N w···.·.·.'<' 5 Openings onCAA Committees here are numerous openings for CAA members to serve on T the association's committees. Committee members serve for fixed terms of three years; at least one new member rotates onto a committee each year. Each committee is composed of at least three members, and the chair of each committee is ordinarily a member of the CAA Board of Directors. Advocacy Committee: 4 openings. The Advocacy Committee identifies "Tarred and Feathered in Wash. D.C. issues or legislation that would warrant at CAA." Sculpture performance by CAA support, establishes positions on Harold Olejarz at the CAA annual issues affecting the visual arts, and Ph.D., M.A., conference, Washington, D.C., makes those positions public through February 1991 PHOTO: BLAISE TOBIA IN COLLABORATION WITH appropriate means. HAROLD OLEJARZ Education Committee: 3 openings. & M.F.A. The Education Committee reviews career options and development April 1. If you can't meet that date, or if opportunities available to arts gradu­ Programs you have questions (or if you never ates; maintains an awareness of fine art received a questionnaire), please call and art history programs at the college Virginia Wageman at 212/691-1051. and graduate levels; collects data on CAA's directories are a valuable deparhnents, curriculum, and resources f your school offers a Ph.D. or M.A. resource for students seeking informa­ such as libraries; and maintains an in art history, or an M.F.A. in studio tion about graduate programs, and it is awareness of art education at the K-12 I art, and you haven't yet responded important that they be as inclusive as level. to CAA's questionnaire, it's not too late. possible. To date we've heard from 49 Committee on Electronic Informa­ But to be included in the directories of Ph.D./MA programs, 50 MA pro­ tion: 3 openings. The goals of the graduate programs that CAA will grams, and 115 M.F.A. programs. We Committee on Electronic Information publish in the fall of 1991, completed know there are more of you out there, include the education of scholars and questionnaires must be in the office by and we want to hear from you. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ------- Openings on CAA Committees work and must be CAA members in College Art Association (jJon ten ts CONTINUED FROM PACE 1 good standing. Members of all commit­ Awards for Distinguished Teaching tees volunteer their services to the of Art Award association without compensation and Volume 16, Numher 2 art professionals on issues and resources Presented by Ruth Fine information technology, and collabora­ serve for fixed terms of three years. Excellence MarchiApril1991 Awarded to William Daley tion with other associations and inter­ Nominations should include a brief statement outlining the individual's ested parties in the coordination of It is impossible to divide William qualifications and experience and a problems related to the collection, Daley's distinguished career in teaching resume. Self-nominations are encour­ formatting, and transmission of elec­ from his distinguished career as an Openings on CAA Committees aged. Write to: Committee Nominations, tronic data. artist. So tonight we celebrate both. The PhD., M.A., & M.F.A. Programs CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 1 Membership Committee: 6 extraordinary span of his interests is 10001. Deadline: May 1, 1991. openings. The Membership Committee AA's 1991 convocation cer­ evident in his personal visual language is charged with promoting CAA -=--------- 2 Resale Royalties emony was held in the that pays homage to forms in nature as membership and initiating and support­ C Sheraton Ballroom of the well as past art of great diversity. Pine ing activities leading to knowledge of Sheraton Washington Hotel, Friday cones and the tilework of the Alhambra, 3 Awards for Excellence the members and of their professional evening, February 22. Dennis Barrie, for example, might receive equal needs. The committee is also concerned director of the Contemporary Arts attention from his roving and very with and sensitive to issues of diversity Center, Cincinnati, who was recently perceptive eye. And his ability to draw 9 From the President of and accessibility to the programs and acquitted of pandering obscenity in a Resale Gridley McKim-Smith and connections between such seemingly services of the association by members case related to an exhibition of photo­ Annual Conference Update Greta Andersen-Bergdoll distant forms has proved an inspiration and by professionals generally. graphs by Robert Mapplethorpe, PHOTO: JENNIFER GREENFELD 10 CAA Regional M.F.A. Exhibition for those fortunate enough to find Committee on Cultural Diversity: 6 Royalties delivered an animated and informative themselves in what he has termed his openings. The Committee on Cultural keynote address. (Barrie's address will view, this award recognizes the partici­ "mud shop." 11 From the Executive Director Diversity is charged with the recognition appear in full in the winter 1991 issue of pants in a project enriched by an