NCWCA WELCOMES YOU

The Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA) is a networking organization for women in the arts.  We offer a broad range of events and programs: member forums, exhibitions, art-making, art activism and community. 
2021 Board Retreat Participants
Top Row L to R: Namita Paul, Sawyer Rose, Priscilla Otani.
Second Row L to R: Durba Sen, Elizabeth Addison, Rachel Tirosh.
Third Row L to R: Tanya Augsburg, Sandra Yagi, Marguerite Elliot.
Fourth Row L to R: Angela Han, Bianca Lago, Theresa Giammattei.
Bottom Row L to R: Linda Joy Kattwinkel, Laura Abrams, Chandrika Marla.

WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY

It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the murders of six Asian women at three spas in Atlanta, along with two other fatalities and one injury, in the shootings that occurred on March 16th, 2021. We say their names here: Delaina Ashley Yaun, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Julie Park, Soon C. Park,  Suncha Kim, Yong A. Yue, and Hyeon Jeong Park.
 
This heinous act is, tragically, only the latest in a string of hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across our country. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a troubling rise in racist harassment and violence against AAPI communities. We acknowledge:
 
  • Between March 2020 – February 2021, Stop AAPI Hate received 3,795 reports of anti-Asian hate incidents.
 
  • 68% of the incidents were reported by women. Women report incidents 2.3 times more than men. 
 
  • People of all races and ethnicities were targeted including Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Japanese, Taiwanese, Hmong… Chinese are the largest ethnic group (42.2%) that report experiencing hate, followed by Koreans (14.8%), Vietnamese (8.5%), and Filipinos (7.9%).
 
  • California alone had 1,691 incidents, making up 45% of all reported cases. 
 
These statistics are quoted from the 2020-2021 Stop AAPI Hate National Report (March 2021) which can be accessed here. 
 
NCWCA’s mission is to create community through art, education, and social activism. Hate and bigotry have no place in our organization. We condemn these racist, violent acts in the strongest possible terms and encourage our members to do so as well. We stand in solidarity with the AAPI community and with all those who suffer from fear, harassment, and violence.
 
In honor of all those hurt by this tragedy, and to help our members take concrete action against racial injustice, we offer the list of resources below. There is much work to do in confronting and interrupting these acts of hatred, and the time to self-educate and act is now.
 
On behalf of NCWCA, we send our deepest condolences to those who knew and loved the victims and also to the entire AAPI community.
 
In Community and Partnership,
NCWCA Board
Sawyer Rose | President
Priscilla Otani | Vice President 
Sandra Yagi | Treasurer
Namita Paul | Board Secretary
Marguerite Elliot | Membership Chair
Elizabeth Addison | Exhibition Chair
Angela Han | Communications Chair
Jennifer Jigour | Professional Development Chair
Bianca Lago | Board Director
Tanya Augsburg | Art Historian in Residence

RESOURCES
 More resources will be provided soon
DONATE
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice      
https://secure.donationpay.org/aajc/
LEARN & EDUCATE
  • Coronavirus/COVID-19 Resources to Stand Against Racism
https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/covid19
  • What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/opinion/anti-asian-violence.html
 

27 BLACK WOMEN IN THE ARTS:
#5 LOIS MAILOU JONES (1906 - 1998)
By Jennifer Jigour

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Lois Mailou Jones was an internationally renowned artist and educator of the Harlem Renaissance whose 60 years of accomplishments include a range of media (watercolor & oil painting, textiles, costumes, collages) and a focus on everyday lives of African Americans and their heritage.
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*** What can we learn from her life and work? *** 
 
1) Jones was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Later, she became a professor at Howard University in Washington D.C. Her career lasted for 47 years.
 
2) Her art was influenced by travel. In 1937, she took a sabbatical at the Académie Julian in Paris. There, she received acceptance as a black artist, which was, at the time, absent for people of color in the US. Her travels to Haiti and Africa inspired her interest in her African heritage. She highlighted this in her art by using bold shapes, bright colors and African masks. She loved to combine new and ancient imagery, such as Harlem cityscapes with Egyptian pyramids, as seen in her painting Ascent of the Ethiopian.
 
