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Member's News and Exhibitions Summer, 2009
WCA included several SBAWCA postcard art pieces in this
year’s United Nations NGO Conference, “For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!”
Hundred's of Zero Nuclear Weapons art cards were displayed together with The Ribbon International at the United Nations
Conference in Mexico City in September, 2009. The exhibition will travel to venues in the United States for further display
and dialog.
Community Outreach
The third workshop at the Muriel Wright Residential Center, San Jose, California
taught by SBAWCA artists was completed with an exhibition during Works San Jose Annual Fundrasing, Friday December 4, 2009.
The five SBAWCA artists who participated as instructors in the workshop are: Cheryl Battiato, Fabienne Bismuth, Alejandra
Chaverri, Dana Eaton and Conni Rizzuto. Fabienne Bismuth was the leader of the "Sculpture-figurative bas
relief workshop."
Thanks to Cheryl Batiatto, who wrote a grant to the Association of Clay and Glass
Artists of California, ACGA, the workshop received funds to cover the materials for the completed taller with the teenagers.
Link with details
about the workshop below:
Muriel Wright Residential Center-Fall, 2009 Workshop
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The County of Santa Clara's Probation Department honored SBAWCA
for its volunteer work at the Muriel Wright Residential Center on July 1, 2009. The above plaque was presented to Dana Eaton
for our chapter at the volunteer's appreciation' BBQ. Last year Dana and Alejandra Chaverri
instituted art workshops for the young women at the Center. The administration at the Center has invited our chapter to continue
this effort for the upcoming years. Members, Martha Castillo, Cheryl Battiato, Martha Shaw and Carmela Rizzuto, volunteer
in previous workshops.
View works exhibited during the Control Exhibition at SomARTS, San Francisco, CA, August 2009
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