EVENTS
- November 4: Saturday Salon topic: Meet up at The Hammer Museum at 12:45 pm
- November 5: Sunday, Deadline for Beloved Planet submissions on Entrythingy
- November 9: Thursday, Board/Member meeting on Zoom at 5:00 pm
- November 16: Thursday, Artist talk with Ada Brown at 7:00 pm on Zoom
- December 10: Sunday, Opening reception Beloved Planet at The Makery 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- December 30: Saturday, Pick up artwork from the Makery between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm
- ONGOING: Join or Renew It is always time to renew! (WCA)
- ONGOING: You can support SCWCA Scholarship Funds by purchasing SCWCA catalogs and promotional items online. See information below.
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Confirm you have the correct SCWCA zoom link,
SCWCA Zoom for all our meetings. This is the only link we will be using for all of our events.
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear SCWCA Members and Friends,
Welcome to our new members and returning members. I challenge you to join a committee and get involved in SCWCA. Our Committees include: Membership, Communications, Exhibitions, SCWCA's 50th Anniversary planning, eNews and Scholarship. I'm sure we have a special area of interest just for you. Join now to get in on the ground floor as we plan our 2024 calendar. Email socalwomenscaucus@gmail.com for committee information.
As a reminder, the deadline for our call for art Beloved Planet juried by art historian, critic, and curator, Betty Ann Brown, is Sunday, November 5. Submit on Entrythingy
Sending you warm wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving,
Susan Spector
SCWCA President
As a reminder, EVERY monthly meeting is open to all SCWCA members: Board meetings, Artist Talks and Saturday Salons. All of our monthly zoom meetings and zoom/in-person events are listed on our website in the calendar section www.scwca.org. Join us, please! Your voice is truly important to the future of SCWCA.
Questions? Email socalwomenscaucus@gmail.com
Want to share accomplishments and/or exhibitions? Email scwcaenews@gmail.com by the 15th of the month. SCWCA eNews is your news.
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Saturday Salon - This month to stay connected we are having a meetup Saturday, November 4, at the Hammer Museum at 12:45 pm for a 1:00 tour
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Free parking
Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living is the sixth iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area. These practices embrace the value of craft, materiality, performance, and collectivity. The biennial situates art as an expanded field of culture that is entangled with everyday life; community networks; queer affect; and indigenous and diasporic histories.
Runs thru December 31, 2023
Email Karen Schifman with questions or suggestions for future Salons.
Artist Talk - We absolutely love having our artist talks on the third Thursday of every month. This month will be Ada Brown on November 16, 2023 at 7:00 pm on Zoom
 Her art is based in observational drawing and painting, both figure and landscape.The subject of her observations is a meditation on the circumstances of her life, born female in a time of great social changes with all the complexities of political and environmental stress.
In the last several years she produced two bodies of work: Living Veiled and The Migrants. Both address continuing interest in the lives of women.
The Living Veiled series addresses the issue of cultural traditions and the veiling of women, an ancient dress code that exists across many cultures, including her own. The Migrants are paintings and work on paper reflecting a concern for displaced populations.
Her most recent works are paintings of sky views Through the Empyrean. Started during the Covid lockdowns, working through the disasters of the most recent fires, this is a return to landscape brought her to search for a new way to approach this familiar subject. The floating circles and rectangles are a focus that reminded her that she can only see a small piece of it from her vantage point.
“Brown's careful articulation of light and dark recalls the cloud paintings of British artist John Constable. With his dual interests in emotionalism and new views of the natural world, Constable is often considered a practitioner of Romanticism. Brown's work adds a layer of nostalgia to historic Romanticism: a reminder that our environment is no longer a pristine paradise, but instead a threatened, endangered realm.”
Betty Ann Brown, Art & Cake, July 2022
“Brown, in her art of social concern, does not provide answers. She only suggests questions with her evocative and pensive work. Brown nudges the viewer into a private space to wrestle with their conscience.”
Nancy Kay Turner, May 2022
 We'd love to have you participate in our artist talks. Send an email to socalwomenscaucus@gmail.com and let us know which month you are available.
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Beloved Planet is organized by Southern California Women's Caucus for Art in partnership with The Makery. We call her 'Mother Earth' because, like a mother, she provides us with shelter, nourishment, and safety. Also like a mother, she needs all the caring and support we can give her. This exhibition focuses on images of love and appreciation for our sacred planet. We love the beauty of her varied surfaces and brilliant skies, as well as the plants and animals adorning them. And we know that we must not hurt that which we love.
