The Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art (SCWCA) presents "Women Making It in the Arts,” a one-day symposium featuring prominent Los Angeles curators and visual artists at the USC School of Fine Arts Gin D. Wong FAIA Conference Center on Saturday, October 23, 2004. Do women curators and artists still face sexist barriers to careers in their field? Are there certain topics that remain off-limits? Are there generational differences in attitudes and art practice? How can art institutions redress decades, even centuries, of discrimination against women? And is there any feminist art currently being produced – or does it matter anymore? These and other hot topics will be explored in two panels organized and moderated by arts writer, Scarlet Cheng.

 

Gatekeepers: Showing and Collecting Women’s Art is the topic for the morning Curators’ Panel. Connie Butler (MOCA), Karin Higa (Japanese American National Museum), Christina Ochoa (Self-Help Graphics & Art), and Lynn Zelevansky (LACMA) will discuss how women artists are collected and shown in their venues, and whether concerted efforts to do so are still needed.

 

How I Made It is the topic for the afternoon Artists’ Panel. Liz Larner, Rebecca Morales, Synthia Saint James, and Alexis Smith will discuss how they came to their careers and how they sustain them, whether they find sexist or racial barriers in their field and, if so, how they deal with them.

 

The day begins at 9:00 AM and concludes with a reception at the USC Fisher Gallery from 3:30 to 4:30 PM. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (SCC NMWA). The Gin D. Wong FAIA Conference Center has been generously donated by the USC School of Fine Arts.

 

Please register early as space is limited. The general pre-registration fee is $55, with reduced rates for students and members (SCWCA and SCC NMWA) if forms are mailed by October 10, 2004. $60 is the on-site fee regardless of affiliation. Box lunches are available for purchase with pre-registration only. For registration forms or additional information, visit www.scwca.org/event/makingit.php.