Women’s Caucus For Art - Florida Chapter

 
 
 

The WCA is a national organization of women artists interested in recognizing, supporting and promoting artists, teachers, historians, critics, curators and craft experts.

 
 

Welcome

Our local Florida chapter (WCA-FL) has over 30 members state-wide operating from St Petersburg, Florida, a vibrant art community. Membership is open to all women. Join us!

Why join? To expand your exhibition and networking opportunities. We enthusiastically support the National WCA’s mission of empowerment, social justice, and art in the service of societal transformation. We are free-lancers, art teachers, students, professors, craftswomen, and retirees who actively exhibit and perform our craft. We welcome you!

Our Mission

Women dedicated to supporting women through the arts, community and social activism.

  Projects

Black & White

Healing Devices

Women Who Work: A Portrait Project

Florida Wow: Open Call

Black & White Description

.The metaphoric meaning of Black and White’s layers are complex and vary with cultural viewpoints, including shades of gray. As a societal critique, black and white references racial and economic divides. As a visual construct, seeing in black and white is seeing with unambiguous clarity or with the inflexibility of intolerance. The dynamic physical polarity represents eternal struggles between light and dark, day and night, good and evil, right and wrong...death and dry bones. White stands for innocence, purity, and loyalty, black for mourning and despair, the powerful unseen, the hidden and the sensual. The Eastern concepts of revelation and enlightenment, beyond duality, are associated with the merging of radiant white light with the mystery and drama of the black eternal void.

We invite the viewer to determine the dynamic between the meaning infused by the WCA artists, their own cultural filters, and the interface between works in the show.


Healing Devices Description

Art heals both the artist and the audience. Healing devices for the mediation of physical, emotional and spiritual wounds have historically shaped the creative arts from icons, amulets and talismans to visionary, poetic, and musical journeys.

At every level our 21st century world has been subject to the tantrums and machinations of powerful abusers determined to eradicate compassion, cooperation and community responsibility. Now, in this time of transition, the artists of the Women’s Caucus for Art have created healing devices to weave hope into the fabric of our lives, to reimagine, to reconnect, and to restore.

Healing devices are as varied as are their creators. At once beautiful, magical and syncretic, practical and abstract, these objects (touchstones) call out to be held and admired, to be worn or listened to, (and) to become (a) focus for contemplation and inspiration. When brought into our lives and placed in significant spaces, they serve as reminders that we are healing our community and ourselves. And as we bring these touchstones into our hearts they become affirmations for our futures.

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Support WCA-FL

A poster from our recent project “Women Who Work” can be purchased for $15. All funds will go to future projects in the community that support local artists.

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