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WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ART ANNOUNCES the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) is proud to announce the recipients for the 30th Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards: Maren Hassinger, Ester Hernandez, Joyce Kozloff, Margo Machida, and Ruth Weisberg. The WCA will honor the recipients during their annual conference, held in conjunction with the College Art Association conference in February 2009. The awards ceremony and dinner honoring the recipients will take place at the Wilshire Grand Hotel, 930 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday, February 28, 2009. LAA dinner is at 6:30-7:30 and the ceremony is at 7:30-9:00pm. The ceremony and dinner are open to the public.
The Lifetime Achievement Awards were first presented in 1979 in President Jimmy Carter’s Oval Office to Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Past honorees have represented a full range of distinguished achievement in the visual arts from artists to art historians to museum professionals. This year’s awardees are no exception; they represent a wide range of involvement and activism in the arts.
Maren Hassinger is Director of the Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture at Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the recipient of many grants, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 1996; Anonymous Was a Woman Grant in 1997, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2007. Hassinger is a visual artist who works in many media and formats, including public art and performance. A widely exhibited artist, her voice and work are not only central to Feminist Art but also to the history and dialogue of contemporary African-American art.
Ester Hernandez is a San Francisco visual artist who is a pioneer in the Chicana/Chicano civil rights art movement. In the 1970s, she was involved with Las Mujeres Muralistas, an influential San Francisco Mission district Latina women’s mural group. Hernandez has an extensive exhibition record. She recently was featured in the inaugural opening of the Museo Alameda Smithsonian in San Antonio, Texas.
Political artist, Joyce Kozloff is a founding member of the 70′s Pattern and Decoration Movement and a feminist artist. She works in a variety of media including public art. Kozloff is the recipient of many grants and residencies, including the Jules Guerin Fellowship, Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Kozloff has had many solo shows and numerous group exhibitions.
Margo Machida is a renowned authority on contemporary Asian American art and visual culture. She is an associate professor at The University of Connecticut, Storrs. Machida has published extensively on Asian American art. Machida’s co-edited volume with Elaine H. Kim and Sharon Mizota, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (University of California Press, 2003), won the 2005 Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award. She was the recipient of the 2004 Rockefeller Foundation grant for a ‘Symposium on Contemporary Asian American Art, Creativity and Culture Division.’
Ruth Weisberg is a visual artist who has exhibited widely including in recent major exhibitions at the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, the Frye Museum, Seattle, and forthcoming, at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena. Her work is in the collections of major museums in the US and Europe. Since 1995, she has served as the Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. A major documentary, “Ruth Weisberg: On the Journey“ by filmmaker Laura Vazquez, was released in 2003. She served as the President of the College Art Association from 1990-92. Weisberg has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teaching of Art Award (1999) and The Golda Meir award from the Women’s Division of the State of Israel Bonds Event, Los Angeles (2005). In 1979 at the WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards held at the White House, Georgia O’Keeffe was presented with a Weisberg lithograph.
The Lifetime Achievement awards dinner is scheduled for 6:30 – 7:30pm and the ceremony from 7:30-9:30pm. Dinner tickets include a reserved seat for the awards ceremony, are $90 before December 31, 2008, and $105 beginning January 1, 2009. Event and table sponsorship opportunities are also available. Contact Marilyn Hayes, WCA’s National President, for more information about sponsorships, advertisements, or notices at president@nationalwca.org. Tickets for the dinner can be purchased at WCA’s website, www.nationalwca.org. Separate reserved-seating for the awards ceremony ($10) can also be purchased from the website. General audience seating for the awards ceremony is free; interested attendees should arrive early.
The Women’s Caucus for Art is a national non-profit organization committed to expanding opportunities and recognition for women in the arts. Please check www.nationalwca.org for more details about planned events during WCA’s Conference in 2009.
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