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Newsletter of the College Art Association Volume 30, Number 4 July 2005

Big Changes for Boston Conference

he 94th CAA Annual Conference, to be held Contents in Boston from T 2 From the Executive Director Wednesday, February 22, to Saturday, February 25, 2006, at 3 Michael Heizer’s City in the John B. Hynes Veterans Danger Memorial Convention Center, 5 Orphan Copyright Update will introduce three important 6 Advocacy Update changes while remaining true to the expected high standards 8 CAA Revises Tenure Guide- of intellectual and creative lines for Art Historians stimulation. 9 New CAA Publishing Grants First, we have established a Change to caa.reviews new conference grid: sessions Password System begin on Wednesday morn- CAA Seeks Award ing—not Thursday, as before. 10 Nominations Each conference day, from Wednesday through Saturday, 11 CAA Introduces New features morning and after- Website Listings noon sessions; no panels are Did You Know? Member scheduled for Thursday and Benefits The Boston Center for the Arts is hosting the annual CAA exhibition, held at Friday nights. The new grid Annual Conference Update the center’s Mills Gallery, in conjunction with the 2006 CAA Annual does not reduce the number of Conference. sessions and panels, which 12 CAA News continues to provide the same rich core of intellectual, creative, and practical content as before, but 13 Affiliated Society News rather extends the conference for one day. We hope that all participants and attendees will now be 15 Spotlight on SAH able to enjoy special events, exhibition openings, receptions, and opportunities for socializing and networking during the evening hours. 16 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members At the same time, the number of short sessions offered during the early morning, lunchtime, and early evening slots will also remain unchanged, providing the usual opportunities for affiliated 17 Books Published by CAA societies, allied organizations, and institutional members to hold special sessions, business meet- Members ings, reunions, and receptions. And Convocation will still take place on Wednesday evening, Obituaries February 22; a gala reception held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will follow this event. 18 People in the News A second new feature of the 2006 conference is a program of poster sessions, where presenters mount striking visual summaries of new art-historical and pedagogical studies on 4 x 8 foot poster 19 Grants, Awards, & Honors boards. Poster sessions provide opportunities for intimate exchange between presenters and small Institutional News groups of attendees and are scheduled during lunch hours on Thursday and Friday in a well-traf- Opportunities ficked area of the convention center. If you cannot attend a particular session, don’t worry—poster boards will remain on view throughout the conference. 21 Classifieds Lastly, CAA is adding a third art exhibition to the two that we currently sponsor. In Boston, we 22 Datebook CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CAA Thanks Donors Big Changes for Boston From the Executive Director Conference CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Making Your Voice Heard is Easier Than Ever will premiere the new regional B.F.A. exhibition, providing an opportunity for AA something at your request on your behalf, CAA members to view the creative attempts to they appreciate hearing back from you. accomplishments of undergraduate stu- C keep you CAA is also furthering arts and humani- dents from New England schools. Organ- up-to-date on ties advocacy through membership in ized this year by Boston University, the advocacy issues other national organization such as B.F.A. show will become an annual event, affecting the arts, Americans for the Arts, the National complementing the regional M.F.A. exhi- humanities, muse- Humanities Alliance, and the National bition, inaugurated in 1988. Next year’s ums, libraries, and Coalition Against Censorship, who have M.F.A. show is a multigallery affair organ-

Photo: Andrei Ralko other higher-educa- all made a commitment to advocacy for ized by the Massachusetts College of Art. Susan Ball tion communities. the arts and humanities. We hope to coordinate the openings of CAA’s staff and Americans for the Arts has made an both student exhibitions for Thursday Board members advocate on every mem- amazing advocacy tool available to the evening, February 23. ber’s behalf on national issues, but it is arts community. The online advocacy The Annual CAA Exhibition, now in its equally important to make your own voice service, called Capwiz, provides all the tenth year, will be held at Mills Gallery. heard on both national and local issues. one-click tools, tips, and information that Part of the Boston Center for the Arts in Grassroots advocacy is essential for you need to voice your support for the South End, the city’s newest gallery dis- increasing funding for the arts as well as arts. To use Capwiz, see page 7 or visit trict, the Mills Gallery is housed in a maintaining current support. Local arts and www.collegeart.org/caa/advocacy. Victorian pile that was once the site of the humanities advocates are uniting on issues The National Humanities Alliance is Cyclorama, built in 1884 to display across the nation and collectively turning another important advocacy resource. panoramic painting. Entitled After, the their voices from a whisper to a (polite) NHA-Announce is a broadcast news serv- exhibition explores the aftermath of tem- shout. We need your help! Members of ice that relays information on current poli- poral events that range from the personal Congress tune their ears first and foremost cy, legislation, and funding that have an and intimate to the cataclysmic and world to their own constituents. Thus, our sena- impact on work in the humanities. To sub- changing. Works in any style or medium tors and representatives need to hear from scribe, send an e-mail to are eligible (see the call for entries on you, not just us. [email protected]. page 6). This exhibition runs from It is our goal to start sending monthly The National Coalition against February 3 to April 2, 2006; a special Advocacy Updates, but only to those of Censorship helps protect artists’ rights CAA opening takes place on Friday you who have indicated that you are inter- to participate in the democratic dialogue evening, February 24, and is linked to ested in grassroots advocacy efforts. If you by defending public access to their work gallery open houses in South End and would like to receive monthly Advocacy and by supporting their ability to freely elsewhere. Updates, write to Rebecca Cederholm, express views that might be unpopular or Conference information will appear on CAA’s manager of governance and advo- controversial. Visit www.ncac.org. CAA’s website in September; please visit cacy, at [email protected]. Grassroots and national efforts during www.collegeart.org/conference/2006.html In addition, we will continue to e-mail the past decade have led to two new cau- for details. We look forward to seeing you Action Alerts to those of you who live in cuses in Congress: the Humanities Caucus in Boston!  states and districts where your votes are in the House of Representatives was creat- crucial to important arts issues. For exam- ed earlier this year to complement the Volume 30, Number 4 ple, many of you received Action Alerts active Arts Caucus, established in 1997; CAA News is published six times per year by the asking you to contact your senators about the Senate Cultural Caucus was also College Art Association, 275 Seventh Avenue, 18th the recent threat to Pell grants. We heard formed in 2005. Again, please e-mail Floor, New York, NY 10001; www.collegeart.org. from legislators that our members wrote— [email protected] to find out if Editor-in-Chief Susan Ball thank you! We will also let you know your legislators are members. Thank them Editor Christopher Howard Designer Steve Lafreniere when it is important to thank your legisla- for joining or urge them to get involved! Material for inclusion should be sent via e-mail to tors for their support; if they have done —Susan Ball, CAA Executive Director Christopher Howard at [email protected]. Photographs and slides may be submitted to the above street and e-mail addresses for consideration; they cannot be returned. All advertising and submission CAA SUMMER HOURS guidelines can be found at www.collegeart.org/news. The College Art Association office will Copyright © 2005 College Art Association Founded in 1911, the College Art Association pro- close at 2 PM on Fridays during the motes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativi- month of August. ty and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art.

2 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 Photo: Tom Vinetz Michael Heizer’s City under construction, with “45°, 90°, 180°” at one end. Image provided by Dia Art Foundation.

in exhibitions in important museums from up to twenty minutes in either direction of Michael Heizer’s City New York to Detroit to Los Angeles, as its passing, and the rail line itself will dis- in Danger well as in many international venues. rupt the delicate natural desert ecosystem In late 2003, the United States Depart- of the valley and mar the viewshed. ment of Energy (DOE) made public its proposal to build a railroad to transport Dia provided the Department of Energy n the late 1960s, a small band of nuclear waste from Caliente, Nevada, to with proposals for alternate rail routes. loosely affiliated artists, including the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste How were they received? I Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Repository. The rail line would run within Walter de Maria, and Dennis Oppenheim, sight and sound of City, thus permanently Dia met with the former Secretary of among others, began to create site-specific destroying the viewer’s experience of the Energy Spencer Abraham in September sculptural works in the natural world sculpture. 2004 and proposed rail routes that avoided instead of making traditional art objects. Dia Art Foundation, a not-for-profit arts Garden Valley and City. Working with These avant-garde artists dug holes in the organization that is the conduit for the independent sound and technical engi- ground, drove snowplows through snow- major funding of City, is spearheading a neers, we provided the DOE with several drifts and tractors through wheat fields, nationwide effort to save Heizer’s work. rail route options that bypass Garden and piled dirt and rocks in the gallery, Numerous arts organizations have joined Valley and maintain the cultural and envi- seeking new possibilities of what sculpture Dia by writing letters of support to govern- ronmental integrity of the site. DOE offi- could be. ment leaders and officials; in March, cials were receptive to our suggestions and Most earthworks were designed to be CAA’s Board of Directors co-signed a agreed to review the alternate routes we ephemeral, seen only in situ or through statement by the American Association of provided. photographic documentation, but a few Museum Directors, which was published were created to last for generations. Of in the May CAA News. The Board The DOE first announced its plans to build these, Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and approved its own resolution at its spring the “Caliente Corridor” in December Heizer’s Double Negative (1969–70) may meeting (see page 4). 2003. What is the timeline for the depart- be the best known, but the latter artist’s In late May, CAA News spoke with Dia ment’s plans? When will the Environmental City—a monumental outdoor complex Art Foundation about the current state of Impact Study (EIS), which assesses the begun in 1972 and still under construc- Heizer’s situation. ecological impact of the rail line, be com- tion—is the largest and perhaps the most pleted? ambitious. CAA News: How close would the rail line Heizer purchased a large tract of land be to City? What are the immediate, evi- DOE had hoped to complete the EIS in in the Nevada desert, an area known as dent disruptions? April 2005. The date has since been Garden Valley, as the location of his mon- pushed back to August 2005. This key umental project. The mile-and-a-half-long Dia Art Foundation: The proposed final phase of the EIS will determine City is comprised of abstract sculptural “Caliente Corridor” rail line would be con- whether or not the proposed route will be and architectural forms made from earth, structed a half mile from City in one possi- modified to avoid City. Now more than rock, and concrete. Reminiscent in its ble version, and one and a half miles from ever, the voice of the people can help to shape and scale of ancient ceremonial City in the other. Rail construction and establish the outcome of the rail route. cities, Heizer’s work is also uniquely mod- operation will disrupt the silence and vast ern. City is the fullest expression of the open space essential to the experience of What are Dia’s strategies in protecting artist’s ideas, which have been celebrated the project. Every train will be audible for Heizer’s work?

CAA NEWS JULY 2005 3 Dia is using several strategies to protect Directors (representing nearly 170 muse- How to Get Involved Heizer’s City. A primary tool is educa- ums) and CAA (with about 15,300 individ- tion—namely, explaining the cultural and ual and institutional members) have passed While local and national press has raised artistic significance of Heizer’s work and formal resolutions for the protection of the profile of the artist’s plight, personal locating it within art history and American City. We have also received numerous let- letters still carry much weight in Washing- history. ters of support from a range of noted ton. CAA encourages you to contact your We are also undergoing a letter cam- museum directors and art historians from senators and representatives and officials paign that began with targeted outreach to across the country, including Josef at the Department of Energy—especially if museum colleagues. We are now broaden- Helfenstein (Menil Collection), Glenn you live and work in the southeastern ing our scope and hope that CAA will be Lowry (Museum of Modern Art, New United States—in support of Heizer. You able to help us reach out to additional con- York), Annie Philbin (Hammer Museum, can find several addresses for DOE admin- stituent groups. University of California, Los Angeles), istrators below. You may also contact Dia We have met, and continue to meet, and James Wood (former director of the Art Foundation directly for more informa- DOE officials in Nevada and in Wash- Art Institute of Chicago). Michael tion, and for draft support letters. Call or ington, D.C. We meet regularly with Kimmelman, the chief art critic for the write to Katie Sonnenborn in the director’s congressional representatives, and we New York Times, wrote a New York Times office at [email protected] or 212- presented information about City to the Magazine cover story (published February 293-5598. Congressional Arts Caucus in January 6, 2005) about Heizer’s City and the need —Christopher Howard, Editor, CAA News 2005. We are also working with lobby- to protect it from the threat of the rail line. ists in Washington and have enlisted the help of legal advisors with rail expertise. Do we have any support on Capitol Hill? Contacts We are also working with conservation experts and technical engineers to We have found support on Capitol Hill and Please send your correspondence by fax demonstrate the extraordinary environ- are looking to foster additional advocates to ensure timely receipt. mental resource of Garden Valley and to for the project. Members of the Congres- assess possible protective environmental sional Arts Caucus have signed letters in House and Senate designations such as visual resource support of City, and individual representa- Use Americans for the Arts’ Capwiz management designations (which are tives have voiced support after receiving feature at www.collegeart.org/caa/ land designations made by the Bureau of letters from concerned constituents. advocacy to locate the addresses of your Land Management to maintain a natural federal, state, and local representatives. landscape and protect it against develop- What is Heizer’s anticipated finishing ment and nonnatural intrusions). date? How will viewers be able to see City Department of Energy when it is completed? Samuel Bodman What other organizations, museums, and Secretary of Energy individuals have joined Dia in its efforts? When City is finished, it will be open to c/o Bruce Carnes the public. We anticipate that the project Associate Deputy Secretary of Energy Both the Association of Art Museum will be finished in five to ten years. 1000 Independence Avenue SW Room 7A-257 Washington, DC 20585 artwork of national and international sig- Fax: 202-586-1661 CAA Board nificance—is under threat from the U.S. Resolution Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed Gary Lanthrum nuclear waste railroad and from commer- Director cial water interests, and; Office of National Transportation At its spring meeting, the CAA Board of U.S. Department of Energy Directors passed the following resolution WHEREAS, Dia Art Foundation has 1000 Independence Avenue SW concerning efforts to save Michael identified alternative routes for the rail Room 7F-059 Heizer’s City from a proposed railroad that would avoid the sculpture. Washington, DC 20585 line to be built nearby. Fax: 202-586-1047 RESOLVED, the College Art Association WHEREAS, The College Art Associa- will publicly support Dia Art Founda- Please send a copy of your letter to tion’s Advocacy Policy identifies “con- tion’s efforts to preserve “City” by writ- Dia Art Foundation for their files servation of the artistic integrity of pub- ing letters to key decision makers and by Michael Govan lic spaces” as one of the issues on which encouraging CAA’s members to do the Director the Association may conduct Advocacy; same.  Dia Art Foundation 535 West 22nd Street WHEREAS, Michael Heizer’s “City” New York, NY 10011 project in Garden Valley, Nevada—an Fax: 212-293-5578

