CWCA Salon

Hello Members,
Please mark your calandars for the next Salon to be held at Joan Minsky's studio, Cornelia Art Bldg., 1800 W. Cornelia,, Sunday, June 19, 3:00 p.m. Bring a piece of art to talk about and if you like, bring a snack to share. Details: Arlene, 847.674-0321.

Save the date! April 12th committee meeting!

Dont forget about our critique session!

Entry Deadline Approaching for Express Yourself Exhibition!

Don't forget to submit your entry by April 20th for the Express Yourself Exhibition!

Exhibition Awards:
Most representing the theme "Express Yourself": to be the featured artist for 2 months on TWO websites, WCA San Diego Chapter site and our online juried show site.
• 1st Place - $100
• 2nd Place - $50
• 3rd Place - $25

If you have questions, E-mail sdwcajuriedshow@gmail.com

Mark your calenders and don't forget about future Themes:
-Diversity – Deadline June 20, 2011;
-Telling Stories – Deadline August 20, 2011;
-Bursting Out – Deadline October 20, 2011
-Open Theme (anything goes) –Deadline December 20, 2011

Call for committee members for Social Justice Conference at WCA Summer Board Meeting in St Louis

St. Louis will be hosting the summer board meeting. In conjunction with it we are planning a Midwest one day Art and Social Justice Conference which will include a national juried exhibition on Friday July 22, 2011.

The conference could be a great resume building, networking, strengthening WCA opportunity for you. Most of the organizational work is being done in St. Louis by local members. We would like your help. We are forming committees. Currently there are two committees where tasks can be completed from a distance.

Committees (so far):
1) Marketing and PR throughout Midwest region
2) Award ceremony -small ceremony where one member from each Midwest chapter will be honored for service in an area of "Art and Social Justice"

Sign up for a committee, questions, suggestions, or ideas - please contact:
Roxanne Phillips
WCA-STL, President
www.wca-stl.org
WCA national, Chapter Council Director
www.nationalwca.org

Women's Works 2011

WOMEN'S WORKS 2011

24th Anniversary Exhibition

Presented by the

Northwest Area Arts Council

March 3 - May 1, 2011

Gala Opening Reception

Saturday, March 12th- 6 - 9 PM

Old Courthouse Art Center

101 N. Johnson Street, Woodstock, IL

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Art Gallery hours:

Thurs – Sat: 11:00 – 5:00

Sun: 1:00 – 5:00

Identifying and Cultivating Individual Donors

SMALL SCALE, BIG ASK
Identifying and Cultivating Individual Donors

This workshop is particularly appropriate for Executive/Managing Directors and
Development staff of small-to-medium sized organizations

Tuesday, March 29 - 9:30 pm - 12:30 pm
(including post networking session)

Location: National-Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006

Featured Presenters: Marty Grochala, Director of Institutional Advancement, Chicago Academy for the Arts
Mark Warner, Principal, MDW Consulting

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER! Just $40/60!


How do you optimize the value and productivity of your fundraising efforts?
How do you best engage your trustees to join in and support your fundraising work?
How can you make the best use of your time out of the office (and, yes, get out more often)?
Finding and cultivating individual donors is a work-intensive, long-term investment for any organization but is particularly challenging to manage with a small staff and modest budget. Hear from professionals who have successfully (and efficiently!) mastered the techniques of identifying and cultivating individual support, and hear their ideas for scaling these activities to fit your staffing and budget size. At this workshop you’ll learn about proven methods for successful individual giving efforts, including:
Building a Framework for Annual Giving
Prospecting
Cultivating
Soliciting
Creating a System of Accountability
Board and Staff Roles and Tracking Activity
Making the "big ask
Stewardship and Relationship Building

Join us and get yourself prepared to make the big ask!

SDWCA online exhibit

Meadow 2008 (dyed painted and stitched cotton) 18x22"

My work won 1st prize in the San Diego WCA online juried exhibit Transformation. www.zhibit.org/sdwcajuriedshow/transformation

The next exhibit Express Yourself opens in May.

best,

Clairan

Store Opening!

Grand Opening Weekend!

Utrecht Chicago

Join us in our new home on South Wabash for a weekend of fun and fantastic savings! Enjoy demos, food, raffles, entertainment and an extra 25% off your entire purchase.Valid now through Sunday February 27th. Utrecht, Lowest Prices... GUARANTEED!

