HISTORY
The Women’s Caucus for Art was formed
in connection with the College Art Association (CAA). It is a national
organization
unique in its multi-disciplinary, multicultural membership
of
artists, art historians, students, educators, museum professionals
and galleries
in the visual arts. The Women’s Caucus for Art networks through
research, exhibitions, conferences and honor awards
for achievement.
Our archives are
housed at Rutgers University.
Each year we honor women in art at our National Lifetime Achievement Awards.
This event at our National Conference began in President Carter’s
Oval
Office and continues to offer America its National treasures.
The Women’s Caucus for Art has championed the contributions of women
in the arts professions. Many of our members enjoy national and
international
prestige for their artistic and scholarly contributions to the arts, and
for
their feminist activism.
ucus for Art - Connecticut is a non-profit
organization with over 100 members and was born in 1990.
We are a chapter
of the national Women’s Caucus for Art founded in 1972 at the inception
of the women’s art movement.
The Women’s Caucus for
By providing workshops, lectures, and juried/non-juried exhibitions, we continue
to create opportunities and growth for women in the arts. These have included:
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WCA’s
Regional Conference at Yale University
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Redemption exhibit at the University of Connecticut-Stamford
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Women:
Objects, Objectives, Objections at the Keeney Memorial Center with Jeanette
Ingberman from No-Exit, NYC as juror
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Now,
Voyager at Bradley Airport through the Connecticut Commission on the
Arts
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Small
World at Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University with William Carroll
of Charles Cowles Gallery in NYC as juror
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Bernhard
Arts Center, University of Bridgeport juried by Eugenie Tsai, Director of
the Whitney Museum in Stamford
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Inner
and Outer Spaces Westport Arts Center juried by
Charlotta Kotiq, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Night
and Day at the Walsh
Gallery, Fairfield University, 2005
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WOMEN
MAKE ART,
Short film by director Lisa Seidenberg provides overview of how the women’s
movement affected the struggles of women artists for recognition and in particular
led to the founding of the WCA-CT. Features founder Janet Luongo, former president
Gloria Santoyo Ruenitz and members Barbara Wilk, Ann Doris Eisner, Sharon Coffin,
Mary Jo Lombardo, Suzanne Benton, Eve Strockton and others.
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Professional
Development Series presented by Elisa
Pritzker in 2006
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Caryatids, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, juried by Jessica Hough, 2007
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Our goal continually fosters opportunities for women in the arts to produce,
exhibit, document works, and exchange ideas and information.
We
invite all Connecticut artists to join us in promoting and projecting
your image and
voice.