4 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 also quoted CAA. entitled “Orphan Works: Issues and Orphan Copyright On May 9, CAA joined a number of Solution,” on May 2, 2005, co-sponsored Update other groups to file Reply Comments on by ARL, the Medical Library Association, this matter with the Copyright Office. This and the American Association of Law document further strengthens and articu- Libraries. More than five hundred people CAA has joined many other scholarly lates the approach that we think best listened to the discussion, including many associations and research libraries to serves our communities of artists and CAA members, who were specially invited advocate for legislative change in copy- scholars, both the creators and users of to call in. The audio transmission of the tele- right law regarding “orphan” copy- copyrighted material. conference can be found at www.arl.org/ rights—works still in copyright for which Later this year (probably this summer), info/frn/copy/orphanedworks/teleconf/ no rights holder can be found. To read the Copyright Office will draft a report player.html. more about CAA’s ongoing efforts, please studying the issues, perhaps proposing one The presenters—Jonathan Band, legal visit www.collegeart.org/orphan-works. or more legislative approaches to address counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance the concerns raised by the commenting and partner at Morrison & Foerster; Approach parties. Over the summer, the office will Jeffrey Cunard, legal counsel to CAA and conduct hearings in at least three major partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; CAA, along with many other organiza- cities to examine the question further. Peter Jaszi, professor of law at American tions, endorses the proposal on orphan University’s Washington College of Law copyrights by Copyright Clearance ARL Teleconference and director of the Glushko-Samuelson Initiative (CCI) of the Glushko- Intellectual Property Law Clinic; and Samuelson Intellectual Property Law The Association of Research Libraries Prue Adler, associate executive director Clinic at American University’s (ARL) hosted a phone teleconference, of the Federal Relations and Information Washington College of Law, which con- siders the problem of orphan works to be significant and recommends the following approach to a solution: T h eG e t t y invites applications f or: • That orphan works be made available to RESIDENTIAL GRANTS users after a reasonable-efforts search. AT THE GETTY • That orphan works may be of any age, including recent works, and may be The Getty provides support for Theme Year Scholars working on projects related to the 2 0 0 6 — 07 t h e m e either published or unpublished works. “Religion and Ritual.” Library R e s e a rch Grants offer • That uses of orphan works should be s h o r t-term support for work with the special collec- tions of the Research Library at the Getty Research available to all types of uses and users, Institute. Grants for Conservation Guest Scholars fund not just nonprofit or scholarly users. re s e a rch in conservation and allied fields. • That the solution should not create new 2006 administrative burdens or copyright NONRESIDENTIAL GRANTS formalities. The Getty provides support for projects throughout the world that advance the understanding of art • That should a copyright owner later be and its history through Collaborative Research Gra n t s , found, remedies and penalties be avail- G et t y Postdoctoral Fellowships, and Curatorial Research able, but limited to modest financial Fellowships. compensation, without injunctive relief. Research Work in Progress

CAA wishes to thank the many members Getty Research Grants are open to scholars of who answered our call for information and Grants all nationalities. For application forms and more information visit www.getty.edu/grants, personal experiences with using orphan or write to: The Getty Foundation, 1 2 0 0 Getty C e n t e r copyrights. The response was immense, Drive, Suite 8 0 0 , Los Angeles, CA 9 0 0 4 9-1 6 8 5 , U.S. A ., Phone: 3 1 0 4 4 0 . 7 3 74 , Fax: 3 1 0 4 4 0 . 7 7 0 3 , varied, and extremely valuable. Many of E-mail: [email protected]. your comments were cited in our Comments on orphan works filed with the U.S. Copyright Office in late March. D e a d l i n e f o r a l l G e t t y CAA’s document has been cited widely R e s e a r c h G r a n t s : and was mentioned by name by Jule NOVEMBER 1, 2005 Sigall, the associate registrar for copy- © 2005 J.Paul Getty Trust. Image: rights in charge of the orphan works pro- Robert Watts (American, 1923 - 1988). Time Flux Kit (detail), 1966. ceeding, in his public remarks about the Mixed media. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (890164) ©Estate of Robert Watts T he J. P a u l G e t t y Tr u s t Comments process. An April 18 article in ® the Chicago Tribune on orphan copyrights

CAA NEWS JULY 2005 5 Policy program at ARL—addressed a events were held in Washington, D.C., and Masterpieces, an initiative that combines wide range of issues concerning orphan brought together a broad cross-section of arts presentations with educational pro- works, including: What are orphan national cultural organizations, academics, gramming to provide Americans with works? What problems have users faced and grassroots arts leaders to promote the access to their cultural and artistic legacy. when trying to use orphan works? Is this arts, arts education, and humanities to Levy, Cederholm, and Light visited the a problem faced by a diverse range of Congress through increased support for the offices of Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), constituencies? Are there implications for federal cultural agencies. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the conduct of research and education? At Arts Advocacy Day, CAA President Representative Louise M. Slaughter (D- Does this issue of orphan works present a Ellen K. Levy joined CAA staff represen- NY), and Representative Jerrold L. Nadler challenge to digitization initiatives? How tatives Rebecca Cederholm and Alexis (D-NY), among others, on Arts Advocacy can this issue be addressed through legis- Light to focus on several important arts Day to urge them to continue supporting lation, and what are some of the key ele- policy matters during visits to Capitol Hill. legislation that would allow artists to take  ments of a legislative solution? They urged Congress to support a budget a fair-market-value tax deduction for of $170 million for the National Endow- artists who donate works of art to nonprof- ment for the Arts (NEA) in fiscal year it organizations. At present, collectors who (FY) 2006, which is an increase of $49 give art to museums and cultural institu- Advocacy Update million over President George W. Bush’s tions are able to claim the full-market request for level funding. An increase value of the work, whereas artists can only would support the creation, preservation, deduct the cost of the materials used. Report From Washington: and presentation of the arts in the United Together with other arts advocates from Humanities Advocacy Day and States, including Challenge America, a across the country, Levy, Cederholm, and Light also called on Congress to require Arts Advocacy Day program that uses the arts to enhance America’s communities through grants for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration arts education, youth-at-risk programs, cul- Services (USCIS) to adopt immediate CAA co-sponsored Arts Advocacy Day tural preservation, and community arts reforms that will ensure timely processing (March 14–15, 2005), hosted by partnerships, as well as to improve access of visa petitions related to nonprofit arts Americans for the Arts, and Humanities to the arts for all Americans. An increase groups. Many nonprofit organizations con- Advocacy Day (April 6–7, 2005), hosted would also support the president’s request front untenable delays and uncertainties by the National Humanities Alliance. Both to continue funding for American while gaining approval of visa requests for international guest artists and scholars.

Call for Entries After n conjunction with the CAA’s I After the kiss, after the fall, after the revelation, what comes next? When the love Annual Conference in Boston, February 22 – 25, 2006 affair ends, war erupts, and dawn breaks after a long cold night - what is the imme- diate aftermath of those moments, how do the ripples roll out, can the dips in the Submission deadline October 1, 2005 waves be captured? Work in this exhibition will examine the aftermath of events that range from personal and intimate to cataclysmic and world changing.

After The moment after can be one of joyful cacophony or quiet despair; it can be quiet Mills Gallery contemplation or screaming from the rooftops. How it is interpreted is the choice Boston Center for the Arts of each artist. The theme could be evoked through abstraction, realism, interaction, February 3 – April 2, 2006 Juried by Laura Donaldson, and so on, but however it is translated, whether the inspiration is obvious or not, it Director of the Mills Gallery should resonate with the idea of after.

All media will be considered. Work made specifically for this exhibition is encour- CAA Reception– aged, but all submissions will be considered. This exhibition is open to both CAA Friday, February 24 members and non-members, and is generously supported by a grant from the CAA. boston The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue. center for the Submission forms and guidelines with all deadlines and specifications can be arts downloaded from the Boston Center for the Arts website at bcaonline.org beginning an urban June 1. This information may also be picked up at the Mills Gallery, or can be cultural village requested by calling 617-426-8835. Submission deadline October 1, 2005

6 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 CAA representatives Cederholm and to CAA’s website; for further information, forty more senators by the end of the year. Light joined CAA Executive Director see www.collegeart.org/caa/advocacy. To If the total reaches fifty-one, the caucus Susan Ball for Humanities Advocacy Day, contact your senator or representative to would create a powerful bipartisan bloc for an event that focuses on increased support let him or her know how you feel about promoting arts legislation. The House of for the National Endowment for the these and other arts-related issues, please Representatives created the Congressional Humanities (NEH). Ball visited the offices see box on Capwiz e-advocacy at bottom Humanities Caucus in early 2005, as well of key members of both the Senate and right. as the Arts Caucus in 1997, which current- House Interior Appropriations Subcom- —Rebecca Cederholm, Manager of ly has more than 180 members. mittee, which deal directly with funding for Governance and Advocacy, and Alexis Contact your senators and urge them to the federal cultural agencies, as well as Light, Governance and Advocacy Assistant join the Cultural Caucus today!  members of the Congressional Humanities Caucus. Cederholm and Light visited the New Executive Director at the offices of Representative José Serrano (D- NY), Representative Charles Rangel (D- National Humanities Alliance Capwiz E-Advocacy NY), and Representative Edolphus Towns The National Hu- mericans for the Arts has made (D-NY), among others. (Because CAA’s manities Alliance it easier than ever for you to address is in New York, the organizers board of directors Aplay an active role in arts advo- asked us to visit our state’s representa- has named Jessica cacy efforts at the state, local, and feder- tives.) Ball, Cederholm, and Light joined Jones Irons its al levels through an online service called other humanities advocates in urging new executive Capwiz. E-advocacy is an easy, timely, Congress to support President Bush’s director. She suc- and efficient way to communicate your budget request of $153.1 million for the ceeds John Ham- views to legislators at all levels of gov- NEH in FY 2006. This funding will sup- mer, who retired in ernment, and Capwiz provides all the port, among other things, the We the December 2004 information you need to take action. Use People initiative to enhance understanding after seventeen it, and use it often—elected officials of American history and culture; education years in the posi- respect and respond to the input of their programs to strengthen teaching and learn- Jessica Jones Irons tion. constituents. ing in schools, colleges, and universities; The National Humanities Alliance, a The new online service through preservation and access grants to save coalition of more than eighty nonprofit Capwiz, available on CAA’s website at unique historical, cultural, and intellectual organizations including CAA, monitors www.collegeart.org/caa/advocacy, offers resources; and challenge grants to strength- and takes action on a variety of legislative, you extensive opportunities to: en the institutional base of the humanities. regulatory, and judicial issues, including • Explore current issues and legislation In addition to increased funding for the federal funding, copyright and intellectual that affect the arts on both federal and NEH, CAA representatives encouraged property, freedom of expression, and state levels of government. members of Congress to support other access to government information. For • Send timely messages to your elected humanities-related legislation in the com- more details, visit www.nhalliance.org. officials at the state, local, and federal ing year. The National Historical levels. Publications and Records Commission • Browse your legislators’ biographies, (NHPRC), the grant-making arm of the Senate Cultural Caucus Formed committee assignments, staff directo- National Archives and Records Admini- ries, and even the list of contributions Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), stration, was targeted by President Bush’s made to them by political action com- Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.), Jim Jeffords (I- FY 2006 budget request for zero funding mittees. Vt.), and Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) have both for grants and for staff to administer • View the arts voting records of your come together to serve as co-chairs of a the NHPRC and its programs. Arts advo- federal representatives. new bipartisan Senate caucus. In the letter cates asked lawmakers to support a mini- • Browse a complete media guide to announcing its formation, the Senate mum FY 2006 funding level of $10 mil- every newspaper, television, and radio Cultural Caucus seeks “to bring focus to lion: $8 million for grants and $2 million outlet in your area or state. the arts and humanities and the positive for staffing and other program administra- • Find complete, up-to-the-minute elec- impact they have on our daily lives.” The tion–related costs. Without grant funds, the tion and candidate information on caucus, which will likely serve as a publishing of papers and other historical state, congressional, and presidential strong base of support for pro-arts legisla- materials from America’s founding era to races, including candidate biographies tion in the Senate, will highlight the work the present will be severely curtailed or and position statements. of the three primary federal cultural agen- terminated, the network of state archives • Download voter registration forms and cies: the National Endowment for the will collapse, and research and develop- stay abreast of key dates for primary Arts, the National Endowment for the ment in the field of preserving electronic and general elections.  records will end. Humanities, and the Institute of Museum Advocacy alerts related to various arts and Library Services. and humanities issues are regularly posted The caucus chairs aim to recruit at least

