The Women’s Caucus for Art, founded in 1972, is a national organization unique in its multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural membership of artists, art historians, students and educators, gallery and museum professionals, and others involved in the visual arts, for Art. We have focused attention on the enormous contributions of women and people of color throughout the history of art. Our emphasis is on women working in the visual arts professions today. We have established a national network through research, exhibitions, conferences, and honor awards for achievement.
Opportunities
and Challenges of the
Cooperative Salon in the
Communication Age
A panel discussion presented by InLiquid.com
at the WCA National Conference, Philadelphia,
PA
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
InLiquid.com
is proud to have been selected by the Women’s Caucus for Art to present
a panel discussion at this year’s National Conference in Philadelphia.
Called "Opportunities and Challenges of the Cooperative Salon in
the Communication Age," this panel will explore various directions
in which the concept of the artist salon has evolved in this age of instant
global communication, addressing opportunities opened, problems encountered,
and solutions offered by its new incarnations.
Each panelist is an artist who has been instrumental in the creation of
different new salon structures, thus each brings unique experience and
insight to the discussion topic. The panel will take place on February
19, 2002 at 4:05 pm. Admission is free with conference registration (for
detailed information and registration forms, click
here).
PARTICIPANT
PROFILES
Panelists:
Rachel Zimmerman is an artist, curator, and director of InLiquid.com, which she founded in 1999 as a means for increasing community, opportunities, and visibility for independent artists. Also the owner of Studio Z, a graphic and web design firm, she holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Leigh Stevens is an artist and co-founder of BaseKamp, a cooperative studio and exhibition space whose primary focus is to participate in the creation, facilitation and promotion of large scale collaborative projects by contemporary artists. Stevens is an alumna of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work is on view at the current "InLiquid at the Bride" exhibition, SPEAK.
Suzanne Reese Horvitz is an artist and the cofounder/ former executive director of Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia’s first cooperative gallery. Dr. Horvitz has also curated exhibitions and directed community artist workshops as a U.S. Cultural Advisor in a number of countries, including Burma, Argentina, Ecuador, Syria, and Egypt. Recently, she has applied her longstanding interest in digital art and technology to organizing such initiatives as "Original Art in Cyberspace" (Project Director) which was funded by the NEA and sponsored by the University City Science Center. She holds a BFA and MA from University of the Arts, and a Doctorate in College Teaching of the Fine Arts from Columbia University, NYC.
Courtney Dailey and Ginger Brooks Takahashi are artists and collective members of Projet Mobilivre/Bookmobile Project, a touring exhibition of artist books, zines, and independent publications in a vintage Airstream trailer that traveled across the US and Canada in the summer of 2001, with a second tour taking place this summer. For the past two years, both have been members of Space 1026, an artist collective which runs a gallery, and provides studio space and silkscreening facilities. Takahashi is currently living and working in New York; Dailey lives and works in Philadelphia.
Moderator:
Joan K. Smith, artist, writer, and independent curator, has been a freelance art critic since 1988. Currently a contributing arts writer for the Philadelphia City Paper, and a managing editor/communications director at InLiquid.com, Smith has also been a key organizer/curator of a number of independent visual arts initiatives in the Philadelphia area, including the first annual Philadelphia Visual Fringe in 1998 (Founder and Director). Smith holds a BFA from Moore College of Art.