Utrecht Chicago
33 South Wabash
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: (312) 922-7565 email: Store05@utrecht.com

Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP War on Women

1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't.

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other lessgendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

5) In Congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.

7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.

8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

9) Congress voted yesterday on a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).

Sources:

1. "'Forcible Rape' Language Remains In Bill To Restrict Abortion Funding," The Huffington Post, February 9, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206084&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=6

"Extreme Abortion Coverage Ban Introduced," Center for American Progress, January 20, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=205961&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=7

2. "Georgia State Lawmaker Seeks To Redefine Rape Victims As 'Accusers,'" The Huffington Post, February 4, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206007&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=8

3. "South Dakota bill would legalize killing abortion doctors," Salon, February 15, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206102&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=9

4. "House GOP Proposes Cuts to Scores of Sacred Cows," National Journal, February 9, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206103&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=10

5. "New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion," Talking Points Memo, February 4, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=205974&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=11

6. "Republican Officials Cut Head Start Funding, Saying Women Should be Married and Home with Kids," Think Progress, February 16, 2011
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/16/gop-women-kids/

7. "Bye Bye, Big Bird. Hello, E. Coli," The New Republic, Feburary 12, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206104&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=12

8. "House GOP spending cuts will devastate women, families and economy," The Hill, February 16, 2011
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/144585-house-gop-spending-cuts-will-devastate-women-families-and-economy-

9. "House passes measure stripping Planned Parenthood funding," MSNBC, February 18,2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206122&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=13

"GOP Spending Plan: X-ing Out Title X Family Planning Funds," Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206105&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=14

10. Ibid.

Birth Control for Horses, Not for Women," Blog for Choice, February 17, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206106&id=26177-6703040-9Q6buNx&t=15

Copyright- The Changing Face of Creativity

Are the copyright laws out of touch in the new reality of digital on-line media?

With the expanding reach of the internet and social media, it is becoming less clear who is the author of new visual and written works.

A panel discussion on the topic: “Copyright-The Changing Face of Creativity” will be held on Feb. 7, 2011 starting at 6:30 p.m. at Drinker, Biddle and Reath LLP 191 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 3700, Chicago, IL.

The panel consists of:

David Frey, J.D, Partner, Drinker, Biddle and Reath LLP

Ed Lee, J. D., Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Daliah Saper, J.D., Saper Law

With Moderation by Tim McCarthy, J.D., Senior Counsel of Clark Hill.

This is the first installment in a new educational series on Intellectual Property in the 21^st Century sponsored by Heartland Angels, aChicago based, early-stage private equity capital investment network.

Attendance sign-in will begin at 6:00 p.m. The presentation will include a question and answer period.

Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Registration and inquiries by e-mail only to: Ron@heartlandangels.com. There will be a $10 charge (payable by cash or check only) at the door.

For Further information:

Ronald L. Kirschner

Ron@Heartlandangels.com

847-675-3057

Joy Horwich, ft. Judith Roth : Pop Up Gallery

Click to Enlarge:One Week Only!

Monday Feb. 14th

The fun begins with a Valentines Day Brunch from 10-11:30 and will continue until Presidents day on Feb. 21st

Mon.-Thurs. 10am-6pm

Thurs. - After P"art"y 7pm-9pm

Fri.- 10am-4pm

Sat. -1pm-6pm

Sun.- 10am-5pm

Presidents Day- 10am-6pm

2055 Greenbay Road, Highland Park (parking adjacent)

For more information contact

popupartshow@gmail.com

Help Support the Arts!

Chicagoans will soon elect a new mayor for the first time in 22 years. The next mayor will make decisions that will impact Chicago's arts industry for generations.

Chicago is home to a powerful arts industry that generates more than $2 billion in economic activity and employs more than 150,000 people annually. Yet, the arts infrastructure in Chicago is vulnerable. Recently, there have been lay-offs at the Department of Cultural Affairs, cuts to the CityArts grant program, and proposals to privatize the Blues and Jazz Festivals among others.

To tell the candidates that the arts matter, sign this petition!

www.artspowerchicago.com/sign-petition

To learn more about how arts affect the economy and for more information on this campaign visit :

www.artspowerchicago.com

Supported by Lawyers for the Creative Arts and Woman's Caucus for Art

Let it Shine Flyer!

Click to see enlarged image for more information!

Tell your friends, and anyone you meet to come to this great informational and social networking event to learn about self publication and to make a few friends and contacts!

