March 2006 CAA News
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NEWS Newsletter of the College Art Association Volume 31, Number 2 March 2006 2006 CAA Awards for Distinction y honoring outstanding member achievements through its annual Awards for Contents Distinction, CAA reaffirms its mission to encourage the highest standards of scholar- Bship, practice, connoisseurship, and teaching in the arts. With these awards, which were presented this year by President Ellen K. Levy at Convocation during the 94th Annual 2 From the Executive Director Conference in Boston, CAA honors individual artists, art historians, authors, conservators, 3 Artist Residency Guides curators, and critics whose accomplishments transcend their individual disciplines and con- Published tribute to the profession as a whole and to the world at large. caa.reviews Surveys the Surveys While reading the following award citations, keep in mind that CAA members can help decide award recipients each year by nominating colleagues and professionals or by serving 4 Nominations Requested for on an award jury (see pages 13–14 for more information). With your nominations and serv- 2007–11 CAA Board ice, CAA can continue its mission and celebrate the dynamic individuals in our field. Advocacy Update 6 Feminist Art Project at 2007 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement CAA Conference The jury for 2006 honors the dis- 7 Annual Conference Update tinguished artist Elizabeth CAA News Murray for her lifetime of 10 New Institutional Membership achievement. Through works that Categories and Benefits strikingly endow the familiar with Affiliated Society News unexpected forms, Murray has 11 revitalized the tradition of paint- 13 CAA Seeks Award Nominations ing and contributed a major origi- 14 Join a CAA Award Jury nal vision to contemporary art. Solo Exhibitions by Artist Murray has exhibited widely in 20 Members New York and nationally, from her first exhibitions at the Paula 21 Books Published by CAA Cooper Gallery in the 1970s to her Members recent retrospective at New York’s Obituaries Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). 22 People in the News Her work is included in the collec- tion of MoMA as well as in those Grants, Awards, & Honors of the Art Institute of Chicago, the 23 Institutional News Baltimore Museum of Art, the Opportunities Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Photo: Ellen Labenski Garden of the Smithsonian 25 Classifieds Elizabeth Murray, The Sun and the Moon, 2005, oil on canvas on Institution, the Metropolitan 26 Datebook wood, 117 x 107.5 in. (297.2 x 273 cm). Artwork © Elizabeth Museum of Art, the Museum of Murray. 27 CAA Thanks Donors Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 From the Executive Director Service to the Profession s many of devote themselves to CAA. Roughly sev- ated societies, among them, for example, you know, enty-five percent of CAA members work the Japan Art History Forum and the ACAA is in higher education, full- or part-time. As National Council of Art Administrators, greatly dependent you know, service to the profession is one are also volunteer-driven organizations; on the generosity of three criteria on which tenure and pro- active involvement in these groups also of its members, motion decisions are based, the other two count toward academic service. For more who voluntarily being teaching and publications. Many information about CAA’s affiliated soci- give their time and faculty handbooks claim that the three are eties and to see the full list of organiza- Photo: Andrei Ralko expertise to help equally weighted, but many professors, tions, please visit www.collegeart.org/caa/ Susan Ball produce the pro- especially at research universities, report aboutcaa/affsocieties.html grams, publica- that a record of publications is the highest And last, but certainly not least, your tions, and services the organization offers. priority, followed by teaching. However, participation in advocacy efforts helps not Authors and reviewers, Annual Confer- service should never be discounted. only CAA but also the larger arts and ence presenters, and members of the Board Networking is another benefit of profes- humanities, higher-education, publishing, of Directors, Professional Interests, sional service. One quarter of our mem- and library communities. CAA’s advocacy Practices, and Standards (PIPS) commit- bers are employed not in the academy but work is ongoing, but twice a year we par- tees, editorial boards, and award juries, in instead in museums, galleries, and arts ticipate in organized campaigns in conjunction with a thirty-person staff, all nonprofits. Others are independent artists, Washington, D.C.