The St. Louis Chapter of the

Women's Caucus for Art

presents

CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS XV - Art as Activism

an international biennial exhibit

juried by Yolanda Lopez

Feb 12- March 26, 2010

Foundry Art Centre, 520 North Main St., St. Charles MO 63301

We hope you will join us for the exhibition and opening activities:

Thurs Mar 4 - Juror's lecture on her work: 6:30pm, Regional Arts Commission, 6128 Delmar, St. Louis MO 63112

Fri Mar 5 - Jurors presentation: 6 -7pm, Foundry Art Center, 520 North Main Street, St. Charles MO 63301

Fri Mar 5 - Artist reception: 7-10pm, Foundry Art Center, 520 North Main Street, St. Charles MO 63301

Sat. Mar 6 - Artist's brunch with juror: 11-1pm

Juried into the exhibition:

Lisa Becker

St. Charles MO

Her beauty

Kiln formed glass

12”x18”x3”

$375

Dail Chambers

St. Louis MO

Access

Mixed media

2 panels 3’x7’x2”

$780

Debra Claffey

New Boston, New Hampshire

Ruses

Encaustic, collage, graphite on panel

10”x10”

$600

Elizabeth J. Conn

Ballwin Mo

I CAN TOO

Papier-mache’ (made from junk mail)

73”x40”x28”

$3000

Brenna Conley-Fonda

Evanston, Illinois

Photograph by Spc. Charles Graner and Spc, Sabrina Harmon #2

Watercolor paper, 300pd, pva glue and my hair

30”x26”

800

Amy Firestone Rosen

St. Louis MO

Slip I

Photo collage

22”x34”

$600

Slip II

Photo collage

22”x34”

$600

Slip III

Photo collage

22”x34”

600

Heidi Fox

St. Charles MO

mother

acrylic

4’x30”

NFS/250

Katherine Freeman

St. Louis MO

Life energy

Acrylic on particle board

44’x32’

$150

Christine Giancola

Florissant MO

I am a Slave to What Frees Me

Gelatin silver print

20”x24”

$850

Karen Gutfreund

San Jose, California

Mission accomplished

Mixed media on canvas

36”x36”

$2500

SJ Hammack

Kirkwood, MO

Fragile Girl- Porn Star

Oil on canvas

25”x31”

$1200

Fragile Girl: BB with Loser

Oil on canvas

17”x21”

$800

Sharon Harper

Springfield MO

His offering

Ceramic

15”x7”x13”

$900

Blue bag

ceramic

20”x19”x7”

$900

Marsha Heck

Florissant MO

Fibroid : Female : : Comet: Cosmos

Found objects

10”x10”x5”

$175

Carol Horstman

Fenton MO

Mammogram reflections

Photo collage

11”x14”

$250

Leslie Hume

Chesterfield, MO

Untitled

Video

NFS

Christine Ilewski

Alton IL

Geddy

Mixed media

20”x16”

NFS/200

Lamb

Mixed media

20”x16”

NFS/200

Michael

Mixed media

20”x16”

NFS/200

Beth LaKamp

Fenton MO

Scrabbled

Oil on canvas

18”x23”x2”

NFS

Shut up

Oil on canvas

17”x24”x2

NFS

Helena M. Langley

Granite City, IL

The Old Greets the New

Acrylic on 140lb. coldpress paper

3.5”x2.5”

$45

Dorotha Grace Lemeh

Jupiter, Florida

Untitled #3

Mixed media on canvas

16”x12”

$2000

Laura Mart

St. Louis MO

American Splendor

Digital print installation

Variable

$500

Renaissance Women Goes to Il Centro

Digital print

24”x30”

$300

Our Abundant Harvest

Silkscreen on fabric, wood cut on paper, collage

30”x36”x84”

$1000

Katherine Wilding Meuth

St. Charles MO

Touching her Dream

Acrylic

36”x48”

NFS/4800

Tara Morton

Edwardsville, IL

(Im) Mobile home

Wood,steel

18”x20”x12”

NFS (250)

Barbie Dream- double wide

Masonite

32”x13”x12”

