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November-December 1991 CAA News 5 The publications staff has made History Information Program, co­ Directories every effort to identify and obtain sponsors with CAA of AITF. For further information about all institutions in the information, contact: James M. Bower, United States that grant graduate Getty Art History Information Program, to be degrees in art, art history, and related 401 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400, Santa fields. At the back of each directory is a Monica, CA 90401; 213/395-1025; fax brief listing of Canadian institutions. 213/451-5570. Published Each directory will be about 150 pages and will sell for $12.50 ($10.00 members), mailing charge included M.F.A. Standards (foreign orders: add $2.00 for each Revised copy). Orders must be prepaid. Send The CAA Professional Practices your check or money order, drawn on a Committee, chaired by Whitney WO directories, one of Ph.D. bank, indicating which directory u.s. Chadwick, has completed its review and M.A. programs in art and you are ordering, to: Directories, art history and the other of and revisions of the Standards for the T College Art Association, 275 Seventh M.F.A. Degree in Visual Arts, which M.F.A. programs in the visual arts, will Ave., New York, NY 10001. Please allow were adopted by CAA in 1977. The be published by the College Art six weeks for mailing. Association in December. The listings in revisions bring up to date this docu­ the directories have been compiled from ment, which establishes standards for extensive data provided by the schools the M.F.A. degree, the terminal degree in response to questionnaires sent last in visual arts. November to graduate-degree granting The revised standards will be institutions. Combined, the new published in a future issue of CAA directories list 130 more U.s. programs News. Single copies are available from than were included in the old CAA the CAA office (send SASE), and the directories, which are now out of print. CAANews standards are also printed in the new The M.A./PhD. directory is a Directory of M.F.A. Programs in the guide to over 160 schools that offer M.A. Visual Arts. and Ph.D. degrees in art history, studio art, museum studies, conservation, and related areas. Complete information is. Art Journal provided about each program, with CAA Receives Editorial Board details on admissions requirements, Grant Three new members have been named student body, faculty, curriculum, The College Art Association has been to the editorial board of Art Journal, for library resources, tuition, fellowships awarded a two-year, $100,000 grant three-year tenns, ending June 30, 1994. and financial aid, campus housing, and from the National Endowment for the They are Samella Lewis, Gerald Silk, much more. Humanities for its sponsorship of the and Paul Tucker. The directory of M.F.A. programs Art Information Task Force (AITF), now Lewis, an art historian and artist, is includes 180 institutions, providing entering the second year of a three-year professor emerita, Scripps College, and complete details about each school and project to coordinate the development publisher and editor of the International its programs, including admissions of standards for the description of art Review of African American Art. Silk is ·'t'quirements, faculty, curriculum, areas objects and for iterchange of computer­ associate professor in the History of Art ') concentration, campus resources, ized art information. The grant will be Deparhnent, Tyler School of Art, studio space, tuition, and financial aid. matched by funds from the Getty Art Temple University. Tucker is professor CONTINUED ON PAGE2 CAANews stay. Discount fares are for travel will be presented by the Museum @ontents CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Annual between February 10 and 19 only and Committee. Legal Update some restrictions may apply. The Education Committee will Volume 16, Number 6 To make reservations on American sponsor Encounters in the Classroom: of art history at the University of Conference Airlines, call Meeting Services at 800/ Multicultural Issues in the Teaching of NovemberlDecember 1991 Massachusetts, Boston. 433-1790 and ask for CAA Starfile Art History, Joanne Sowell, University The other members of the eight­ #503Z2BD. You must make reservations of Nebraska at Omaha, chair. The NEA Directories to be Published person board are Judith K. Brodsky, Update through the 800 number to be eligible for committee win also sponsor Artist CAANews 1 Cynthia Carlson, Ellen Lanyon, Irving these discounts. You will be given the Survival Skills, a presentation by Nat Sandler, and Robert Storr. best fare available. Tickets will be issued Dean, Center for Career Services, Funding by CAA's official conference travel Ringling School of Art and Design. 