2019 Humanity Rising II exhibition at ARC Gallery in Chicago

Humanity Rising I was born in 2016 out of the unease that we, as members of the caucus, felt in the wake of our political condition. For Humanity Rising II, the artwork embodies the human condition – politically, environmentally and spiritually.

Exhibition Dates: Feb 6, 2019 through Mar 2, 2019

2018 #nakedtruth

Artworks that embody “the naked truth”.
“Naked” means without clothing, without protection, or without disguise or embellishment.
“Truth” is factual accuracy and honesty—knowledge of events that actually occurred (including transcendent or spiritual reality).
Together the words “naked truth” imply openness to exposing what is real, raw, natural—without embellishment or concealment.
The expression “naked truth” derives from an old Roman fable in which Truth and Falsehood went swimming: Falsehood then dressed in Truth’s clothes, and Truth, refusing to take another’s clothes, went naked.

Exhibition Dates: Jul 5, 2018 through Aug 11, 2018

2017 TRANSMOGRIFICATION

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires. – Pablo Picasso

transmutation • avatar • conversion • transition • discord • regeneration

TRANSMOGRIFICATION is as simple as transitioning from who we are by entering a cardboard box “the transmogrifier,” as seen in the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Or: it can be as complicated as altering ourselves, art, institutions, and beliefs into the fantastic, magical, or bizarre, as seen in the metamorphosis from a chrysalis into a butterfly, or in game arts.

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2016 CONNECTIONS

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2016 SMALL TREASURES

2015 Beyond the Studio

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2014 Water: A Universal Human Right

artists:

Amy Achrysalis, Nelson W Armour, Helene Aylon, Ulla Barr, Stacy Bergener, Linda Boardman, Barbara Bridges, Zel Brook, Sukey Bryan, Marie Cenkner, Jeannine Cook, Sherri Cornett, Mary Ellen Croteau, Richard Dana, Lynn Dau, Danielle Eubank, Kyra Garrigue, Sharon Gilmore, Margie Glass-Sula, Lucia Grossberger Morales, Julia Hacker, Patricia Harris, Jennifer Hecker, Dara Herman-Zierlein, Jeanine Hill-Soldner, Dory Ingram, Suzanne Isaacs, Judy Jashinsky, Wheeler Joan, Judy Johnson-Williams, Lynne Jones, Donna June Katz, Helen Klebesadel, Itala Langmar, Judy Langston, Kim Laurel, Olena Marshall, Diane J Mayer, Jeane Mcgrail, Christine McKee, Linda Mendelson, Christina Montuori, Jean Nerenberg, Janice Nesser, Brenda Oelbaum, Bonnie Peterson, Lois Peterson, Cherie M Redlinger, Barbara Reid, Kimberly Ritchie, Beth Shadur, Barbara Simcoe, Emily Stergar, YurikoTakataFrances Vandal, Nancy VanKanegan, Kate Walker, Margi Weir, Kay Westhues, Helen Zajkowski and Fotios Zemenides.

Judy Jashinsky "Fisherwoman Descending"

Suzanne_Isaacs "The Strength of Water"

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2014 MEMBERS EXHIBIT

In 2014 CWCA artists commnted on their work making it an interesting afternoon complete with dialogue and refreshments!

2009 OFF CENTER

Juried Mid-West Regional WCA exhibition

Jurors: Aron Packer, co-owner of the Packer Schopf Gallery, and Ann Rosen, former Director of The Art Center (TAC) of Highland Park

Artists:
Sandra Bacon, Barbara Bickel, Nancy Charak, Laura Cerf-Dahl, Jill Frank, Shelley Gilchrist, Jeanine Hill-Soldner, Leslie Hirshfield, Judith Hladik-Voss, Sandra Holubow, Suzanne Horwitz, Pauline Kochanski, Debra Levie, Ruth Aizuss Migdal, Anita Miller, Joan Minsky, Janice Nesser, Joyce Polance, Margaret Roche, Amy Firestone Rosen, Ellen Roth Deutsch, Judith Roth, Maura Schaffer, Helene Smith-Romer, Barbara Thomas, Jennifer Weigel, Diane Wilson, Anne Zielenski Fleming, Olivia Cronk

ARC GALLERY 832 Superior Street, Chicago, IL

Exhibition Dates: Feb 6, 2019 – Mar 2, 2019

2008 Annual Member Exhibition

The Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008 Midwest Regional Exhibition

Annual Member Exhibition

ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007 A Place at the Table

Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006 Beyond Boundaries

2006 Annual Member Exhibition

The CWCA Exhibition "Beyond Boundaries" is an exploration of our identity, heritage, and evolution; as artists and as women, through an array of visual media.

CWCA has participated in Chicago Artists' Month for the past four years as a sponsor of the Ravenswood Corridor Arts and Industry Walk and as an exhibiting women's organization. We are once more in proud association with the re-named and re-vamped ArtWalkRavenswood as an exhibiting organization. Congratulations to our participating artists:

Peggy Lipschutz, Judith Roth, Packy Eckola, Patricia Biesen, Marcy Sperry, Judy Langston, Leslie Hirshfield, Kristy Pokorny, Ilse Bolle, Josephine Borromeo, Jeanine Hill-Soldner, Emily Rapport, Suesi Metcalf, Leah Hume-Wilson, Mary Lou Stewart, Barbara Aubin

Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005 Diversity and Spirit

Invitational and Juried Members' Exhibition The exhibition features work by 14 Midwestern artists; seven of whom were juried, and seven who were invited by the President of CWCA.

In this geo-political environment of our culturally diversified country, what are the commonalities of the human experience that bind us together? By celebrating the spirit of our diversity and connecting through our commonalities, we are initiating this show. It is in this spirit of celebrating the individual while rejoicing in the common experience that connects us as humans that this exhibit evolved. -Cherie Reif-Naselli This exhibition shows the richness of art by women – it's diversity in terms of life experience, age, medium, subject, and cultural background. Yet the search for identity, for one's heritage, and reaching out to others are some of the bonds we share, as women, as artists, and as human beings. -CWCA President and Curator, Judith Roth

Jurors:

Cynthia Quick and Natalie Van Straaten A portion of this exhibit was juried by two women involved in the Chicago art scene: Cynthia Quick, Director of Program Development for the Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago; and Natalie Van Straaten, publisher of Chicago Gallery News, Chicago.

Invited Artists:

Marva Jolly, Shirley Sullivan, Diana Solis, Makeba Kadem-DuBose, Paula Martinez, Joyce Owens, Shyvette Williams, Beth Shadur, Andrea Harris, Judith Roth, Mur Louisa Quaglia, Jeanine Soldner, Barbara Thomas, Judy Langston

ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

Exhibition Dates: Mar 4, 2005 – Mar 31, 2005

Chicago Women's Caucus for Art

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