THE KWCA
Good morning, I am Gumsun Kim, the president of KWCA.
I am pleased to introduce the KWCA in the first issue of MATRES Magazine.
KWCA is short for Korea Women Ceramists Association (www.kwca2014.com).
It is an organization formed by women potters working in Korea. The organization is made up of a president, four vice presidents, 30 working women directors and 130 members nationwide.
KWCA will provide women ceramic artists with opportunities for networking and mentoring each other in a relatively poor social, cultural and material environment to protect the inner strength and passion of our members.
We will support the development of female ceramic artists who can adapt to the fourth industrial era in which digital technology is coming.
KWCA will strive to become an association of women ceramists that can fulfill its cultural role in step with the times. In addition to growing artistically, we aim to become a happy group of women artists by mentoring each other and fulfilling our cultural responsibility to return that happiness to society. The main activities of the association are: members of each group come together about 3 or 4 times a year in a workshop centered on the vice president and hold a meeting to discuss seminars or study; cultural and artistic exchanges with women potters of the world occur once a year through exhibitions with international women artists in which their works are promoted by participating in pottery fairs or markets abroad or at home; once a year at the periodic exhibition, we organize a competition to discover young women artists and support the exhibitions; five competitions have been held so far in 2019; as women and women artists who make culture, we wish to give something back to society, which is why the proceeds from the exhibition are donated every year to organizations that are committed to women's interests.
We have a very special relationship with the Pandora group of Italian women potters and its president, Anna Rita Fasano.
I hope that in the future we will be able to organize together various events such as exchange exhibitions and art fairs around the world.
Congratulations to the Pandora Association of Ceramic Artists on the launch of MATRES Magazine!