Smart Phones and Dumb Laws

Click to enlarge for details about the show!
An event sponsored by Woman's Caucus for Art!

Read the New York Times Article for more information!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/us/23cnceavesdropping.html?_r=1

Heads Up!

This event is co-sponsored by Woman's Caucus for Art!

Smart Phones and Dumb Laws:

Will Your Cell Phone Make You A Criminal?

The Rising Wave of Repression Against Documenting Dissent and Police Misconduct

Friday, February 18, 2011 at 7pm

Tom Robinson Gallery

2416 W. North Ave., Chicago

As cellphone video recording becomes easier and more popular, police and prosecutors are taking increasingly repressive steps to counteract the ability of everyday people - as well as independent and citizen journalists - to document police misconduct, political protest, and newsworthy events. Are you in danger of arrest, even a felony conviction, for pulling your cellphone out in public places to record the police, acts of political protest, or newsworthy events?

Come and learn how you can take a stand for our rights — and help make law enforcement accountable. Join us for a forum with Gregory Koger, Chris Drew and their attorneys, Jed Stone and Mark Weinberg. Both Gregory and Chris have been arrested for recording public acts of political protest.

Gregory Koger was arrested and sentenced to 300 days in jail for recording a speaker making a political statement with his cellphone before a public event at the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago. He is currently out of jail on appeal bond after serving nearly 2 months of his sentence and continuing the legal battle by appealing his conviction. (www.dropthecharges.net)

Chris Drew has been accused of a felony crime for using an audio-recorder while being arrested for selling art for $1 on a public street. His story was featured in the New York Times on Jan 23 (http://tinyurl.com/4m9k3rr). He faces up to 14 years in jail and is set to go to trial on in early April. See his website at art-teez.org for more information.

Sponsored by the Chicago Women's Caucus for Art, The Ad Hoc Committee for Reason, World Can't Wait - Chicago & Evanston Chapters

Endorsed by the Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism

Lois Weisberg Leaves post as Cultural Affairs Commissioner

Lois Weisberg, the last remaining member of Mayor Richard M. Daley's origional cabinet is leaving her post.

An article from Greg H, from Chicago Business states:

Cultural Affairs Commissioner Lois Weisberg -- who has served as City
Hall's cultural czarina since the Harold Washington days -- has
submitted her resignation, effective Feb. 1.

She's not going quietly.

In an interview and a statement, Ms. Weisberg made it clear she
strongly opposes recent moves to charge admission to Taste of Chicago
and other downtown festivals, privatize festival operations and merge
her department with the Mayor's Office of Special Events.

And she's equally upset that, in her account, Mayor Richard M. Daley
didn't really seek her input on any of this.

"I am not on the same wavelength as these other people," Ms. Weisberg
said. "That's why I'm leaving. I felt bad that the mayor never asked,
never talked to me about how to fix Taste of Chicago. I don't believe
in privatization."

Ms. Weisberg, 85, came to City Hall in 1983, when Mr. Washington named
her head of the Mayor's Office of Special Events. The daughter of a
prominent family, who to a large degree had her own political base,
Ms. Weisberg apparently impressed. When Mr. Daley was elected in 1989,
he brought her along, making her head of the new Department of
Cultural Affairs.

An arts maven who, as a New Yorker profile once put it "seems to know
everybody," Ms. Weisberg was a founder of Friends of the Parks and led
the stunningly successful renovation of the old central public library
at Michigan and Washington into the city's Cultural Center, where she
kept her office.

As commissioner, she not only expanded and nurtured festivals but
created the Cows on Parade public art display of a few years ago,
which went viral worldwide. Her department helped program Millennium
Park as well as numerous other venues.

More recently, as reports came out that the festivals have lost money
in recent years, Mr. Daley ordered changes. The city already has ended
Venetian Night, the only firm bidding to run Taste and other fests
wants to charge a $20 admission fee, and the new city budget merges
the department and the special events office.

Ms. Weisberg says the latter won't work because the two city units
have different DNA: One belongs to the politicians, the other to the
fine-arts set.

Ms. Weisberg reminded me that Richard J. Daley's special events chief,
Col. Jack Riley, once famously turned down Time magazine when it
asked for tickets to an event honoring Queen Elizabeth of the United
Kingdom during her visit here. "He said, 'How many votes do they
have?' " she recalled.

