2014 NCWCA CURATORIAL GRANT
GRANT
1. $300 grant toward mounting an exhibition at the Arc Project Gallery
2. Arc Project Gallery, a 330 square foot space at Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco ($500 value)
3. Insurance of artwork during the exhibition under Arc Gallery’s fine art insurance policy, up to the coverage limits of the policy
4. Exhibition coaching and training by Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art (NCWCA) mentors
5. Support personnel, food and drinks for the opening reception ($200 value)
6. One-year complimentary membership to NCWCA and Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) for up to five members of the collective ($325 value)
VENUE
Arc Project Gallery, 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco CA 94131. The Project Gallery has 330 square feet of exhibition space.
ELIGIBILITY
An informal association or collective of women (consisting of at least three women) under the age of 35, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Artwork must be produced by members of the collective. The lead curator's artwork may be included. You and your collective members do not have to be NCWCA or WCA members to be eligible.
JURORS
Judy Johnson-Williams, Kelly Hammargren, Sandra Yagi, Priscilla Otani. The jurors are NCWCA board members. Judy Johnson-Williams is President, Kelly Hammargren is Exhibitions Chair, Sandra Yagi is Treasurer, and Priscilla Otani is Communications Chair.
EXHIBITION DATES
November 15 through December 6, 2014.
OPENING RECEPTION
November 15, 2014 6:00-9:00pm
CLOSING
Saturday, December 6, 2014
STATUS
Jurors are reviewing submissions and the winners will be announced shortly!
ABOUT NCWCA (Northern California Women's Caucus for Art)
Founded in 1972, Women's Caucus for Art is an affiliate society of the College Art Association and founding partner of the Feminist Art Project. The Northern California Women's Caucus is one of its earliest chapters, formed in the same year as national WCA. It is one of five California chapters and serves members in San Francisco, East Bay, Marin and all parts of Northern California. NCWCA advocates for exhibition opportunities for women with the mission of creating community through art, education and social activism. The website is www.ncwca.org
ABOUT THE CURATORIAL GRANT FOR YOUNG WOMEN'S ART COLLECTIVE
This is the inaugural year for this curatorial grant. NCWCA is deeply grateful to the Ahlborn Charitable Family Trust for helping to make the grant possible for young women artists. We created this grant to support the Ahlborn Trust's objectives as well as NCWCA's mission to provide women with professional development, networking and exhibition opportunities.
ABOUT ARC GALLERY
Arc Gallery is a mixed-use art center in San Francisco's South of Market district. Arc supports the making of quality art in all media, builds a community of artists to encourage exploration of art, and promotes appreciation of the visual arts in the City of San Francisco. The website is www.arc-sf.com.
1. $300 grant toward mounting an exhibition at the Arc Project Gallery
2. Arc Project Gallery, a 330 square foot space at Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco ($500 value)
3. Insurance of artwork during the exhibition under Arc Gallery’s fine art insurance policy, up to the coverage limits of the policy
4. Exhibition coaching and training by Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art (NCWCA) mentors
5. Support personnel, food and drinks for the opening reception ($200 value)
6. One-year complimentary membership to NCWCA and Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) for up to five members of the collective ($325 value)
VENUE
Arc Project Gallery, 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco CA 94131. The Project Gallery has 330 square feet of exhibition space.
ELIGIBILITY
An informal association or collective of women (consisting of at least three women) under the age of 35, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Artwork must be produced by members of the collective. The lead curator's artwork may be included. You and your collective members do not have to be NCWCA or WCA members to be eligible.
JURORS
Judy Johnson-Williams, Kelly Hammargren, Sandra Yagi, Priscilla Otani. The jurors are NCWCA board members. Judy Johnson-Williams is President, Kelly Hammargren is Exhibitions Chair, Sandra Yagi is Treasurer, and Priscilla Otani is Communications Chair.
EXHIBITION DATES
November 15 through December 6, 2014.
OPENING RECEPTION
November 15, 2014 6:00-9:00pm
CLOSING
Saturday, December 6, 2014
STATUS
Jurors are reviewing submissions and the winners will be announced shortly!
ABOUT NCWCA (Northern California Women's Caucus for Art)
Founded in 1972, Women's Caucus for Art is an affiliate society of the College Art Association and founding partner of the Feminist Art Project. The Northern California Women's Caucus is one of its earliest chapters, formed in the same year as national WCA. It is one of five California chapters and serves members in San Francisco, East Bay, Marin and all parts of Northern California. NCWCA advocates for exhibition opportunities for women with the mission of creating community through art, education and social activism. The website is www.ncwca.org
ABOUT THE CURATORIAL GRANT FOR YOUNG WOMEN'S ART COLLECTIVE
This is the inaugural year for this curatorial grant. NCWCA is deeply grateful to the Ahlborn Charitable Family Trust for helping to make the grant possible for young women artists. We created this grant to support the Ahlborn Trust's objectives as well as NCWCA's mission to provide women with professional development, networking and exhibition opportunities.
