May-June 1993 CAA News

5 funding for two years. In the first year CAA's larger capital campaign, offi CAA of the fellowship, direct grants of $5,000 cially launched in 1992 (see CAA News, each will be awarded to Master of Fine September IOclober 1992, page 1). Arts candidates to assist them in Challenge grant recipients are required Awarded completing their graduate degrees and to match the NEA award 3 to 1 in in mounting exhibitions to fulfill degree nonfederal dollars over three years. requirements. These funds will be used CAA is committed to accelerating its on 1993 NEA at the discretion of the recipient for going fund-raising program to support meeting any planned or unplanned the fellowship program beyond the Challenge expenses during the final degree year. three-year challenge grant period. The In the second year of the program, fellowship program has received an recipients begin their careers as artists, enthusiastic and supportive response Grant concentrating on developing their own from members who are interested in the ideas and work, while holding resi next generation of artists, and they have dency positions in partnership institu expressed that support in both small tions such as museums, art schools, art and larger gifts. Most larger gifts can be centers, and universities. It is CAA's divided into sums given over a two-to he College Art Association has opinion that this opporhmity for an three-year period. All gifts can be given received a 1993 NEA challenge emerging artist to concentrate solely on in honor of or in memory of someone. T grant in the amount of $140,000 his or her own ideas and artistic output, With the help of the NEA challenge to establish and endow its newly along with the visibility of a profes grant and CAA members, an endow initiated Professional Development sional exhibition, is significant, because ment will be built to guarantee that the Fellowship Program. though the transition from academic life artist fellowships will continue in The goals of the fellowship pro to professional life is difficult for all perpetuity. gram are to assist emerging artists in students, it is especially so for students CAA is one of 60 organizations bridging the transition between of color. nationwide chosen from the 268 graduate school and the professional Criteria for selection will be applicants this year for the NEA world, to encourage artists from excellence and financial need, with challenge grant program. Of the total culturally diverse communities to special attention given to artists who challenge awards, 13 were granted to pursue graduate degrees and profes will adequately represent the cultural arts organizations based in New York sional careers in art, and to promote diversity of the artists' community and City. In a statement congratulating artists whose work may have been population of the United States. Four CAA, New York City Congressman marginalized by their cultural diversity. new fellowships will be awarded each Jerrold Nadler recognized CAA's past The Nathan Cummings Foundation year. M.F.A. students interested in accomplishments and standards of was the original supporter of the applying for the next round of fellow excellence, stating, "this grant will help Professional Development Fellowship ships should expect to complete their CAA to continue to fulfill its mission Program, making a generous commit degree requirements in the academic and make a significant contribution to ment of $90,000 early on. This encour year 1994-95. Fellowship applications our American culture." agement and funding by the Cummings will be available by mid-August in CAA is applying to the National Foundation will allow CAA to select the visual arts graduate departments across Endowment for the Humanities first round of fellowship recipients this the United States or from the CAA challenge grant program this year, with spring, for students beginning their final office. A December 31,1993, application the intention of offering a similar vpar of study in fall 1993. deadline is expected. professional development fellowship The fellowship program is de The NEA challenge grant repre opportunity for graduate students in art ~lgned to provide each recipient with sents a substantial contribution to history. point for the directory. Some 900 names have some type of foundation sequence; Ave., New York, NY 10028; fax 212/570- CAA will be verified and updated. CAA will Annual oftentimes, these courses provide the 3879; and Max Marmor, Library, contents contact each of the individuals, as well only common experience for students Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th St., as art and art history departments, / who then specialize in such diverse New York, NY 10021; fax 212/772-5807.) VO/lIl11e 18, Number 3 museums, and other institutions to rna! fields as painting, sculpture, inter The ordination and dissemination of May/iune 1993 News Conference the directory as complete and inclusive media, or visual communication. For models of photographic practice has a as possible. many decades, studio art programs profound impact on how