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Bridging Generations: Painting the Picture

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
2/18/02 MONDAY
	9am - ongoing all day	Registration at the Holiday Inn Express at 1314 Walnut St
	8 - 12 noon	National Board Meeting
	12 noon- 1 pm	Lunch
	1 - 4 pm	Mural Arts Bus Tour: Please join us for a tour of Philadelphia's world-famous murals. They are poetic catalysts for change in some neighborhoods, and accentuate the beauty of others. The Philadelphia Chapter has been organizing the painting of the National Mural here in Philadelphia just a few blocks from Moore College of Art and Design, where the WCA was housed for 25 years. The tour will take us through many different neighborhoods and to see the site at which the mural will be painted in May. The tour is on Monday the 18th from 1 - 3pm. Bus tickets are $50, but there is room for only 35 people. So act now to reserve your space!
	5 - 10 pm	National Board Meeting continues
2/19/02 Tuesday
	8 - 9 am (and ongoing)	Registration
	9 - 9:15 am	Opening Greeting, Magi Amma, WCA President
	9:15 - 10 am	Keynote Speaker, Lily Yeh, Executive Director, Village of the Arts and Humanities
	10 - 10:20 am	President's Awards
	10:30 - 11:45 am	Panels: Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace - Mediator; Ellouise Schoettler "Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace" will explore the labyrinth design in art, education, and culture from ancient times to its present renaissance. Artful Mentoring: Educational Models, Feminist Pedagogy and Life-Long Learning in the Arts - Moderator: Dr. Renee Sandell This panel is a follow up to a 1997 WCA session in Philadelphia on feminist pedagogy with an emphasis on the role and power of mentoring at all educational levels.
	11:50 - 1:05 pm	Panels: Career Development Issues for Women Artists - Panel Proposer and possible moderator: Phyllis Mufson, Locks Career Center, Moore College of Art and Design Participants will engage in interactive activities to unravel career development issues for women artists. Women in the American Arts and Crafts Movement: Designers and Teachers, Links in a Chain - Moderator: Tara Leigh Tappert, Ph.D. This panel will examine the careers, artistic production, and continuing legacies of several women in the Arts and Crafts Movement in America including: Mabel Gertrude Wellington Lewis, Amy Sacker, and Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead.
	1:10 - 2:45 pm	Lunch, Chapter’s Council Elections
	2:45 - 4:00 pm	Panels: Environmental Art: Bridging Generations, Disciplines, Histories and Psychologies - Moderator: Laurie Elizabeth Talbot Hall The artists in this panel are attempting solutions which involve a renewed sense of community, an enlarged ecological perspective and greater access to mythic underpinnings of spiritual and psychological renewal. Mother and/or Artist - Moderator: Marie Elcin This is a panel in which many mothers, both new and experienced, can come together in an open forum to share experiences as mothers and artists, and answer some possibly difficult questions.
	4:05 - 5:20 pm	Panels: Venture: Women Artists in the Lehigh Valley - Moderator: Lucy Gans A presentation of a project and exhibition of contemporary women artists from the Lehigh Valley. Opportunities and Challenges of the Cooperative Salon in the Communication Age - Moderator: Joan K. Smith This panel is a means to explore various directions in which the concept of the artist salon has evolved in the information age, addressing opportunities opened, problems presented, and potential solutions presented by the salon model in its various new incarnations.
	5:30 - 6:30 pm	Roundtable Discussion: How does the WCA effectively bridge generations within our organization? How do we harvest a group of young women leaders to take on the next 30 years?
	7 - 9 pm	Caucus Meetings/Dinners
2/20/02 WEDNESDAY
	11 am - 1 pm	National Honors Awards Luncheon at Moore College of Art and Design ($50)
	1 - 3 pm	National Honors Awards (free to the public)
	3 - 4 pm	National Honors Awards Reception

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