version will finally be on view and divided between the Hammer Museum and the Huntington, with both museum galleries opening April 17th. Made in L.A. 2020 is organized by independent curators Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, with the Hammer’s Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, assistant curator of performance. As usual this exhibit brings cutting edge local artists to the forefront with an emphasis on performance and installation. For example an installation by Sabrina Tarasoff (pictured above) at the Huntington with the title Beyond Baroque is like a haunted house of rooms "based on a legendary, storied group of pioneering west side poets and engineered into a quarter-mile, claustrophobic cabinet of curiosity, charm, deviance, discomfort, dildos, humor and abject horror. Everything you think you know about LA, it seems to suggest, is a psychotic fiction and at the same time, deeply true and lovely." (Shana Nys Dambrot, Artillery Magazine).
Runs thru August 1, 2021
|
|
|
The Oceanside Museum of Art is truly a So.California jewel with an active exhibition program often highlighting the work of women artists and definitely worth the drive. Currently their exhibition is Twenty Women Artists Now. Representing a diverse cross-section of So. California, the exhibition brings together examples of work by this collective group demonstrating their varied practices. Featured artists include: Maite Benito Agahnia, Manuelita Brown, Diana Carey, Rin Colabucci, Bronie Crosby, Susan Darnall, Ellen Dieter, Theresa Vandenburg Donche, Kaori Fukuyama, Julia C.R. Gray (image pictured above), Alison Haley-Paul, Diane Hall, Kathleen Kane-Murrell, Kathy McChesney, Lori Mitchell, Gillian Moss, Julia San Roman-Naughton, Christine Schwimmer, Gail Titus and Brenda York.
Runs thru August 1, 2021
|
|
There are two noteworthy exhibitions coming this summer to the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.Hung Liu: Golden Gate, July 17, 2021 thru January 2, 2022
|
|
|
Judy Chicago: A Retrospective, August 28, 2021 thru January 9, 2022
|
|
|
FINDERS:
- Wishing you had partners for an art vacation?
- Trying to develop a community project?
- Looking for or need a mentor?
- Want to start or join a critique group?
- Looking for framers, shippers or photographers with great references?
- Want to collaborate with another artist?
-Have an idea for a curatorial proposal and want to learn about next steps?
WHAT I'VE FOUND:
If you're on Facebook, check out these two groups.
The first is ARTIST TRADING COMPANY (a place to trade free supplies, materials, studio furniture, etc).
The second is ARTIST CLASSIFIEDS (a place to buy or sell supplies, materials, studio furniture, etc). Both groups are local and both are private, which means that once you join, only other group members can see what you post.
|
|
SEEKERS:
This newsletter would like to make it easier for you to link with other artists. If you have an idea, a wish or a helpful resource including, but certainly not limited to the ones listed here, help us get the word out.
Email your name, contact information and what you
have or hope to share to
Cathy Engel-Marder at culturelink1@yahoo.com by the 23rd of the month. Subject line "Finders and Seekers."
WHAT I'M SEEKING:
Last month I asked for referrals to local non-chain art-related businesses. I'm putting out the same call now and will publish all tips or links in this space next month. I have lost at least two bead suppliers and one general art store to the pandemic. I'm sure I'm not alone. Let's keep our favorite sources afloat by boosting their signals here!
|
|
|
|
COMMUNITY QUILT PROJECT - We Are Home
|
|
|
|
STILL ACCEPTING QUILT BLOCKS. SoLA Contemporary, a non-profit arts organization, is reaching out to members of the community to tell you about an opportunity to participate in. It is a project called We Are Home: A Community Quilt Project. All citizens living in the LA region are invited to join in this artmaking endeavor. Although we are all living separately, our lives are still connected.
Our goal is to collect as many 12" blocks for the quilt as possible to be exhibited at the SoLA gallery and participating organizations.
At the end of touring, the quilts will be auctioned off. All proceeds will be donated to homeless organizations. We appreciate your donation in an effort to help heal our community.
Send to: Shelley Heffler 815 N. La Brea, #487, Inglewood, CA 90302 or for more info shelleyheffler@yahoo.com
|
|
SCWCA 2020 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL REMINDER
Thank you to all our members who have already renewed for the upcoming year. If you have not already done so, please renew your SCWCA 2021 membership online soon at https://www.nationalwca.org. Remember to choose CAS for our local chapter.
To renew by snail mail, send a $75 check payable to SCWCA to Treasurer Karen Schifman at 16795 Monte Hermoso Drive, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.
SCWCA has a YouTube Channel where you can view past and current videos of exhibitions, artists talks, studio tours and more. Check it out!
You can support SCWCA Scholarship Funds by purchasing SCWCA catalogs and promotional items online.
The Common Ground Exhibition catalog is available for purchase on Amazon.
|
SCWCA eNEWS SUBMISSIONS
To share an upcoming exhibition or accomplishment in SCWCA eNews, send the information to scwcaenews@gmail.com by the 15th of the month prior to the month of publication.
 Personal Voices / Cultural Visions: Conversations in the Visual Arts Community, Los Angeles 1994 - 1996 is available on Amazon.com.
The She Votes altered book project that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment ratifying a woman’s right to vote.
The catalog of the book can be purchased on Amazon.
Check out each page of She Votes by clicking on the above link.
|
|
|
|
|
