BOLD, YOUNG AND OLD: WOMEN IN THE ARTS

A one-day symposium on creative life transitions organized by SCWCA

Saturday, October 20, 2001
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA 90024

With speakers, panels and a special performance, this symposium addressed new ways to think about creativity and life transitions.

The symposium commenced with a keynote address by Eleanor Antin. The morning panel, Powerful Transitions, examined the participants' creative approaches to life transitions. An on-site performance by Barbara T. Smith was held in the afternoon, followed by the panel, Career Phases: Emerging, Building, Sustaining, which explored the participants' innovative responses to stages in their creative lives.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Keynote speaker Eleanor Antin (http://visarts.ucsd.edu/faculty/eantin.htm) is an internationally known visual artist whose work encompasses performance, installation, film and video. Her credits include solo exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art.

MORNING PANEL

Powerful Transformations

Moderator: Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein, artist, writer and associate professor of art at La Sierra University, Riverside CA.

Presenters: Carolyn Applegate, Miriam Aston, Lisa Bloom, Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein and Helen Redman (http://www.birthingthecrone.com).

ON-SITE PERFORMANCE

Kaleidoscope

Barbara T. Smith, internationally known visual and performance artist based in Los Angeles.

AFTERNOON PANEL

Career Phases: Emerging, Building, Sustaining

Moderator: Barbara Isenberg, author of State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times since 1976.

Presenters: Judith F. Baca (http://www.lamurals.org/MuralistPages/BacaJ.html), Carole Kim (http://www.artseoul.net/artnews/news2000/e10koram_ex.html), Alison Saar (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/saar_alison.html),
and June Wayne (http://www.junewayne.com)

This symposium was funded in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept.