newsletter Volume 11, Number 2 Summer 1986 1987 annual meeting studio sessions Studio sessions for the 1987 annual meeting in Boston (February 12- The Spiral of Afro-American Art: Pursuits in Many Directions. 14) have been planned by Natalie Charkow, adjunct professor, Yale Edmund Barry Gaither, Director, Museum of the National Center of University School of Art. Listed below are the topics she has selected, Afro-American Art, 300 Walnut Avenue, Boston, MA 02119. some of which are subject to final confir.mation. Any additional infor­ This session will wrestle with the dilemma of artists exercising their mation on any proposed session will be published in the Fall news­ artistic freedoms as existential individuals within a social order that letter. Those wishing to participate in any open session must submit places emphasis on groups, minorities, categorizations, etc. Several proposals to the chair of that session by October I, 1986. Note: Art artists of varying age, experience, and modes of work, will discuss his history topics were announced in a special mailing in April. The dead­ or her work individually, as well as how each body of work fits into the line for those sessions was 31 May. broader picture of American art, and whether or not its content falls under the category known as Afro-American art. A Return to the Private. Garth Evans (sculptor), 106 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn. NY 1121l. Pressures: Fame, Skill and Knowledge. Larry Day (painter), This panel will address the idea that there has been a shift of interest Philadelphia College of Art. 19 Philadelphia Avenue, Takoma Park, (back?) to sculpture which is made by an individual and discloses its MD 20912. meanings privately, as distinct from sculpture which engages 'issues,' The panel will address such questions as what one has to know to be an artist today, how the roles of tradition and traditional learning Artists in Public Places: Out of the Ivory Studio. John Chandler, affect contemporary practice, what freedoms exist for the contempo­ public art consultant in Boston, An invitational session. rary artist. The re-emergence of public art challenges current attitudes about making art, and may, as some artists have claimed, lead to a redefini­ Poetic and Conceptual Interpretations of Systems used in Drawn tion of art in our time. Artists who have worked in the isolation of their and Painted Space. Susana Jacobson (painter), Art Department, Yale studios without any thought of where their work will eventually be in­ University, 180 York Street, New Haven, CT 06520, stalled are suddenly asked to be responsive to the needs of architecture Historical and contemporary systems from a broad cultural spec­ and an often skeptical public, as well as to the demands of specific trum will be discussed as both formal and poetic investigations into the places. nature and possibilities of space as depicted in two dimensions. Panelists will include artists, architects, and art administrators. "Art On The Line" will be discussed and a film shown about this major Photography: Just Another Pencil. Alan Klotz (photographer and public project in the Boston subways. gallery director), 740 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10025. For years artists have been incorporating photographs into their art Artists Review Art History. Patricia Mainardi (painter), Art works in more or less recognizable form while photographers have Department, Bro~klyn College, C,U,N.Y., Brooklyn, NY 11210, been raiding the graphic arts for techniques and sometimes, disguises. Artists. freed from the necessity to theorize about art history, often The single still image is a rarer bird these days if not exactly an endan­ see qualities in the art of the past invisible to historians and critics, As gered species. Media categories are heavily blurred and artists using every development in the present interrogates the past, in this sense it is photography are often deliberately shunning galleries with traditional artists who create a new art history of the past as well as of the present. photographic affiliations, Photography has come to be for today's art­ The session will consist of artists discussing specific artists or art forms ist another way of recording an image or appropriating an existing one of the past meaningful to their own work, for a specific strategy. Panelists will discuss their relationship to the photographic image, Poets' Responses to Pictures (Real or Imaginary). Rosanna War­ ren (poet, painter), Boston University. An invitational session. Impermanence: What are the problems? Are there any solu­ A reading and discussion with slides. Panelists will include John tions? Hilton Browne, Ralph Mayer Center for Artists' Techniques, Hollander, Richard Howard, and Mark Strand, and possibly, Ger­ University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. trude Schnackenberg, An open forum dealing with issues involved in the impermanence of contemporary art in particular. Panelists will in.clude artists, curators, William Tucker. New York sculptor William Tucker will discuss and dealers, his