WOMEN'S CAUCUS FOR ART - COLORADO CHAPTER

+ WCA Standards

+ WCA Show Curator(s) Guidelines

Women’s Caucus for Art, Colorado Chapter 2010 Scholarship Award

Along with your name, address, phone and email , submit no more than a one-page description of your goals and how the $200 scholarship award will help you achieve them. This could be as simple as buying books or art supplies for an upcoming art class.

In addition to the description please submit three of your images on a disk (approximately 4 x 5 inches, 300 dpi/pixels) please give the size, title, medium and year completed for each artwork image. Mail your submission to:

WCA
Scholarship Award
PO Box 40835
Denver, CO 80204-0835
Materials must be postmarked by July 26th, 2010
Award to be presented on Aug 20th

Young Women's Caucus

An internal caucus of the National WCA for undergraduates and other women art students - academics and studio arts, to learn more about events and other happenings. Use any of the links below for social networking entry; you may also contact the caucus via email.

Membership for student/limited income is $25 (Chapter dues are extra). Visit the National WCA website for more information.

Anything Goes Show

ANYTHING GOES SHOW for members is scheduled to be on display until the end of March at the Bemis Public Library, 6014 Datura, Littleton, 80120. It is a show for WCA CO members only. Artwork can be 2-D or 3-D, any media, any subject, but must be suitable for family viewing. Each member brings 5-6 pieces. The curator, Allison Morgan will determine what gets into the show. Dates to be announced.

Container Show

CONTAINER SHOW (July 29th – August 15th) has a new timeline created by Jean Smith. The brochures for a Call for entries is ready and can be downloaded in PDF format. Location will be at the CORE Annex . Juror for the show is Laurie Zuckerman. See her work at www.lauriezuckerman.blogspot.com.

Inside/Outside, the Container Between

Proposal:

The Colorado Chapter of Women’s Caucus for Art proposes a group show of a selection of their members in the gallery. These artists would show 2-D and 3-D artwork that incorporates anything with a literal or implied inside and outside, in other words a container. This allows for the inclusion of (or images of) houses, boxes, shrines, drawers, cups, vessels, clothing and even the human body; and interpretive pieces that can venture into ideas of the internal and the external. It also can allow for depictions and questions regarding the container itself and the nature of its separating edge. A variety of mediums, such as painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, and handmade books could be included. Artwork would run the gamut from serious and political, to frivolous and whimsical, plus entertain both adult and children's audiences.


Boxes by Leslie Aguillard

TACtile Textile Arts Center

Proposal:

TACtile Textile Arts Center

The Colorado Women's Caucus for Art
Bras Bangles & Bunions
The price of fashion
Proposal Objective:

To explore what we as human beings wear, not for practicality, but for fashion, and what the actual metaphorical 'price' of this fashion is/was.

Show Structure:

This proposal is a collaborative project uniting the Colorado Women's Art Caucus members with national members. The combined artistic effort will explore the concept of 'The Price of Fashion.' We will call for national participation from our national base of members and conduct a jurying process for individual art work selection. The installation project will include Colorado members only in the creation of the project as outlined below.

Artists:

We will be exploring the concept of 'The Price of Fashion'. The artist's expression of this concept may include, but is not limited to the 'price tag' of couture fashion to 'child labor' in the manufacturing of cheap clothing and exploration of fashionable body manipulation and/or mutilation, 'cosmetic surgery', 'adornment/tattoos/piercing', and historic corseting.

The initial structure outlined above is just that, the beginning. The majority of the WCA members only know of the general outline of this proposed project and have not yet developed the topics/s they will be exploring.

Feature Installation:

As part of our visual journey of fashion we propose a long pipe suspended by wire, running down the length of the gallery hung with garments that explore different forms that women have been expected to fit into by the 'fads and fashions of the times'. These will not be historic depictions but fantastic recreations of hoop skirts, bullet bras, corsets, and suits with shoulder pads. Each artist will create a garment of materials and fabric that juxtapose the inspirational piece with the emotions and experiences of the woman. For example a hoop skirt may include materials such as 'black PVC irrigation pipe' and 'hospital gauze', a 'Madonna' bullet bra with soup cans cut into shape and corsets made from clay. Futuristic wild and imaginative garments that mold our bodies into unnatural shapes would include a feeling of the surreal in the installation. Actual measurements and historic references can be shared in show tags.

Education/public access:

Before and during the art exhibit we anticipate incorporating an educational component, consisting of a round table or panel discussion with contributing artists, staff, students, fashion experts and the community.

TACtile Textile Arts Center Exhibit Proposal

The WCA works closely with the institutions and galleries where we show. We like to receive additional ideas from the communities in which we show our work. We look forward to additional dialogue with TACtile in the creation of the show 'Bras, Bangles & Bunions', after all that is part of the exploration of the show as a whole.

Juror:

We have found that in the selection and hanging of the final art created for any group show it has been helpful to have an outside juror select the work and 'propose a structure' for the hanging of our shows. If TACtile would like to perform this role or assign the outside juror the WCA would be most appreciative. Otherwise WCA will seek that juror.

To participate in any shows you must be a current member of WCA. See ourmembership page for more info.

Check out our upcoming shows here.