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2006 WCA National Conference in Boston

2006 National WCA Conference
at the Sheraton Boston
February 19-21, 2006

Keynote Speaker Coco Fusco

National Lifetime Award Honorees
Eleanor Antin, Marisol Escobar, Elinor Gadon, and Yayoi Kusama.

Boston Conference 2006 Highlights Disk is available for purchase! $10 plus shipping - email khalamka@gmail.com and look for the information on the National WCA website shortly. Relive the Best of the Conference, or see it for the first time if you were unable to attend.

Conference Highlights
(See Events Schedule for more details)


Sunday February 19
Registration at the Sheraton Boston, National Board Meeting, Pre-conference Events, Evening Gallery Reception and Convocation
Monday February 20
Registration, Chapter Council Meeting, Panels, Int'l Video Panel Screening 8-10pm, Evening Gallery Bus Tour to include dinner, and the National Juried Show 6:30-10:30pm
Tuesday February 21
Chapter Council Meeting, Panels, Keynote Speaker Coco Fusco and Lifetime Achievement Dinner, Banquet and Ceremony, Booksigning, Conference concludes
Wednesday February 22 Post conference
CAA Convocation in the morning

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February 2006 Boston Area Juried Exhibitions

International Women's Month Exhibition
Women's Caucus for Art New England Regional Curated Group Exhibition
Bunkerhill Community College-Charlestown Campus
Press Release

City Women: Boston Community Artists
A Multimedia Exhibition featuring Contemporary Art by Women Artists
The Gallery, Piano Factory
Press Release
Juror: Cecilia Levin, PhD

Conference Exhibition Bus Tour and Dinner Reception $30
Monday, February 20, 2006
Includes Hebrew College, Mayyim Hayyim and the National Juried Exhibition at Brandeis University
Sign up for this Festive Evening on the conference registration form

"International Video Festival"
Program
Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center, Kniznick Gallery
Juror, Katherine Turczan, Chair of Media Arts at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art and Science. She is recipient of two McKnight Fellowship Awards in Photography.

Vital Voices Women's Visions
Press Release
National WCA Juried Multimedia Exhibition
Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center, Kniznick Gallery
Jurors, Raphaela Platow and Wendy Tarlow Kaplan

From Generation to Generation
Press Release
JWAN National Exhibition
Hebrew College Gallery
Juror, Deborah Davidson

Everything Begins in Water
Press Release
Regional Exhibition
Mayyim Hayyim Gallery
Jurors, Judi Rotenberg Ross Zuker and Elizabeth Ross

Inhabiting an Expansive Terrain: WCA Artists Explore Our Relationship to Place
Press Release
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Casella Gallery
Artwork by Women who reside in, or are otherwise affiliated with, the Boston area.
Jurors, Cynthia Fowler and Heather Meri Stewart

Creating Paradise
Press Release
Work by artist Manika Srivastav
Brookline Art Center Gallery
Associated with the offsite pre-conference panel "Creating Paradise"