Let’s Talk About It!: Women and the Presidency
In conjunction with the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, ICA LA will present Kathryn Andrews’ site-specific installation featuring the names of women who have run for the Office of President of the United States. Chronicling the nearly 150 years of women vying for the presidential seat, Andrews’ work spotlights the persistent sexism in American politics and the urgent need for change. The project is updated every four years and displayed publicly until a woman is chosen to be President.
Join us at ICA LA for an evening of discussion with a dynamic panel of speakers to focus on gender and leadership in American politics. Speakers will consider historical and contemporary political strategies, with a special emphasis on voting, that shift the needle toward equal representation.
As part of the program, Artists 4 Democracy and A4D member Mary Nemick will offer Get Out The Vote activities such as voter registration verification, postcard writing, and make-your-own VOTE buttons and totes. A4D is a grass-roots collective founded to mobilize the art community of artists, educators, and students to protect democracy through political action and civic engagement.
Speakers
Kathryn Andrews, Artist
Nasreen Alkhateeb, Cinematographer
Sara Angevine, Associate Professor of Political Science, Whittier College
Raquel Beltran, Interim Executive Director, League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles
Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, UCLA
6:00PM–7:00PM: Artists 4 Democracy (A4D) and voting advocate Mary Nemick will offer Get Out The Vote activities such as voter registration verification, postcard writing, and make-your-own VOTE buttons and totes. A4D is a grass-roots collective founded to mobilize the art community of artists, educators, and students to protect democracy through political action and civic engagement.
7:00PM–8:30PM: Panel discussion focused on gender and leadership in American politics. Speakers will consider historical and contemporary political strategies, with a special emphasis on voting, that shift the needle toward equal representation.
This program is presented in collaboration with The Judith Center. The Judith Center, is a new nonprofit organization founded by the artist Kathryn Andrews that works across a range of communities and disciplines including art, science, and politics, to advocate for gender equality on a national basis.
Kathryn Andrews is a conceptual artist who works with installation, sculpture, printmaking, and performance. Andrews received a BA from Duke University; an MFA from Art Center College of Design; and an MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. Andrews’ work often highlights the way American culture normalizes unequal power structures, especially those based on race and gender.
Andrews’ work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany and the MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing. Andrews has also exhibited solo projects at the High Line, New York; the Bass Museum, Miami, and at Depaul University Art Museum, Chicago. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Hammer Museum and Moca, Los Angeles; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; and more.
Andrews recently founded The Judith Center, an nonprofit organization that works across a range of communities and disciplines—including art, science, and politics—to advocate for gender equality across the U.S.
Nasreen Alkhateeb is an award winning cinematographer whose work illuminates historically excluded voices. Her films have been featured by Apple, FX, Netflix, the Emmys, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Previous credits include content made for NASA, Kamala Harris, Naomi Osaka, Billy Porter, UN Women, Vogue, Microsoft, and the Women’s March. By illuminating racial and gender injustice, disability inequity, and the first woman VP, Nasreen thrives as a leader in film that shifts our culture by normalizing intersectional realities. Her ability to motivate audiences is a direct result of approaching story through intersectional identities: multi-heritage, Black, MENA, Disabled, Muslim, LGBTQIA+, and 1st Generation. Forbes described her as “breaking barriers.”
Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the American Society of Cinematographers, the Ford Foundation, the Center for Cultural Power, and Women In Film.
Sara Angevine, Associate Professor of Political Science, specializes in American politics, women and politics, comparative politics, and international relations. Her dissertation examined the policy objectives and congressional motivations behind women’s rights in U.S. foreign policy. Professor Sara Angevine’s research explores how gender (and identity broadly speaking) affects democratic representation in the US. Before Whittier College, Angevine was an adjunct lecturer in political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Rutgers University as well as a lecturer in women and leadership at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University and her master’s in women’s and gender studies from University of the Western Cape in Bellville, South Africa.
Raquel Beltrán is interim executive director of the League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles. Her background is in public administration, nonprofit board governance, and community and labor organizing. Beltrán earned her Masters in Business Administration from California State University Dominquez Hills, with Delta Mu Delta honors. Her years of experience have the unique characteristic of including a variety of disciplines in business, government, labor organizations, and institutions of higher learning, and community - based organizations. Beltrán is the founder and or co-founder of several non-profit organizations in the State of California, including the United Domestic Workers of America, AFL-CIO about which a documentary “Against All Odds” is in development. What Beltrán considers to be her most notable contribution is her ability to empower individuals and organizations to achieve their goal and objectives.
Natalie Masuoka is Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She also serves as the Faculty Director for the Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Initiative at the UCLA Asian American Studies Research Center. She is the author of three books, the forthcoming Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in American Elections on women voters in presidential elections, The Politics of Belonging on immigration policy and Multiracial Identification and Racial Politics in the United States on the administration of race data by the US Census. Her research has been profiled in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, and other media outlets.
