LATEST NEWS AND CHAPTER SHOWS
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
WOMEN ARTISTS ON IMMIGRATION
Crossing Borders, ConfrontingBarriers, Bridging Identities
Organized and presented by:
Women’s Caucus for Art, with the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Link to SCWCA site:
http://www.scwca.org/event/exImmigration.php
See the Prospectus on the Newsletter.
Entry Form
Exhibition Dates: February 20 – March 6, 2009
Opening Reception: February 27, 2009
Deadline for Receipt of Entries: November 14, 2008
In the 21st Century, we can no longer assume that people will remain in one place their entire lives. Globalization, mobile communication and ease of travel allow people to seek opportunities, not only in their own country but across the globe. Over time, immigrants establish new communities in their adopted country, which help preserve their home culture and assist the newly arrived in adapting to their new environment. Unfamiliar customs, attire, language, color of skin, religion, and value systems create challenges and calls for resiliency between residents and the newly arrived. The United States is a country built from immigrants and California embodies the challenges and strengths of multiculturalism.
We encourage California-based women artists at all career levels — emerging, mid-career and seasoned — whose work addresses the topic of immigration to submit work for jurying. Submissions will be selected by Alma Ruiz, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and exhibited in the contemporary art gallery of the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles from February 20 - March 6, 2009. The opening reception will take place during the annual conferences of the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) and the College Art Association on February 27, 2009.
In this election year, we're seizing the moment to engage all women artists in California on the important topic of immigration. Each subtopic — Crossing Borders, Confronting Barriers, Bridging Identities — offers useful starting points for creating or selecting work for this show. Like the many related exhibitions that have preceded it, this show seeks to inspire an ongoing conversation and examination of the formation of our cultural, personal, and political identities.
Women Artists on Immigration is part of the ART AND ACTIVISM INITIATIVE
of the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) that happens both inside and outside the gallery walls. It consists of exhibitions, discussion groups, and artist and collaborative projects around the country that visually profile the thinking of how we live our lives together and share our concerns on critical social issues. In March 2008, the Northern California WCA chapter collaborated with the Mission Cultural Center for a stellar show on Women on War and, a year prior, the Southern California WCA chapter produced EcoArt: A Visual Conversation at Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles.
See the Prospectus on the
newsletter.
Link to Entry form above.
Please print it out, complete the entry form, and mail the form along with the requested enclosures to the address provided. The deadline for receipt of entries is November 14, 2008.
Please email your information for the Newsletter to bchraven@pacbell.net.
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