EVENTS
- April 1: Saturday Salon at 10:00 am on Zoom Topic: Exhibition Challenges
- April 13: Board/Member meeting 5:00 pm on Zoom
- April 20: Artist Talk with Kim Abeles at 7:00 pm on Zoom
- April 22: SCWCA celebrates Earth Day at Descanso Gardens (see below for details)
- 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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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear Members and Friends,
On March 18, Cathy Salser, WCA Board Member, facilitated our first Strategic Planning Meeting since 2019. Areas of discussion included Programming, Communications and Exhibitions. In addition, we exchanged idas on Activism in SCWCA; Diversity; Community Support; and Active Participation. Questions still to be answered: What does the future of SCWCA look like? What are our specific goals? What is our vision for 2023/24?
YOU can help by joining the discussion. Join a committee. Attend the April Board Meeting. Do you have a skillset that would help our members? Please share your ideas and experience with me at socalwomenscaucus@gmail.com
I look forward to seeing you at our next Board/Chapter meeting, Thursday, April 13 at 5:00pm on Zoom
SCWCA’s eNews is your source for all that is going on in April. Check it out!
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 - Saturday April 1, 2023 at 10:00 am on Zoom. We will be discussing Exhibition Challenges: shipping, entry fees, packaging, deinstalling and more.
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 Kim Abeles on April 20, 2023 at 7:00 pm on Zoom.
In honor of Earth Day, we will explore the topic of eco-art as a genre and and our role as activist artists on climate change. Following her visual presentation, participants will meet in small breakout groups and reconvene for a short collective conversation.
Kim Abeles is an artist whose artworks explore the environment, geography, feminism and biography with a long history of collaborative projects. Her work speaks to society, science literacy, and civic engagement. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation and Pollack-Krasner Foundation. Her work is in forty public collections including MOCA, LACMA, Berkeley Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, California African American Museum, and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
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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A big warm welcome to our newest member Blakeney Sanford from Santa Lompoc and returning member, Anna Friesen from Santa Rosa. We look forward to seeing you soon at one of our events!
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SCWCA Celebrates Earth Day at Descanso Gardens - Saturday, April 22, 10:00 am
Please join us when SCWCA members connect with nature and one another on Earth Day! We will meet at Descanso Gardens at 10:00 am for a docent tour led by our very own SCWCA member and Descanso Gardens docent, Ann Storc.
Admission is $11 for seniors/students. If you are a Descanso Gardens member you can bring one SCWCA member for FREE. Ann will lead us on a tour of the extraordinary Gardens and the current exhibition: Shiki: The Four Seasons in Japanese Art that brings beauty and harmony to the Sturt Hagga Gallery.
Descanso Gardens 1418 Descanso Drive La Cañada Flintridge, 91011
RSVP to socalwomenscaucus@gmail.com
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The Second Saturday Sessions are programs that were originally scheduled for the WCA National Conference which was canceled due to the pandemic. WCA has pivoted much of the programming to be offered for free to WCA members. Read about all of the Second Saturday Sessions, view recordings of past sessions and sign-up for a session on our Programs page.
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Announcing the forming of a "SCWCA Westside Group". Plan on joining us for studio visits, gallery visits and more. Our first studio visit will be on April 15th at 1:30 pm to the home/studio of Beanie Kaman and Michael Freitas Wood in Pacific Palisades. Space is limited so RSVPs are required. If you would like to join this group and/or this tour, send all inquiries and RSVPs to socalwomenscaucus@gmail.com.
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Eva Montealegre is a member artist with LAAA Gallery 825. Eva's painting in the Hurly Burly online exhibit features inspiration from the DaVinci's Flight Codex drawings which are embedded in the painting.
Burbank Arts Newsletter Eva Montealegre Artist/Author features Eva's Ancient Asteroid Trakker and interview.
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Eva's painting, We Are Stardust 2, is featured in TAPS 2023: Big Worlds, Small Worlds. To be held in the Kuiper Space Science Building, located at:1629 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721
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Kim Abeles, Sharon Allicotti, Evelyne Bronwyn Werzowa, Fatemah Burnes, E. Tyler Burton, Darlene Campbell, Merrilyn Duzy, Ron Finley, Megan Frances, Lawrence Gipe, Richelle Ellis, James Griffith, Alex Hall, Juniper Harrower, Nigella Hillgarth, Jess Irish, Joanne Julian, Sant Khalsa, Margaret Lazzari, J.J. L'Heureux, Lucinda Luvaas, Marina Moevs, Hung Viet Nguyen, Labkhand Olfatmanesh, David Opdyke, Susanne Layla Petersen, Oriana Poindexter, Crystal Reiss, Marianne Sadowski, Spencer Sharp, Gabriella Tollman, Linda Vallejo, Doug Webb, Robyn Woolston.
A multimedia exhibit including 20 visual artists, 13 international filmmakers, community activists, and 9 interviews with artists and scientists.
This multifaceted exhibit examines the environmental issues we are currently facing as well as celebrating the natural world.
LA Artcore at Union Center for the Arts, 120 Judge John Aiso St, Ste. A Lobby Gallery
Runs thru April 8, 2023
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California Sunset by Dellis Frank has been juried into the Sanchez Art Center's Left Coast Annual juried exhibition in Pacifica, California. This exhibition was juried by Renee Cyla Villasenor, inaugural programs manager and curatorial associate, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco. Works will be both in the West and Main Galleries and on our virtual galleries.
Opening reception: April 14 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: Sanchez Art Center, 1220-B Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica, CA 94044
Runs from Friday April 14 thru Sunday May 21, 2023
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Cathy Engel-Marder is a finalist in the running for a Picerne Family 2023 Artist Outreach Grant. Recipients of this award (Southern California artists of at least 55 years of age) will use the grant to bring visual, musical and other fine art experiences to underserved local residents.
If Cathy receives an award, she will teach mixed media workshops to women and children in local homeless and domestic violence shelters. Grant recipients will be announced in April.
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SCWCA MEMBER GALLERY —
Suvan Geer
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When looking at an image which of our senses are engaged? What memories are stirred? How does it makes us feel? What do we remember? This month’s featured artist is Suvan Geer. Suvan is interested in the ephemeral qualities of objects and memory. Suvan creates images and multimedia installations. She uses fragments of images or materials that with time can be altered. In her installations, unconventional materials are used such as corn meal or powdered milk. Intricate patterns or forms are created in these materials. In some installations, Suvan intends that the viewer engage with the material. As time proceeds parts of the image disintegrate and disappear. Just as in memories or photographs, although the object is gone or faded away, it did exist.
To explore more of Suvan’s artwork go to suvangeer@sbcglobal.net 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 AMPHORACheck out Karen's monthly blog for more information on what's in the galleries and the museums around town: Artful Amphora
Women Around Town
April 2023 Spring has apparently sprung???
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La Plaza Cultura y Artes is a wonderful So. Calif. locale. Currently, a retrospective of local artist, Margaret Garcia is on view. Here is a description from their website: “Garcia is the fifth of seven generations of Americans whose Mexican, Indigenous and Chicana/o roots and culture are deeply embedded within her. Her discipline and artistic practice are profoundly reciprocal, and her art is a vehicle that brings people together. As a leader in the Los Angeles Chicana/o Art Movement for the past five decades, she has championed and advocated for women, community and individuals who are marginalized by society. By revering the people, neighborhoods, and local landmarks of her pueblo through her colorful portraits and landscapes, Garcia celebrates the subjects that have inspired her art and the creation of its ever-evolving community. As a renowned mentor and teacher, she encourages other artists to reach into their souls and challenges their talents to create art that is authentic to them and reflects their passion for the subjects they are painting. Arte para la gente, The Collected Works of Margaret Garcia invites the public to do the same, to see through the artist’s lens, see themselves and see how daily life can be activated with a cultural currency that defines a place and its people.”
Runs thru June 11, 2023
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Kordansky Gallery is featuring Paths Crossed, paintings by Hilary Pecis. Pecis creates drawings and paintings inspired by the interior, exterior and inter-spaces that surround her daily life. Here, she presents a selection of lush, saturated landscapes reflecting the mountainous, desert and urban landscapes commonly associated with Southern California. Many of the paintings on view begin as source images taken on Pecis’s phone on her daily runs throughout Los Angeles’s streetscapes or through the various trails she frequents in the surrounding mountains and forests, such as this example with the title Frog Town Pear Blossoms.
Runs thru April 22, 2023
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Karen Simon: Floating Strings is the current exhibit at Lois Lambert Gallery.
