5 Capital Campaign Charges Ahead Then and Now From 1942 to 1946 CAA offered grants­ in-aid of $1,000 or less funded by the Carnegie Corporation to outstanding graduate students. Phyllis Pray Bober, recently CAA president, received one of those Carnegie grants. Fifty years after CAA's first Judith K. Brodsky, chair of the Capital venture into fellowships, Larry Silver, Campaign, in her studio at the Center for CAA president, Judith K. Brodsky, vice­ Innovative Printmaking, Rutgers, State president and Capital Campaign chair, University of New Jersey and Susan Ball, executive director of CAA, have announced the CAA Professional Development Fellowships travel grants for many participants, and tions of $4,000-$5,000 from individual to be awarded annually starting in 1993. the National Endowment for the Arts CAA members-these new funds add A grant from the Nathan Cummings has awarded CAA $7,500 toward travel up to an extraordinary $250,000 over the Foundation of $90,000 will help to fund grants for artists to attend the 1993 last year and signal the beginning of the the first 15 recipients, who will be annual conference in Seattle. fulfillment of dreams for eAA," chosen over the next 3 years. Art Bulletin has been published comments Silver. In 1942 the annual conference had 4 continuously since 1913, with black­ These grants are the result of a sessions and 24 speakers. In 1943 the and-white illustrations. In June 1992 the major fund-raising effort begun a year membership was 877. Samuel H. Kress Foundation awarded ago. nCAA is in the midst of a Capital Today CAA has 13,000 individual CAA $50,000 to provide color illustra­ Campaign," reports Brodsky. 'We and 2,000 institutional members. In tions for Art Bulletin and to expand the haven't announced the campaign 1990,7,000 people attended the annual book reviews section. officially until now, because in the conference in New York. Subsequent "With $90,000 from the Nathan culture of fund raising you announce a conferences have had over 5,000 Cummings Foundation, $50,000 from campaign when you've achieved attendees. The recent conference in the Kress Foundation, a grant of $7,500 substantial success. It's that fund-raising Chicago had more than 100 sessions and from the National Endowment for the precept that has kept us so quiet about over 700 speakers. Today CAA provides Arts, and average matching contribu- our activities. But now we're ready to CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Airlines. To be eligible, reservations of Directors and a ballot. Let me close by of practice for editing and publishing. must be made through American's Annual From the Executive Director reminding you to examine closely the Contact Janis Bell (Kenyon College), Contents meeting service desk and ticketed by list of candidates running for election [email protected] (Internet). Zenith Travel. For reservations, call 800/ and to read carefully the personal There are now many electronic 17, Volume Number 5 Conference 433-1790, and ask for Starfile #0113BD. statements prepared by each of them. organizations concerned with art September/October /992 Request that tickets be issued by Zenith Calls for Vote, and return the postage-paid ballot materials, techniques, teaching, and Travel. To receive your rebate, mail your by November 1, 1992. CANs Board of exhibitions that post information on Update boarding-pass stub to Zenith when Directors is an active, hard-working listservers on both Bitnet and Internet. It 1 Capital Campaign Charges Ahead travel is completed. Change in an board that makes crucial policy deci­ is worth checking the index every month Special discounts are also available sions that affect the future of the asso­ or so. Here are some entries from the on Continental Airways. A 5-percent ciation and have an impact on the disci­ current list for conferences in which you 2 Annual Conference Update savings is available off any discounted Election Year plines represented by the membership. can participate: ticket; or, the Saturday night stayover We encourage each of you to vote may be waived on any fare that nor­ From the Executive Director for the six candidates that you feel will ARTCRIT is an open discussion for mally has this restriction. Whether you Electronic Bulletin Board Session Added best represent your interests during their anyone in the visual arts, covering a 3 The following session will be presented fly American or Continental. using these four-year terms. range of art concerns and art-critical he word heard most often these jointly by the Women's Caucus for Art carriers assures that your ticket will be -Susan Ball discourse: postmodernism, Marxism, days is change; everyone, from and the Advocacy Committee of the at the lowest available price. feminism, curatorial practices, funding, the "would-bes," to the "have 6 Legal Update CAA Board of Directors at the 1993 T etc. (ARTCRIT@YORKVM1; or beens," and the "are nows," is calling for Seattle