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• Bylaws: In August 2009, revisions to the NAEA WC bylaws were posted on the WC website for review, discussion, and changes. Now, in 2010, it is time to vote regarding the amendments to the NAEA WC bylaws. Only current NAEA WC members may vote. After reviewing the 2009 bylaw revisions on the PDF linked here, please look for the doodle poll invitation in your email inbox to vote. If you did not receive the email invitation please contact WC president, Read Diket at rdiket@c-gate.net. Voting will close on April 1, 2010.

If you would like to renew your NAEA WC membership, or have questions about the status of your membership please visit to NAEA WC membership page or contact WC membership chair, Heather Fountain at fountain@kutztown.edu

• WC is on Facebook! Please join us here to post announcements, share ideas and resources, and communicate with each other in a public forum.
  
  
• Call for artwork for the 2010 NAEA Women's Caucus Exhibition: Visualizing Social Justice. The NAEA Women's Caucus is continuing its rich tradition of exhibiting member's works of art at the 2010 NAEA National Convention, Baltimore, Maryland. Artists are called to submit work relevant to the conference theme of social justice. Artists who will have work selected through a juried process will be invited to speak about their art at the conference and also have their work included in a print exhibition catalogue disseminated at the 2010 NAEA Convention's WC sessions. All submissions with artist statements will be exhibited in the WC online gallery archives. Linked is a pdf of how to submit artwork for the 2010 NAEA WC exhibition.

Rhonda Wall is the juror for the 2010 NAEA Women's Caucus Exhibition: Visualizing Social Justice. Rhonda Wall was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA from Vermont College. Wall has been creating paintings, drawings, collages, mixed media constructions, installations, digital prints and performance art pieces since 1978. Her solo exhibitions have been at Accola Contemporary, New York City, Allentown Art Museum, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Northampton Community College, Cedar Crest College, Mississippi State University, Sensory Evolution Gallery, NYC, and B-Side Gallery, NYC. Her work has been reviewed in ARTNews, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Arts Magazine, Star Ledger, The Morning Call and The Express Times. Wall's artwork is in numerous public and private collections including, Best Products, City College of the City University of New York, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary art, Ridgefield, CT, McGraw Hill, NY, Needham Harper & Steers, New York, University of North Carolina and Keith Haring Foundation. Wall is a Professor of Art at Kutztown University, Pennyslvania, teaching courses in Two & Three Dimensional Design and Installation Art. [Left: Suicide Bombers, Spiderman And Saddam by Rhonda Wall]

• Past president (2006-2008) Maryl Fletcher de Jong (OH) passed on August 8, 2009. She is greatly missed. Maryl was also WC Secretary from 1982-94, and designed the WC logo. Linked here is her August 8, 2009 obituary notice, which includes a poem by her sister. She is the first recipient (April 2009) of the WC service award named in her honored.Click here to comment on Maryl's Tribute blog.)

Photo left to right: Graeme Sullivan, Maryl Fletcher de Jong, Marjorie Cohee Manifold, Enid Zimmerman,
Teri Marche, and Mary Stokrocki at Enid's 2006 retirement party in Chicago organized by Deborah Smith-Shank.

• Visual Culture & Gender Journal: Call for papers
  
  
• 2009 Enacting change: What we can learn from each other?

2009 women's caucus awards

Recipients of 2008 women's caucus awards are:

June King McFee Award 2009: David Burton (speech) & ELizabeth Delacruz (speech)

Kathy Connors Award 2009: Sheri Klein (speech)

Mary J. Rouse Award 2009: Marjorie Manifold (speech)

Carrie Nordlund pre-K-12 Award 2009: Caryl Rae Church

The Maryl Fletcher de Jong Service Award 2009: Maryl Fletcher de Jong