NFS (500)

Janice Nesser/Lydia Brockman

Florissant, MO/Chicago, IL

..and her name shall be

yarn, upholstery material, scanned objects, ink jet prints on canvas, wooden hangers

4'x 9'

NFS/$1500

Janice Nesser

Florissant MO

the dream, part VII, #5

Bromide gelatin print

20”x24”

$800

the dream, part VII, #10

Bromide gelatin print

20”x24”

$800

Marion Noll

Webster Groves Mo

On the St. Louis Levee

Digital photo

16”x20”

$250 framed

At City Garden, St. Louis

Digital photo

16”x20”

$250 framed

Roxanne Phillips

Maplewood MO

Who was destroyed?, II

Collograph, conte, pastel

38”x25”

NFS (750)

Erica Popp

Elsah, IL

Temporal cyclical

Leaves and torn paper

46”diameter 4.5’tall

NFS

Evie Shucart

St. Louis MO

The buy

Watercolor

22”x30”

$500

Sandra Schwetman

Arcata, California

5 little dresses

Fabric

48”x36”x4”

$2000

Plucked

Mixed media

60”x60”x24

$3500

Beauty mark

Mixed media

16”x60”x36”

$3500

Tamara Staser-Meltzer

Petaluma, California

Mary

Collage

36”x24”

unframed

$1900

Teresa Wang

St. Louis MO

Charm

Oil on canvas

33”x51”

$1300

Jennifer Weigel

Affton MO

Coming of Age

Faux flowers, doll clothes, model skeleton pelvis, glue, acrylic, varnish on stretched canvas 12”x12”x2”

$200

Elizabeth White

Bethel, Connecticut

My What-were-we Thinking Cap

Burrs over burlap

Sculpture

18"x12"x12"

$1200

Photograph

12"x16"

$250

Teddyburr To:children of Iraq

From: Uncle Sam

sticky seedpods of the burdock weed (burrs) over wire and grapevine

Sculpture

12"x12"x12"

$1200

Photograph

12"x16"

$250

Diane Wilson

St Genevieve, MO

Harmony

Mixed media

36”x18”x3”

$1800

Feeling Left Out

Mixed media

11”x14”x3”

$290

Kay Wood

St. Louis MO

CAT

Paper, paint, sequins, beads

$2000

WILD PIG

Paper, paint, sequins, beads

$2000

Michelle Hamilton

St. Louis MO

Darwins Prose Urn 1

Clay porcelain

20”x5”

$400

Darwins Prose Urn 2

Clay porcelain

20”x5”

$400

Orchid journey

Porcelain

19”x6”

$400

WCA Night Out this Thursday!

The Women's Caucus for Arts invites you to join them for their Night Out at Spirits Restaurant in Alton on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 from 6:30 pm - 8:30pm. Come for dinner or drinks and view the new artwork by WCA members Leslie Hume and Christine Giancola Youngberg.

Support WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards

Dear Friend of the Women’s Caucus for Art:

Please support the Women’s Caucus for Art’s (WCA) 2010 Lifetime Achievement Awards, the highlight of our annual Confab “From the Center,” February 10–16, 2010, in Chicago. The Awards, vital to our collective history, our mission, and our future, celebrate the lives and document the impact of the extraordinary women we honor. The 2010 Lifetime Achievement Awardees are: Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Mary Jane Jacob, Senga Nengudi, Joyce J. Scott, and Spiderwomen Theater. President’s Awardees are Juana Guzman and Karen Reimer. These women join the more than 150 others WCA has honored since 1979. Join us at the Awards dinner and ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center on February 13, 2010. Visit our website at

www.nationalwca.org for more information.

This year WCA needs your support more than ever! Any amount is welcome. The Awards are almost entirely funded by your tax deductible donations. Your gifts pay for essential expenses such as Awardee travel and accommodations, and for the catalogue that documents their accomplishments. See donation opportunities below and details on the enclosed form.