The exhibit will be juried by art historian, critic, and curator, Betty Ann Brown. Brown received her Ph. D. in the History of Art in 1978 and joined the Cal State University Northridge faculty in 1986. Her research and teaching have ranged from the ancient--Precolumbian Art of Mexico--to contemporary. Her most recent exhibition ('Sages' at MOAH) honored artists who have had long careers of both teaching and creating art.
Open to all self-identified women artists in Southern California working in most media except video or installation.
Submission deadline is Sunday November 5, 2023 on Entrythingy.
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Dyson & Womack is excited to announce with the LA County Department of Arts and Culture a new program, PAiD: Public Artists in Development. This multi-year initiative is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and aims to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of public art while supporting the sustainability of the LA County creative economy with artists’ needs in mind.
The PAiD program has been thoughtfully designed to tackle critical barriers to entry in the field of public art and address the wider career challenges faced by artists. The program’s strategies are intended to address historical and structural barriers, especially those faced by underrepresented and diverse artists, including artists of color, artists with disabilities, Indigenous artists, LGBTQIA artists, self-taught artists, artists of non-traditional mediums, and emerging artists.
The $1.75 million grant funds the implementation of multiple PAiD program components. These components include the establishment of the Artist Council, a program of free professional development workshops, and a year-long Public Art Apprenticeship.
Dyson & Womack were selected by Arts & Culture as public art consultants to manage the Artist Council including the development of a series of policy discussions and the implementation of the temporary public art commissions. In addition, Dyson & Womack will develop and deliver the program of free professional development workshops for artists across Los Angeles County.
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Surviving To Thriving As An Artist
November 15, 2023 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Eventbrite - $39.00 registration fee
Learn the business side of being a visual artist from finances to marketing and everything in between.
What you will learn:
- Elevate your art career with the best business practices for visual artists
- Learn how to safeguard your artistic endeavors with vital legal knowledge
- Explore cutting-edge marketing strategies to shine in the art words
- Develop your brand, captivate a wider audience and stand out
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The Second Saturday Sessions are programs that WCA is offering for free, to WCA members. Find out more about all of the Second Saturday Sessions, view recordings of past sessions and sign-up for new sessions on the Programs page.
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Kerrie Smith artist in resident 2022-23 at the Wildling Museum of art and nature, Solvang CA 2022-23 is pleased to announce "Portals & Pathways" will be moving to Gallery 825. Los Angeles.
A site-specific multi-sensory installation which features flowing banners printed with Smith's vivid abstract paintings inspired by daily walks along Santa Barbara's More Mesa Preserve. Interspersed are sheer banners with personal poetry hand -stamped with wooden blocks. Circular "portals" hang from floor to ceiling adorned with Smith's photography of local flora and fauna, as well her paintings and impressions of the trails that surround More Mesa. Ambient sounds crashing waves, animal life, and encounters recorded by Smith also invite visitors to take in the experience of walking along the trails as nature and human life collide and overlap.
Opening reception: November 4, 2023 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Runs thru December 1, 2023
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Eva Montealegre will be exhibiting at the fourth biennial Bellingham National exhibition Acts of Healing and Repair, taking place at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher Building 250 Flora Street Old City Hall, 121 Prospect St, Bellingham, WA 98225
Runs November 11, 2023 thru February 25, 2024
Whatcom Museum is a natural history and art museum located in Bellingham, Washington. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Whatcom Museum has a three building campus that includes Old City Hall, the Lightcatcher building, and the Syre Education Center.
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Dellis Frank has been accepted into an exhibition titled Pivotal that explores Art and Activism produced by the DC Chapter of WCA. Opening reception will feature Prince George's County Poet Laureate Khadija Ali-Coleman and Chiara Atoyebi.
Opening reception: December 3, 2023
from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: Montpelier Arts Center,
9652 Muirkirk Rd. Laurel, MD 20708
Runs: November 13 thru January 3, 2024
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We are Stronger Together by Dellis Frank is on view now in the online exhibition Raising Our Brushes sponsored by Women Painters West and will be travelling to the Yuma Art Center in Yuma, Arizona.
Runs thru January 27, 2024
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A number of SCWCA members will be exhibiting in the Open Call Group Show from Artist of the Valley.
Opening reception: Sunday November 5, 2023 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Closing reception: Sunday, November 26, 2023 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm
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SCWCA MEMBER GALLERY —
Debbie Korbel
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The artist featured for the month of November is Debbie Korbel. Debbie is a sculptor, painter, and writer. Debbie creates her art from discarded found objects such as scraps of resin or copper. As she collects objects an idea begins to form for a cohesive piece. Debbie’s art articulates a sense of fun as well as the power of human connection. Her art is rich in texture and shapes through the use of many seeming opposing elements that become a piece. Patinas of color create an emotional response engaging the viewer.