CAA NEWS JULY 2005 7 In view of recent developments in aca- additional impediment to art historians CAA Revises Tenure demic and commercial publishing, the seeking to publish the results of their Guidelines for Art College Art Association hereby supple- research. ments the section of the “Standards for In light of these developments, the Historians Retention and Tenure of Art Historians” College Art Association advises academic respecting criteria for judging research institutions that the well-documented productivity. This supplement affects the “crisis” in scholarly publishing in the n May 2005, CAA issued an addendum paragraph beginning, “Definitions of humanities is especially acute for art histo- to its “Standards for Retention and scholarly accomplishment” and in particu- rians, and threatens the integrity and conti- ITenure of Art Historians,” published at lar the statement, “… if the institutional nuity of the discipline if colleges and uni- www.collegeart.org/caa/ethics/tenure.html, standard is as specific as a ‘book,’ it must versities continue to insist on books as the which takes account of the alarming drop be made clear as to whether or not a chief criterion for tenure and promotion. in the number of academic presses that monograph published by a major commer- The College Art Association recom- will entertain proposals for single-authored cial press, a substantial exhibition cata- mends that colleges and universities con- monographs. (For a clear statement and logue, or a major annotated bibliography sider the following forms of publication documentation of this crisis, see the report would meet that criterion.” (whether in print or electronic format) on The Future of Scholarly Publishing, With the Modern Language Association, equivalent to single-authored books as posted by the Modern Language Associa- the American Council of Learned vehicles of scholarly productivity: tion to www.mla.org/resources/documents/ Societies, and other exponents of the • journal articles. issues_scholarly_pub.) humanistic disciplines in the United States, • essays and substantial entries in museum CAA’s addendum addresses the particu- the College Art Association observes a or exhibition catalogues. lar obstacles faced by art historians in sudden and steep decline in the publication • articles in conference proceedings. finding and funding avenues for publish- of scholarly books in the humanities in the • unpublished manuscripts, whether or not ing book-length studies, especially in United States. Respecting art history, the under contract with a publisher. fields without mass appeal. It also item- Association notes with regret the recent Further, the College Art Association izes a number of alternatives to books as cancellation or severe reduction of art- advises that qualifications for tenure and vehicles of significant scholarly publica- history lists by such eminent English-lan- promotion in art history cannot be judged tion, and urges tenure and promotion com- guage presses as Cambridge University purely on the basis of English-language mittees, provosts, and deans to accept Press, Princeton University Press, and publications and publication venues. Art these alternatives in lieu of books when Ashgate. Other presses have skewed their history is an international discipline and evaluating art historians’ scholarly prom- lists in favor of topics with commercial American art historians routinely publish ise and productivity. potential, such as Impressionism, disre- their work on other continents and often in The addendum, passed by the Board on garding the full chronological and cultural other languages. As a consequence, the May 1, 2005, is printed below. spectrum of art history as it is practiced Association strongly recommends against and taught. the practice of measuring the value of Further, the College Art Association scholarship in art history by the number of Addendum to CAA’s Standards affirms that the escalating cost of publica- its citations (as in science), because exist- for Rentention and Tenure of Art tion rights for photographs provided by ing citation indexes do not reliably report Historians museums, commercial archives, galleries, citations of works published outside the artists’ estates, and other sources is an United States. The College Art Association is the profes- In addition, the College Art Association sional organization of art historians, artists, observes that many journals published out- and others engaged in the practice, teach- side the United States have selection pro- ing, and research of the visual arts. The cedures that do not match the American Association has over 13,500 individual system of peer review. This is true of even members, of whom some 4,500 are art his- the most highly regarded and prestigious torians, as well as 2,000 institutional mem- journals and does not by itself suggest that bers including university art and art history the journal is any less rigorous or selective departments, museums, libraries, and pro- than its American counterparts. In the fessional and commercial organizations. absence of homogeneous procedures it is For the use and protection of its member- impossible to rank journals for the purpose ship, the College Art Association issues of assessing the quality of scholarship pub- guidelines that set national standards of lished in them. The Association recom- practice and professional advancement in mends that judgments of the quality of a art and art history, including academic candidate’s publications should be based practice and advancement. CAA “Stan- on the assessment of expert reviewers who dards for Retention and Tenure of Art have read the work and can compare it to Historians” was issued in 2002 and may the state of scholarship in the field to be consulted at www.collegeart.org/caa/ which it contributes.  ethics/tenure.html.

8 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 studies, or a related field. Candidates must Two New Publishing be CAA members in good standing who Change to caa.reviews Grants Offered, are actively publishing scholars with Password System demonstrated seniority and achievement. Jurors Sought Jury members may not themselves apply for a grant in this program during their This summer, CAA will replace the log-in tenure on the jury. The jury will receive system for caa.reviews, our online book- CAA Publication Grant applications from publishers each fall and and exhibition-reviews journal, with the will select finalists by e-mail, convening in password system used for the Member CAA invites publishers in art, art history, late fall at the CAA office in New York to Portal on our main website. Thus, you visual studies, and related fields to submit choose a grantee. The first jury will meet will now only need one username and applications for a new grant to support the in November or December 2005. 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A representative from each institu- arship of art, art history, visual studies, art tain their nominee’s willingness to serve. tion will need to register with the journal theory or criticism, or a related field. Candidates should send a letter of interest upon first use and find the best way to cir- Applications for works in the following and c.v. to: Wyeth Grant Jury, CAA, 275 culate the username and password to those areas are especially welcome: African, Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY who wish to read caa.reviews. CAA is East Asian, South Asian, Native American, 10001. Deadline extended: September 15, working toward providing IP address or contemporary art; works that focus in 2005. recognition for schools, libraries, muse- depth on a single theme, artist, work of art, ums, departments, and research centers in the future. or cluster of works with an overarching New CAA Publication Grant intellectual connection; a first full-length If you are visiting either caa.reviews or work by a younger author, or by one who Jury Seeks Members the Member Portal for the first time, you has received a Ph.D. within the past ten must log in with the username and pass- Jurors are sought with expertise in any years. For complete guidelines, application word that have been preset for you. Your area of art history, visual studies, or a forms, and grant description, please visit username is your member number, which related field. Candidates must be CAA www.collegeart.org/pubgrant. 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You may also call year publishing grant program, funded by select finalists by e-mail, convening in 212-691-1051, ext. 12, during our office the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. early June at the CAA office in New York hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM CAA will award publication grants to sup- to choose a grantee. The first jury will EST. You may change your preassigned port book-length scholarly manuscripts in meet in spring 2006. Jurors are asked to password anytime after your first login.  the history of American art and related serve a five-year term. For further infor- subjects that have been accepted by a pub- mation, visit www.collegeart.org/pubgrant lisher on their merits but cannot be pub- or contact Eve Sinaiko, CAA director of lished in the most desirable form without a publications, at [email protected]. subsidy. For complete guidelines, applica- Nominations and self-nominations are tion forms, and grant description, please welcome. 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CAA NEWS JULY 2005 9 Annual Awards for Distinction

The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize is awarded for a distinguished article pub- lished in The Art Bulletin by a scholar of any nationality who is under the age of thirty-five or who has received the doc- torate not more than ten years before acceptance of the article for publication.

The Art Journal Award is presented to the author of the most distinguished con- tribution (article, interview, conversation, portfolio, review, or any other text or visu- al project) published in the Art Journal.

The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award honors an especially distin- guished book in the history of art, pub- lished in the English language. (To give the jury the full opportunity to evaluate each submission fairly, send in your nomination well before the deadline.)

The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award for museum scholarship is presented to the author or authors of an especially distin- guished catalogue in the history of art, published in the English language under the auspices of a museum, library, or col- lection. (To give the jury the full oppor- tunity to evaluate each submission fairly, send in your nomination well before the deadline.)

The Guerrilla Girls were the recipients of the 2004 Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism for their The Frank Jewett Mather Award is book, Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Guide to Female Stereotypes (New York: Penguin Books, 2003). Image provided by www.guerrillagirls.com. awarded to an author of art criticism that has appeared in whole or in part in North American publications. nized. We urge you to contact five to ten CAA Seeks Award colleagues, students, peers, collaborators, The Artist Award for a Distinguished and/or co-workers of the nominee to write Nominations Body of Work is given to a living artist letters as well. The different perspectives of national or international stature for and anecdotes from multiple letters of exceptional work through exhibitions, nomination provide the committees with a presentations, or performances. ant to recognize someone who clearer picture of the qualities and attrib- has made extraordinary contri- utes of the candidates. The Distinguished Artist Award for W butions to the fields of art and All nomination campaigns should Lifetime Achievement celebrates the art history? Nominate him or her for a include one copy of the nominee’s c.v. career of an artist who has demonstrated CAA Award for Distinction. (limit: two pages). Nominations for book particular commitment to his or her work Awards committees consider your per- awards and exhibition awards should be throughout a long career and has had an sonal letters of recommendation when for authors of books published or works impact nationally and internationally on making their selection. In the letter, state exhibited or staged between September 1, the field. who you are; how you know (of) the nom- 2004, and August 31, 2005. Note that no inee; how the nominee and/or his or her more than ten letters per candidate will be The Distinguished Teaching of Art work or publication has affected your stud- considered. For more information, please Award is presented to an individual who ies and the pursuit of your career; and why write to [email protected] or consult has been actively engaged in teaching art you think this person (or, in a collabora- www.collegeart.org/awards. Deadline: for most of his or her career. tion, these people) deserves to be recog- August 31, 2005. 

10 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 promote their programs and events and to and payment to CAA. To receive another The Distinguished Teaching of Art take advantage of listings online. Listings copy of this brochure, please call the History Award is presented to an indi- relevant to the Opportunities categories will CAA Member Services Department at vidual who has been actively engaged in continue to be published in the back pages 212-691-1051, ext. 12, or write to teaching art history for most of his or her of CAA News, space permitting. Those who [email protected]. career. wish to guarantee that their listings appear These special member-only rates are in print can purchase a classified ad; please based on current subscription rates and The Distinguished Lifetime Achieve- see www.collegeart.org/news for more include postage costs unless otherwise ment Award for Writing on Art cele- details. noted in the brochure. Prices are subject brates the career of an author of note, For questions, concerns, and comments, to change and do not apply if publica- and includes art criticism, art history, art please write to Christopher Howard at tions are paid through subscription agen- biography, and/or art theory. [email protected].  cies or bookstores. 

