Brenda Oelbaum and Amanda Moyer attended the opening of the Women’s Show at CAID this past week. It was the triple treat: art, music, and poetry. The evening began with an inspiring panel discussion with four confident women artists from Detroit. Next dynamic female poets took the spotlight and wowed the audience with their passionate,Continue reading “The Woman Show at CAID”
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FREE W.A.R. Film Viewing!
JOIN US! Michigan WCA’s own Brenda Oelbaum will be introducing this Lynn Hershman Leeson Film W.A.R. Women Art Revolution. This viewing will be hosted by the Ann Arbor Women Artists Group in collaboration with the Michigan Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. Come out and celebrate women’s history month by bringing your friends toContinue reading “FREE W.A.R. Film Viewing!”
Diet Detour Installation Opening at Whitdel Arts
” “Fat Feminist Activist” blogger, artist and prominent WCA-MI member Brenda Oelbaum will open her new installation “Diet Detour” on February 22 from 6-10 in Detroit’s Whitdel Arts Gallery. The installation is a kind of maze composed of discarded diet books which the artist has been collecting for several years. The exhibit promises to beContinue reading “Diet Detour Installation Opening at Whitdel Arts”
Big Plans for 2013 at WCA-MI
WCA MI members gathered in January at the studio of Brenda Oelbaum in Ann Arbor to celebrate the new year and plot our strategies and projects going forward. We reviewed our priorities, which include: Increasing membership (to 100) Barbara Carson, Membership Chair, has lots of great ideas for how to do this, but she could useContinue reading “Big Plans for 2013 at WCA-MI”
First Bash of 2013
Join us for the first gathering of WCA- MI in 2013. Renew your membership and bring a friend so we can continue to grow! If your friend joins WCA for the first time, we will enter you into a drawing for a fabulous prize package…. Don’t miss out on this event as we need youContinue reading “First Bash of 2013”
WCA Holiday Sketchtacular
Sunday afternoon,Michigan WCA members and friends from all over the state congregated at Brenda Oelbaum’s studio in Ann Arbor, to sketch, talk and enjoy food and drink together for the holidays. A life drawing session with Satori Circus, a well-known Detroit performance artist, artist’s model and “Detroit Institution” (pictured above in a fetching pink frock)Continue reading “WCA Holiday Sketchtacular”
WCA-MI visits the James R. DeSana Center for Arts and Culture in Wyandotte
Not content with merely attending the opening of Pat Izzo and Martine MacDonald at Rivers Edge Gallery on November 17, WCA members took a side trip to the new home of the Downriver Council for the Arts, where Executive Director Tamara Trudelle took us on a tour of the former Masonic Lodge. This beautiful buildingContinue reading “WCA-MI visits the James R. DeSana Center for Arts and Culture in Wyandotte”
Patricia Izzo and Martine MacDonald at River’s Edge Gallery opening November 17
WCA-MI members attended the opening on November 17 of works by WCA-MI members Patricia Izzo and Martine MacDonald. Izzo’s work features female archtypes in black and white staged photos overpainted on canvas. MacDonald’s works are elegant, gilded bird nest-like constructs that incorporate classical architectural elements as well as natural elements such as birds and bones.
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