URGENT - CALLS FOR ART WCA NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, 2010 Featured Artist on WCA Homepage, & UN POSTCARD SHOW

Act Now! Participate in WCA’s three exciting 2010 National Exhibitions!
Submit your work for the 2010 Featured Member Artist competition on WCA's
National website! Support WCA’s delegation and workshop at the 2009 UN
Conference in Mexico City! Check out the calls for submission below, now.

Contents:

UN Postcard Show for Peace and Against Nuclear Weapons – Deadline, 9/1/09

The 6th Annual WCA International Video Shorts Festival – Deadline, 10/15/09

From the Center: Now!, WCA’s 2010 National Juried Exhibit – Deadline, 10/17/09

Drawing the Line, WCA’s Jewish Women Artists’ Network (JWAN) 2010 National Juried Exhibit – Deadline, 11/9/09

Featured Member Artist on WCA's National Web Site for 2010, Deadline: 12/1/09

UN POSTCARD SHOW

Take a Minute and Send Your Postcard for UN Postcard Show on Peace Today –
Request from WCA’s International Chair, Priscilla Otani – Deadline -
September 1, 2009

“Over the last two months I have been curating postcards that speak out
against nuclear weapons and advocate for peace. These postcards, documented
on http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com/, will be exhibited at the
United Nations Mexico City conference from September 9-11, 2009. I will also
discuss this postcard project at a conference workshop. The premise of this
project is that civil society all around the world can speak out about
social justice through art. Hand-made postcards are perfect vehicles for
delivering such messages openly and succinctly. For those who have
created and mailed a postcard to me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
For those who haven't made a card yet, there is still time. The deadline is
September 1, 2009, but I will continue to accept cards until I leave for
Mexico City. So far, 131 cards have been collected - I would love to reach
or exceed my personal goal of 300 cards. It would be wonderful to
demonstrate the power of the simple postcard.”

The postcard show is open to all. Please check out website and send in your
postcard today. Share the opportunity with your chapter members and
friends. – MJ Hayes
Submission address is on the website, http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com/.

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Calls for Entry - Entry forms for all exhibitions below are available online at www.nationalwca.org.

The 6th Annual WCA International Video Shorts Festival
Held annually in conjunction with the College Art Association and WCA
conferences. The festival’s premier will take place during the week of the
WCA conference in Chicago, IL.

Entry Deadline: October 15, 2009

First viewing: Friday February 12, 2010, WCA reception at CAA

Jurors: Sheryl Mousley, curator of film and video, and Verena Mund, Festival
Program Associate, both of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Eligibility: Open to all women artists. The works must be created by women videographers, or directed/co-directed by women.

Exhibition Format: All genres will be accepted: experimental, narrative,
documentary, animation, collage, etc. Entries must not exceed 15 minutes in
length, should be in DVD format ONLY and cued to start. Please do not send
original/master copy.

Entry Fee: US$25 WCA current members/ US$30for non-members.
Checks or money orders should be made payable to: WCA/New Media Fund

Mail Entries to:

WCA-STL Art Dept/STLCC-FV, ATTN: Leslie Hume, 3400 Pershall Rd. St. Louis, MO 63135

For more information contact: Leslie Hume, WCA Video Festival Director at LHume315@gmail.com

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From the Center: Now!
WCA’s 2010 National Juried Exhibit

Held in conjunction with WCA and College Art Association (CAA) Conferences.

Entry deadline: October 17, 2009

Juror: Lucy R. Lippard, internationally known writer, activist, and curator,
early champion of feminist art, author of 18 books on contemporary art, and
recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism.

Theme: Women artists have made great strides over the years since Lippard
wrote her book From the Center. How has their art shifted, progressed, or
remained the same since the 1970s?

Location: Woman Made Gallery. Chicago, IL,

Exhibition dates: January 22–February 25, 2010

Reception Friday, March 12, 2010

Eligibility: Open to all WCA and WomanMade Gallery members.

For more info contact- Co-Chairs Brenda Oelbaum at boelbaum@yahoo.com or

Janice Nesser at janice_nesser@nationalwca.org

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—drawing the line—
WCA’s Jewish Women Artists’ Network (JWAN) 2010 National Juried Exhibit

Held in conjunction with the WCA and the CAA Conferences

Entry Deadline: Monday, November 9, 2009, 5 pm

Theme: Marks on a surface form the artist’s message, illuminate the real and
the imagined, the overt and the hidden. Lines question. Lines define.
Drawing the Line challenges the artist as well as the viewer to question her
own lines. How does one respond to perceived lines? What lines define the
artist? What are the lines for the future?

Exhibition Dates: February 5 – March 6, 2010

Location: Beverly Arts Center of Chicago

Eligibility: Open to all WCA members.

Artists’ Reception: February 14, 2010

Juror: Sarah Giller Nelson, Adjunct Lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago, Curator and Author.

Exhibition Co-chairs: Fay Grajower and Simone Soltan

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Featured Member Artist on WCA's National Web Site

Entry Deadline: December 1, 2009

Theme: Twelve WCA members will be selected to be featured for one month each
during 2010. The “Featured Artist” section of the web site will include the
artist’s name, images, and a link to her own web site, or a web site of her
choice.

Location: www.nationalwca.org home page

Eligibility: Current members of WCA may enter one image

Juror: WCA President

Application process: To facilitate a blind review, please email one jpeg to
nationalwca@gmail.org using “Featured Member Competition” as the subject
line and naming your jpeg with your member ID number (for example:
0123456.jpg). You must use this email address to be considered.

Image size: 72dpi, not exceeding 500 pixels in any direction.

Selection Process: Blind review of each applicant’s digital image.

Notification: December 15, 2009