The CAA/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation honors outstanding Did You Know? Annual Conference contributions by one or more persons who, individual or jointly, have en- Member Benefits Update hanced understanding of art through the application of knowledge and experience Call for 2007 Session Proposals in conservation, art history, and art.  While CAA is widely known for its confer- ence, publications, and career services, this section of CAA News is designed to CAA will hold its 95th Annual Conference inform you about the lesser-known benefits in New York from Wednesday, February of CAA membership. 14, to Saturday, February 17, 2007. The CAA Introduces New Annual Conference Committee invites ses- Website Listings sion proposals that cover the breadth of any publishers of major arts and current thought and research in art, art and culture periodicals offer dis- architectural history, theory and criticism, n June 2005, CAA introduced Opportun- M counted annual subscription pedagogical issues, museum and curatorial ities, an interactive listing service rates to CAA members. Approximately practice, conservation, and developments Idesigned to be a vital source of informa- fifty-six publications are participating, in technology. tion to CAA members and the arts public at including contemporary-art magazines Full details were published in the May large. Opportunities, a revamped version of such as Artforum, Bomb, and Art Papers; CAA News; you may also find them online the older Resources and Opportunities web- scholarly journals like African Arts, The at www.collegeart.org/conference/2007 pages, will offer continuously updated infor- Burlington Magazine, and Critical .html. For more information, please con- mation through an electronic submissions Inquiry; and artist- and designer-oriented tact Emmanuel Lemakis at elemakis process. Opportunities is accessible at publications such as Watercolor Magic, @collegeart.org. Written inquiries may be www.collegeart.org/opportunities. The Pastel Journal, and How. addressed to: Director of Programs, CAA, Opportunities is divided into six cate- If you are interested in starting a new 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, gories for easy browsing. “Awards, Grants, subscription or in renewing an old one, NY 10001. Deadline: September 9, 2005. Fellowships” provides timely information simply complete the coupon found in the about funding, research, and recognition Reduced-Rate Subscriptions 2005 Curatorial Proposals Sought for opportunities for artists and scholars; brochure that you received with your 2007 and 2008 Conferences “Conferences & Symposia” lists upcoming membership packet and mail it directly to meetings of interest to the CAA member- the publisher; do CAA invites curators to submit proposals ship; “Calls for Papers” provides details not send the for exhibitions whose openings will coin- about speaking engagements and publish- coupon cide with Annual Conferences. The upcom- ing prospects; “Exhibition Opportunities” ing conferences are: lists calls for entries for solo, group, and • New York, February 14–17, 2007. Dead- juried exhibitions and related events, as line: September 1, 2005. well as curatorial proposals and submis- • Dallas, February 20–23, 2008. Deadline: sions; “Residencies, Workshops, Open. Exchanges” provides information about Full details were published in the May long- and short-term professional develop- CAA News; they can also be found online ment for artists and others; and “Unpaid at www.collegeart.org/conference/ Internships” offers chances for students to 2007c.html. For more information, please gain valuable experience in the art and contact Emmanuel Lemakis at elemakis academic worlds. @collegeart.org. Written inquiries may be Individuals and institutions are invited to

CAA NEWS JULY 2005 11 addressed to: Director of Programs, Re: Committee. The guidelines have been own expenses for the Annual Conference. Exhibitions Committee, CAA, 275 posted to www.collegeart.org/guidelines The position usually requires one-half of Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY (All in favor). an editor’s working time. CAA provides 10001. financial compensation for course release, New Editorial-Board Members usually to an editor’s employer. 2006 Book and Trade Fair Candidates must be CAA members in CAA welcomes new members to the edito- good standing. Nominators should ascer- Publishers, programs of advanced study, rial boards of CAA’s two print journals. tain their nominee’s willingness to serve. professional associations, digital-resource Each member’s term begins July 1, 2005. A c.v., a statement by the nominee of providers for the visual arts, and manufac- Joining the Art Bulletin Editorial Board interest in the position, and at least one let- turers, distributors, and wholesalers of art are Zainab Bahrani, Columbia University; ter of recommendation must accompany materials are invited to exhibit at the Helen C. Evans, Metropolitan Museum each nomination. Please mail to: Director Boston conference. For more details, write of Art; Sarah Fraser, Northwestern of Publications, Art Journal Editor-in- to Paul Skiff, assistant director for Annual University; Cecelia Klein, University of Chief Search, CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., Conference, at [email protected].  California, Los Angeles; and Michael 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Koortbojian, Johns Hopkins University. Deadline extended: September 16, 2005. Anna Hammond of the Yale University Art Gallery and Senam Okudzeto, an inde- Millard Meiss Publication Grant CAA News pendent artist and writer, have been appoint- Winners ed to the Art Journal Editorial Board. CAA Governance Update CAA is pleased to announce six Millard Art Journal Seeks Editor-in-Chief Meiss Publication Grant recipients for CAA’s Board of Directors approved the spring 2005. Thanks to the generous bequest following items at its spring meeting on The Art Journal Editorial Board invites of the late Prof. Millard Meiss, these grants May 1, 2005: nominations and self-nominations for the are awarded twice annually to publishers to • Change of name and mission for the position of editor-in-chief for the term support the publication of scholarly books in Committee on Diversity Practices July 1, 2006–June 30, 2009 (with service art history and related fields. (formerly the Committee on Cultural on the Art Journal Editorial Board in The grantees are: Marni Kessler, Sheer Diversity) (16 for, 1 against). To read 2005–6 as editor designate, and in Material Presence (University of Minne- the new mission statement, please go to 2009–10 as past editor). Art Journal, sota Press); Steven Nelson, From Came- www.collegeart.org/committees. issued quarterly by CAA, publishes roon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture and • Resolution in support of the Dia Art informed discussion about issues across the Making of Meaning (University of Foundation’s efforts to save Michael disciplines in twentieth- and twenty-first- Chicago Press); Charles Palermo, Fixed Heizer’s monumental earthwork project century art, nationally and internationally. Ecstasy: Joan Miró in the 1920s City (16 for, 1 against). For more infor- Working with the Editorial Board, the (Pennsylvania State University Press); mation on this project, see page 4. editor-in-chief is responsible for the con- James Smalls, Public Face, Private • “Guidelines on Tenure and Publishing,” tent and character of the journal. He or she Thoughts (Temple University Press); as prepared by the Publications solicits content, reads all submitted manu- Catherine Soussloff, The Subject in Art scripts, sends submissions to peer review- (Duke University Press); the late Harvey MILLARD MEISS ers, and provides guidance to authors con- Stahl, Picturing Kingship: History and PUBLICATION GRANTS cerning the form and content of submis- Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis sions; develops projects; makes final deci- (Pennsylvania State University Press). sions regarding content; and may support Books eligible for a Meiss Fund subsidy CAA awards Millard Meiss Publication fundraising efforts on the journal’s behalf. are those already under contract and Grants to support the publications of A candidate may be an artist, art historian, whose subject is in the arts or art history. book-length scholarly manuscripts in art critic, art educator, curator, or other art Authors must be CAA members in good the history of art and related subjects. professional. The editor-in-chief works standing. Application criteria and guide- We welcome applications from non- closely with CAA’s New York staff. lines are available at www.collegeart.org/ profit, for-profit, and museum presses. The editor-in-chief attends the three meiss or from [email protected]. annual meetings of the Art Journal Deadlines: March 15 and October 1 of For complete guidelines, deadlines, Editorial Board—held twice in New York every year. and application materials, please visit and in February at the Annual Confer- www.collegeart.org/meiss. ence—and submits an annual report to New Award Jury Members CAA’s Publications Committee. CAA Deadlines: reimburses the editor for travel and lodg- March 15 and The following individuals have been October 1 of ing expenses for the spring and fall New newly appointed to serve on the juries for every year MM York meetings in accordance with its trav- the CAA Awards for Distinction, which el policy, but the editor pays his or her

12 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 annually honor professionals in the fields CAA Improves Membership Affiliated Society of art criticism, writing on art, conserva- Schedule tion, scholarship, and lifetime achieve- News ments in teaching and art making. CAA’s membership cycle has in the past Beginning May 2005, the new members operated on a calendar-year basis. In will join the current jury to select and response to your suggestions, we are American Council for Southern present the awards at the 2006 Annual pleased to announce that we have Asian Art Conference in Boston. To learn more redesigned and improved the membership about CAA’s Awards Program, please visit renewal schedule. Effective July 1, 2005, American Council for Southern Asian Art www.collegeart.org/awards, or read the all CAA memberships are on a rolling Symposium XII will be held October call for award nominations on page 10. twelve-month basis, much like a maga- 21–23, 2005, at the San Diego Museum of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award: Beth zine subscription. Art, in conjunction with the opening of Holman, Bard Graduate Center. Charles Starting this month, a new CAA mem- Domains of Wonder: Selected Master- Rufus Morey Book Award: Nancy bership will be effective on the first day of works of Indian Painting, a major exhibi- Heller, University of the Arts. Arthur the month following the month in which tion of South Asian art from the museum’s Kingsley Porter Prize: Barry Bergdoll, CAA receives the application and pay- Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. For more Columbia University; Carmen Bambach, ment, expiring one year later. If you are a information, please contact: Sonya Rhie Metropolitan Museum of Art; Petra T. D. current member, you will need to renew Quintanilla, Curator of Asian Art, San Chu, Seton Hall University. Art Journal your membership in December, so that it Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, 1450 Award: Elizabeth Kotz, University of will be effective in January. El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101; Minnesota. Frank Jewett Mather Thus, no matter when you join, you will [email protected]. Award: Charles Hagen, University of receive a full year’s benefits. CAA will Connecticut; Catherine Lord, University of remind all members to renew as member- American Society for Hispanic California, Irvine; Charles Reeve, ship expiration dates approach. Kennesaw State University. Distinguished Members continue to receive all of the Art Historical Studies Teaching of Art Award: Michael privileges and benefits of CAA member- At its 2005 business meeting, the Ameri- Aurbach, Vanderbilt University; Muriel ship for a year, including twelve months of can Society for Hispanic Art Historical Magenta, Arizona State University; Yong CAA’s publications, access to the Online Studies (ASHAHS) decided, because of Soon Min, University of California, Irvine. Career Center, and the opportunity to par- the difficulty in comparing types of publi- Distinguished Teaching of Art History ticipate in the Annual Conference. Full cations, to accept only books (including Award: Eva Hoffman, Tufts University. membership benefits are listed at monographs and exhibition catalogues) Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime www.collegeart.org/membership. over other forms of publication for its Achievement: Leo Morrissey, Winston- If you have any questions about this annual Eleanor Tufts Award, which recog- Salem State University; Robert Berlind, change, please call the Member Services nizes an outstanding English-language Purchase College, State University of New Department at 212-691-1051, ext. 12, or publication in the area of Spanish or York. Artists Award for Distinguished write to [email protected]. Body of Work: Margo Machida, Portuguese art history. University of Connecticut; Patricia To be eligible for the 2006 award, books Failing, University of Washington; Write for CAA News must have appeared during the 2004 or Richard Kalina, Fordham University. 2005 calendar years. A letter of nomina- Distinguished Lifetime Achievement In addition to reporting on CAA’s many tion or self-nomination should be sent to Award for Writing on Art: No new activities, CAA News publishes articles on the committee chair; a copy of the book members. CAA/Heritage Preservation critical and current issues in the fields of should be sent to each committee member, Award for Distinction in Scholarship art and art history. We solicit your texts on including the chair, by the book’s author and Conservation: Rebecca Rushfield. two topics for future newsletters: 1) career or publisher. Chair: Jesús Escobar enhancement and professional develop- (Fairfield University), 75 Bank St., 3J, ment, for November 2005; and 2) teaching New York, NY 10014; jescobar@mail caa.reviews Textbook Reviews and practice in new media, for January .fairfield.edu; members: Therese Martin Project 2006. We also welcome your thoughts on (University of Arizona), School of Art, other pertinent matters that you face in the P.O. Box 210002, Tucson, AZ 85721- caa.reviews has begun a major new initia- art, academic, and museum worlds. Please 0002; Judith Rohrer (Emory University), tive: the assessment of survey books in art share your suggestions with Christopher Art History Dept./Carlos Hall, Emory and art history, from general introductory Howard at [email protected]. University, 581 S. Kilgo Cir., Atlanta, GA textbooks to field-specific volumes. CAA News seeks article ideas, drafts, 30322. Publication of reviews will begin in the and completed texts; length may be ASHAHS also awards photography- online journal in winter/spring 2006. For between 500 and 1,500 words. Submis- acquisition grants of up to $500 to gradu- more information, please write to sions are subject to editing and revision, ate students preparing doctoral disserta- [email protected]. and we cannot return submitted materials. tions on topics in the history of Spanish The editor will work with authors on and Portuguese art and architecture. At the securing photographs or other images. 

CAA NEWS JULY 2005 13 2004 ASHAHS business meeting, the Association for Latin American Art respondent is Clive Dilnot of the Parsons membership unanimously voted to School of Design. Additional information increase the maximum award to $1,000, The first biannual Association for Latin about the session can be found at with the possibility of splitting it between American Dissertation Award was given to http://designstudiesforum.org. two recipients, and to open the competi- Anna Indych-López for “Mexican tion to students writing M.A. thesis topics Muralism without Walls: The Critical International Association of on Hispanic art. Application form and Reception of Portable Works by Orozco, Word and Image Studies description will be included in our fall Rivera, and Siqueiros in the United States, newsletter. 1927–1940.” This year’s award was spon- The International Association of Word and Questions about either award may be sored by Jan and Frederick Mayer. For Image Studies (IAWIS) will hold its trien- directed to the Tufts committee chair or information on the 2007 competition, nial conference on “Elective Affinities” at to the ASHAHS president, Jordana please contact Dana Leibsohn at the University of Pennsylvania in Phila- Mendelson, at [email protected]. dleibsohn@smith. delphia from September 23 to 27, 2005. Deadline: December 15, 2005. See www.iawis.org for details. Association of Historians of IAWIS also has a newly designed, inter- Art Historians of Southern Nineteenth-Century Art active website with news, announcements, California conference reports, and reviews; the web- The Association of Historians of Nine- site also provides important scholarly and The Art Historians of Southern California teenth-Century Art (AHNCA) website, pedagogical resources, a bulletin board will offer a session on visual culture, the www.arthistory-archaeology.umd.edu/ and discussion forum, and other interactive practice of art history, and new methods of ahnca, has a fresh look, thanks to a new features for IAWIS members. pedagogy, entitled “Border Patrol: Art webmaster, Jonathan Walz. Along with Historians Out on the Range,” at the 2006 information about the organization and International Sculpture Center CAA Annual Conference in Boston. For membership, our website provides instruc- questions, please contact the session chair, tions for joining AHNCA’s listserv. The International Sculpture Center (ISC) Kerri Steinberg, at [email protected]. The upcoming issue of AHNCA’s jour- has appointed Michael Klein, writer, cura- nal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide tor, and arts program director, executive Art Libraries Society of North (www.19thc-artworldwide.org), will be director. During 2006, ISC not only cele- America devoted to Siegfried Bing. Readers should brates its forty-fifth anniversary, but it also note that a regular feature has been added recognizes twenty-five years of publishing to the journal: the Museum News Forum. The Art Libraries Society of North Sculpture magazine and twenty years of America (ARLIS/NA) presented the 25th hosting its conference, which will be held annual George Wittenborn Award for Community College Professors next year in Cincinnati. For more details exemplary art publications at its confer- of Art and Art History about membership, subscriptions, and ence, held April 1–5, 2005, in Houston, events, visit www.sculpture.org. Texas. Two books were honored: Richard Interested in participating in the Commu- Shiff, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, and Heidi nity College Professors of Art and Art Leonardo/The International Colsman-Freyberger, Barnett Newman: A History (CCPAAH) session at the 2006 Society for the Arts, Sciences, Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Barnett CAA Annual Conference in Boston? Newman Foundation, in association with Both CCPAAH members and nonmem- and Technology Yale University Press, 2004); and Helen C. bers are invited. We are also making The Leonardo/CAA workgroup is open to Evans, ed., Byzantium: Faith and Power arrangements for a members’ exhibition any individuals who are members of both (1261–1557) (New York: Metropolitan next year in Boston, as well as another CAA and Leonardo/The International Museum of Art, in association with Yale research trip to Cuba, tentatively sched- Society for the Arts, Sciences, and University Press, 2004). uled for August 2005, for ten to twelve Technology. For details, please see The Distinguished Service Award for days. This trip is also open to members http://webexhibits.org/about/leocaa.html. exemplary service in art librarianship or and nonmembers alike. Please e-mail The Leonardo/CAA workgroup has visual-resources curatorship was presented [email protected] for more informa- begun preparing for upcoming CAA to Nancy S. Schuller, who has served as tion on these projects. Annual Conferences by electing work- curator of the Visual Resources Collection group chairs for the next three meetings: in the Department of Art and Art History Design Studies Forum Ioannis Yessios is chair for Boston in at the University of Texas at Austin for 2006; Amy Ione for New York in 2007; thirty-four years. Schuller was particularly Design Studies Forum is sponsoring a ses- and Edward Shanken for Dallas in 2008. recognized for her numerous seminars and sion, entitled “Design Studies and Design As of July 11, 2005, the new mailing workshops on the development of slide Culture,” at the 2006 CAA Annual address for the Leonardo editorial office and photograph collections. Conference in Boston. The session is is: Leonardo/ISAST, 800 Chestnut St., For more information on ARLIS/NA, chaired by Miodrag Mitrasinovic of the San Francisco, CA 94133; isast@leonardo. write to [email protected]. University of Texas at Austin; the paper info; www.leonardo.info.

14 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 Society for Photographic announcements. Other scholarly endeav- Education Spotlight on SAH ors include its annual meeting, at which more than 125 scholarly papers on the The Society for Photographic Education From time to time, CAA News focuses history, theory, and criticism of architec- (SPE) will hold its 43rd national confer- on one of its sixty-five affiliated societies. tural history are presented. A wide array ence, entitled “A New Pluralism: Photo- This month, we invited Pauline Saliga, of architectural tours accompanying the graphy’s Future,” March 20–23, 2006, in executive director of the Society of meeting presents the architectural riches Chicago, Ill., at the Sheraton Hotel and Architectural Historians, to describe her of the city and region. Future SAH annu- Towers. SPE offers undergraduate- and organization, which recently joined CAA. al meetings will take place in Savannah graduate-student awards to support travel (2006) and Pittsburgh (2007). At present, to the conference; application deadline is SAH is organizing an international sym- October 14, 2005. Please visit www.spe- ounded in 1940, the Society of posium, “Changing Boundaries: national.org for conference details and the Architectural Historians (SAH) Architectural History in Transition,” with full list of scholarship opportunities, F was formed during a summer ses- the Institut national d’histoire de l’art guidelines, and application forms. sion at Harvard University. It was there (INHA). The symposium will be held that a number of professors and students September 1–4, 2005, in Paris at the Southeastern College Art who shared an interest in architectural INHA’s newly renovated quarters in the history met for informal talks, discus- Conference historic Galerie Colbert, a nineteenth- sions, and study tours. Later that year, century skylit shopping arcade adjacent the group formally establised itself as the to Henri Labrouste’s Bibliothèque The Southeastern College Art Conference American Society of Architectural nationale de France. (SECAC) will hold its annual meeting in Historians. Its aim, then and now, was to In recent years, the society has endeav- Little Rock, Arkansas, October 26–29, promote the study, interpretation, and ored to support more actively the work of 2005. The conference hotel is the Peabody preservation of architecture. The society scholars in the field through both funding Little Rock. Our program will also draw grew quickly, publishing its first scholar- and a distinguished book award. In addi- heavily on a revitalized downtown Little ly Journal in 1941, broadening its focus tion to offering more than twenty-five fel- Rock, featuring the newly opened Clinton by dropping the word “American” from lowships to scholars delivering papers at Presidential Library. For complete infor- its name in 1947, and organizing annual the society’s annual meeting, SAH offers mation about the meeting, please visit scholarly meetings in the late 1940s. a select number of research fellowships. www.furman.edu/secac. From 1949 to 1973, SAH held its annual Through the support of the Scott Opler meeting with CAA. Today, SAH has Foundation and others, SAH has created a Southern Graphics Council more than 3,500 members worldwide, series of new fellowships designed to including 900 libraries. support the work of graduate students and The Southern Graphics Council (SGC) To fulfill its mission as a learned socie- scholars who are new to the field, includ- presented awards at its 34th annual con- ty, SAH produces a wide variety of pub- ing scholarships for SAH domestic and ference, entitled “Power in Print,” which lications and scholarly programs to dis- foreign study tours, publishing subven- was held March 30–April 3, 2005, in seminate knowledge in our field. The tions for JSAH authors, and free member- Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Catlett was publications of the society include a ships to SAH for entry-level professionals honored as Printmaker Emeritus; William quarterly scholarly journal, JSAH; a in our field. The society’s five distin- Wiley received the Lifetime Achievement bimonthly Newsletter; and Buildings of guished publication awards focus on in Printmaking award; Lloyd Menard was the United States, a series of fifty-eight scholarly excellence in books, articles, presented with the Excellence in Teaching volumes that document the architecture and exhibition catalogues on architectur- Printmaking award; and Lou Stovall was of every state in the union. Recently, al, landscape, urban planning, and historic given the Award of Distinction. Catherine SAH has offered its current individual preservation. Meier, an undergraduate at the University members back issues of JSAH News of the society’s publications, of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Joel Seah, a (1941–2002) at no additional cost programs, and activities is constantly graduate student at Syracuse University, through JSTOR, the premier electronic updated on the SAH website, both received student fellowships. Susan journal distribution service. In addition, www.sah.org. The society welcomes Stamberg was the keynote speaker. SAH offers its members access to a list- CAA members to participate in our meet- serv that is open for research questions, ings, study tours, publications, and other Visual Resources Association listings of opportunities, and other scholarly pursuits. 

The Visual Resources Association (VRA) Award for his many commitments to comments to the U.S. Copyright Office annual conference was held in March VRA; the Nancy DeLaurier Award was concerning the use of orphan works— 2005. Attendees participated in informa- presented to Taormina and Mary those works that lack clear copyright tive sessions, workshops, seminars, and Wasserman, co-chairs of the 2004 information. The VRA Intellectual special events. Peter Jaszi, a renowned Summer Educational Institute, for their Property Rights Committee and Marlene expert on copyright issues, delivered the excellent work in getting this important Gordon, the committee chair, spearheaded keynote address. VRA honored John project off the ground. this endeavor.  Taormina with its Distinguished Service In other news, VRA recently submitted CAA NEWS JULY 2005 15 Kristy Krivitsky. Dana Gallery, Phillips SOLO EXHIBITIONS Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall BY ARTIST MEMBERS College, Lancaster, Pa., March 22–April 17, 2005. Kristy Krivitsky: Sculpture. Only artists who are CAA members are included in this listing; group shows are Dorotha Grace Lemeh. Southern not published. Send your name, member- Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, Pa., ship ID number, venue, city and state, dates February 18–May 15, 2005. Who Am I? of exhibition (no earlier than 2005), title of The Journey of an Artist: Mixed media. show, and medium(s). You may also send digital images of the work in the exhibi- Carol Pelletier. Annex Gallery, tion; include the title, date, medium, and Charleston, W.Va., August 6–September size. E-mail to [email protected]. 3, 2004. Reflecting over Time. Monotype and painting. Abroad Midwest John Morrell. Galerie Lee, Paris, France, July 1–31, 2005. John Morrell: Paysages Les Barta. Harry Krug Gallery, Pittsburg Urbains, Oeuvres sur Papier. Work on State University, Pittsburg, Kans., August paper. 24–September 30, 2005. Photoconstruc- Christina Craigo. Installation view of the exhibition Ordinary Glory. Foreground: tions by Les Barta: Designed Reality. Illustrious (Like Dewdrops), 2005. Glass vessels and water. 7.5" x 14.25" x 14.25". Julie Oakes. Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 30–May Laura Berman. Telephonebooth Gallery, 16–April 22, 2005. Jesseca Ferguson: Jewish Student Life, New York Universi- 22, 2005. Human Sacrifice – The Kansas City, Mo., April 9–30, 2005. Recent Work from the Theatre of Memory. ty, New York, April 8–May 2, 2005. The Revolving Door. Drawing, painting, and Presto! Recent Work from Laura Berman. Argotype and collage. Medium is the Matzo. Installation. novella; Rivington Gallery, London, Mixed media. England, March 19–27, 2005. Human Janet Gorzegno. Atlantic Gallery, New West Sacrifice – Quercia Stories. Drawing, Charles Gniech. Gallery 180, Illinois York, May 31–June 18, 2005. Essential painting, and novella; Art Ark Gallery, Institute of Art, Chicago, Ill., April 18– Structure: Transformative Themes in Kaucilya Brooke. Michael Dawson Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, May 26, 2005. Charles Gniech: New Paint. Painting. Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif., February August 19–September 19, 2004. Human Work. Painting. 4–April 2, 2005. Kaucilya Brooke: Sacrifice. Drawing and painting. Barbara Grossman. New York Studio Ruthann Godollei. Kiehle Gallery, St. School of Drawing and Painting, New Vitrinen in Arbeit. Photography. Reynolds. Man Museum, Liverpool, Cloud State University, St. Cloud, York, May 12–June 26, 2005. Barbara Irene Chan. International Gallery of England, April 25–30, 2005. Reynolds: Minn., January 10–February 11, 2005. Grossman: A Survey. Contemporary Art, Anchorage, Alaska, The Puki Adventus. Painting. Big Smug and Other Exports. Printmak- ing and installation. Karen Kunc. K. Caraccio Printing April 1–May 1, 2005. Chamber of the Studio, New York, May 7–June 11, 2005. World in Miniature. Installation. Mid-Atlantic Clarence Morgan. Thomas Barry Fine Karen Kunc: Recent Woodcuts and Arts, Minneapolis, Minn., April 9–May Etchings. Christina Craigo. Fort Collins Museum Holly Trostle Brigham. Ahlum Gallery, 14, 2005. New Paintings. of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, Colo., Allentown, Pa., May 1–June 26, 2005. Jean Linville. Rockefeller State Park March 29–May 13, 2005. Ordinary Reflected Personae. Painting. Julie Oakes. Absolute Gallery, Des Preserve Visitor Center Gallery, Glory. Sculpture and installation. Moines, Iowa, May 6–June 27, 2005. Tarrytown, N.Y., August 6–October 22, Maria Creyts. Fromm Gallery, Reading, Poultry in Motion. Painting. 2005. Whispered Wisdom. Sculpture, pho- Kathy Desmond. Fine Arts Gallery, Pa., April 7–May 6, 2005. Scope for tography, and installation. Colorado State University, Pueblo, Colo., Imagination. Painting. Carol Pelletier. Hermann Fine Arts January 21–February 25, 2005. Kathy Center, Marietta College, Marietta, Janie Paul. Blue Mountain Gallery, New Desmond: Installations. Larry Holmes. Delaware Center for the Ohio, January 22–February 18, 2005. York, May 24–June 18, 2005. Janie Paul: Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Del., Planes of Luminescence. Monotype Recent Paintings and Drawings. Fran Siegel. Bank, Los Angeles, Calif., March 25–May 9, 2005. Larry Holmes: and painting. April 16–May 21, 2005. Fran Siegel: Day-  Short Stories. Painting. Melissa Shiff. Bronfman Center for light Savings. Drawing and installation. Nancy Newman Rice. Innsbrook Gallery, Innsbrook, Mo., March 5–May 5, 2005. Nancy Newman Rice: Selected Paintings, 1994–2004; R. Duane Redd Gallery, St. Louis, Mo., March 11– April 2, 2005. Nancy Newman Rice: New Paintings.

Lisa Tubach. Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Mo., May 6–27, 2005. New Geographies: Paintings by Lisa Tubach.

Jan Wurm. Miller-Weitzel Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, March 25–April 16, 2005. Drawing In: The Seduction of Line. Northeast

Ingrid Calame. James Cohan Gallery, New York, April 8–30, 2005. Ingrid Calame: New Drawings. Maria Creyts. Dark-haired Melusine, Jesseca Ferguson. Trustman Art Gallery,

2005. Chine collé and mixed media. 38" Photo: Lauren O’Neal Simmons College, Boston, Mass., March x 24". Kathy Desmond. Dream 5, 2005. Wire and video. 11" x 7" x 12".

16 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 Lianne McTavish. Childbirth and the Andrea Dworkin, a controversial femi- bitions. When James Harithas resigned as BOOKS PUBLISHED Display of Authority in Early Modern nist author, lecturer, and antipornography the Corcoran’s director 1 year later, BY CAA MEMBERS France (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005). advocate, died April 9, 2005, at her home Hopps replaced him. Following his prac- in Washington, D.C. She was 58. tices in California, Hopps sought contact Julie Oakes. The Revolving Door Her books include Woman Hating with local artists, held jazz concerts, and Only authors who are CAA members are (Vernon, British Columbia: Rich Fog (1974), Pornography: Men Possessing organized memorable exhibitions, attract- included in this listing. Please send your Micro Publishing, 2005); Quercia Stories Women (1981), Intercourse (1987), and ing a corps of admirers while exasperat- name, membership ID number, book title, (Vernon, British Columbia: Rich Fog Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a ing others with his bizarre work sched- publisher’s name and location, and year Micro Publishing, 2004); Sync Feminist Militant (2002). She also wrote ule—his staff coped in part by wearing published (no earlier than 2005) to Collections (Vernon, British Columbia: two novels. Dworkin opposed all forms buttons proclaiming, “Walter Hopps will [email protected]. Rich Fog Micro Publishing, 2004). of pornography, which she believed incit- be here in 20 minutes.” Hopps was most ed violence against women. Though her satisfied with his exhibition of the work Kenneth Bendiner. Patricia Vettel- views were often divisive, she remained of Barnett Newman and a series of sculp- Food in Painting Becker. Shooting from firm in her beliefs and influenced count- ture shows (Tony Smith, David Smith, from the Renaissance the Hip: Photography, less lives. Robert Morris, Ronald Bladen, and to the Present Masculinity, and (London: Reaktion, Postwar America Walter Hopps, a curator of extraordinary 2004). (Minneapolis: eye, mind, and soul, died March 20, University of 2005, at age 72 in Los Angeles. Robert Cozzolino. Minnesota Press, Initially interested in science and math, With Friends: Six 2005). Hopps discovered art at age 16 during a Magic Realists, 1940–1965 (Madison, field trip to the home of the collectors Wisc.: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2005). Eugene Y. Wang. Shaping the Lotus Walter and Louise Arensberg. There he Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in encountered artworks by Magritte, Christian Fuhrmeister, Susanne Medieval China (Seattle: University of Mondrian, Duchamp, and Brancusi—and McDowell, and Robert Simon, eds. Washington Press, 2005). later met Duchamp himself. Erich Wegner: Zeichnungen der 1920er In 1951, as a premed student at the Jahre (Celle, Germany: Kunstmuseum Gabriel P. Weisberg, Edwin Becker, University of California, Los Angeles Celle, in association with Sammlung and Évelyun Possémé, eds. The Origins (UCLA), Hopps quickly developed his Robert Simon, 2005); Nikola Doll, of L’Art Nouveau: The Bing Empire ultimate career interests. He organized art Christian Fuhrmeister, and Michael H.

(Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2004). festivals and jazz concerts and taught Photo: George Hixson Sprenger, eds. Kunstgeschichte im occasional art-history courses. He opened Walter Hopps Nationalsozialismus: Beiträge zur Alastair Wright. Matisse and the Subject Syndell Gallery (1951) and Ferus Gallery Geschichte einer Wissenschaft zwischen of Modernism (Princeton: Princeton (1957), the latter co-founded with Alexander Liebermann). He was serving 1930 und 1950 (Weimar, Germany: University Press, 2004).  Edward Kienholz. Hopps sold the Ferus as the U.S. commissioner for the 1972 Verlag und Datenbank für Gallery to Irving Blum in 1959 but con- Venice Biennale when the trustees fired Geisteswissenschaften, 2005). tinued to organize exhibitions there, him over his sympathy for workers seek- including shows by Joseph Cornell, ing to unionize the museum. Steven Skov Holt Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Ed The art historian Joshua Taylor immedi- and Mara Holt OBITUARIES Ruscha, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, ately invited Hopps to serve as his senior Skov. Blobjects and Roy Lichtenstein, Ken Price, and Frank curator of 20th-century American art at Beyond: The New Stella, as well as Kienholz’s first solo the National Collection of Fine Arts, a Fluidity in Design Donald D. Celender, an artist and Edith exhibition, a presentation of New York branch of the Smithsonian Institution. His (San Francisco: M. Kelso Professor of Art History at School painting, and Andy Warhol’s first exhibitions there included Made in Chronicle Books, Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., solo show—an eye popper of 32 Chicago, Painting and Sculpture in 2005). died March 2, 2005. He was 73. Campbell’s Soup can paintings. Hopps California (curated with Henry Hopkins), Celender received a B.F.A. from never completed a degree at UCLA. and Robert Rauschenberg (1976). During Roger Hull. Charles E. Heaney: Carnegie Mellon University, and a M.Ed. In just a few years, Hopps played a these years in Washington, Hopps also Memory, Imagination, and Place (Salem, and Ph.D. from the University of Pitts- major role in establishing Los Angeles met his future wife, Caroline Huber, and Ore.: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, burgh. He taught art history at Macalester as a significant art-world site. From founded the Joseph Cornell Study Center Willamette University, 2005). for over 40 years and often chaired the 1959 to 1962, he served as guest curator at the Smithsonian, saving the artist’s Art Dept. and then curator at the Pasadena Art extraordinary (and endangered) archives. Caroline W. Jordan. Picturesque Celender’s conceptual projects often Museum, where he staged exhibitions of Hopps’s tenure had become tenuous at Pursuits: Colonial Women Artists and the included surveys of various social groups collage artists from California, one-per- the Smithsonian for familiar reasons. He Amateur Tradition (Melbourne, Australia: designed to elicit indications of the status son shows for Kienholz, Robert Irwin, resigned in 1979 and accepted an invita- Melbourne University Press, 2005). of art in popular culture. Response letters and Kurt Schwitters, and the first muse- tion from Dominique de Menil in 1980 to would form an exhibition that divulged um exhibition of Pop art, entitled “New be her associate at the Institute for the Lubomír Konecn´y. Za horou najdes sometimes-humorous attitudes toward art Painting of Common Objects” (1962). Arts at Rice University in Houston. In údolí: Studie o ikonografii Úteku do and artists. His most recent survey, which When hired to replace Tom Levitt as addition to organizing exhibitions, Hopps Egypta v umení pozdního stredoveku a asked members of the military whether art director in 1963, Hopps immediately was central to de Menil’s search for an renesance (Beyond the Mountain You should ever be censored, was displayed at distinguished himself with the first architect (eventually they chose Renzo Will Find a Valley: A Study in the the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Duchamp retrospective in a major muse- Piano) to design the Menil Collection Iconography of the Flight into Egypt in Celender’s work and artifacts from his um. He followed that with solo exhibi- building. Hopps was named founding Late Medieval and Renaissance Art) projects are in major museum collections tions of the work of Johns, Cornell, director of the Menil in 1987 but resigned (Prague: Artefactum, 2005). such as the Museum of Modern Art in Stella, and Klee, and with concerts of in 1989—most parties concluded that his New York, Los Angeles County Museum works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, genius resided as a curator, not an admin- D. Medina Lasansky. The Renaissance of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and and La Monte Young. istrator. While Paul Winkler ably assumed Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Detroit Institute of Arts. His Artball play- Hopps resigned from Pasadena in 1967. administration of the museum, Hopps Tourism in Fascist Italy (University Park: ing cards appeared on the cover of Art in His eccentric work hours, mysterious dis- pursued his passions as 20th-century Pennsylvania State University Press, America in July/August 1979. appearances, amphetamine use, and a curator, befriending artists in the city and 2004); D. Medina Lasansky and Brian OK Harris Gallery in New York, where clash with trustees over disastrous plans organizing memorable exhibitions, McLaren, eds. Architecture and Tourism: he had solo shows for 30 years, is hosting to remodel the museum all contributed to including shows of work by Kienholz and Perception, Performance, and Place a retrospective of his work from June 4 to the board’s loss of confidence. Hopps was Max Ernst; Andy Warhol: Death and (Oxford: Berg, 2004). July 15, 2005. An art-history prize fund hired as director of the Washington Disasters (with Neil Printz); the breath- has been established in his name; dona- Gallery of Modern Art in Washington, taking Robert Rauschenberg: The Early Charles R. Mack. Looking at the Renais- tions can be sent to the Macalester D.C. After that organization merged with 1950s; and Marcel Duchamp ‘Fountain’ sance: Essays toward a Contextual College Art Dept., 1600 Grand Ave., St. the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1968, he (with William Camfield), a quirky, schol- Appreciation (Ann Arbor: University of Paul, MN 55105. became director of the Corcoran’s Dupont arly exhibition difficult to imagine with Michigan Press, 2005). —Ruthann Godollei, Macalester College Center, a site for more experimental exhi- any other curator or museum.

