Delaware Women’s Conference 2009 Juried Exhibition
This year's Delaware Women's Conference Art Show will be a juried fine arts exhibition entitled, “The Possibilities of Pause: Delaware Women’s Conference Juried Fine Arts Exhibition 2009.” This exhibit will launch with an opening event and month-long display at the Delaware Art Museum March 7 through April 19, 2009. This year’s juror is Carina Evangelista, Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art at The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington.
See Our Artists’ Exhibited Works Here! (PDF file).
About the 2009 Exhibition Theme: The Possibilities of Pause
“Women care for so many things and so many other people all at once. The biologically requisite nine months between conception and birth is the perfect metaphor for why women need to stop and take time for ourselves. It is not about self-indulgence which goes against the very DNA of our gender but the need to prepare in order to propel and produce. The phrase “the pregnant pause’ suggests notions of fertility—how vast and deep motherhood is. But trying to find the origin of the phrase, I learned that its classical definition of having many possibilities is tied to the etymological meaning of “pregnant’ having originally meant full of significance before it meant with child.
The pregnant pause has also been used to refer to the extended beat in comedic or dramatic timing—that momentary stillness laden with significance, portentous of meaning, or the prelude to a punch line. Then there’s the Beethoven pause alluded to in Samuel Beckett’s writing as comprising the rich, sometimes difficult, and complex moments of nothingness between the equally rich, sometimes difficult, and complex music.
Seeds lie dormant before they germinate. Caterpillars are protected in their cocoons before they unfurl their fantastic wings as butterflies. There’s the proverbial “still before a storm,’ or the alchemy that happens when the organic properties of cheese, beer, or wine are scientifically subjected to the patient languishing of time.
Taking time for ourselves is not just about rewarding ourselves but about gathering our thoughts and our strengths to incubate ideas. It is about the need to withdraw and to breathe in one’s thoughts in order to be lucid about our convictions that we have considered with care and focus. It is the buildup of moments in order to materialize our creative musings: the need to brood in order to hatch.
Twenty-five is a great year. As a man or woman’s age, it is the brink of possibilities “launched with the dreams of one’s childhood; tempered with the first taste of maturity; unscarred by decades of cynicism; and undaunted by notions of the impossible.”
Carina Evangelista, Guest Juror/Curator, Delaware Women's Conference 2009 Juried Exhibition
About Guest Juror/Curator Carina Evangelista
Carina Evangelista is the Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA). Before joining the DCCA in June 2008, she served an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in the Philippines where she was involved in various contemporary art projects as independent consultant, curator, and writer. She had also previously worked two years in the education department and then four years in the curatorial department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she provided research and curatorial support for a number of large-scale, museum-wide, retrospective exhibitions as well as small Projects shows. In addition to her visual arts credentials, she has worked on theatre, film, and documentary video projects.
About The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts (DCCA)
The DCCA, a non-collecting art museum founded in 1979, organizes and presents more than 30 exhibitions each year, featuring regionally, nationally, and internationally recognized artists who explore topical issues in contemporary art and society. The DCCA offers a variety of education and outreach programs for children and adults including classes, lectures, symposia, and tours, as well as collaborative programs with area schools and community organizations. The DCCA facility provides individual studios to more than 25 working artists who exhibit regularly at the DCCA and throughout the region. DCCA gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays; noon - 5:00 p.m. Wednesdays and Sundays. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and senior citizens (age 65 and up). Children under 12 are admitted free of charge. Admission is pay-what-you-wish on Wednesdays and free until 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The DCCA is wheelchair-accessible; visitors with special needs are urged to call in advance. DCCA exhibitions and programs are made possible, in part, through individual contributions, members’ support, and major grants from AstraZeneca, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
About The Delaware Art Museum
Founded in 1912, the Delaware Art Museum holds a world-renowned collection that focuses on American art and illustration from the 19th Century to the present, as well as the British Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Museum offers the outdoor Copeland Sculpture Garden, the Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives, studio art classes, the interactive Kids’ Corner learning area, the delART Café featuring free Wi-Fi access, and the Museum Store with distinctive books and gifts. The Delaware Art Museum, located at 2301 Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, is open Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Sunday noon - 4:00 p.m. Admission fees are charged as follows: Adults (18 - 59) $10, seniors (60+) $8, college students $5, and youth (7 - 17) $3, with children 6 and under entering for free. Admission fees are waived every Sunday thanks to support from AstraZeneca. For more information, call 302-571-9590 or 866-232-3714 (toll free), or visit the website at www.delart.org.
Contact Info:
Any question relating to the fine arts exhibition can be directed to Kristina Migliore, 2009 Art Show Chair, at kristina.migliore@verizon.net or 302-588-7764.