ABOUT ARC GALLERY
Arc Gallery is a mixed-use art center in San Francisco's South of Market district. Arc supports the making of quality art in all media, builds a community of artists to encourage exploration of art, and promotes appreciation of the visual arts in the City of San Francisco. The website is www.arc-sf.com.
CONGRATULATIONS BERKELEY YOUNG WOMEN'S ART COLLECTIVE!
Amanda Burke
Chrystia Cabral
Tamiko Sidore
Kathleen Yarnold
Inhabiting Blurred Divides: An exhibition on themes of womanhood, identity, and dualities.
As young women and artists, we all struggle with what it means to be a woman in this society: How do we fit in our communities, in academic institutions, in the larger arts community, and in our personal relationships? How are we received as leaders and artists? How do other identifiers such as race, sexuality, or class intersect with our identities as women? How are we perceived in relationship to men? How are we allowed to love, dream, create, inspire after a years of socialization? This exhibition examines the fundamental nature of womanhood and aims to respond to these questions. These works explore and question the dualities that seem to be inherent in female identity and the parameters that define womanhood in our society. Our intended audience is all people of every age and gender. We hope that other young women will identify with the struggles that inspire our art-making and that others will understand our perspectives we represent in our work and think critically about these themes.
Chrystia Cabral
Tamiko Sidore
Kathleen Yarnold
Inhabiting Blurred Divides: An exhibition on themes of womanhood, identity, and dualities.
As young women and artists, we all struggle with what it means to be a woman in this society: How do we fit in our communities, in academic institutions, in the larger arts community, and in our personal relationships? How are we received as leaders and artists? How do other identifiers such as race, sexuality, or class intersect with our identities as women? How are we perceived in relationship to men? How are we allowed to love, dream, create, inspire after a years of socialization? This exhibition examines the fundamental nature of womanhood and aims to respond to these questions. These works explore and question the dualities that seem to be inherent in female identity and the parameters that define womanhood in our society. Our intended audience is all people of every age and gender. We hope that other young women will identify with the struggles that inspire our art-making and that others will understand our perspectives we represent in our work and think critically about these themes.
Land Art Pescadero
November 1, 2014
We had a great time at our annual land art day at Irma Velasquez' ranch in Pescadero!
Participants: Judy Johnson-Williams, Judy Shintani, Victoria Cormack, Anne Ingraham, Cristina Velazquez, Irma Velasquez, Lauren Johnson-Williams, Juliet Mevi, Leslie Morgan, Mary Shisler, Priscilla Otani, Salma Arastu, Sue Bolton, Tomoe Nakamura.
Photos by Judy Shintani, Sherman Velasquez and Priscilla Otani
Participants: Judy Johnson-Williams, Judy Shintani, Victoria Cormack, Anne Ingraham, Cristina Velazquez, Irma Velasquez, Lauren Johnson-Williams, Juliet Mevi, Leslie Morgan, Mary Shisler, Priscilla Otani, Salma Arastu, Sue Bolton, Tomoe Nakamura.
Photos by Judy Shintani, Sherman Velasquez and Priscilla Otani
Anne Ingraham: Land Support-Spiral
Inspired by our recent rain, I felt compelled to create an art piece that would help to hold the precious water. The spiral shape was inspired by land artist Richard Smithson (the spiral jetty), and to stand for symbol of "growth" for plant life that might be sustained by captured water.
I created the spiral shape with a bucket and twine and completed the dig with a hand trowel. The process of digging in the earth literally "grounded" me. I was able to sit in the beautiful Pescadero landscape and take in the changing views with each turn of the spiral. It was also very meditative to have the path laid out that I would follow, not like life where the path is not always so clear. Rewarded at the end of construction by a gentle rain, it felt complete. Victoria Cormack: Untitled
I love being out in nature and on this particular day, to be in concert with other women at a most spectacular and inspiring vista point made it all more sweet. the rain came and left behind soft, inviting earth for us to shape, breathe into and envison some of our land art dreams. after hulking river rocks of all shapes and sizes away from the existing labyrinth to make room for weed extraction, i found that some of the hand-sized rocks called to me. i lined them up, nestled in one another's shadow and weight and suddenly, i realized i was creating a smile for the earth, for this glorious day, for the opportunity to experience such a rarified treat as making art in the wide open spaces. thanks again for allowing me a chance to share this magical and mindful time.
Tomoe Nakamura: Untitled
I used the place called, "volcano" because I am inspired by Japanese volcanoes and also the Ontake san mountain disaster just happened a month ago. I made a conceptual scene of eruption and mountain slides out of sheets of pink color tissue and connected them with shine blue beads that reflect with the sun. I scraped the dirt around the paper it to make lines. I happened to have an umbrella and bucket of the same pink color so I included them as symbols of the sun and its reflection. This piece means that human beings cannot fight against natural disaster that only the sun god foretell. It is like Shintoism: trusting in nature and doing what nature asks us to do...