2 Annual Conference Update agent, Zenith Travel. The Studio Art Program Committee Stumbles Call for Nominations will be presenting three Thursday­ The Art Journal editorial board seeks Cancellation Update evening performance artworks at the 3 Legal Update nominations from the CAA membership The studio art session Africa and the Win Free Tickets School of the Art Institute of Chicago: for an opening on the board for an artist, Americas: Alternative Views of If you fly American, you may win a free Exacting the Militant, a performance by Fewer Job Opportunities for the term to be three years beginning July Columbus in the Quincentenary, Leslie pair of tickets. Two coach tickets to any Park Chambers, School of the Art CAAMembers 1992 and renewable once. It is the aim of King-Hammond and Lowery Sims, 5 European destination served by Ameri­ Institute of Chicago; Talking III, a he struggle over the future of the board that its membership reflect the chairs, has not been canceled as was can Airlines will be given to a randomly storytelling piece by Michael K. Meyers, the National Endowment for the range of fields and methods current in reported in the September/October selected CAA conference attendee. To be School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Arts is far from over. At this FromMLA the discipline as well as the geographi­ issue of CAA News, The canceled session and Can't Take Johnny to the Funeral, a T 6 eligible, you must fly American to writing, the House of Representatives cal, philosphical, institutional, gender, is Aesthetic Foundations in a Post~ Chicago using tickets purchased performance by Goat Island, directed by has passed an appropriations bill for the and ethnic range of the CAA member­ Quincentenary Era, Amalia Mesa-Bains, through the CAA Starfile #S03Z2BD and Lin Hixson. endowment with a slight increase in Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members ship. Nominees should be professionally 7 chair. issued by Zenith Travel. The winner will Sessions featuring speakers from funding for 1992. The Senate has distinguished and have experience in be notified by April 1, 1992. For reserva­ the Getty Grant Program, and the approved an appropriations bill with no defining critical issues in modern art tions, call 800/433-1790. National Endowments for the Arts and increase in funding. Furthermore, the history and art. Nominations and self­ 8 People in the News Make Hotel Humanities will also be presented. controversy over what, if any, content­ nominations must include a cover letter and Airline based restrictions government may place explaining the interest and qualifications on arts funding has been fueled by the of the candidate and be accompanied by Reservations Now Ushers and 10 Programs, New & Revised Art on Film Supreme Court's alarming decision in a c.v. Send nominations to: Art Journal CAA has reserved a large block of rooms Projectionists Needed The Program for Art on Film is again May in Rust v. Sullivan by which a bare Editorial Board, c/o CAA, 275 Seventh for the 1992 conference at the Chicago Individuals are sought to serve as ushers pleased to be organizing a screening majority upheld the Reagan Ave., New York, NY 10001. Deadline: Hilton and Towers (conference location) and projectionists for the 1992 annual 11 Grants, Awards, & Honors room, where CAA conference goers will administration's "gag rule" on abortion December 31, 1991. and Palmer House (a 10-minute walk to conference. The primary responsibility the conference) to facilitate housing for of ushers is to check badges as attendees be able to view a selection of current counseling in family planning clinics all conference participants. You may enter sessions and to report session films and videos on art. that receive federal funding. (Congress 12 Conferences & Symposia The screening room will be operat­ has already set in motion legislation to Careers reserve a room by telephoning either attendance figures. Projectionists change hotel directly. Additional information ing all day Thursday and Friday, overturn this decision.) Beginning with the October issue, CAA slide carousels on projectors, and change and a housing reservation form (neces­ February 13 and 14. On lune 19, 1991, the House introduces a new design and a new title projector bulbs and unjam slides as 13 Opportunities sary for mail-in reservations only) will Subcommittee on Government Activities for employment listings: Careers needed. Pay is $6 per hour plus compli­ be included in the preliminary program and Transportation, which has oversight (formerly Positions Listing). CANs mentary registration. You must be Information Wanted for the conference, to be mailed to jurisdiction for the NEA, held hearings Careers will be published 6 times a year available to work for at least two Datebook members in late November. It is to consider the impact of Rust as well as 15 with a supplemental edition available to sessions, If interested, please send a --\t,-- recommended that attendees who the Arts and Humanities Amendments annual conference attendees. 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