WC Postcard Project: Installation 8

What does The Global War Against Women mean to you?

How might art educators work with the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection?

Judy Chicago’s teaching methodology, similar to the way she approaches artmaking, begins with self-presentation, which leads to content-searches as arts-based research to situate individual experience within a larger context. Her methodology guides how to transform personal experience into a tangible content-based visual expression that is accessible to and engaging for a larger community.

When you look at the artworks produced within Judy Chicago’s 11 different teaching projects, they stimulate discussion. The images are incredibly powerful. The teaching materials from the Feminist Art Program, founded in 1970 by Judy Chicago in Fresno, California, along with Chicago’s other teaching projects between 1970 and 2005 are historically significant in the development of feminist art pedagogy as processes that can contribute to socially responsible participatory democracy.

See http://judychicago.arted.psu.edu/ for information about the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection and to see digitized materials from the Collection.

WC Postcard Project: Installation 7

 

A time when you felt empowered.

WC Postcard Project: Installation 6

A time when you felt powerless or not in control.

WC Postcard Project: Installation 5

“I felt empowered when I defend or help the ones I love, family, students, friends, people I visit in the hospital. I am the white knight. I tilt at windmills. My own troubles become smaller when I can help some one else.”

-Written by the artist.

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What is the Image of a Feminist in the Field of Art Education Today?

What is the Image of a Feminist in the Field of Art Education Today?

The question was thoughtfully discussed in an open dialogue at the 2010 NAEA Convention with Women’s Caucus member and friends. The transcript is now available at http://naeawc.net/lobby2010.html

The NAEA Women’s Caucus invites you to use the Voices blog as a place to submit additional comments.

PURPOSE: Beyond the WC sessions, meetings, and events that reside within the formal protocol of the NAEA, the Lobby session serves as an informal forum for political discussion and/action. Karen Keifer-Boyd, Read Diket, and Joanna Rees facilitated the 2010 NAEA WC Lobby session, an open forum for current, previous, and future NAEA Women’s Caucus (WC) members, as well as those who do not intend to join the NAEA WC, to engage in a dialogue on the meaning, practices, and rejection of feminism in art education.

PROCESS: The WC 2010 Lobby session began with informal conversations among those new to each other, and to exchange contact information to meet during the conference, or later via email dialogue. Then the full group came together to introduce themselves and respond to the 2010 Lobby session question: “What is the Image of a Feminist in the Field of Art Education Today?”

INTERIM ANALYSIS OF 123 SURVEY RESPONSES: Prior to the NAEA WC Lobby session, we invited art educators, through the division listservs, to complete a survey. The purpose of this survey is to learn of art educators’ perceptions of and relationship to feminism in their work in the field of art education today. What are the reasons that art educators identify with or reject feminism? What are the differences of ideology and teaching practices between those who consider themselves to be feminists and those who don’t? A snapshot interim analysis of the 123 responses gathered as April 10, 2010 was presented to stimulate discussion at the 2010 WC lobby session.

RESPONSES: More than 40 people recorded their responses to a question posed at the 2010 WC Lobby session, “What is the image of a feminist in the field of art education today?” The NAEA Convention WC Lobby session extended the “Survey of Art Educators’ Perceptions of and Relationship to Feminism.” If you missed the 2010 Lobby session in Baltimore, we invited responding to the survey by July 1, 2010 at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GBQV8Z6.

WC Postcard Project: Installation 4

Run out of time to submit your postcard? You can still send them anytime.

WC Postcard Project: Installation 3

A time when you felt empowered.

Please feel free to continue to mail postcards. They will be posted as they are received.

WC Postcard Project: Installation 2

Prompt 2. A time when you felt stereotyped or discriminated against because of your gender, race, sexuality, age, abilities, appearance, or creed.

“A time when I felt powerless or not in control.”-Written by the artist

Prompt 3. A time when you felt powerless or not in control.

WC Postcard Project: Installation 1

This is the first posting of the NAEA Women’s Caucus Postcard Project. Please respond to the visual statements in the comments section as you wish. I have to say I am so honored to be the person posting these. Thank you all so much for your contributions. -Caryl

Prompt 5: When you or another you know felt/was violated/threatened

#3 Powerless

2. A time when you felt stereotyped or discriminated against because of your gender, race, sexuality, age, abilities, appearance, or creed.

“This design relates to issues #2 and #3. We wear varied masks each day in order to relate and cope with our environment. In some groups I am totally transparent to them and have no voice whatsoever. In other groups, I am a valuable colleague or friend. Our minds are always working, but no one really cares!” -Written by the artist.

Prompt #2