—Arts Advocacy Day have made CAA what it is today. Some critics, curators, and scholars. Our various and Humanities Advocacy Day, both of cynics may say that those who contribute boards and committees allow these mem- which take place this month (see page 4). do so for personal gain—that there is an bers to make contacts with art profession- The CAA staff can help you to learn more expected quid pro quo. To that I would als nationally and internationally, outside about these advocacy efforts, and we respond: Of course we want to give some- each individual’s own immediate circle. encourage you to join us in Washington. thing back to the people who contribute! This kind of networking often leads to Advocacy in your home districts is also Here are two ways in which we do. professional opportunities, and CAA of effective, and at times even more so. To be sure, service to the profession is course values the diverse professional Contact Rebecca Cederholm, CAA direc- one reason why members are willing to points of view of all who volunteer their tor of governance and advocacy, at time and expertise, strengthening CAA and [email protected] for more infor- the arts profession as a whole. mation. Volunteer recruiting is underway right In closing, I want to thank the hundreds Volume 31, Number 2 now. CAA’s Nominating Committee is of members for their participation, past accepting nominations for the Board of and present, and encourage those who CAA News is published six times per year by the College Art Association, 275 Seventh Avenue, Directors to serve from 2007 to 2011 (see have yet to serve to get involved. 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001; page 4). The committee will interview —Susan Ball, CAA executive director www.collegeart.org. possible candidates over the summer and in September select the slate for election Editor-in-Chief Susan Ball Editor Christopher Howard by the general membership. Any member Designer Steve Lafreniere can nominate and/or self-nominate. One of the Nominating Committee’s Material for inclusion should be sent via e-mail to many criteria is previous service to CAA, Christopher Howard at [email protected]. Photographs and slides may be submitted to the and there are many opportunities to gain above street and e-mail addresses for considera- this experience! For example, we have tion; they cannot be returned. All advertising and current searches underway for an editor-in- submission guidelines can be found at chief for The Art Bulletin, an Art Journal www.collegeart.org/news. reviews editor, and an Art Journal editori- Copyright © 2006 College Art Association al-board member (see pages 9–10). Furthermore, CAA News publishes a call Founded in 1911, the College Art Association pro- for service on our nine PIPS committees motes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in every September. Volunteering for our creativity and technical skill in the teaching and many career-development activities is practices of art. another good way to get involved. In addi- tion, most of CAA’s more than sixty affili- 2 CAA NEWS MARCH 2006 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Park, and Women’s Studio Workshop. Artist Workspace Arts, notes, “With fewer funding opportu- Funding for the New York State Artist Residency Guides nities available to individual artists, support Workspace Consortium is provided by the for artists’ careers through artist workspace Visual Arts Program of the New York Published programs becomes even more strategic. State Council on the Arts, the Andy These new guides illuminate opportunities Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the for artists, organizations and funders alike.” Ford Foundation, and the National he New York State Artist Work- In conjunction with the release of the Endowment for the Arts. space Consortium (NYSAWC), a guides, NYSAWC offered its first Artist consortium of ten artist-centered LyndaAbraham-PatriciaWilsonAdams-MarcusAhlers-SeongminAhn-MarleneAlt-DesiréeAlvarez-GhadaAmer-GarthAmundson-JudithAnderson Workspace T BarbaraAndrus-IgorAntic-StephanApicellaHitchcock-ShohamArad-TomieArai-ClaudiaAranovich-KensethArmstead-MichaelAshkin AnnAspinwall-PatBacon-SusanBaker-IsabelBarbuzza-CarolJuneBarton-JahjehanBath-AmyBay-J.CatherineBebout-RachelBeck nonprofit organizations located throughout JarrodBeck-PattieLeeBecker-JoshuaBeckman-SarahBedford-MiriamBeerman-MichaelBeitz-RoberleyBell-MildredBeltre-PiBenio SylviaBenitez-MarcinBerdyszak-CarloBernardini-KarlBeveridge-TraceyBey-MattBlackwell-EmilyBlair-ChristineN.Blair-MiriamBloom TimothyBlum-NancyBlum-AliBlum-JudithBlumberg-ErikaBlumenfeld-SerenaBocchino-MelBochner-M.J.Bole-SabraBooth-NinaBovasso Mentorship SusieBrandt-BetsyBrandt-DeborahBright-ZanaBriski-CharlesBrowning-DanielBruce-JamesBrown-MatthewBurke-KellyButtolph caa.reviews Surveys LuisaCaldwell-RobertCaldwell-BethCampbell-KeithCampbell-GaryCardot-MaryCarothers-JamesCasebere-JillCasid-ShaunCassidy