open Not one to need or want clones of and support of the contributions, talents, Art Journal, the second of two consecu­ and equally shared dialogue between himself, William Daley has always been possibilities, and needs of individuals tive issues that will deal with censorship members of the fields of art history and a master at encouraging others to 13 CAANews whose cultural, ethnic, and racial and the arts.) His speech was preceded conservation. It further acknowledges develop their own manner of seeing, of identities and sexual preference are he Copyright Office of the by greetings from Tom Freudenheirn, that a full understanding of a work of art forming. His serious approach to all of different from the majority and with Library of Congress is conduct­ local committee chair of the 1991 14 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members encompasses not exclusively art­ his undertakings in the studio and in the their increased inclusion within the T ing a study on the feasibility of conference, and the annual CAA awards historical concerns, but the current state dassroom/ and the good humor, association and within the field. legislation that would require purchas­ given for excellence in teaching, scholar­ and condition of the work and the warmth, and spontaneity with which he 15 People in the News Museum Committee: 2 openings. ers of artworks to pay artists a percent­ ship, creativity, criticism, and conserva­ intention inherent in the artist's tech­ approaches human relationships are The Museum Committee monitors the age of the resale price. Comments and tion, the presentation of which was led nique and execution of it. among the qualities that have been Programs, New & Revised activities of public and private institu­ information are sought that will assist in by CAA President Ruth Weisberg. A Examining Veldzquez is the fine applauded in numerous letters received Grants, Awards, & Honors 18 tions in the art sector, particularly in understanding all relevant issues. The reception in honor of the award recipi­ project of an interdisciplinary research from his colleagues and former col­ relation to acquisition, deaccession, and Copyright Office particularly welcomes ents was held in the Sheraton Foyer team, which has eloquently demon­ leagues, students past and present, and exhibition policies and procedures, in responses from groups or individuals following the convocation. strated the extent to which meaning may 20 Conferences & Symposia artists working not only in the crafts order to exercise influence and share involved in the creation, exhibition, be derived from the making of art. By media, but in diverse fields. These many efforts in issues of mutual interest, dissemination, and preservation of raising the historical and theoretical admirers also cross several artistic 21 Opportunities particularly in matters of presentation, works of art/ induding artists, art questions of Velazquez's paintings that generations. Indeed, they form a large preservation, conservation, access for dealers, auction houses/ investment College Art Association! relate to a more precise identification of and supportive fan dub, among the scholars, and education of the public. advisors/ collectors, and curators. Send National Institute for his technique, brushwork, and color, this members of which are many artists of Classified Ads 23 Professional Practices Committee: ten copies of your comments to the Conservation Award for team has opened our minds to new great distinction themselves. 1 opening. The Professional Practices Copyright Office at the address below Information Wanted Distinction in Scholarship interpretations of the artist's paintings. Daley's career has been marked by Committee responds to specific concerns by lune 1, 1991. Please also send a copy Datebook and Conservation We applaud the method and the an intense commitment to sharing his 24 of the membership in relation to areas to the College Art Association as soon as outcome of the initial findings of what Presented by Maryan Ainsworth knowledge and his skills, by his belief in such as job placement and recruitment, possible so that we can incorporate will doubtless be an ongoing dialogue Awarded to Gridley McKim-Smith, Greta art as a discipline of great distinction, CAA News, a publication of the tenure and promotion procedures, members' comments in our own among researchers Gridley McKim­ Andersen-Bergdoll, Richard Newman, and and by an integrity that marks his every College Art Association, is published scholarly standards and ethics, studio position statement. Smith, Greta Andersen-Bergdoll, Andrew Davidhazy undertaking. Through his art, his six times a year. Material for health and safety, and artists' practices. Copies of the Visual Artists Rights Richard Newman, and Andrew inclusion should be addressed to: teaching, and his writings he has been a Committee on Women in the Arts: Act are available by requesting Circular Davidhazy. We congratulate you all on The Award for Distinction in Scholarship strong presence among those who have Editor 4 openings.