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OCT 13 ART CRIT!
Join professional guest reviewer Marianne K. McGrath, an independent curator, and a group of your peers for NCWCA's Art Crit on Oct 13th at 7pm following the Chapter Meeting. After successful years working within museums, curating exhibits and presenting art and education programs, Marianne founded MKM Art Consulting, which offers curatorial projects to art institutions, galleries and artists. Some of her more recent curatorial projects have been at the Palo Alto Art Center, Santa Clara University and The New Museum of Los Gatos NUMU.
The theme of this crit is Land. Only one work from 6 artists will be reviewed. For more details and to signup, go HERE.
The theme of this crit is Land. Only one work from 6 artists will be reviewed. For more details and to signup, go HERE.
OCT 23 MAGUE CALANCHE: RESILIENCE SOLO SHOW TOUR
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Mague Calanche is a Mexican-American, self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist rooted in San Francisco. Her work reflects her childhood memories of Anahuac, Chihuahua, countless border crossings, and firsthand observations of why people risk everything to immigrate. In 2020, she entered the Matamoros refugee camp in Mexico, where she transformed her art into activism—recording harrowing stories of mothers at the border and capturing their courage in the face of crisis through sketches and interviews.
In 2025, Calanche was awarded a San Francisco Arts Commission grant for a series of life-size portraits of immigrant Latina working mothers in their occupations, with their recorded interviews. “RESILIENCE" will be in a solo exhibition this October. To build community, Calanche reached out to numerous immigrant grassroots organizations. She established an alliance with Nuevo Sol SF, a San Francisco member-led immigrant organization that provides protections, information, and employment opportunities. To raise awareness and challenge current circumstances, Calanche produced ten large-scale mixed-media paintings and recorded interviews with Latina workers in the Bay Area. To reinforce individual/group identity, each full-figure portrait depicts a woman she interviewed, portrayed on panels in her occupation. These occupations ranged from farm work to elder care to legal activism. The goal is to provide insight into the daily challenges Latina immigrant working women face in the Bay Area, while enabling the public to understand different perspectives through visual narratives and testimonials. Calanche seeks to empower these women laborers by highlighting their pride, beauty, unique identities, and resilience, and to facilitate broader understanding in our communities and among employers, underscoring the genuine value these laborers bring to performing work too often considered ‘marginal’. Calanche aims to connect people from diverse backgrounds and promote informed dialogue, understanding, and change.
Where: SunnyCo Studio Gallery, 480 Francisco St., SF
Date: Friday, October 23, 11am-12pm followed by no-host lunch
RSVP: maguecalanche[at]mac.com
In 2025, Calanche was awarded a San Francisco Arts Commission grant for a series of life-size portraits of immigrant Latina working mothers in their occupations, with their recorded interviews. “RESILIENCE" will be in a solo exhibition this October. To build community, Calanche reached out to numerous immigrant grassroots organizations. She established an alliance with Nuevo Sol SF, a San Francisco member-led immigrant organization that provides protections, information, and employment opportunities. To raise awareness and challenge current circumstances, Calanche produced ten large-scale mixed-media paintings and recorded interviews with Latina workers in the Bay Area. To reinforce individual/group identity, each full-figure portrait depicts a woman she interviewed, portrayed on panels in her occupation. These occupations ranged from farm work to elder care to legal activism. The goal is to provide insight into the daily challenges Latina immigrant working women face in the Bay Area, while enabling the public to understand different perspectives through visual narratives and testimonials. Calanche seeks to empower these women laborers by highlighting their pride, beauty, unique identities, and resilience, and to facilitate broader understanding in our communities and among employers, underscoring the genuine value these laborers bring to performing work too often considered ‘marginal’. Calanche aims to connect people from diverse backgrounds and promote informed dialogue, understanding, and change.
Where: SunnyCo Studio Gallery, 480 Francisco St., SF
Date: Friday, October 23, 11am-12pm followed by no-host lunch
RSVP: maguecalanche[at]mac.com
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WCA ART RAGE ONLINE RECEPTION
90 artists. 90 voices. One creative rebellion.
Inspired by the national Fall of Freedom project, Art-Rage brings together artists responding to our current cultural conditions through art that is unapologetic, raw, beautifully dangerous, truthful, funny, angry, mysterious, insightful—and sometimes impossible to categorize. The simple act of making art is, and always has been, a vital form of creative rebellion. Art-Rage: A Creative Rebellion | Online Artists’ Reception Time: Oct 3, 2026 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) All WCA members are invited to attend the online artists' reception. A Zoom link was provided through National WCA's member email. RECURRING ACTIVITIESWCA Art Activism Pod
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NEXT CHAPTER MEETING OCT 13 Art Crit
6:00 PM Chapter Meeting followed by Art Crit led by Marianne McGrath. Members will be provided with a Zoom link via chaptermail. COMING NEXT!
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