Michigan: Brenda Oelbaum, August 2006

TFAP meeting held at the end of July.

Report on Summer Activities

•Women Artists Banner project for the Off the Wall Gallery and Ann Arbor Art Center was kicked off and will be on display through November, including a panel discussion and lectures at the Ann Arbor Public Library and Ann Artbor Art Center.

•Eastern Michigan University will host a retrospective on Ruth Weisberg's work and may also host a "Through the Veil" exhibition.

•TFAP-MI is also working on a high school poster project to get students involved in designing a national poster. Perhaps Rutgers can do the final selection?

•TFAP-MI has received a $1,000 grant from Univ. of Michigan for TFAP activities and a February 2007 exhibition.

Minnesota: Liz Dodson and Jeanne Philipp, August 2006

Currently showing:

WARM: 12 Artists of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota June 9 - September 17, 2006

Weisman Art Museum, East Bank of the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus.

Report on Summer Events:

•WCA Summer Board meeting in San Juan Bautista-Emphasis on building Partnerships with other organizations for mutual benefit.

•WCA 4th Annual WCA Video Shorts Screening Exhibit will held at WCA NYC Natl Conference Feb. 2007. Call for Video Artists will be available, contact LZ_dodson@yahoo.com

•JWAN Exhibit at WCA NYC Natl Conference Feb. 2007.

•Katrina Project Traveling Exhibit from New Orleans WCA Chapter artists

At San Juan Bautista for fall exhibit

•A Place At the Table traveling exhibit:

September 6-26, 2006, Gallery 101, University of WI , River Falls

Feb. 2007, WCA Chapter, San Juan Bautista, CA

June, 2007, Chicago WCA Chapter, ARC Gallery

A Place at the Table website: www.wcaartmn.org

MN WCA Chapter Meetings are held on the last Saturday of the month at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MCAD, Emeritus Rm, 10-noon, 25th and Stevens AV., Minneapolis,MN, all women artists in the midwest region are welcome. For more info on meeting agenda contact co-chair, Lynnette Black,

Florida: Mary Jo Aagerstoun and Karen Bearor, July 2006

The Florida group met at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery on June 8 and will meet again September 26 in Ft. Lauderdale.

Although the June 8 meeting was Miami-heavy, the group of participants was diverse in terms of professional involvement in the arts: 7 working/exhibiting artists; 3 art historians/academics; 5 gallerists/curators (commercial and alternative space); 2 studio art professors; 1 librarian; and four involved in other areas of the arts.

In small groups, the participants considered a list of key actions for FAP Florida and organized them from “easiest” to “most difficult”. The list is below, including the meeting member who agreed to work on each topic:

•Identify resources—this to include seeking exhibitions/classes/public programs already planned going forward and sending them in to the FAP website

•Fostering a “Rhizomic” organization for FAP-Florida – Marilyn Gottlieb-Roberts

•Organizing/administering Statewide communication via a FAP “Blog”/website or listserv – MJ Aagerstoun, Karen Bearor

•Outreach to student artists/art historians and other young people of the X and Y generation re: improving their understanding and knowledge of the history and current reality of the feminist art movement

•Networking of artists around feminist issues/themes – Denise Delgado, Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Terre Rybovich

•Involving (art/art history) students in the Feminist Art Project (interns, organize own projects on campus, etc.)

•Publicity/PR for FAP in Florida

•Identify existing/develop new courses on feminist art or on feminist approaches to “older” (eg not contemporary) art

•Identify sources to fund FAP Florida (overall)—not including actually getting funding

•Fostering equity for women artists (meaning: advocating with museums, not for profit spaces and commercial galleries to show more Florida women artists)

•Promotion of Florida women artists of color (advocating with museums/not for profit spaces/commercial galleries)

•Development of Speakers’ Bureau – Rosie Gordon- Wallace, Denise Delgado

•Encourage/commission new feminist art

•Advocate for feminist art in public places

•Addressing/redefining/dealing with the term “feminist” and the gender boundaries it seems to foster

•Encouraging the “sending out” of the state of work by outstanding Florida feminist artists – Denise Delgado

•Bringing exhibitions of feminist art into Florida (participants were provided with brief descriptions of three existing shows: WACK-from Los Angeles; Global Feminisms –from Brooklyn; and Women artists and postmodernism –from Rutgers) – Francie Bishop Good, Bernice Steinbaum, Denise Delgado

Missouri: Maria Buszek and Kathy Desmond, August 2006

Maria and Kathy email blasted the CFP to curators, gallerists, artists, and art historians in the region, primarily directing them to the Feminist Art Project website and inviting them to learn more about the project and submit events relevant to its mission. They will follow up on these e-mails individually at the start of the fall semester. Maria, dismayed by the lack of a Kansas regional coordinator, has personally been trying to create interest in several scholars/artists in Kansas to step up and create a group there.