we perceive CAA Awarded 1993 NEA We urge the membership to help us Update throughout the United States have relied the medium's inherent capabilities. This 1 Challenge Grant with this project by providing us with on a model derived from the Bauhaus session will examine how various basic facts about people who should be for the structure and content of their histories of photography have been included in the directory (name, foundation courses. Perhaps it is time to assembled as well as how these histories Directory of People of Color 2 CAANews address, profession/ affiliation, and see whether this model is still effica have marginalized certain photogra in the Visual Arts race/ethnicity). We are also interested in cious. Have teachers moved away from phers and photographic practices. The In 1989 the College Art Association ideas about specific information you this approach? Why have they chosen to incorporation of contemporary critical initiated a project under the leadership think the directory should include. do so and how are they doing it? agendas with traditional histories as Al1nual Conference Update 3 of Board member Faith Ringgold to Please send information to Melinda Sessions Added Proposals are sought from studio art well as specific authors, methodologies, identify people of color in the arts. The Klayman in the CAA office. Deadline: to 1994 Program teachers who have discovered ways of museums, publications, photographers, Guidelines for the 1995 informal survey was intended to aid July 1, 1993. Four sessions have been added to the incorporating into their foundation etc., may be examined. The role of 4 Annual Conference CAA's Board of Directors in its commit 1994 annual conference program, to be courses such important contemporary historiography within the studio ment to bringing people of color in the held in New York, February 16-19. issues as feminism, gay and lesbian program and techniques that studio Legal Update arts into the nucleus of this Staff Additions These sessions will be 1 1/2 hours identity, cultural theory, and social faculty can employ to reveal the full 7 From the Executive Director organization's governing body, mem Melinda Klayman has been appointed (rather than 2 1/2). Although the history, among other topics. Presenta range of critical bias as institutionalized bership activities, programs, committees, assistant to the executive director. deadline for receipt of proposals has tions might also address reasons for in the literature may also be discussed. and award nominations. The study also Previously she held internships at been extended for these sessions, maintaining the traditional approach to Proposals must be sent to both program provided some rough evidence of the 9 Letters to the Editor Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, submissions must adhere in all other teaching foundations and/or ways of chairs. Deadline for receipt of proposals: status of people of color in the arts in the and at Franklin Furnace, New York, respects to the guidelines in the 1994 bringing together the old and the new. June 1, 1993. academic world. where she assisted in all aspects of Call for Participation. Deadline: September 1, 1993. Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members In the original identification project, public relations, advocacy work, and The CAA Education Committee is The Italian Art Society is sponsoring People in the News 10 the Board, guided by Ringgold, defined program coordination. She received a sponsoring the session: "Revisionism, "Redefining the Palace: Innovations in Corrections, 1994 Call for "people of color" as those who are of B.A. in 1992 from the University of New Theoretical Perspectives, and the Italy from Antiquity to 1800." (Chairs: Participation Asian, Native American, Hispanic/ California, Santa Cruz, with a double Teaching of Art History." (Chair: Martin Nicola Courtright, Dept. of Fine Arts, In the session statement for" Artistic Programs, New & Revised Latino, Pacific Island, African Ameri 11 major in studio art and art history. Rosenberg, Dept. of Art and Art History, Amherst College, Box 2249, Amherst, Coupling" (chairs: Susan Felleman and can/black descent, or any combination Irene Look has been named niversity of Nebraska, Omaha, NE MA 01002-5000; fax 413/542-7917; and Peter Chametzky), the word "didactic" of these backgrounds, generally classi Grants, Awards, & Honors assistant to the deputy director. Before 08182.) As art history has been increas Beth L. Holman, 1172 Park Ave., Apt. (line 9) should have been "dyadic." fied as people of color or nonwhite. They 12 Conferences & Symposia coming to CAA she worked as an ingly affected by perspectives drawn 9B/D, New York, NY 10128.) The palace The co-chair of the session "Art, defined "in the arts" to include teachers administrative assistant at Lopez, from feminism, social history, psycho is often presented as a static image that Earth, and Medicine: A Healing Ap of visual art or art history, visual artists, Saltpeter and Associates, a design firm.

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