Thursday, December 10, 2009


PURCHASE WCA RAFFLE TICKETS!!
HELP SUPPORT the 2010 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS!!!

Eleanor Spiess-Ferris has donated this year's raffle prize. www.eleanorspiess-ferris.com "The Life Cycle of the Moth' Lithograph, 19x19'', 2002 Printed by Anchor Graphics - Chicago
RAFFLE Tickets are 1 for $15 or 3 for $30.
GO TO: http://www.nationalwca.org/applicants/raffle.php
STATEMENT:My work reflects a deep involvement with my native New Mexico –not as much visually as spiritually.My childhood was a melting pot of surreal attitudes surrounded by such diversities as the Spanish Penitentes, early Catholic retablos, and American Indian artifacts. All were woven among family tales and myths. My ancestors were among the first Spanish settlers of Northern New Mexico.As I grew up, I felt the tragedy and the glory of the people and the landscape. Incubating within me, these attitudes and remembrances continue to inform my work.I enjoy juxtaposing the frightening with the beautiful – the comic with the tragic –The real with the unreal.My adult self, my schooled self, my Chicago Self has embraced such western artists as Hieronymus Bosch, James Ensor, Paul Delvaux and, but certainly not least, the Mexican masters as well.-Eleanor Spiess-Ferris

Saturday, December 5, 2009

For all you fiber artists out there..


www.cnn.com
Forget spray-painting crude symbols under the cover of night. Colorful knitters armed with needles and skeins of yarn are unleashing their own brand of colorful guerrilla art to breathe new creativity and spirit into the machismo of urban art.

see article:

The Feminist Evolution

Museums are exhibiting an increased sensitivity to collecting and presenting works by women— through new acquisitions, solo shows, and a stronger focus on artists who were previously neglected. But true gender equality, critics maintain, remains elusive....

see article in ART news at the link below:

Friday, December 4, 2009

CALL for ART
from the Young Women's Caucus,
of the national Women's Caucus for Art
The APRON show deadline December 15

WCA-STL on FACEBOOK

Are you on Face Book?
If so connect up with other STL-WCA members on our Face book site!

Women's Caucus for Arts - St. Louis

Are you shopping online this Holiday season??...or perhaps searching the net for information??
What if St. Louis chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art earned a penny every time you searched the internet..or shopped online for your holiday gifts?

Well, now we can!
GoodSearch.com is a search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it's powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results.

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall that donates a percentage of each purchase to your favorite cause. More than 100 great stores including The Gap, Best Buy, Target, and Barnes and Nobel have teamed up with GoodSearch and every time you place an order, you'll be supporting your favorite cause. So if your doing your holiday shopping online make sure you go through the goodsearch site

Just go to www.goodsearch.com
enter
Women's Caucus for Art - St Louis (St. Louis, MO) as the charity you want to support.
DO NOT type in WCA what comes up is (NewYork/ Mo)..that will go to fund national and not the local chapter

And, be sure to spread the word!



SAVE the DATE!!

WCA-STL HOLIDAY BRUNCH

St. Louis Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art annual member's Holiday Brunch is Sunday December 20, Noon. (please note date change!)

The event will take place at WCA national President –Elect Janice Nesser’s home, at 4414 Deer Valley Drive. Florissant Mo 63034

Come on out to celebrate a great year of art¹s advocacy. Meet some of the new members.

Renew your membership for 2010.

Bring a donation of non perishable food items for the local food pantry (no glass please)

Participate in the Gift swap: Bring a small wrapped gift or piece of artwork (value $10-15) to participate in the gift exchange.

Please rsvp by Friday Dec. 11 by emailing art1hort2@mac.com or calling (314) 741-3772



About the WCA-STL

On the local level, STL-WCA organizes 3-4 exhibitions a year; organizes the biennial Contemporary Women Artists Exhibition; participates in local events that enact awareness and change in the community; holds meetings so women can network; presents lectures by women artists; holds 'girls nights out': evenings of art and conversation; produces a newsletter and sponsors a web-page where women artists can list their upcoming exhibitions, papers, etc and link their web-site.
Visit our website at http://www.wca-stl.org/