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CREATE ART FOR THE 2012 WC EXHIBITION: Nourish yourself with creative activity as a visual form of inquiry through artmaking. Send 1-3 images of your artwork for juried selection for exhibition at NAEA in New York City in March 2012. The deadline is earlier this year, November 1, 2011. See http://naeawc.net/exhibitions.html for past years' exhibition catalogs and further information on submitting work to the Women's Caucus annual exhibition. WC will continue the online process for submission of artworks, and for the juror to review the submissions for inclusion in the 2012 WC exhibition. The selected artworks will also be shown at an NAEA session with artists speaking about their work, and as a looped presentation during the WC breakfast. Selected works are published in an online and print-based exhibition catalog, which is provided to WC members along with the print-based President's Annual Report.
- WC Exhibition Catalogs: Color print-based exhibition catalogues are distributed to WC members at the exhibition session, business and board meetings, and at the breakfast. Linked here is a pdf of the exhibition catalog. Prior years' catalogs are linked at the Exhibition area in the WC website.
- Congratulations 2011 NAEA Women's Caucus Award Recipients!
• Carrie Nordlund Pre-K-12 Feminist Pedagogy Awardee: Nan Waterstreet
• Kathy Connors Teaching Awardee: Patricia M. Amburgy
• Mary J. Rouse Awardee: Melanie Gail Davenport
• June King McFee Awardee: Yvonne M. Gaudelius
Introduced by nominators, the Women's Caucus Award recipients presented their work in relation to the award criteria at the 2011 NAEA WC Award event in Seattle. We invite everyone to be a part of this special evening in at 2012 NAEA Convention in NYC in honoring outstanding people, who in their teaching, research, and service support the mission of the Women's Caucus to eradicate gender discrimination in all areas of art education, to support women art educators in their professional endeavors, and to educate the general public about the contributions of women in the arts.
HONOR OTHERS: Take a moment to think about someone who is an outstanding art educator who consistently inspires and mentors students in a cooperative, collegial, collaborative, and nurturing manner. Or, who has provided noteworthy service contributions to art education as an advocate of equity for women and all people who encounter injustice. This individual contributes outstanding service of community, state, national, or international significance that contributes to eliminating discriminatory gender and other stereotyping practices for individuals and groups. Who comes to mind when you think of someone who has made distinguished contributions to the profession of art education? Do you know someone who has made a special effort to incorporate feminist pedagogy into her or his pre-K-12 teaching? If you know someone that you would like to see honored, please send nominations by October 1, 2011 to the chairs of the five different award committees listed at http://naeawc.net/awards.html. - Please join us for the next Lobby Session in NYC on March 1, 2012, 6-7 p.m. At the WC Lobby session 2010, the 47 participants responded to the question: What is the Image of a Feminist in the Field of Art Education Today? Photos and a transcription of the 2010 session is linked here at http://naeawc.net/lobby2010.html. About 50 people assembled for dialogue and action at the 2011 WC Lobby Session at NAEA in Seattle. Linked here is a transcription of the 2011 Lobby session. Click on the image below for a postcard about the 2011 Lobby sesson. The lobby session is open to all.
- The Board Meeting's theme "Educational Agents for Positive Change" was an open invitation to join WC Board members to learn how to develop personal stories as political actions for positive change using techniques of autoethnography, narrative inquiry, or arts-based research. The 90-minute meeting began with highlights from the year as members receive the 2011 Annual NAEA Women's Caucus President's Report and 2011 WC Exhibition Catalogue. We have developed a document as a resource on strategies to develop personal stories as political actions for positive change. We will use it as reference during the session as each is invited to share stories of concerns, ideas, and solutions in relation to the WC mission of educational agents for positive change. We encourage you to use the "Educational Agents For Positive Change" session resource and select a point of departure for beginning your own autoethnography. A point of departure may include a memory, journal entry, poem, photograph, writing (your own or others), visual, sound, or dream, etc.
- The Business Meeting: Women's Caucus Making a Difference involved dialogue about the past year's events in looking to the future with ideas such as regional meetings. Dialogue also extended the WC Second Life event, the postcard project, and launch a gift exchange game.
- Women's Caucus Postcard Project at Voices: Leaving the NAEA Convention in 2010, one of the goals the Outreach Coordinators, Caryl Church and Jen Allchin had was to extend the dialogue and connection of Women's Caucus members beyond convention and throughout the year. The Postcard Project is one avenue for creating a dialogue among members and importantly, speaking in our medium: Visual Art. In early January members were mailed a stamped postcard addressed to Outreach Coordinator, Caryl Church. Using one of the following prompts, we asked WC members to create a visual response on the postcard and mail to Caryl. She digitized the postcards and posted them on our WC blog Voices @ http://naeawcvoices.wordpress.com/ We invite everyone to comment on the visual responses and each other's comments. Caryl will continue postcards sent to her. Please contact Caryl at carylchurch@yahoo.com for more information. By exhibiting the postcards online, members and others can use the visual statements as entry points for discussion, response, and reflection. Resources are shared related to the issues raised on the Voices blog. Prompts for the postcards and discussion are:
- A time that you experienced feminist pedagogy as teacher or student.
- A time when you felt stereotyped or discriminated against because of your gender, race, sexuality, age, abilities, appearance, or creed.
- A time when you felt powerless or not in control.
- A time when you felt empowered.
- A time when you or another you know felt/was violated/threatened.
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- TWITTER & BLOG: NAEA Women's Caucus Outreach Coordinator, Caryl Rae Church invites you to twitter and blog concerning issues of gender equity and social justice. Join the dialogue in the Voices Project at http://naeawcvoices.wordpress.com or twitter at http://www.twitter.com/naeawc. It is our hope that this blog will serve as your connection spot to discuss about these issues and others you may come across with a greater community of art teachers, feminists, educators, like-minded, and other-minded people. Have something you want to talk about? Contact us about contributing an article, a picture, a movie, audio, or anything else you want to share. If you ever need to contact us outside of posting to this site, feel free to email us at naeawcoutreach[at]gmail[dot]com.
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- Visual Culture & Gender Journal: Call for papers. Due September 15.
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