NCWCA APRIL 2025 ACTIVITIES
2025 SAN FRANCISCO ART FAIR APR 17-20
NCWCA is honored to be a Cultural Partner of the event!
The thirteenth edition of the fair continues to honor the Bay Area's vibrant cultural institutions, its dynamic collecting community, and the enduring spirit of dedicated patronage. Experience presentations from 85 leading galleries from around the world—many new!—alongside captivating artist installations and public programming this April 17-20 at Fort Mason Festival Pavilion. |
APRIL 19 WOMEN-OWNED GALLERY TOUR AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ART FAIR
Photo courtesy of Sawyer Rose
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APR 16 EXCLUSIVE TOUR OF MAKING THEIR MARK: WORKS FROM THE SHAH GARG FOUNDATION
Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks from the Shah Garg Collection, which is committed to amplifying the voices and visions of women artists. BAMPFA’s exhibition is the first museum presentation of this important collection, which premiered in New York in 2023. Making Their Mark juxtaposes contemporary practices with pathbreaking historical works to illuminate transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among artists from the postwar era to the present. Featuring a wide spectrum of artworks spanning almost eight decades, the exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who circumvent and break through conventions in art making, embracing craft techniques, uncommon supports, and alternative materials. Accompanied by a major publication produced in advance of the exhibition, Making Their Mark assembles significant examples by artists whose works go beyond prescribed definitions of art making established within a historically patriarchal field.
What An NCWCA members-only exclusive curatorial tour Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Foundation When Wednesday, April 16 at 11:30AM, no-host lunch at Gather Restaurant Where Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street Berkeley, CA |
Photo courtesy of Chandrika Marla
Photo courtesy of Priscilla Otani
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APR 11 HANDMADE PAPER, JANE INGRAM ALLEN SOLO SHOW CURATORIAL TOUR
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When Friday, April 11 at 11 am
Where Spring Lake Village Art Gallery, 5555 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95409
No Host Lunch following the tour
RSVP [email protected]
Where Spring Lake Village Art Gallery, 5555 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95409
No Host Lunch following the tour
RSVP [email protected]
NCWCA MARCH 2025 ACTIVITIES
MAR 29 AAWAA SLIDE SLAM
The Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) invited NCWCA members to their annual Slide Slam event in celebration of Women's History Month! The Slide Slam will feature rapid-fire presentations by AAWAA and The Ruby AAPI Women & Nonbinary Artists - 4 slides in 4 minutes! AAWAA also invited the following women luminaries to the event:
Naz Cuguoğlu - Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Programs at the Asian Art Museum
Candace Huey - Head Curator of Edge on the Square
Peggy Lee - Director of The Ruby SF
O.M. France Viana - Artist & Independent Curator, Founder of The Arrozidency
Renee DeCarlo - Artist & Founder of The Drawing Room SF & The Drawing Room SF Annex
Courtney Norris - Curator of The Drawing Room SF & The Drawing Room SF Annex
This is an event-sharing between NCWCA and AAWAA. Look for more opportunities like this later this year!
Left graphic courtesy of AAWAA
Naz Cuguoğlu - Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Programs at the Asian Art Museum
Candace Huey - Head Curator of Edge on the Square
Peggy Lee - Director of The Ruby SF
O.M. France Viana - Artist & Independent Curator, Founder of The Arrozidency
Renee DeCarlo - Artist & Founder of The Drawing Room SF & The Drawing Room SF Annex
Courtney Norris - Curator of The Drawing Room SF & The Drawing Room SF Annex
This is an event-sharing between NCWCA and AAWAA. Look for more opportunities like this later this year!
Left graphic courtesy of AAWAA
MAR 20 WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN AT THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB
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On March 20, during International Women's Month, NCWCA and the Commonwealth Club partnered to present a panel discussion, "Women Empowering Women." NCWCA board member Debra Reabock moderated a stimulating conversation among Debbie Chinn, Vera Maslova, Sawyer Rose, and Dr. Anne W. Smith.