3) Lois Mailou Jones was known for depicting the African American experience. She boldly used sensitive subject matter in her work, such as in Mob Victim (Meditation), which is a meditative piece on lynching and the imminent death that many male African Americans faced in the 1940s. In contrast, she also painted more joyful images that celebrated black physical esthetics, showing how beautiful black people were.
 
4) In America, galleries would not accept Jones’s art because of her color. She never let this bring her down. She would send her artwork to galleries without letting the galleries know that she was a black artist. Her artwork was accepted. She attended the openings anonymously to hear people boast about her art and to see her paintings sell. In addition to promoting her art, Jones was also an advocate for international artists. These artists mostly came from Africa and Haiti and would not have been known to the world without Jones’s tireless philanthropy.
 
TAKE TIME: Read more about Lois Mailou Jones at
 
Lois Mailou Jones on the Smithsonian American Art Museum
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/lo%C3%AFs-mailou-jones-5658
 
Lois Mailou Jones on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Mailou_Jones
 
Lois Mailou Jones Biography on Web Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20160103225702/http://loismailoujones.com/index.php?page=biography 
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 ABOUT THE PROJECT: As an arts organization dedicated to recognizing the contributions of women in the arts, NCWCA will be highlighting 27 Black Women in the Arts in honor of Breonna Taylor. Breonna would have turned 27 years old in 2020 had she not been murdered in her own home by the police on March 13th. #JusticeForBre For more Black Women in the Arts, go here. 
For Black Women in the Arts we have honored, go here. 

JOIN NCWCA NOW! 

Join NCWCA today and enjoy member benefits that last through December 31, 2021. CLICK HERE 
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JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MAY 11 FROM 6:0  - 9:00 PM VIA ZOOM!   
Board Meeting Agenda:
  • Welcome Members
  • Open Forum
  • April 2021 Minutes
  • President's Report
  • Exhibition Report
  • Treasurer Report
  • Professional Development Report
  • Membership Report
  • Communication Report
  • Other Business TBD
May Activity
Paint the Void by Inga Bard 
More information shortly!

COMPOSING THE FUTURE: A NCWCA MEMBERS' EXHIBITION

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May 7 - June 27, 2021 at Bankhead Theater, Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center, 2400 First St, Livermore, CA and online.
​For our Online Gallery and details about the exhibition, go here.

2021 NCWCA GOALS

  1. Carry forward established programs: Bay Area Art Stars, Mentorship Program, Year End Party, 27 Black Women in the Arts, South Bay Pod
  2. Composing the Future members' show
  3. Form a grants committee
  4. Form connections with Pacific Region WCA chapters
  5. Arc Project Gallery exhibitions 2021/2022
  6. Establish formal onboarding procedure for new board members
  7. Make new connections with nonprofits, galleries, and/or arts organizations
  8. Trademark NCWCA logo​
  9. Form a book/podcast club
  10. Table Setting Project exhibition
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THESE ART TAG ROUNDS ARE IN PLAY
Peninsula Group: Space​​
Global Group: Black & White
Saturday Group: Transformation
​Sunday Group: Shift - Play

What Is Art Tag?

Click here for information about Art Tag
Click here for Art Tag works created

APRIL EXHIBITIONS BY NCWCA MEMBERS

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CONTACT

NCWCA
P.O. Box 31101
San Francisco, CA 94131-0101
Email ncwcachapter@gmail.com or click Contact here

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WE ARE NONPROFIT

NCWCA is a 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 77-0183213. Our profile under Guidestar is www.guidestar.org/profile/77-0183213

DONATE TO NCWCA
Your donations make a wide range of exhibitions, professional development programs and special events such as Bay Area Art Stars possible.  Thank you for your generosity!

WE APPRECIATE OUR DONORS

Elizabeth Addison , Ann Marie Carleton, Sylvia Chesson, Gina Chiao, Marguerite Elliot, Tracy Ferron, Kathy Fujii-Oka, J. Ruth Gendler, Kelly Hammargren, Melissa Harmon, Marge Healy, Hilla Hueber, Kay Kang, Linda Joy Kattwinkel, Karen LeCocq, Elaine Louie, Chandrika Marla, Elise Marshall, Priscilla Otani, Miriam Owen, Cecile Picard, Pamela Pitt, Laurie Rich, Sawyer Rose, Sally Ruddy, Judy Shintani, Irma Velasquez, Caskey Weston,  Tamara White and Sandra Yagi
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