Simon works with a combination of acrylic, gouache, ink, and thread. She begins with a piece of unstretched canvas, painting washes of color that stain and bleed across the canvas in loose forms. Simon then brings out the details in each image with embroidered thread, often leaving long strings loose and floating across the canvas. Together, the intricate woven threads and delicately painted areas make up an image that emerges out of the fibers of the canvas.
Runs thru May 13, 2023
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Veilmetter projects presents Esther Pearl Watson: A Very Luminous Vision. Watson, known for her intimately detailed diaristic paintings, culls from her own memories and an archive of emails from family members transmuting her personal history of caregiving for her loved ones who struggle with their mental health into fantastical landscapes. Dappled with starry night skies, cascading comets and sparkling UFOs, Watson’s memory paintings incorporate curious snippets of emails from her family members, contextualizing her compositions with an eccentric narrator.
Runs thru April 22, 2023
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Edie Beaucage: All Over the Time is the current exhibit at Luis de Jesus Gallery. Some pretty cool portraits fill the gallery, such as a fearless flapper with a high-cropped bob, a surfer girl with beachy waves and an easy smile, a self-possessed Egyptian goddess with kohl-rimmed eyes, a Venice Beach barista with a long copper beard. Beaucage engages with art history and the mundane. “She redefines personal histories by creating iconic portraits at a larger-than-life scale that reimagine her Québécois family—her sister Dominique, her brother Michel and herself—as hip SoCal teenagers with synthwave daydreams—a correction of an uncomfortable adolescence. Rendered with big, bold brushstrokes, Beaucage’s characters ooze effortless and effervescent cool. Her paintings plumb the past and present to convey whispers of truth, declarations of sincerity and the invented authenticity of reimagined biographies.”
Runs thru April 22, 2023
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Opening this month at the Getty Center is an exciting photography exhibit, Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue. "Each artist addresses race, class, representation and systems of power in their work, creating photographic series grounded in Black history and realities that speak to the human condition. This exhibition sheds light on their unique trajectories and modes of presentation and their shared consciousness and principles." (GC) (NOTE: This image may not be in the exhibit as no images have been released as of date).
Runs April 4 thru July 9, 2023
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Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection is one of the many current exhibitions at LACMA. The exhibit explores the art of Light and Space as well as related works with highly polished surfaces often referred to as “finish fetish.” Many artists in the 1960s and 70s began using newly developed industrial materials—including sheet acrylic, fiberglass, and polyester resin—in their work. Light, Space, Surface draws on LACMA's deep holdings of this material, revealing the vibrancy and diversity of this aspect of American art history. The exhibition features works by Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Judy Chicago, Ron Cooper, Mary Corse, Ronald Davis, Laddie John Dill, Fred Eversley, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Helen Pashgian (pictured above), Roland Reiss, Roy Thurston and Hap Tivey.
Runs April 2 thru October 1, 2023
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There are some newly renovated at the Hammer Museum. One of them is filled with Rita McBride’s Particulates, first conceived in 2016 and realized here in its third iteration. Composed of high-intensity laser beams, water molecules and the dust particles in the air, the work prompts reconsideration of fundamental elements of sculpture such as mass, scale, verticality and surface. Particulates is a rotated, hyperbolic parabola structure that is both optical and ephemeral. Reconstituted for the Hammer’s gallery, the installation includes several elements created for or responding to the space. The large black wall that receives the lasers references the black architectural elements of the 1960s-era bank vault that is a remnant in this space.
Runs thru November 5, 2023
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The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) presents Metamorphosis: the Evolution of the Visions and Dreams, the art of Yolanda González (pictured above).
Runs thru July 30, 2023
The UCLA Hammer museum presents Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio.
Runs thru May 28, 2023
An extensive exhibit of portraits by artist members of Women Painters West continues at California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica. Portraits delights with its extensive examples of the time honored genre in a variety of media and approaches.
Runs thru May 7, 2023
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Pods meet monthly, on Zoom or in person. They meet for art-shares, friendship and all-around support. They are really having a great time! Want to join a Pod or create one of your own? Contact Cathy Engle-Marder at culturelink1@yahoo.com.
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New Membership Portal: WCA changed its membership platform to give easier access to your membership benefits and each other. Membership orientations are underway and we want you to take full advantage of them.
Membership Orientations for the general membership are available now. Workshop dates will be announced in the following weeks. Check the WCA or the SCWCA websites for information.
When joining or renewing your membership online at WCA, at the new 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.
 is on YouTube!
 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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