Make a donation – This year we have a $4000 dollar-for-dollar challenge grant from an anonymous donor. Each dollar that you contribute will generate two dollars for WCA. Further, if we receive your donation of $500 or more by January 15, 2010, your name will be listed in the commemorative catalogue. Please include the Awards in your year-end donation plans. Donations are deductible according to IRS tax laws.

Purchase raffle tickets – Our 2010 raffle prize is a lithograph generously donated by Chicago artist Eleanor Speiss-Ferris. Give raffle tickets as gifts.

Join us at the Awards – Sponsor a table for eight at the Awards dinner, purchase a ticket, or give a dinner ticket as a gift to a friend.

Support the 2010 Awards today – Donate or purchase dinner and raffle tickets on our website at www.nationalwca.org or send a check with the enclosed form.

Thank you for supporting our mission to expand recognition for women in the arts and to ensure that women’s achievements are documented and celebrated.

Marilyn J. Hayes

WCA National President WCA Recognition Awards Chair

Anne Swartz

WCA Recognition Awards Chair

Support the Lifetime Achievement Awards 2010!

The dinner and ceremony will be held at the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 East Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois 60601 on Saturday, February 13, 2010.

Enclosed find my gift in the amount of $_______________and/or

I would like to purchase:

___ Dinner Ticket(s) at $90 (until Dec 31, or $100 after 1/1/10), $__________

includes reserved seating for the Awards ceremony. Saturday, 2/13, 6:30-9:30PM

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Saturday, 2/13, 7:40-9:30PM

___ Chicago WCA Chapter’s 2010 Awards for Excellence in the Arts at $20 $__________

Saturday 2/13 4:00-6:00PM More info at: www.chicagowca.org

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Please make checks payable to “Women’s Caucus for Art” and send your check to Women’s Caucus for Art, PO BOX 1498, Canal St Station, New York, NY 10013. You can also use your credit card to make a donation at www.nationalwca.org. Thank You!

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Homegrown - St. Louis' Organic Racism

The WCA's very own Dail Chambers is the photographer, mask designer, and prop designer for this upcoming play. It's sure to be a good one, so check it out!

HOMEGROWN-St. Louis' Organic Racism, Loni's StoryA new One-Act play written and directed by Masei followed by a Playback Theatre performance in which audience members tell true moments and stories of racism in St. Louis and watch the actors and musicians play their stories back to HONOR them and allow the audience to b...ear witness to the stories.

WHAT: HOMEGROWN- St. Louis' Organic Racism, Loni's Story followed by a Playback Theatre Performance

WHEN: January, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 and 29, 30 and 31Friday and Saturday evenings 8:00pm and Sunday Matinee 3:00pm

WHERE: January 8, 9, 10- Phyllis Wheatley Heritage CenterJanuary 15, 16 and 17- The Rowen Community CenterJanuary 22, 23, 24 COLT Safety BuildingJanuary 29, 30 and 31- The Ethical Society Tickets are $10.00 at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Group discounts for 12 or more. Contact Masei at (314)397-0733 Reservations are not required, but will be taken starting December 1st.

There is limited seating for the weekends of January 15, 16, 17 and 22, 23, 24 PWT Artistic Director Jacqueline Masei has been creating Homegrown, St. Louis Organic Racism/Loni's story since the fall of 2008.

Playback Workshop Theater in partnership with the Diversity Awareness Partnership, The YWCA of Metropolitan St. Louis presents, “Homegrown: St. Louis Organic Racism, a one-act play that tells the love story of a couple who move to Missouri together, one originally from St. Louis, the other a newcomer from another state. While addressing racial diversity issues is inherent and organic in our region, the storyline weaves an authentic patchwork of scenes which show how societal differences in the region became a true challenge to the relationship of the 2 people involved.

The play is followed by a playback theatre performance facilitated by Playback Workshop Theatre's Artistic Director and Founder Jacqueline Masei. Masei has over 20 years of experience as a teaching artist and director of playback theatre, theatre of the oppressed and social justice work. After the performances there will be a focused discussion facilitated and supported by professionals in the fields of social justice and diversity.

