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July 2005 CAA News NEWS 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.
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