NEWS Newsletter of the College Art Association Volume 30, Number 3 May 2005 CAA Improves Membership Schedule Table of Contents AA’s mem- 2 CAA’s Career Services bership 3 Atlanta Conference Highlights Ccycle has in the past operated on 5 ARTspace in Action a calendar-year basis. In 6 Bruce Cole Convocation Address response to your suggestions, Thanks to Mentors we are pleased to announce that we 9 have redesigned and improved the 10 Call for 2007 Session Proposals membership renewal schedule. 11 Curatorial Proposals Sought for Effective July 1, 2005, all CAA 2007 and 2008 Conferences memberships will be on a rolling Member Benefits: Online Member twelve-month basis, much like a mag- Directory azine subscription. Starting in July, a new CAA 12 2005–9 Board Members Elected membership will be effective on 13 Report from the CAA President the first day of the month fol- 14 Intellectual Property Q&A lowing the month in which CAA receives the application 16 Former CAA Fellow: Miwon Kwon and payment, expiring one 17 Advocacy Update year later. 18 Annual Conference Update Thus, no matter when you join, you will receive a full CAA News year’s benefits. CAA will 20 Affiliated Society News remind all members to 22 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members renew as membership expiration dates Books Published by CAA Members approach. 23 Obituaries Members continue 24 People in the News to receive all of the privileges and benefits of CAA membership for a year, including twelve months of CAA’s publications, access to the Online Career Center, and the oppor- Grants, Awards, & Honors tunity to participate in the Annual Conference. Full membership benefits are listed at 25 Institutional News www.collegeart.org/membership. Conferences & Symposia As always, you may request a back copy of any CAA publication from our Member Services Department. Descriptions of CAA’s publications can be found online at 26 Resources & Opportunities www.collegeart.org/publications. CAA Thanks Donors If you are a current member, you will need to renew your membership in December, 28 Classifieds so that it will be effective in January. If you have any questions about this change, please call the Member Services Depart- Datebook ment at 212-691-1051, ext. 12, or write to [email protected]. Corrections From the Executive Director CAA’s Career Services AA’s 93rd assistance and instruction in how to take activities: the Regional Professional Devel- Annual advantage of the OCC’s features. opment Workshop. This idea has been incu- CConference, At the Annual Conference in Atlanta, the bating for several years and is almost ready held February 16– Career Fair was abuzz with activity: nearly to hatch. Our former CAA president, 19, 2005, was a four hundred job seekers and employers Michael Aurbach, set a precedent by devot- huge success. The attended the Tuesday-night orientation that ing much of his sabbatical in 2002–4 giving meeting was our kicked it off; 28 computers were available career-development workshops for artists first in Atlanta, our for job seekers and another 10 for employ- around the country. In 2002, sponsored and Photo: Andrei Ralko Susan Ball first in the South- ers to search for candidates, view résumés supported by the Getty Research Institute in east, our first to online, and set up appointments. It was a Los Angeles, CAA conducted an all-day, have the chair of the National Endowment great success, with 1,600 job seekers and three-part seminar for academic administra- for the Humanities as Convocation keynote 144 institutions participating. tors and graduate students in M.F.A. and speaker (Bruce Cole), first to offer an all- The Career Fair has grown tremendously Ph.D. programs. Our plan now is to take a day preconference professional-develop- in recent years and now includes mentoring combination of our successful conference- ment workshop, and the first time that workshops that offer unique opportunities based Career Development Workshops, Stacy Miller, CAA’s new director of for candidates to receive candid advice on Aurbach’s artist workshops, and the Getty research and career development, has run job searches and c.v.s as well as help model on the road to schools, colleges, and our Career Fair. preparing for interviews. Artists may have universities around the U.S., serving you in Our emphasis on career development their portfolios critiqued in one-on-one your home regions. These workshops will resulted from widely expressed member meetings with curators and critics. Fifty- also bring us closer to regional issues, so needs. CAA’s Board of Directors recently eight committed mentors volunteered their we can better understand and address these approved a new strategic plan (2005–10) in time and expertise to give professional concerns. which, responding to member input, im- advice to 413 participants about the next You spoke, we listened, and we are acting. provements in CAA’s attention to workforce steps in their careers at all levels, whether Keep