Sexism: A Touchy Subject at Arc-SF Gallery, CA for July exhibition, our 26th anniversary installation

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About the Juror:
The Jury selection committee is proud to announce, Catharine Clark, as our juror for Sexism: A Touchy Subject, an open call for the 26th annual Silicon Valley Women's Caucus for Art (SVWCA) Member's Exhibition.

Ms. Clark is the founder and gallerist of the Catharine Clark Gallery of San Francisco and New York City. A San Francisco native, Catharine has lived in London, Bologna and Philadelphia, where she attended the University of Pennsylvania earning a BA with honors in Art History. She has guest lectured and served as a panelists at universities, museums, and other institutions. 

She is looked for the very best work you can deliver to the exhibition. You'll have a double chance to be in the show, as we are post an online show with the potential for more than the Arc Gallery can hold, as well as produce a juried catalog, including a statement written by Ms. Clark. We plan to submit our catalog to The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) at Rutgers University.

PROSPECTUS
Sexism today is a touchy subject. Sex, when used as the basis for discrimination is called sexism, a term coined in the 1960s. Yet even now, a half century later, a definition has never reached consensus. Why?

• Is it the belief that one sex is intrinsically inferior?
• Do genders think differently about sex and all its related matters?
• Is this nature so deep in our psyche it exists in a realm beyond our reach?

If our sexual identity is unconscious it makes our often extreme reactions hard to understand let alone explain. Yet it pervades all cultures and personal experience fundamentally. Bodily autonomy. Economics. Motherhood. The responding political movements reverberate with gender memes as we lurch blindly into the future looking for justice, looking for satisfaction, looking for love. 

The gender “wars” are exhausting. But is it better to avoid the topic? What is just, when it comes to a woman? Good, bad, or ugly. What can you say about sexism? Rosie the Riveter or Lady Madonna?  #artandfeminism 

PLAN AHEAD
You need to plan and write about your artwork, tying it into the exhibition theme. There are two different fields to enter your thoughts.

•  500-character Artist Statement 
  
•  200-character line per art entry (one line for each piece of art entered)

Examples of writing your artist statement and art description

SILICON VALLEY WCA CHAPTER MEMBERS
As a Silicon Valley Women's Caucus for Art member, you are invited have one piece in the show. However, enter 2 or 3 pieces, so the juror can have a range to consider while creating the exhibition.

CALL DESCRIPTION
An open call for juried art exhibition for self-identified women artists. The gallery is in San Francisco with opening gala event on Friday, July 3rd. All styles. 

AVAILABLE PEDASTALS:
20 x 20 x 36
22 x 22 x 48
12 x 12 x 24
12 x 12 x 36 – 2
24 x 34 x 10
15 x 15 x 30

Delivery of Artwork Accepted to the Gallery Exhibition Your work can be delivered in person or by a delivery service.

•  If you are hand-carrying your work to Arc Gallery, arrive at 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 on Saturday, June 27 - between 2 and 5PM. You may have a trusted person deliver your work for you.
•   If you are shipping your work to the exhibition, send it to the Attention of Jane Peterman SVWCA Treasurer, 891 Ithaca Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94087. You must have a return shipment label included in your art packaging

AWARDS
Awards for creativity of concept, excellence of design and expertise of media: 1st pl $300, 2nd pl $150, 3rd pl $50. 

Note: Although your art can be sold at or because of this exhibition, neither Arc Gallery nor SVWCA takes a fee from art sales because of this show.
You can ship your art w/ return instructions, to this exhibition from within the US.  We will provide the details upon your acceptance 

CALENDAR
Deadline for application  11:59pm   THUR May 14
 (Deadline extended :-)
Notification of acceptance                 FRI June 12
Receiving                          2 - 5pm       SAT June 27 (shipping is to Jane Peterman in Sunnyvale)
Installation                      9am - 1pm  SUN June 28
Opening reception          7 - 9 pm       FRI  July 3
Gallery Days/Hours       1 - 6pm        WEDs, THURs
                                                12 - 3pm       SATs (except July 4)
Closing  reception         11am - 1pm  SAT July 25
(closing date changed from Sunday to Saturday)

Address: 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

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