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WELCOME TO NCWCA'S SPEAKER'S BUREAU!

The NCWCA Speakers’ Bureau showcases the expertise of its members. We address a range of topics from “Tech Tools for Nonprofits”, “Art and Historical Trauma”, “Gallery Management” to “Community Art”, and more. 

​INTERESTED? 
  • ​​If you are an organization interested in a NCWCA speaker for a speaking engagement, workshop or panel , please email us at ncwcachapter@gmail.com and provide your contact information (your name, organization, email and phone number). 
  • For members who would like to join the Speakers’ Bureau, email  ncwcachapter@gmail.com with your request and a application form will be emailed to you.

Elizabeth Addison

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Topics of Expertise
  • Dream Art
  • Mining Your Dreams and Visions for Creativity
  • Dream Environments and Landscapes
  • Creative Investigations: Artists at the Crossroads of Art, Science and Politics
  • Contemporary Collaborative Creative Practices (or Collaborative Art: Making a Masterpiece Together)
  • The Curious Journey from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism
  • Monotoype: A History of Singular Imagery 
  • Contemporary Printmaking
  • Experimental & Non-toxic Printmaking

Biography
Elizabeth Addison is a San Francisco Bay Area visual artist, curator, and educator whose works are included in The California Endowment permanent collection and collected by numerous private and public collectors. Her primary media include experimental printmaking, installation, audio and digital media.
Addison’s recent works are in response to visual connections and functional similarities between the microscopic and the cosmic realms. Informed by the relationship between science and artistic vision, she invokes the threshold created at their intersection. Her liminal environments reflect upon humankind and its relationship with nature, science, and the comparison between belief and data-driven conclusions.
Addison is an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute and is a board member and Professional Development Chair of the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and received her MFA from JFK University in Berkeley.


Lydia Nakashima Degarrod

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Topics of Expertise
  • Interdisciplinary art projects
  • Social art practice
  • Collaborative art
  • Art-based research
  • Exile and forced migration
  • Shamanism, dreams and art

Biography
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod is a visual artist and a cultural anthropologist who creates installations that blur the line between ethnography and art in order to convey experiences of extraordinary nature. Combining visual art and ethnography, she has explored the beauty of Mapuche dreams of heaven (Harvard University 1997-98), miracles in Chilean cities (UC Berkeley 2000-02), people and birds at Lake Merritt (2005-O6) long term exile (Center for Art and Public Life, 2007-8), maps of urban memorable dreams (2015-18), and currently, artmaking as a form of communication in collaborative projects. She has been a recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes doctoral research grant, National Endowment for the Humanities grant, senior fellowship at Harvard University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of  Virginia. She has received awards from the Wing Luke Memorial Museum of Art, Saint John’s University, and the Ministry of Culture of Chile. She has been an artist in residence at de Young Museum of Art, and the Center for Art and Public Life. Degarrod is an associate editor of the Journal for the Society for Anthropology of Consciousness. She serves on the advisory board of the Asian American Women Artists Association. She teaches at the California College of the Arts.​

Website
www.NakashimaDegarrod.com


Priscilla Otani

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Topics of Expertise
  • Tech Tools for Nonprofits
  • Activist Art Exhibitions
  • Panel Moderator
  • Artist Talk Moderator
  • DIY Websites
  • DIY Exhibitions
  • DIY Catalogs
  • ​Gallery Management

Biography
Priscilla Otani is a managing partner at Arc Studios & Gallery, a mixed-use gallery, group studio and micro-business space in San Francisco. Arc is dedicated to showcasing and promoting  emerging and established artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2010,  Otani and her partners have provided exhibition opportunities for over 500 mostly local artists and studio space for fifteen artists. Otani has served on the board of the Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art in various capacities since 2006 and is currently the communications chair. She was elected president of the National Women’s Caucus for Art from 2012 – 2014. In addition to non-profit and gallery experience, Otani has held corporate executive positions in employee benefits, human resources and corporate social responsibility. Otani has a BA in Psychology and Asian Studies from Mills College and an MA in Japanese Literature from Columbia University. ​