More seriously, Ms. Weisberg said charging admission to the big
downtown festivals will change their very nature.

"The festivals have given the city an image of being a place where the
people of Chicago can be together and be uplifted, all the different
races and religions," she said. "You can't do that if it's not free."

Beyond that, she continued, there already is an admission fee of
sorts: a surcharge on Taste food tickets. Some city departments may be
charging too much for their services, she added, and either way, "I
looked at the festivals as a city expense, just like picking up
garbage."

Ms. Weisberg says she's now going to work on writing a book -- "about
my experiences." If she's candid, it could be a good read.

European Landscape Workshops with Nina Weiss

Now open for enrollment!

A great way to travel and work with a wonderful artist!

ENGLAND June 18th - 28th

Eleven Days & Ten Nights
Stow-on-the-Wold, Chipping Campden & Stratford-on-Avon
With a three-day narrowboat tour on the Ashby Canal

IRELAND June 30th - July 9th
Ten Days & Nine Nights
Clifden, Roundstone, Leenane & Bunratty
With day trips to The Aran Islands & Galway

Discounts offered for Returning Students and Early Enrollment!

For more information and to download a 2011 Catalogue; please visit:

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Please click here to download an application:

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Hexagon- Six Chicago Artists

TEXTURED SURFACE LAYERED SPACE

January 10th to March 18th

Located at the Harold Washington Library Center

8th floor, exhibit case

TALK WITH THE ARTISTS

Saturday, March 5th at 2 PM

Marvel at this vibrant exhibit of paintings, collage, sculpture and multimedia works by the women of Hexagon.

Carol Brookes, Sheila Ganch, Myrna Knepler, Judy Petacque, Susan Redeker and Maureen Warren are teachers, writers, world travelers, but most of all artists. Like the sides of a hexagon, these six artists have unique viewpoints but are connected and united through creative collaboration. In this exhibit the artists share the complexity of their individual experiences through the exploration of textured surfaces and layered space.

For more information about Hexagon's show:

Contact the Harold Washington Library Center at 312-747-4800, email art@chipublib.org or Carol Brookes at 312-560-3064, email carolsbrookes@yahoo.com.

ARTIST WEB PAGES

Sheila Ganch - Website http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/091cf9a427ce746801619f7e844ae690?pa=2616133985> , Chicago Artists Coalitionhttp://go.madmimi.com/redirects/87d933f5b033d754dc8396a92619f176?pa=2616133985> .
Judy Petacque - http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/7ae7e1b531fae5e5b96259c4ca7e6ce3?pa=2616133985> , Vale Craft Gallery http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/82010932190f67a0568359779244efb3?pa=2616133985> , Urban Gateways http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/39fc16fac4b9c8d4b74cc7e7ef90d9fb?pa=2616133985>
Myrna Knepler - Chicago Artist Coalition http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/323823917071722f6f41650b1b09d6af?pa=2616133985>
Susan Redeker - Woman Made Gallery http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/cc900f7ec98852da40ea2342c1c10fe9?pa=2616133985> , You Tube http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/99fb004b7e16065e23ef0c7f867e008c?pa=2616133985>
Maureen Warren - Website http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/a18a5da83b8858b7c276834efe04bf0e?pa=2616133985> , LinkedInhttp://go.madmimi.com/redirects/d6e9f7ff874b3fbf25b4fb2ba992ae04?pa=2616133985>

Carol Brookes - Website http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/2817a63e16c6992cc21de2bf3b1e1131?pa=2616133985> , Viridian Artists http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/be5851d28d3b057258ad9f6ffebe844d?pa=2616133985> , Xanadu Gallery http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/01c3ffda023b41aeb4977a4fb074a026?pa=2616133985>

Trish Williams - Fiber Artist/Quilter “Precepts Inspirited by Episodes of Creative Expressions of Self”

Concordia University Chicago Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month: P.I.E.C.E.S

Trish Williams - Fiber Artist/Quilter

“Precepts Inspirited by Episodes of Creative Expressions of Self”
January 10 - February 13, 2011

Artist Reception: Sunday,January 16, 2011, 2 - 4 PM

Special Artist’s Talk: January 17, 1 PM

Concordia University Chicago, Ferguson Art Gallery, Kretzmann Hall
7400 Augusta St., River Forest, Il 60305

For more information contact: 708-290-3012
Front: Easy Riders – II
Machine pieced/quilted 32 x 46 inches