CAA NEWS JULY 2005 17 Hopps also served as guest curator for series of essays for the Telfair Museum of of Parnassus, remain an abiding scholar- Professor in Renaissance Studies; the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Art Catalogue of Collections (2005). ly fascination. Barbara Kellum, chair; and Fraser Monterrey from 1991 to 1999 and as art What we will all sorely and deeply miss In his latter years of teaching, Watson’s Stables, assistant professor. editor for Grand Street magazine. A brain is her infectious enthusiasm, her willing- academic focus shifted from the secular aneurysm in 1994 slowed his pace, but he ness to care for others, and her drive to to the sacred, to which he brought both Museums resumed with a retrospective of Edward excel. These are rare traits in anyone, and his extensive knowledge and deep com- and Nancy Reddin Kienholz for the the fact that Miller had them all makes her mitment to the Roman Catholic Church to Whitney (1996) and a Rauschenberg ret- accidental death a tragedy. A Jill Miller bear on the analysis of Renaissance art Rebecca Allan has been appointed cura- rospective for the Guggenheim (with Scholarship Fund for Study Abroad is and architecture. tor of education at the National Academy Susan Davidson, 1997). In 2000, Hopps being established at her university. —Larry Silver, University of Museum in New York. was named the 1st recipient of the —Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor, Pennsylvania McBean Distinguished Lectureship and University of Minnesota Lisa Corrin, Residency at the San Francisco Art deputy director of Institute. In 2001, the Walter Hopps Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, a British Pop art and the Jon and Award for Curatorial Achievement was artist, printmaker, and sculptor, died April PEOPLE IN THE Mary Shirley established by the Menil Collection in his 22, 2005, in London at age 81. Curator of Modern honor. In 2003, Hopps (with Sarah Paolozzi was an original member of the NEWS and Contemporary Bancroft) organized James Rosenquist: A Independent Group, which included Art at the Seattle Retrospective for the Guggenheim and Richard Hamilton, William Turnbull, and Art Museum in Please send your name and listing to Menil. Still other exhibitions were in his Victor Pasmore, and he participated in the Washington, has [email protected]. plans before his death. landmark 1956 show, This Is Tomorrow. been appointed Lisa Corrin Genius, maverick, eccentric, and Paolozzi worked on sculpture and print- director of the visionary, fascinating, exasperating, and making in the 1950s and 1960s. Since the Academe Williams College beloved human being, Hopps will be 1980s, he focused on commissions for Museum of Art in Williamstown, Mass., beginning this fall. remembered for his sensitivity for artists, public works. Frances Colpitt has for his genius at installing exhibitions, for been named the first Sabine Eckmann, his intellectual and aesthetic integrity, and Philip Pavia, a sculptor who worked in Deedie Potter Rose curator at the Mil- for his deep commitment to communities both figurative and abstract styles, died Chair of Art History dred Lane Kemper outside New York without sacrificing April 13, 2005, in Manhattan. in the Dept. of Art Art Museum at international range and acclaim. Pavia remained dedicated to the avant- and Art History at Washington Uni- —William A. Camfield, Professor garde art scene in New York during mid- Texas Christian versity in St. Louis, Emeritus, Rice University century, helping to found both the Club, a University in Fort has been appointed meeting place for New York artists, writ- Worth, effective director of the John Hultberg, an American painter and ers, and intellectuals, as well as a maga- Frances Colpitt August 15, 2005. printmaker, died April 15, 2005, in zine, It Is. His sculpture was shown inter- Sabine Eckmann museum. She suc- ceeds Mark S. Weil, Manhattan at the age of 83. nationally in galleries and museums and Tom Eccles, formerly director and cura- who has led the museum since 1998. throughout New York in public spaces. tor at the Public Art Fund in New York, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, an artist has been appointed executive director of Tracy Fitzpatrick, assistant professor of and the wife of the late painter Jacob Paul Watson, associate professor emeri- the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard art history at Purchase College, State Lawrence, died February 18, 2005, in tus in History of Art Dept. and college College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Seattle. She was 91. advisor at the University of Pennsylvania, University of New York, has become adjunct curator of modern and contempo- died at age 65 on May 16, 2005. Christopher P. Heuer has been appoint- rary art at the school’s Neuberger James Lebron, an art handler and Watson was born in Toronto and edu- ed visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre Museum of Art in a joint appointment installer who was used by many leading cated at the University of Toronto (B.A. for Architecture in Montreal for 2006. modern and contemporary artists, muse- 1962) before receiving his advanced with the Humanities Division. ums, and private collectors, died March degrees in art history at Yale University Cecily Hilsdale has been appointed assis- Allison Hunter, formerly artistic director 16, 2006, in West Islip, N.Y. He was 76. (Ph.D. 1970). Watson spent his entire tant professor of medieval art in the for the De Santos Gallery in Houston, career at the University of Pennsylvania, History of Art Dept. at the University of Tex., has been appointed interim execu- Marilyn Levine, a sculptor known for advancing through the ranks from instruc- Kansas in Lawrence. her lifelike representations of leather tor (1968–70) to associate professor with tive director of the Houston Center for Photography. She succeeds Jean Caslin. objects in ceramics, died April 2, 2005, in tenure (1976 ff.) before his retirement in Steven Skov Holt has been appointed Oakland, Calif., at age 69. April 2000. In his later years in the dept., Distinguished Professor in the Industrial Emily Kass has resigned from her posi- he served as undergraduate chair and con- Design Program at California College of tion of director of the Tampa Museum of Jill Eileen Miller, associate professor of tinued his enthusiastic engagement with the Arts in San Francisco. art history at Armstrong State Atlantic undergraduates into a committed retire- Art in Florida. Kass had been director there since 1996. University, died March 25, 2005, in ment post as college advisor. Andrew Schulz, formerly associate pro- Savannah, Ga., at age 39. Her sudden death A specialist in the Italian Renaissance, fessor of art history and director of Joseph D. Ketner II, formerly the has left a huge void in the hearts of her he was one of the first scholars to inves- Honors Programs at Seattle University in Henry and Lois Foster Director at the family, friends, students, and colleagues. tigate the domestic paintings known as Washington, has joined the Dept. of Art Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University Miller was a beloved teacher whose cassoni, betrothal chests decorated with History at the University of Oregon in in Waltham, Mass., has been appointed work as head of the Honors Program at subjects from classical mythology or Eugene as associate professor of 19th- chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Armstrong State Atlantic University high- poetic allegory. He also innovated the century art. lighted her dedication to teaching and study of painted birth salvers in a pio- Museum in Wisconsin. bringing students to a higher awareness neering article, and made numerous con- Mark Trowbridge has been appointed Amy Oppio has been promoted to dep- of art monuments through extensive glob- nections between Italian pictures and associate professor of art history at uty director of the Nevada Museum of al travel. After receiving her M.A. in art texts by classical and Renaissance Marymount University in Arlington, Va. history at the University of Minnesota, authors. His researches into Italian secu- Art in Reno. Miller moved into the Ph.D. program, lar art culminated in the publication of The Dept. of Art and Art History at Duke Andrea L. Rich, president and director where her dissertation, “Propaganda and his magnum opus, The Garden of Love in University in Durham, N.C., has promot- of the Los Angeles County Museum of Utopianism: The Family and Visual Tuscan Art of the Early Renaissance ed Hans J. Van Miegroet to full profes- Art in California for 10 years, has Culture in Early Third Republic France (1979), in which he explicated a range of sor and Gennifer Weisenfeld to associate announced her retirement, effective (1871–1905)” (1998), elicited high praise paintings and prints that linked late professor with tenure. from her committee members. Miller was medieval courtly love subjects to November 7, 2005. an active lecturer at international confer- Renaissance Florence. He retained a The Art Dept. of Smith College in E. Michael Whittington, formerly cura- ences and contributed a major essay on strong interest in the connections Northampton, Mass., has announced the tor at the Mint Museum of Art in “Les enfants des ivrognes: Concern for between Boccaccio and later Renaissance following faculty appointments for Charlotte, N.C., has been chosen execu- the Children of Montmartre,” to painting, which resulted in numerous 2005–6: André Dombrowski, instruc- tive director of the Monterey Museum of Montmartre and the Making of Mass publications. A number of studies on tor; Paola Ferrario, Harnish Visiting Art in Monterey, Calif. Culture (2001). She recently completed a Raphael, particularly his Vatican fresco Artist; Deborah Howard, Kennedy

18 CAA NEWS JULY 2005 The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke Barbara Miller Lane, emeritus profes- Excellence Award by the Ohio Museums University in Durham, N.C., has sor in the humanities and McBride INSTITUTIONAL Association for its exhibition, The Unseen announced the appointment of Shaleane Professor of History of Art and Cities NEWS Art of TMA: What’s in the Vaults and Gee as director of development and at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Why?, held in 2004. external relations and Juline Chevalier Pa., has been awarded a Mellon as curator of education. Foundation Emeritus Fellowship to Only CAA institutional members are The University of Texas at Austin work on her project, “American Tract included in this listing. Please send your Libraries has received a donation from Organizations Houses of the 1950s and 1960s: A name, membership ID number, and news the noted Frank Lloyd Wright scholar Critical Reinterpretation.” item to [email protected]. William Allin Storrer. The libraries will house his manuscript, research, and refer- Melissa Fleming has been named execu- Philippe de Montebello, director of the The Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New ence archive, which consists of photo- tive director of the National Association Metropolitan Museum of Art in New London, Conn., has received a major graphic prints, negatives, slides, draw- of Women Artists. York, has been honored by the grant from the Luce Fund in American ings, papers, books, and periodicals that Confédération Internationale des Art for an upcoming exhibition, At Home led to his groundbreaking publications.  Stephen C. Pinson has been appointed Négociants en Oeuvres d’Art for his life- and Abroad: The Transcendental curator of the photography collection at time contribution to the arts. Landscapes of Christopher Pearse the New York Public Library.  Cranch, and its related programming. Clarence Morgan, professor and chair of Organized by Nancy Stula, curator and OPPORTUNITIES the Dept. of Art at the University of deputy director at the museum, the exhi- Minnesota, Twin Cities, has been named bition is planned for 2007. To read more listings or to submit your own, GRANTS, AWARDS, the 2005–6 College of Liberal Dean’s visit www.collegeart.org/opportunities. & HONORS Medalist. The American Folk Art Museum’s Shirley K. Schlafer Library has com- Awards, Grants, Patricia Olynyk has been awarded a 6- pleted the conversion of its card cata- Only CAA members are included in this week artist residency at the Banff Center logue to an online database, available Fellowships listing. Please send your name, member- for the Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada, via its website, www.folkartmuseum. ship ID number, and information to for summer 2005. Entitled “Sound and More than 9,000 records representing the The Fulbright Scholar Program is [email protected]. Vision,” the residency is a collaborative, entire collection—including all books, pleased to announce the following awards thematic venture between the center’s periodicals, pamphlets, videotapes, and in arts management and related fields, René Paul Barilleaux, deputy director Media & Visual Arts and Music & DVDs—have been converted using available in central and southeastern for programs at the Mississippi Museum Sound programs. Caspr Library Systems’s LibraryCom Europe and the Caucasus. Opportunities of Art in Jackson, has been awarded a service. All records can be searched by exist in a broad range of specializations, certificate of appreciation from the Lorraine Shemesh has been elected to author, title, and subject, with advanced including museum, gallery, and collection Mississippi State Committee of the membership in the National Academy in features for combining multiple fields. management, curatorial skills, exhibition National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York. The conversion project was funded by a planning, fundraising, and conservation. grant from the Metropolitan New York Please refer to the following awards: Kimberly Bowes, assistant professor at Steven Skopik has been awarded a Light Library Council. For more information, Bulgaria (6238), Georgia (6188), Greece Fordham University in New York, has Work Grant in Photography. The grant contact the librarian, James Mitchell, at (6293), Slovak Republic (6377), and been awarded the Dorothy and Lewis B. provides a cash award, an exhibition, and 212-265-1040, ext. 110; Turkey (6392 and 6398). For specific Cullman Post-Doctoral Rome Prize the publication of work in The Light [email protected]. information about the awards and the Fellowship for her project, “Possessing Work Annual. application process, consult the Fulbright the Holy: Private Churches in the City of The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Program website, www.cies.org. For more Rome in Late Antiquity.” James Smalls, associate professor of Institute in Williamstown, Mass., has information, contact Cynthia Crow, Senior art history and theory at the University acquired the Skowhegan School of Program Officer, Europe/Eurasia, at 202- Elizabeth Brown has been awarded stu- of Maryland, Baltimore County, has Painting and Sculpture Lecture Archive 686-7872 or [email protected]. For the dio space by the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art been awarded the 2005 Donald C. as a donation from the school. This audio Slovak Republic, contact Muriel Joffe, Foundation’s 2005 Space Program. Gallup Fellowship by the Beinecke archive includes more than 500 lectures Senior Program Officer, Europe/Eurasia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library at from 1952 to the present by leading visu- at 202-686-6249 or [email protected]. Mary D. Edwards has been awarded the Yale University in New Haven for his al artists, poets, architects, philosophers, Deadline: August 1, 2005. 2004 Warren W. Wooden Award by the project “De-coding Van Vechten’s journalists, curators, historians, and cho- Augustinian Historical Institute at Scrapbooks.” reographers, offering a unique resource The 2006 NICHE Awards seeks profes- Villanova University in Villanova, Pa., in on postwar American art. sional craft artists over the age of 21 who recognition of 27 consecutive papers Susan Webster has been awarded fellow- are actively involved in the design and given at the Patristic, Mediaeval, and ships from the National Endowment for The Huntington Library, Art production of craftwork supplied to gal- Renaissance Conference, held annually at the Humanities, the American Council of Collections, and Botanical Gardens in leries and craft stores to participate in the university. Learned Societies, and the Fulbright San Marino, Calif., has received a major their annual competition celebrating Program to support research in Ecuador gift from the Los Angeles–based Rose excellence and innovation in American Alicia Haber has been awarded curator- for her book project, “Building Colonial Hills Foundation to support the restora- and Canadian craft. For full details on ship of the Uruguay Pavilion at the Quito: Architects, Patrons, and the tion and renovation of the historic entry requirements and categories, write Venice Biennale in 2007 by the Ministry Profession, 1600–1750.” Huntington Gallery, the former home of to: 2006 NICHE Awards, 3000 Chestnut of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Henry E. and Arabella Huntington. Ave., Ste. 300, Baltimore, MD 21211; Culture of Uruguay. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art www.americancraft.com. Deadline: Institute in Williamstown, Mass., has The School of Visual Arts in New York September 7, 2005. Nancy G. Heller, professor of art history awarded 2005–6 fellowships to the fol- has initiated a new M.F.A. degree pro- at the University of the Arts in lowing CAA members: Elizabeth gram in art criticism and writing. The James Marston Fitch Charitable Philadelphia, Pa., has been awarded the Pergam, summer 2005; Ting Chang, Students will learn the practice of art Foundation will award a $25,000 2004–5 Richard C. von Hess Faculty Julien D. Chapuis, Melissa Hyde, and criticism in an environment where art is research grant to midcareer professionals Prize by her school. Mark Jarzombek, fall 2005; Alice G. being made; the curriculum will also who have an advanced degree or profes- Jarrard and Anthony Lee, spring 2006. emphasize the deep roots of art criticism sional degree and at least 10 years experi- Christopher P. Heuer has been appoint- in philosophy, exploring modes of mean- ence in historic preservation or related ed a member of the Institute of Advanced The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial ing, social functions, and the discourse fields, including architecture, landscape Study in Princeton, N.J. Foundation has awarded 2005 fellow- criticism has generated. Chaired by architecture, architectural conservation, ships to the following CAA members: Thomas McEvilley, the faculty includes urban design, environmental planning, Suzanne Klotz has been awarded a 2005 Maud K. Lavin, Nicholas Micros, Arthur C. Danto, David Levi Strauss, archaeology, architectural history, and the fellowship from the New York–based Sally M. Promey, Natasha Staller, Carter Ratcliff, David Carrier, and Laura decorative arts. A smaller research grant Artists’ Fellowship Inc. She was also Diana Thater, Eugene Y. Wang, and Cottingham. may also be awarded. The grants are nominated for a 2005 Governor’s Arts Deborah Willis.  intended support projects of innovative Award in the artist category. The Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, original research or creative design that Ohio, has received an Institutional

