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GREEN CALL FOR ENTRY IS NOW OPEN!
GREEN is an exhibition that explores the myriad expressions conjured by this single word—its colors, concepts, contradictions, and cultural weight.
Green is the color of nature: grass, leaves, renewal, and growth. It is also the color of money, graft, avarice, and desire. Green can signify healing and vitality, but also disease, envy, and unease. It is the hue of photosynthesis, innocence, and emotional rebirth. It is energy, lifestyle, and possibility.
This exhibition invites artists to interpret GREEN in ways that are literal, symbolic, or metaphorical. Works might explore environmental themes such as landscapes, ecological cycles, sustainability, climate change, or green energy; cultural and social associations referencing money, capitalism, greed, or movements tied to “green” ideals; emotional and psychological states portraying envy, or renewal, innocence, nostalgia, and healing; material explorations through the use of green pigments, recycled or “green” materials, or layered textures that evoke growth and decay; or conceptual approaches with abstract meditations on color, immersive works that dissolve boundaries between viewer and environment, or playful takes on the word itself.
Exhibition Dates: Saturday July 25-Saturday August 22, 2026
Venue: ARC Gallery 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco
Curated by: Christine Cianci
Juror: JD Beltran, Co-Founder, ART + WATER, San Francisco
Eligibility: NCWCA members, self-identified women within California
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: Friday, May 1, 2026, 11:59 PM
For details and to apply: go HERE
Green is the color of nature: grass, leaves, renewal, and growth. It is also the color of money, graft, avarice, and desire. Green can signify healing and vitality, but also disease, envy, and unease. It is the hue of photosynthesis, innocence, and emotional rebirth. It is energy, lifestyle, and possibility.
This exhibition invites artists to interpret GREEN in ways that are literal, symbolic, or metaphorical. Works might explore environmental themes such as landscapes, ecological cycles, sustainability, climate change, or green energy; cultural and social associations referencing money, capitalism, greed, or movements tied to “green” ideals; emotional and psychological states portraying envy, or renewal, innocence, nostalgia, and healing; material explorations through the use of green pigments, recycled or “green” materials, or layered textures that evoke growth and decay; or conceptual approaches with abstract meditations on color, immersive works that dissolve boundaries between viewer and environment, or playful takes on the word itself.
Exhibition Dates: Saturday July 25-Saturday August 22, 2026
Venue: ARC Gallery 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco
Curated by: Christine Cianci
Juror: JD Beltran, Co-Founder, ART + WATER, San Francisco
Eligibility: NCWCA members, self-identified women within California
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: Friday, May 1, 2026, 11:59 PM
For details and to apply: go HERE
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL CHAPTER ZOOM EVENT
"STAYING MOTIVATED"
March 10 6 pm
March is Women's History Month, and an ideal time for us to collaborate with sister organizations around the USA. On Tuesday March 10 Ruut DeMeo, the founder of a new women in the arts organization, Making Her Mark, will present a talk and interactive session entitled "Staying Motivated".
This talk opens up a conversation about a more emotional side of our art making and ideally it will be both inspirational and supportive for our art careers at whatever stage we're at. Let's face it, we're worried these days. Finding sources of solid support and encouragement, while dealing with rejection, ageism, funding/financial issues, and a general inability to get to the next level...well there's likely to be plenty of meaty content here.
Since Ruut's organization is based on the East Coast, we will switch our Board business meeting to after Ruut's talk so she can begin and end earlier, with this schedule:
We will start our meeting, as usual at 6pm, with attendee introductions.
At 6:15pm pst (9:15 est) Ruut begins her 1-hour inclusive talk.
At 7:15pm (10:15 est) we will wrap up her presentation, comments, and Q&A, then begin our Board meeting and reports.
Our Board meeting and Reports would continue until 8:00pm.
Members will be given the Zoom link through chaptermail.
This talk opens up a conversation about a more emotional side of our art making and ideally it will be both inspirational and supportive for our art careers at whatever stage we're at. Let's face it, we're worried these days. Finding sources of solid support and encouragement, while dealing with rejection, ageism, funding/financial issues, and a general inability to get to the next level...well there's likely to be plenty of meaty content here.