conference: uCulture War: The LISTSERV@YORKVMl). Battle to Define American Culture," Search Continues for change. For the past four years, CAA's Board of Directors and staff have been CAANews chaired by David Mendoza, National ARTNET deals with temporary, mobile, 7 1995 Program Chairs implementing changes demanded by the Campaign for the Freedom of Expres­ time-based, decentered art. Artists, art Nominations and self-nominations are membership and the Long Range Plan­ Electronic sion. administrators, writers, theorists, stu­ sought for CAA annual conference . ning Committee, and in this newsletter dents, and teachers should send con­ Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members program chairs in art history and studIO we proudly announce new programs 8 tributions on projects, events, collabora­ art to organize and coordinate the and funding awards (see page ]). Bulletin tions ([email protected]; Reception Reminder program for the 1995 conference to be On the national level, the cries for or [email protected]). People in the News Institutional members of the College Art held in San Antonio, Texas. change are deafening. Both the incum­ 10 Association are entitled to complimen­ Program chairs formulate, develop, Board bent and the hopeful candidate for tary space to hold a reunion or recep­ and produce the annual conference PHOTO-L is a forum for the discussion president as well as an unprecedented of all aspects of photography, including tion. For information: Melinda Klayman, program in consultation with the art . number of first-time candidates for the Grants, Awards, & Honors CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., New York, NY aesthetics, equipment, technique, etc. 11 history and studio art program commit­ Senate and House of Representatives are 10001. Deadline: November 2, 1992. tees and the Board of Directors, select (LlSlSERV%BUACCABlTN.EIOClJNYVM.­ urging change. In November voters have The growing interest in CUNY.EDU). and oversee sessions, and work with the a chance to make a difference in our digitized images as an art­ Conferences & Symposia 12 CAA conference coordinator to produce collective national future. Therefore, historical and artistic resource conference publications and ensure that T Electronic journals that you can receive Projectionists Sought before you make your individual was underlined at the CIHA 28th include: Applications are being accepted for sessions run smoothly during the choices, I urge you to take into consider­ International Congress in the History of Opportunities projectionists at the 1993 annual conference. These positions offer the 13 ation all candidates' statements on the Art in Berlin, July 15-20, 1992. One well­ ART COM, an on-line magazine conference. Projectionists are paid $6 per opportunity to draw together a variety issues that affect the future of the arts attended session was liThe Work of Art dedicated to the interface of contempo­ hour and receive complimentary of methodologies and topics to stimulate Information Wanted and humanities. in the Age of Digital Reproducibility." A rary art and new communication conference registration. Projectionists discussion within the field. 15 Datebook On the arts, for example, the 1992 meeting of the Visual Resources technologies ([email protected]). work a minimum of 3 sessions over the Applicants must fulfill the follow­ Democratic Platform states that Demo­ Association on liThe Images in Artistic course of the 3-day meeting and must ing requirements: CAA member; w~~e crats "believe in public support for the Exchange" produced two days of papers RD, a journal dedicated to publishing attend a training session on Wednesday knowledge of the field and its practltlon­ Classified Ads Arts, including the National Endowment on the movement, use, and management the work of graduate students in the 16 evening, February 3. Applicants must ers, as well as sensitivity to the needs for the Arts, that is free from political of images in the past and in the auto­ arts, fine arts, and humanities be able to operate a 35-mm slide projec­ and interests of CAA's diverse, 13,000 manipulation and firmly rooted in the mated future. Marilyn Aronberg Lavin ([email protected]). tor; familiarity with video projectors is members; strong verbal and written First Amendment's freedom of expres­ and Kirk Alexander demonstrated the helpful. There are also a number of communications skills; attention to eAA News, a publication of the sion guarantee." The Republican teaching and research capabilities of Ask your computer center how to openings for room monitors (no projec­ detail; and dedication. Chairs must live College Art Association, is published Platform does not contain a parallel digitized images in a powerful new find the index of all the listservers and six times a year. Material for tion skills required). If interested, and work in the southwestern United statement; however, the Bush-Quayle '92 workstation.