SCWCA encourages attendance at national Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) conferences and sponsors local symposiums.

Local SCWCA Symposiums offer women the opportunity to expand their thinking and participate in provocative discussions with many other visual arts professionals. Panels are organized by member art historians, curators, writers, and administrators to increase the dialogue in the Southern California art community about issues of concern to women and people of color. This reinforces the educational role of the organization and affirms ties to local universities, museums, other arts institutions, and the general public. Recent symposiums include:

National WCA Conferences sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art provides members from all chapters with an occasion to learn, teach, present papers and attend exhibitions, receptions, workshops, and forums at the national level. In February 1999, the Southern California chapter successfully hosted the WCA national conference in Los Angeles. Recent past conferences include:

2005 - Gender in Motion. National WCA conference co-sponsored by the Atlanta chapter to investigate the fluctuating state of gender definitions, roles, concepts, behaviors, and appearances through panels, workshops, performances, video screenings, and a national exhibition.

2004 - Women Artists: In Our Place. National WCA conference in Seattle co-sponsored by the Pacific Region to discuss women exploring "our place" in the art world and art history as well as in connection to land, home, and community.

2003 - The State of the Arts: WCA in NYC. National WCA conference co-sponsored by the New York City chapter to discuss the business of art.

2002 - Bridging Generations: Painting the Picture. National WCA conference co-sponsored by the Philadelphia chapter to encourage mentorship and the passing of the baton of knowledge, wisdom, and energy from generation to generation.

2001 - Feminism: A World Power. National WCA conference co-sponsored by the Chicago chapter to emphasize the expansion of the feminist movement as an international force.

1999 - Igniting the Edge: Forging New Geographies, Categories and Identities. National WCA conference co-sponsored by the Southern California chapter to address what the new millenium means to us as women artists and arts professionals.
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