MAR 7 ACKNOWLEDGE THE SHADOW
QUINN KECK & LUZ MARINA RUIZ CURATORIAL TOUR
"Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life. --Eavan Boland
We work across various media, drawing, painting, printmaking, book arts, and installation, but printmaking drives our work. We see each freshly pulled print as the beginning of something new. We are interested in the theme of cycles and repetition represented by water and shadows. The book art form allows multiple images to merge to convey an idea in one structure. In physics, light is both a particle and a wave, just as the shadow is both presence and absence, revealing postmodern contradictions. To acknowledge the shadows is to shift our attention, to see there no I in the vacuum of space, and to hear José Ortega y Gasset when he says, "I am I and my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I do not save myself." Exhibition: Feb 7 - Mar 22 https://www.sevenmirrorsart.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYfGFx40YYD3TFcGvJrB9CAiYz_MlGcAxqM9npbapi9-tdzZ5K-HUZ1J9Q_aem_ec6j1t0K9JyBawHTv3EcKQ |
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NCWCA FEBRUARY 2025 ACTIVITIES
FEB 21 CHROMATIC RHYTHMS DURBA SEN SOLO SHOW CURATORIAL TOUR
Durba Sen’s vivid and colorful abstract paintings are narratives of her life in India amidst bright colors in art, culture, fabrics, festivals; her travels around the world; and the socio-political landscape focusing on women’s empowerment and climate change. Durba groups her art in a few broad categories of Geometric Abstractions, Fauvist Naturescapes, Women Muses, and Abstract Expressionism.
On February 21, Durba Sen led a curatorial tour of her solo exhibition, "Chromatic Rhythms" at the Olive Hyde Gallery in Fremont. Attendees enjoyed viewing her colorful works and a lunch at the Burma Bay Cafe. The exhibition lasts through March 15, 2025. |
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2025 COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION (CAA) CONFERENCE FEB 12-15
"PERSONAL AND GLOBAL: CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN FEMINIST ABSTRACT AND ABSTRACTIONIST ART"
PANEL CHAIR TANYA AUGSBURG, COMMITTEE ON WOMEN IN THE ARTS
NCWCA JANUARY 2025 ACTIVITIES
JANUARY 11, 2025 BOARD RETREAT
Board Retreat participants: (front row left to right) Elizabeth Addison, Laura Abrams, Durba Sen, Sandy Yagi, Debra Reabock. (back row left to right)Giammattei, Christine Cianci, Sawyer Rose, Priscilla Otani, Tanya Augsburg, Na Omi Shintani, Vickie Simms, Linda Joy Kattwinkel, Marguerite Elliott, Chandrika Marla. Photo by Debra Reabock.
The NCWCA Board of Directors held its annual retreat in Half Moon Bay, courtesy of Na Omi Shintani. We discussed the results of last year's goals and set the organization goals for 2025. We also have a full slate of Board candidates for the June, 2025 Board Elections.
The NCWCA Board of Directors held its annual retreat in Half Moon Bay, courtesy of Na Omi Shintani. We discussed the results of last year's goals and set the organization goals for 2025. We also have a full slate of Board candidates for the June, 2025 Board Elections.
January 24 "Here & Now: The Bay Area Figurative Movement Grows" Curatorial Tour
Today’s narrative, expressive phase of the Bay Area figurative movement is about reflecting on the world we live in. We are telling stories that reach beyond academic achievement and accuracy. We are truth seeking. Sometimes we embrace the unbeautiful. Or create beauty for its own sake. Our work might reflect on our personal struggles or reflect the tensions that surround our lives. We are presenting a range of select artists who focus on the figure and are living and working in The Bay Area. Each is grounded in the figurative movement yet continues to explore and express their humanity through portrayals of the form in context.
NCWCA members enjoyed their first curatorial tour of the year with Susan Kirshenbaum and Catherine Merrill leading a discussion of their group exhibition, "He & Now: The Bay Area Figurative Movement Grows" at the Sausalito Center for the Arts at 750 Bridgeway, Sausalito.
NCWCA members enjoyed their first curatorial tour of the year with Susan Kirshenbaum and Catherine Merrill leading a discussion of their group exhibition, "He & Now: The Bay Area Figurative Movement Grows" at the Sausalito Center for the Arts at 750 Bridgeway, Sausalito.