To explore more of Debbie’s artwork go to www.debbiekorbel.com or SCWCA’s Artist Registry.
The Artist Registry is a free benefit for current SCWCA members. If you’d like to create or update a page, please email Susan T. Kurland at scwcaartistregistry@gmail.com
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 ARTFUL AMPHORAWomen Around Town
Check out Karen's monthly blog for more information on what's in the galleries and the museums around town: Artful Amphora
After a two-year and approximately $70 million renovation, the National Museum of Women in the Arts reopened last weekend. At the time it first opened in 1987, it was the first museum dedicated to art by women making a significant impact over the years. The new galleries and expanded exhibition space allow even more of their varied collection to be on view. For a sneak peek, watch this video: NMWA
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Hauser and Wirth, West Hollywood presents Westword Ho!, an exhibition of work by Canadian-born artist Allison Katz. Katz’s deeply personal work addresses the ways in which aesthetic practices link and absorb biography, art history, information systems and commodity culture. The exhibition will feature a selection of new paintings Katz completed during her recent residency in Somerset, alongside site-specific responses to the gallery’s 1930’s Spanish Colonial Revival building.
Runs November 4, 2023 thru January 5, 2024
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Barbara T. Smith: Proof is the current exhibition at ICA.
This exhibition features many of Smith’s most significant works, presented chronologically beginning in 1965 with early paintings, drawings, and assemblages. Smith was one of the first artists to use a Xerox machine, which she deployed as a tool to make art about her life, often using her own body as object, subject, concept, and medium. She would continue to employ new technologies to make art throughout her career including fiberglass resin, soundwaves, television, artificial intelligence, video-phone and digital imaging.
Runs thru January 14, 2024
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Craig Krull Gallery presents Phranc: The Butch Closet. This survey of Phranc’s career, The Butch Closet, will include a number of new painted paper sculptures that reference the clothing and significant objects that track her evolution from a young girl to an old butch, such as colorful, little girl dresses and black leather combat boots. The exhibition will also include an archive room highlighting posters, record albums and other ephemera from her music career and an installation that re-creates her studio, documenting the many facets of her artistic process.
Runs thru December 2, 2023
Artist Talk & Performance: Saturday, November 4, 3:00 pm
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Celebrated Los Angeles artist Ruth Weisberg is the subject of a new exhibition entitled Ruth Weisberg: Touchstones at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts. Weisberg’s paintings, drawings and original prints reveal Weisberg’s decades-long reflections on personal history and the convergence of cultural experience and art history. Her work reveals the re-imagining of past masters such as William Blake, Titian, Veronese, Cagnacci, Corot, and Giacometti.
Runs thru December 23
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Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living is the biennial exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Msueum. The exhibit highlights the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area. These practices embrace the value of craft, materiality, performance, and collectivity. The biennial situates art as an expanded field of culture that is entangled with everyday life; community networks; queer affect; and indigenous and diasporic histories. “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living takes its title from a quote by the renowned Los Angeles artist Noah Purifoy, which is inscribed on a plaque at the Watts Towers: ‘One does not have to be a visual artist to utilize creative potential. Creativity can be an act of living, a way of life, and a formula for doing the right thing.’ The history of Watts Towers—built by Simon Rodia over the course of 33 years and then preserved by the local South L.A. community, including Purifoy, to become a hub for arts education—embodies this ethos and offers a salient metaphor for this biennial.” (Hammer)
Runs thru December 31, 2023
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The current exhibit at LACMA is Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction foregrounds a robust if over-looked strand in art history’s modernist narratives by tracing how, when, and why abstract art intersected with woven textiles (and such pre-loom technologies as basketry, knotting, and netting) over the past century. In short, the relationship between abstract art and woven textiles can best be described as co-constitutive and their histories as interdependent. With over 150 works by an international and transhistorical roster of artists, this exhibition reveals how shifting relations among abstract art, fashion, design and craft shaped recurrent aesthetic, cultural and socio-political forces, as they, in turn, were impacted by modernist art forms. Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition assembles a roster of transnational and intergenerational artists. Works by pioneering women artists from the historic avant-gardes are put into dialogue with those of contemporary creators: Anni Albers, Jeffrey Gibson, Hannah Hoch, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Ulrike Mueller, Liubov Popova, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Rosemarie Trockel, Andrea Zittel, and others.