CAA NEWS JULY 2005 19 advance the practice of historic preserva- Museum, 3260 South St., Philadelphia Florida; the nearby Ringling Museum of Exit Art in New York seeks curatorial pro- tion in the U.S. The project must demon- PA 19104-6324; 215-898-3474; fax: 215- Art will offer tours for conference partici- posals for 2 new exhibition spaces, the Fast strate usefulness to practitioners, and the 898-0657; [email protected]; pants. For more information, including Track Gallery and Show Windows. Short results must be in publishable form. The http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT. Deadline: plenary speakers, conference events, and or long-term projects can take place in 1 grants are partially made possible through varies with each fellowship, beginning area attractions, visit http://faculty.ncf.edu/ evening or over several weeks; these may the generosity of the Samuel H. Kress November 1, 2005. MedievalStudies. Deadline: September 15, be 2–4 week exhibitions, day or evening Foundation. See the application require- 2005. events, daytime lectures, site-specific ments at www.fitchfoundation.org. For The Craft Research Fund will award works, screenings of films or videos, and more information, please contact Lisa $100,000 for critical writing and research Conferences & Symposia more. The Fast Track Gallery is 500 sq. ft. Kersavage, Executive Director, at in U.S. studio craft in April 2006. (15 x 33 ft., 16 ft. ceiling); see floor plan at [email protected] or 718-596- Applications and guidelines, as well as www.exitart.org/fasttrack_floorplan.pdf. 8808. Deadline: September 8, 2005. awardees and projects from the 2005 Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough’s Show Windows is four 11 x 8 ft. windows grants, can be found on our website at ‘Cottage Door’ is an international sym- in front of a wall, visible from the sidewalk The Dedalus Foundation Senior www.craftcreativitydesign.org. Deadline: posium taking place October 7–8, 2005, at ground level on W. 36th St. Interested Fellowship Program supports projects December 1, 2005. at the Yale Center for British Art in New curators should submit a 1-page project related to the study of modern art and Haven, Conn. In conjunction with an description, a list of the included artists, modernism. Applicants must be U.S. citi- Calls for Papers exhibition, Sensation and Sensibility: visuals of the proposed work, your résumé, zens and may not be candidates for an Viewing Gainsborough’s ‘Cottage Door,’ and an S.A.S.E. for the return of materials academic degree. Awards of up to the center is hosting a symposium that to: Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave., New York, $30,000 will be made for periods of up to The Mid-Atlantic Pop/American will explore the conceptual bases of the NY 10018; [email protected]; 1 year. Winners will be announced in Culture Annual Conference, taking aesthetics of sensibility in the late 18th www.exitart.org. Deadline: Ongoing. mid-December. Fellowship application place November 4–6, 2005, in New century, the relationship between sensibil- forms and guidelines may be obtained Brunswick, N.J., seeks papers for 2 areas ity in art and in music and drama, and the Library Query from: Senior Fellowship Program, of the conference: “This Builds That: The visual discourse of the cottage in Britain Dedalus Foundation, Inc., 555 W. 57th Architecture of Literature” and and its colonies. Speakers include: Ann St., Ste. 1222, New York, NY 10019. “Technology and the Home.” For more Bermingham, Peter de Bolla, David The Library of the National Gallery in Deadline: September 15, 2005. information and to read the area descrip- Marshall, Thomas Tolley, Joseph Roach, London seeks the donation of a copy of tions, visit www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette. Michael Rosenthal, Stephen Daniels, and The Art Bulletin vol. 2, part 1 (1918) to The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Send proposals to: Loretta Lorance, P.O. John Barrell. The symposium is free, but complete its bound run of the journal. If for the Arts awards grants to professional Box 461, Inwood Station, New York, NY preregistration is required. Contact Serena you have an extra copy of this issue, con- artists working in paint. This year, the 10034-0461. Deadline: July 20, 2005. Guerrette at [email protected] or tact: Alison Bennett, Library, National foundation is accepting applications from 203-432-7192 to register. Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N individual artists. For a full listing of Art as Imitation is a critical anthology 5DN, U.K.; alison.bennett@ng-london. grant awards, the application, and addi- that examines the relationships among Exhibition Opportunities org.uk. tional information, please visit imitation, creation, and the created object; www.goldenfoundation.org. Deadline: the book will contain a set of essays in Sequim Arts is accepting entries for its Online Resources October 1, 2005. various disciplines within the arts and humanities. It will explore the issues of 29th annual juried exhibition, to be held October 5–9, 2005. Sequim Arts is a non- The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced mimesis and metaphor in the context of O’Keeffe and Me: Abstracts of Our profit organization dedicated to the pros- Study at Harvard University awards modern, postmodern, and contemporary Letters is a website that explores perity of visual arts in the Sequim, Wash., approximately 45 fully funded fellowships art, literature, film, and architecture. Georgia O’Keeffe’s latter days of her life area. The exhibition is open to all adult each year. Radcliffe Institute fellowships Questions to consider are: Is all art inher- in New Mexico. Featured are previously artists; cash prizes total more than are designed to support scholars, scien- ently imitative? What does it mean to say unpublished conversations among the $1,000. Acceptable 2-D media include tists, artists, and writers of exceptional something is imitative? Does metaphor artist, her guests, house staff, and the painting, drawing, mixed media, collage, promise and demonstrated accomplish- require mimesis? What is the distinction artist Mym Tuma, as well as other pastel, and photography; 3-D media ment who wish to pursue work in academ- between imitation and interpretation? unpublished correspondence. Please visit include sculpture, basketry, ceramics, ic and professional fields and in the cre- What is the relationship between invented www.okeeffeandme.com. glass, jewelry, and textiles. Prospectus ative arts. Applicants must have received and historical worlds? What is the value can be downloaded from www.sequimarts their doctorate or appropriate terminal of mimetic form? How are space and time The Terra Foundation for American .org; or call Gail Larson at 360-765-3332. degree by December 2004 in the area of represented in the created object? What Art, a foundation dedicated to the visual Deadline: August 15, 2005. the proposed project. Radcliffe welcomes constitutes the transformative act in the arts of the U.S., has launched a new web- proposals from small groups of scholars self-referential postmodern object? One- site, www.terraamericanart.org. The site Trisolini Gallery at Ohio University is who have research interests or projects in page abstracts of proposed papers should provides information on the foundation’s accepting proposals for solo or 2-person common. For more information, contact: be sent to: Douglas Friedlander, 130 local, national, and international initia- exhibitions of installation/multimedia art- Radcliffe Application Office, 34 Concord Hofstra University, Roosevelt Hall 211, tives in the areas of American art presen- work, open to all artists 18 years or older. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; 617-496- Hempstead, NY 11549. Deadline: July tation, scholarship, and education. It also A nonrefundable entry fee of $20 is 1324; fax: 617-495-8136; fellowships 30, 2005. has an area dedicated to the foundation’s required for each exhibition proposal. To @radcliffe.edu; www.radcliffe.edu. distinguished collection of American art. apply, submit an application form, your Deadline: October 3, 2005. Academic Exchange Quarterly, a peer- reviewed, cross-disciplinary journal, is proposal with visual examples of work, The Women Artists Archives National and your résumé. For prospectus, send an The Craft Research Fund offers travel accepting manuscripts on the use of teach- Directory (WAAND), a project spon- S.A.S.E. to: Installation/Multimedia, grants of up to $500 to speakers invited to ing technologies in the humanities. sored by Rutgers, the State University of OUAG, Director of Exhibitions, Seigfred participate on 2006 CAA Annual Graduate submissions are welcome. For New Jersey, is the first digital directory of Hall 534, Athens, OH 45701; Conference panels whose topics relate to more information, please visit http:// archives containing the papers of women www.ohiou.edu/art/galleries.html. U.S. studio craft. For more information rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/4tech.htm. artists active in the U.S. since WWII. The Deadline: August 15, 2005. on this and other 2006 grant opportuni- Deadline: July 31, 2005. directory includes letters, sketchbooks, ties, see www.craftcreativitydesign.org or diaries, artworks, digital files, business The 2006 Pacific States Print Biennial e-mail [email protected]. The 15th Biennial New College Confer- records, photographs, and memorabilia. seeks original work in all printmaking Deadline: November 1, 2005. ence on Medieval and Renaissance Led by Ferris Olin and Judith K. Brodsky, Studies takes place March 9–11, 2006, in media. Monoprints and monotypes are WAAND organizers will also build a dig- also eligible, but photography is not. The American Research Institute in Sarasota, Fla. The program committee ital directory of all the sources where Accepted work must not exceed a 30 x 40 Turkey (ARIT), a nonprofit academic invites 1-page abstracts of proposed 20- such papers might be found. When the in. frame dimension. Only slides will be organization, offers a number of 2006–7 minute papers on topics in European and project is complete, scholars and students accepted for preliminary jurying; no orig- fellowships that support research and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and will be able to find out where artists’ inal work should be sent until requested. scholarly exchange in Turkey. Profes- religion from the 4th to 17th century. papers are housed and how best to gain A $30 entry fee is required for 2 entries. sionals, scholars, and graduate students Interdisciplinary work is particularly access to them. The directory, which John T. Scott, a sculptor, printmaker, and are welcome to apply. For further details, appropriate to the conference’s broad his- recently received a major grant from the professor of fine arts at Xavier University contact: American Research Institute in torical and disciplinary scope. Planned ses- Getty Foundation, is scheduled to be of Louisiana, is the juror. Deadline: Turkey, University of Pennsylvania sions are welcome. The conference will be available by the end of 2005. See held on the campus of New College of October 18, 2005. http://WAAND.rutgers.edu.

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Kress Foundation Matching Gift for the 2005 Annual Hollander, Dan Howard, Linda Hults, John Hyland Jr., Joel Isaacson, Michi Campaign (February 14–20, 2005): Michael Aurbach, Susan Ball, Judith Itami, Paul Jaskot, Dorothy L. Johnson, Frances Jowell, Brian Kelly, Tran T. Brodsky, Kevin Consey, Nicola Courtright, Katherine Crum, Diane Edison, Kim-Trang, Dale Kinney, Norman Kleeblatt, Theodore E. Klitzke, Anne Michael Fahlund, Susan Galassi, Anne Goodyear, John Hyland, Paul Jaskot, Classen Knutson, Christine Kondoleon, Janet Koplos, Ellen V. Kosmer, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Dale Kinney, Suzanne and Emmanuel Lemakis, Ellen K. Carol Herselle Krinsky, Phyllis Lambert, Elizabeth Langhorne, Lee A. Levy, Adriane Little, Joan Marter, Virginia Mecklenberg, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Lawrence, Suzanne and Emmanuel Lemakis, David and Ellen K. Levy, Andrea Norris, Ferris Olin, Gregory Sholette, Duane Slick, Joyce Hill Elizabeth A. Liebman, Leah Lipton, Adriane Little, William C. Loerke, Stoner, Christine Sundt, Carolyn C. Wilson, Barbara Wolanin. Robert J. Loescher, Rose Carol Washton Long, Joyce P. Ludmer, Pearson Macek, Pedro M. Maia, Eva Mantell, Tod A. Marder, Victor Margolin, Joan M. Marter, Neil E. Matthew, Kenny McAshan, William A. McIntosh, Susan Donors to the Anne Coffin Hanson Fellowship Fund R. McKillop, Virgina Mecklenburg, Valerie J. Mercer, Laura F. Miller, CAA thanks the following individual donors for their generous sup- Cynthia J. Mills, Yong Soon Min, Nicholas D. Mirzoeff, Willard E. Misfeldt, port of the Anne Coffin Hanson Fellowship Fund (July 1, 2004– Jill Morse, Dewey F. Mosby, Carol A. Nathanson, Cynthia Navaretta, May 10, 2005): Susan Ball, Jeffrey N. Blanchard, Marilyn R. Brown, Minerva Navarrete, Morton Needelman, Barbara Nesin, Andrea S. Norris, Elizabeth Chew, Judith Colton, Hilarie Faberman, Bernard Hanson, Peter Francis V. O’Connor, Jennifer A. Odem, Ferris Olin, Satoko I. Parker, J. Holliday, Sol and Carol Lewitt, Judith A. Little, Barbara Monahan, Charles Parkhurst and Carol Clark, Marjorie Pearson, Constantine Petridis, Danielle Rice.  Debra Pincus, Jessie J. Poesch, Jerome J. Pollitt, Barbara G. Price, Sally M.

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Ellen K. Levy, President Nicola Courtright, Vice President for Publications Dale Kinney, Vice President for Annual Conference Diane Edison, Vice President for Committees Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Vice President for External Affairs John Hyland, Jr., Treasurer Jeffrey P. Cunard, Counsel Susan Ball, Executive Director

Kaucyila Brooke Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker Coco Fusco W. Jackson Rushing III Susan Grace Galassi Duane Slick Dennis Y. Ichiyama Buzz Spector Paul Jaskot Christine Sundt Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann William Tronzo Joan Marter