Judy Shintani: Following the Cycles
I was taken by the expansive empty field on the undulating hillside and the marks left by the tractor upon it. The grooves were curved in rows and intersected in damp dark dirt dappled with strands of golden hay. I followed the marks by placing thin bamboo sticks evenly spaced along the lines. Every now and then I had to step back and sometimes bend down. The sun and clouds made the marks in the dirt disappear and I had to get a different perspective to find them again. The installation was a meditation in seeing and not seeing, and moving the body in a repetitive way that reminded me of when farmers would plant in big fields by hand, bending up and down to place the seeds. Even after completing the installation, the piece appeared and disappeared, like it was a mirage, like a dream.
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Judy Johnson-Williams: Earth Beads
The idea was to honor nature and our mother Earth with beads for a necklace. I also liked the idea of working with the dirt, itself, and the history of building with adobe in California. 3 years ago, I made a similar project but making flat pendants and then firing them in a pit fire. They all broke, except the one unfired, cylindrical one that a friend hung in her garden. It has lasted, unprotected and unweathered, so I used that as my model.
This time, it had rained and the dirt was perfectly workable and made a nice clay body. Forming the clay into beads involved a lot of slapping the clay into shape, which people commented sounded like someone making tortillas, another homey and earthy association. I bought the beads home to Oakland to dry and then, will string them on jute and return them to the land, probably hanging them on a tree. Mary Shisler: Untitled
For sometime I have been concerned about the declining bee population. Einstein concluded that we had only four more years should the pollinator populations completely collapse. I felt a land art experience would allow me toI explore the possibilities of creating a work of art that contained and supported native pollinator populations. I chose the native bees rather than the honey bee because they do not swarm and do not require a hive. They nest either in the ground or in holes in wood. I also wanted to support California native plant populations.
I initially tried to create habitat by drilling holes in sticks of wood. I found it tedious and unsuccessful. I then found that the dry fennel stalks were hollow and just the right diameter for a nesting hole. I collected many of the stalks and then broke them into 8-10 inch pieces. From there I gathered them into bundles. I tried to tie them with grass stems, but they proved too short and too delicate. I borrowed some red thread from another artist and tied with this bright festive color. I rested the bundles on the wire tree guards. I scattered seeds around the area to provide nutrition for the bees and color for the installation. I hope that time will prove the stalks sturdy and secure enough to provide for the pollinators. Priscilla Otani: Guardians of the Field
I built some jizos with the clay made by my shoes and the straw left behind by the harvest tractor. These unborn children will wait forlornly for their mothers during the cold winter months. When spring comes, soft green grasses will grow and embrace them and put them to sleep in the warm earth.
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WCA Djerassi Day
September 7, 2014
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DISCONNECT 2014 CHAPTER MEMBERS' SHOW
NCWCA ARTISTS
Elizabeth Addison, MGP Andersen, Salma Arastu, Gretchen Blais, Yvette Brown, Amanda Chaudhary, Belinda Chlouber, Lisa Chu, Marsha Connell, Sherri Cornett, Jennifer Ewing, Miriam Fabbri, Katrin Geng, Karen Gutfreund, Kelly Hammargren, Stephanie V. Hogen, Bernadette Howard, Elaine Jason, Judy Johnson-Williams, Joanna Katz, Jeannette Kiel, Mido Lee, Juliet Mevi, Barbara Milman, Jane Neilson, Miwako Nishizawa, Priscilla Otani, Jacqueline Rubinstein, Irene Schlesinger, Sondra Schwetman, Ariella Seidenberg, Pallavi Sharma, Judy Shintani, Mary Shisler, Ruth Petersen Shorer, Sally Stewart, Zoe Thiele-Seidenberg, Michelle Waters, Vera Ximenes, Marian Yap, and Veronica Yazmin.
GALLERY
Transmission Gallery 770 W Grand, Oakland, CA
EXHIBITION
June 6 - July 19, 2014
EXHIBITION DIRECTOR
Kelly Hammargren
Elizabeth Addison, MGP Andersen, Salma Arastu, Gretchen Blais, Yvette Brown, Amanda Chaudhary, Belinda Chlouber, Lisa Chu, Marsha Connell, Sherri Cornett, Jennifer Ewing, Miriam Fabbri, Katrin Geng, Karen Gutfreund, Kelly Hammargren, Stephanie V. Hogen, Bernadette Howard, Elaine Jason, Judy Johnson-Williams, Joanna Katz, Jeannette Kiel, Mido Lee, Juliet Mevi, Barbara Milman, Jane Neilson, Miwako Nishizawa, Priscilla Otani, Jacqueline Rubinstein, Irene Schlesinger, Sondra Schwetman, Ariella Seidenberg, Pallavi Sharma, Judy Shintani, Mary Shisler, Ruth Petersen Shorer, Sally Stewart, Zoe Thiele-Seidenberg, Michelle Waters, Vera Ximenes, Marian Yap, and Veronica Yazmin.
GALLERY
Transmission Gallery 770 W Grand, Oakland, CA
EXHIBITION
June 6 - July 19, 2014
EXHIBITION DIRECTOR
Kelly Hammargren
DISCONNECT EXHIBITION PHOTOS
Photos by Judy Shintani, Kelly Hammargren, Priscilla Otani and Pallavi Sharma