Since Ruut's organization is based on the East Coast, we will switch our Board business meeting to after Ruut's talk so she can begin and end earlier, with this schedule:
We will start our meeting, as usual at 6pm, with attendee introductions.
At 6:15pm pst (9:15 est) Ruut begins her 1-hour inclusive talk.
At 7:15pm (10:15 est) we will wrap up her presentation, comments, and Q&A, then begin our Board meeting and reports.
Our Board meeting and Reports would continue until 8:00pm.
Members will be given the Zoom link through chaptermail.
FEM-minis
NCWCA Member Exhibition
Tuesday March 3, 2026 - Thursday April 2, 2026
Reception Saturday March 7 2-4 pm
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, 647 Irving Street, SF, CA 94122
For the press release go HERE
For the online gallery go HERE
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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
MAR 19 WOMEN GALLERISTS PANEL
March 19, 2026, 5:30-8:30PM pm
Join the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA) for a panel discussion with Bay Area arts leaders Kate Eilertsen, Annette Shutz, Danielle Fox, and Diane Chung.
Topics include:
• What galleries look for in artists
• How to attract gallery representation
• Practical guidance for women artists starting or expanding their careers
March 19, 2026 The Academy, 2166 Market St., San Francisco
Doors 5:30 pm | Panel 6 pm
Cash bar, light refreshments
Easy public transit access
Cost: $15 (members and non-members)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-women-gallerists-panel-tickets-1982846208386?aff=oddtdtcreator
The panel:
Kate Eilertsen – Executive Director at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. Former director at Intersection for the Arts, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. She's spent decades in museums from the Met to Harvard to the Bay Area.
Annette Schutz – Owner of ArtHaus Consulting and co-founder of ArtHaus Gallery. She's been a gallerist, curator, and art advisor for 30+ years and has reviewed portfolios for San Francisco Artist Network since 2015.
Diane Chung – Owner and director of CHUNG 24 GALLERY in San Francisco. She founded her gallery in 2021 as a platform to showcase compelling photography-based work, after years as a fine art photographer herself.
Danielle Fox – Founder of SLATE Contemporary Gallery in Oakland and Principal Partner of SLATE Art Consulting. She has a PhD in art history and 30 years of experience spanning teaching, Sotheby's London, and the interior design field.
Hosted by Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA), a nonprofit chapter of the national Women's Caucus for Art. We create community through art, education, and social activism while advocating for equity in the arts.
Join the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA) for a panel discussion with Bay Area arts leaders Kate Eilertsen, Annette Shutz, Danielle Fox, and Diane Chung.
Topics include:
• What galleries look for in artists
• How to attract gallery representation
• Practical guidance for women artists starting or expanding their careers
March 19, 2026 The Academy, 2166 Market St., San Francisco
Doors 5:30 pm | Panel 6 pm
Cash bar, light refreshments
Easy public transit access
Cost: $15 (members and non-members)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-women-gallerists-panel-tickets-1982846208386?aff=oddtdtcreator
The panel:
Kate Eilertsen – Executive Director at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. Former director at Intersection for the Arts, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. She's spent decades in museums from the Met to Harvard to the Bay Area.
Annette Schutz – Owner of ArtHaus Consulting and co-founder of ArtHaus Gallery. She's been a gallerist, curator, and art advisor for 30+ years and has reviewed portfolios for San Francisco Artist Network since 2015.
Diane Chung – Owner and director of CHUNG 24 GALLERY in San Francisco. She founded her gallery in 2021 as a platform to showcase compelling photography-based work, after years as a fine art photographer herself.
Danielle Fox – Founder of SLATE Contemporary Gallery in Oakland and Principal Partner of SLATE Art Consulting. She has a PhD in art history and 30 years of experience spanning teaching, Sotheby's London, and the interior design field.
Hosted by Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA), a nonprofit chapter of the national Women's Caucus for Art. We create community through art, education, and social activism while advocating for equity in the arts.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2026 MENTORS & MENTEES
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Congratulations to our 2026 mentors & mentees! We had a particularly competitive group of applications this year and the jurors had a tough (but fun) time making our pairings from the terrific group of submissions. If you are interested in NCWCA's other professional development opportunities, check this website, read our monthly newsletter (sign up below), and members should watch their inboxes for announcements. We have SO MANY mentoring/prof dev events happening all year long! |
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