For more information go to www.playbackworkshop.com or call (314) 397-0733

Chicago WCA - Call for art- Regional exhibition

Juried Mid-West Region WCA members’ exhibition

Open to all WCA members living in Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin

Sponsored by The Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art

Location: ARC Gallery in Chicago

Exhibition Dates: Feb 03-27

CALENDAR

Jan 15 -Deadline for receipt of jpeg entry (3 image maximum)

Jan 20- Jurying notification on line

Jan 29 -Art Delivery Deadline to:

ARC Gallery

832 W. Superior Street

Chicago, IL

www.arcgallery.org

Feb 03 Exhibition opens

Feb 05 ARC Reception 6–9 PM

Feb 12 CWCA Artists’ Reception 6–9 PM

Feb 27 Exhibition last day

Feb 28 Pick-up artwork

REQUIREMENTS

• ARTIST MUST BECOME A MEMBER OF WCA if work is accepted.

• MEDIA: All media accepted: 2D, 3D, 4D; if mixed media, be specific.

Juried by jpegs

• SIZE LIMIT: 72” in any direction. Artist needs to be present to assist with the installation of large or awkward sized work. Artist should check with ARC.

• WORK MUST BE READY TO HANG or work will not be hung.

• ARTISTS RESPONSIBILITIES: ALL shipping costs and return shipping arrangements and cost; and insurance

• $25 HANGING FEE due upon acceptance of work. Check made payable to CWCA

and mailed to: Judith Roth, 1801 W. Larchmont Ave. #410, Chicago, IL 60613

ARC GALLERY INFO

832 W. Superior Street

Chicago, IL 60622

phone: 312.733.2787

email: info@arcgallery.org

www.arcgallery.org

gallery hours for ARC are:

Wed. thru Sat. 12–6:00 pm;

Sun. 12–4:00 pm.

EXHIBITION THEME

The theme of the 2010 WCA National Conference, being held in Chicago at the same time, is “From The Center.” In response, this show is called “Off Center”, which could mean, for

example: out of focus, quirky, or off the beaten path. The significance of the theme “Off Center” is open to individual artist’s interpretation. A statement up to 40 words, accompanying art work, is optional.

ENTRY SUBMISSION

SubmIt Entries by e-mail only to:

judithroth.art@gmail.com

Please include optional 40 word statement and the following information with your on-line jpeg submission.

For each work, up to a maximum of 3, indicate:

• jpg file name:

yourlastname-firstnameinitial-1.jpg;

yourlastname-firstnameinitial-2.jpg

yourlastname-firstnameinitial-3.jpg

• title of artwork

• medium of artwork

• dimensions of artwork

• price of artwork

SAVE JPEG AS: RGB Color

Size your images no larger than 1920 pixels x 1920 pixels.Your jpgs should be under 2 megs each.

JURORS:

Kathleen Carot is Professor of Speech and Theater and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Oakton Community College.

Aron Packer is the co-owner of Packer Schopf Gallery

Ann Rosen is the former director of The Art Center in Highland Park. Ann Rosen worked for 18 years as the Executive Director of The Art Center Highland Park presenting monthly exhibits and art programs. She is now pursuing her own work as well as supporting efforts to promote

art and artists.

DELIVERY of ACCEPTED ART

If you are shipping your work: All art work must be delivered to ARC by Federal Express, UPS or another shipping company at your cost. We do not recommend using the U.S. Post Office as ARC has experienced difficulty with past postal deliveries.

Note that ARC does not have the personnel to go to the Post Office to pick up undelivered, registered or certified mail or to remove crates from a shippers’ truck. The artist is responsible for any special delivery \instructions or arrangements. Please remember to inform the shipper of the gallery hours. (Wed. thru Sat. 12–6:00 pm; Sun. 12–4:00 pm)

All artwork must be at ARC Gallery by Friday, January 29. Do Not use packing peanuts in any of your packages.

Each artwork must have a label on the back with the name of the artist, title of the artwork, and phone number.

www.chicagowca.com/

chicagowca@gmail.com

Funding for CWCA programs and events is partially funded by a City Arts Grant from The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.