sending the comments! Let us know issues and communication were identified beginning, midpoint, or mature. what you need and how we can serve you as two primary goals. Consequently, two In 2002, we initiated Professional Devel- better. new senior staff positions—Miller’s post opment Roundtables at the Annual Confer- —Susan Ball, CAA Executive Director, and a director of media and communications ence, which are designed to provide confer- [email protected] (held by John Menick)—were approved to ence participants an informal discussion- implement many of the strategic-plan goals. based forum to bring up current topics, CAA’s Online Career Center (OCC) is in challenges, and ideas in the field. Topics its second year, with most of the wrinkles ranging from “The Health and Well-Being ironed out. Our mission is to serve our of Artists” to “From Public Art Commis- members—in this case, both job seekers sions to Earthworks: Creating, Managing, and employers. We appreciate your bring- Documenting, and Funding” to “Anyone ing flaws and shortcomings to our attention. for an M.F.A. that Starts with a ‘P’?” were We’ve found that most of the problems led by professors, administrators, scholars, some users of the system have experienced and curators. The discussions were lively as are due to a lack of familiarity with how it participants candidly explored problems works; therefore we are offering more and solutions. A special feature of the Career Fair this Volume 30, Number 3 year was a preconference professional- CAA News is published six times per year by the College development workshop run by the New Art Association, 275 Seventh Avenue, 18th Floor, New York Foundation for the Arts to assist visual York, NY 10001; www.collegeart.org. artists at all career stages. Workshop topics Editor-in-Chief Susan Ball included “Goal Setting and Life Planning,” Editor Christopher Howard “Developing a Professional Artist’s Portfo- Material for inclusion should be sent via e-mail to Christo- lio,” and “Grant Sourcing,” among others. pher Howard at [email protected]. Photographs and slides may be submitted to the above street and e-mail In years to come, we plan to offer a selec- addresses for consideration; they cannot be returned. All tion of preconference workshops. Please advertising and submission guidelines can be found at www.collegeart.org/news. share your ideas for topics with us. I am excited to announce another new Copyright © 2005 College Art Association addition to CAA’s career-enhancement 2 CAA NEWS MAY 2005 2005 ANNUAL CONFERENCE WRAP-UP chaired by the Board member Joyce Hill Stoner, which cited case histories on the impact of the law. Her panel also included a special adjunct, “The Democracy Wall,” consisting of large poster boards that invit- ed postings, in narrative or visual form, by individuals who had felt the impact of the Patriot Act on their work. Other highlights included three sessions that featured distinguished scholars. The eminent Oleg Grabar chaired, with Eva Hoffman, two sessions in Islamic art histo- ry, a field that he has helped to shape and lead over a fifty-year scholarly career. (In Photo: Jim Duignan Anticonsumerist activist and performance artist Reverend Billy is briefly detained by hotel security during his rally at the Annual Conference. Atlanta Conference ruckus, he was briefly Highlights detained by hotel securi- Photo: Emily J. Gomez ty, causing a delay of the From left, Christine McKay, Georgia Barnhill, and Irving Sandler enjoy a march down Courtland moment together at the post-Convocation reception at the High Museum of Art. espite unseasonably cool weather, Street. the 93rd CAAAnnual Conference Another unusual incursion at this year’s recognition of this career, Grabar was given Din Atlanta may be described as a hot conference involved hundreds of cheerlead- the CAA 2005 Distinguished Lifetime event, with high attendance numbers (about ers whose national competition overlapped Achievement Award for Writing on Art, 4,000), stimulating sessions, and engaging with the CAA meeting. Taking it all in presented at Convocation.) Another pioneer, special events over four days. Those of us stride, one conference attendee was over- David C. Driskell, the distinguished artist from up North who had expected a more heard pronouncing the leaping and gyrating and scholar of African American art history, temperate climate found it in the warmth of young bodies as just another form of per- chaired a session on the collections of his- and hospitality of our host community, from formance art. torically black colleges and universities the gracious session-room ushers to the By and large, the real sizzle was provided with Julie L. McGee. A leader in his field great art, cultural, and educational institu- by a program of over 150 sessions that cov- for over forty years, Driskell gave a paper at tions that contributed so generously to the ered a range of subjects, from the topical and the first CAA session on African American conference.