work. Post-Modern Narrative Painting. Gabriel Laderman (painter), . Art and the Law. Albert Elsen, Walter A. Haas Professor of Art 760 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10025, History, Stanford University. Since the 1960's many artists have been excited by the possibilities of An open session in which artists' questions about legal subjects can narrative painting, New narrative painting in which techniques paral­ be answered, including such topics as recent laws, copyrights, the im­ leling those in the modern novel are being consciously produced. portance of planning one's estate, contracts, etc. These techniques include changes in viewpoint of the artist (equiv­ alent to changing position of the narrator), discontinuous narrative, Giacometti. New York artist Mercedes Matter will discuss her proj­ implied and ambiguous character relationships, mixed levels of meta- ect on the sculptor, Continued on p, 2, col. 1 11987 studio sessions 1988 annual meeting: call for session proposals The 1988 annual meeting will be held in Hou­ morphic reference, etc. Panelists will include David Carbone, James and stimulated by discoveries in science and technology. This session ston; it's our very first time in Texas! The McCarrell, and Sue Morrison. proposes to consider the issue of color with a full interdisciplinary per­ spective; from its current use in art, architecture and design, to devel­ Hyatt Regency is the headquarters hoteL The opments in visual perception and the devising of computer color dates for sessions are Thursday, February 11 A presentation of work in mixed media, with sound and narra­ systems. Session to take place at the Carpenter Center of Harvard through Saturday, February 13. Those wish­ tion. Delphine Ziegler (sculptor, filmmaker), University of California, University. ing to propose topics for sessions for the 1988 Santa Barbara. An invitational session. annual meeting should submit them to the Teaching Art in Rural America. Chair to be announced. Send appropriate chair by October 1, 1986. Printmaking: Extensions of the Discipline. Ruth Fine, Curator, proposals to Natalie Charkow, 95 Beecher Road, Woodbridge, CT Proposals should be submitted in the form Department of Graphic Arts, National Gallery, Washington, DC 06525. of a letter describing the subject of the session and explaining any special or timely signifi­ 20565. This panel will be designed to address problems specifically associ­ During recent decades monotypes, hand colored prints of all sorts, ated with teaching studio art and art history in rural locations across cance it may have for your particular field paper making, artists' books, and sculpture editions have all played a America. In many areas, first hand exposure to fine art is not readily and! or for the discipline in genera1. Other role in what is called printmaking. This panel will explore the impact available, exhibition and career opportunities are non-existent, and factors, such as ideas about the session's of these and other aspects of recent printmaking on traditional notions student expectations of their art training can be very different fr?m format or organization, should also be men­ and practice of the discipline. those of urban students. Panelists will be selected from varymg tioned. Explanatory or supportive materials geographic regions to discuss their experiences and programs estab­ may be appended. Please include a curricu­ lum vitae, preferred mailing address, and Symposium on Color. Lois Swirnoff, Department of Design, Art, lished to answer the special needs of rural teaching. both office and home telephone numbers. Art History, Dickson Art Center, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, CA 90024. To summarize briefly our procedures: (I) The theory of color in art and design is ready for reconsideration. Crafts. A panel is being assembled. Chair and full details to be an- Anyone may submit a proposal for an art his­ New investigations arise as color is manifested in art and architecture, nounced. II tory or a studio session. (2) Program chairs make their selection from among those pro­ posals purely on the basis of merit; however, if essentially the same proposal is received from Thomas Reese Malinda Beeman solo shows by artist members two or more individuals, preference will be given to the individual from the region in which the meeting will be held. (3) In addi­ Joyce Kozloff. Boston University Art Gal­ A listing of exht'bitions by artists who are David Detrich. Gallery Jazz, New Haven, tion to selecting sessions among these pro­ Studio sessions will be chaired jointly by lery, Boston, February 20-ApriI6; University members of the CAA. Those sending infor­ May 7-June 1. "New Sculpture." posals, program chairs will balance and shape Malinda Beeman, assistant professor at The of New Mexico, Albuquerque, August 1- mation for listing should include name of the program by inviting individuals to chair University of Houston, and Karin Broker, Sheila Elias. Alex Rosenberg Gallery, September 14; College of Wooster, Ohio, artist, gallery or museum, city, dates of exhi­ general or special sessions.