Website
www.mrpotani.com


​Tanya Augsburg

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Topics of Expertise
  • Contemporary feminist art
  • Feminist performance art
  • Interdisciplinary arts
  • “Extreme Art”
  • Images of eroticism
  • “Feminist ars erotica ”
  • History of feminist art
  • Panel moderator

Biography
Tanya Augsburg is a humanities-trained, interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, critic, and curator who can be occasionally persuaded to perform. She has been talking to, and writing about, feminist art and performance since the 1990s. Her 1996 doctoral dissertation, “Private Theaters Onstage: Hysteria and the Female Medical Subject” examined images of who dared to speak publicly, from Bernini’s Saint Teresa in Ecstasy to ORLAN’s medical performances. She teaches at San Francisco State University, where she is Professor of Humanities and Creative Arts.  Her current projects include completing a book-length manuscript on the interdisciplinary arts and a book-length manuscript on what she is calling feminist ars erotica. 

Websites
http://faculty.sfsu.edu/~tanya
http://www.tanyaaugsburg.weebly.com
https://sfsu.academia.edu/TanyaAugsburg
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanya_Augsburg
https://medium.com/@fogphd


Judy Johnson-Williams

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Topics of Expertise
  • Conflict Resolution, An Art Approach
  • Kids & Art-Kids with Trauma
  • Teaching Art
  • Burnout Relief
  • Nature/Urban Sketching
  • Cartooning - Addressing Stereotypes
  • Low Literacy/English Language Learners
  • Open Source Graphics Programs (GIMP, Blender, Inkscape, Scribus)

Biography
Judy Johnson-Williams has been an artist for 40 years and taught art for over 20 years (8 years in a drop-in program at migrant house and 13 years in Oakland public schools).  Johnson-Williams has developed customized programs to meet the needs of her students, whether they are adults or traumatized, special needs children.  She believes that art is about thinking and communicating, and while she loves making her own, it is also necessary to share and teach those who don't have the skills. 

Website
www.judyjohnson-williams.com


K. Sawyer Rose

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Topics of Expertise
  • Women’s work & labor issues in art
  • Data visualization in fine arts
  • Graphic design for artists: tools and techniques for all levels
  • Marketing for artists & arts organizations
  • Patrons and sponsors for working artists
  • How to find your perfect artist residency
  • Arts and crafts, jewelry making, and mini-theater for kids ages 3-10

Biography
Sawyer Rose is a sculpture, installation, and social practice artist. Born and raised in North Carolina and a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts, she currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Throughout her career, Sawyer has used her artwork to shine a spotlight on contemporary social and ecological issues. The Carrying Stones Project addresses women’s work inequity and her metalwork sculptures explore the ways living things adapt to changing environments. Her work has been exhibited widely across the US.
Sawyer has been a resident artist at MASS MoCA, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco, Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale Foundation, and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. She has been awarded merit grants from The Creative Capacity Fund, The Awesome Foundation, and Vermont Studio Center.
Sawyer is the President of the Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, and formerly served on the Board of Directors of Oakland Art Murmur, Oakland, CA. 

Websites
​www.sawyerrose.com             
www.carrying-stones.com


Judy Shintani

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​Topics of Expertise
  • Art about the Japanese American Incarceration
  • Community Art
  • Artist Residencies
  • 10 Things Artists Do to Get Noticed
  • Social engagement Art
  • Facilitating Art Workshops and Events
  • Art for Healing

Biography
Judy Shintani's art focuses on remembrance, connection, and storytelling.  As a daughter of a Japanese American incarceree, she has researched and created work about this history. Shintani's masters in Transformative Art groomed her to facilitate and speak about community art and the creative process.
Shintani has exhibited internationally and has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Creativity Explored for Disabled Adults.
 Shintani founded the Kitsune Community Art Studio in Half Moon Bay and is a teaching artist at Foothill College in Menlo Park, CA. She is a member of the Asian American Women’s Artist Association and on the board of the Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art.
Shintani's Master's Degree in Transformative Art is from JFK University in Berkeley and her Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design is from San Jose State University.

Website
www.judyshintani.com/



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