Runs thru March 3, 2023
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Also at LACMA is Painting in the River of Angels: Judy Baca and The Great Wall. “For the first time in her practice, Judy Baca transforms a museum into a studio. She and artists from the Social and Public Art Resource Center expand The Great Wall of Los Angeles into the 21st century, painting two sections of the mural at LACMA. LACMA’s exhibition presents murals from the 1960s depicting the Chicano Movement, Watts Renaissance, and archival materials that have never been exhibited, revealing Baca’s process and innovations to muralism. Baca conceived The Great Wall (1975) as a monument to the people of California, featuring moments from prehistoric times to the 1950s. She collaborated with 400 youth and community members to design and paint the mural on the walls of the L.A. River to tell history from the perspective of those erased from it. After the artists complete the paintings at LACMA, they will add them to The Great Wall, creating a mile of visual history.”
Runs thru June 6, 2024
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Sheila Metzner: From Life is a photography exhibition at the Getty Center. Metzner, who made her mark on the history of late 20th-century photography in the areas of fashion and still life. Metzner’s unique style blends aspects of Pictorialism and Modernism to forge an aesthetic that not only stands out in the history of photography, but became closely associated with the best of 1980s fashion, beauty, and decorative arts trends.
Runs thru February 18, 2024
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Craft Contemporary’s current exhibitions all feature women artists. Carolyn Castaño: Cumanday- Beautiful Mountain Mountain is an ode to the tradition of landscape representation and the disappearing glaciers in Colombia. This new body of work from the Colombian American artist, Carolyn Castaño, blends her mixed media watercolor and hard-edge painting techniques with her study of colonialist 19th-century painted travelogues and map-making. The resulting artworks show layered landscape compositions of the impact of climate change on the Andean tropical glacier chains. By including printed fabrics and appliqués with tropical motifs, the artist links colonialism and its ongoing destructive effects on the environment due to resource exploitation and postindustrial manufacturing.
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Also at Craft is Chirk: Margaret Griffitth. Chirk is a site-specific installation based on the gates in front of the Chirk Castle, a late 13th century medieval fortress in Wales built to keep the Welsh under English rule. It consists of hand cut painted Tyvek, a synthetic paper often used in construction as a protective barrier. The actual wrought and cast iron gates were considered to be one of the finest achievements of baroque ironwork in the country.
Runs thru January 7, 2024
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Finally at Craft Contemporary, is Linda Sibio – Economics of Suffering, Part IV is an interdisciplinary project that combines intensely intricate drawings, performance, and installation to explore devastating effects and emotional scarring caused by the ongoing worldwide financial crisis that peaked in the period from 2007-2010 and continues to affect 99 percent of the population. Los Angeles – Economics of Suffering: Part IV is the final installment in artist Linda Sibio’s interdisciplinary series exploring the psychological effects of wealth disparity, extreme poverty, and class suppression within contemporary society. The exhibition includes a range of works: large paintings, multimedia installations and interactive works, and many of Sibio’s ink drawings which embody the conceptual development of her ideas and document the system of “glyphs” Sibio has constructed to form her own, unique visual vocabulary. Having been diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of eighteen, Sibio has developed her design process from research into the perceptions of the insane, a philosophy she has termed “The Insanity Principle.”
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Check out Member Clicks on the WCA Membership Portal:
When joining or renewing your membership online at WCA, on the member portal under the chapter membership dropdown menu, 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.
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NETWORKING
- 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?
RESOURCES
ARTIST CAREER DEVELOPMENT ZOOM CLASSES
Linda Vallejo offers artist career development Zoom workshops through the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) and The Southeast Center for Photography (SEC4P). Sessions include “The Artist Toolkit” that teaches artists how to create a “digital toolkit” presentation package and communication tools aimed at expanding exhibition, press and publication opportunities. Another Zoom class is “A to Z Grant Writing with Linda Vallejo” for emerging and established artists who want to advance their careers through fellowships and residency opportunities and “Artists Working with Art Organizations” where artists learn how to work with nonprofit organizations to raise funds for exhibitions, publications, classes and workshops and special projects.
ONE-ON-ONE ARTIST CAREER COACHING
Artist Linda Vallejo offers one-on-one coaching sessions for artists who wish to move their career forward. These sessions are meant for serious artists who wish to move from competition group exhibitions to small group and solo exhibition opportunities. Message Linda via Facebook or LinkedIn to schedule an interview. Limited spaces available.
We 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 "Networking and Resources."
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SCWCA 2022 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 2022 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
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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.
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 SCWCA has a YouTube Channel where you can view past and current videos of exhibitions, artists talks, studio tours and more. Check it out!
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You can support SCWCA Scholarship Funds by purchasing SCWCA catalogs and promotional items online.
Personal Voices / Cultural Visions: Conversations in the Visual Arts Community, Los Angeles 1994 - 1996
is available on Amazon.com.
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The Common Ground Exhibition catalog is available for purchase on Amazon.
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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 link.
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