5 Face to Face CAA with Ellen Protests Lanyon Denial of Grants fter eleven years of dedicated service, Ellen Lanyon is A leaving the editorial board of Art Journal. Lanyon is an artist whose s requested at the CAA first show was at the cooperative Ellen Lanyon Annual Business Meeting, Superior Street Gallery in Chicago in PHOTO: JOANNE SAVIO February 14, 1992, CAA THE COOPER UNION A 1958; in 1962 she had what she consid­ president Larry Silver sent a letter to ers her first true solo exhibitions, at partner with his wife in the site-specific John Frohnruayer, then chair of the Zabriskie Gallery in New York and sculpture collaborative Kristin Jones/ National Endowment for the Arts, B. C. Holland in Chicago. Her works Andrew Ginzel, and their daughter, questioning the procedures allegedly have been feahrred in over 50 other Lisa Ginzel, is a painter living in used when grants, which had been exhibitions, and she has shown over the Chicago. recommended by a peer review panel, years at Richard Gray, Chicago, and Several weeks ago Lanyon and were denied to Franklin Furnace and Odyssia and Susan Caldwell, both in I discussed Art Journal, its editorial Highways. The letter, dated February New York. Currently, Berland-Hall board, and her personal involvement 28,1992, reads: Gallery in New York is hosting an with both. She began her service in "On behalf of the artists and art exhibition of Lanyon's paintings, April 1981, when she joined the board as historians who are members of the 3D-May 23,1992, and a monograph is representative of CAA's Artists' College Art Association, thirteen being published. Having taught at the Committee. The other board members thousand strong, I write to express our School of the Art Institute of Chicago, were Anne Coffin Hanson, George concerns regarding the rejection by the Parsons, and the School of Visual Arts Sadek, and Irving Sandler. In the early Council of the National Endowment for as well as having been a visiting artist at 1980s, the quarterly had reached a the Arts of two grants-one to the numerous universities, she is now crossroads, and its mission-to serve Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, associate professor of painting at the the modernist field and the CAA artist the other to Highways, Santa Monica­ Cooper Union. To her, "Teaching is the membership-was examined. It was that had been recommended for reflection of one's self, a reaching out, to decided that its structure was not well approval by an endowment peer panel transmit experience and knowledge so defined and content was not focused of experts. that it will not die with you." Time on the needs of the constituency. "According to information pub­ away from teaching and the studio (a Therefore, theme issues were institut­ lished in reliable newspaper accounts, loft in SoHal is absorbed by participat­ ed, with guest editors recruited to irregular procedures were employed in ing in activist groups and enjoying her, organize individual issues. Art Jour­ the evaluation of materials from eight personal life. Lanyon is married to the nal's philosophy, centered around grant applications, including the two artist Roland Ginzel, with whom she the idea of theme issues, has been that were rejected. What we in the arts has raised two children-their son is a developing ever since. With recent community and the CAA find particu- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 art criticism; Arthur Kingsley Porter proposal is received from two or more and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain (Penn ({i':ontents CAA Prize for an Art Bulletin article; Artist Guidelines individuals, preference may be given to State Press, 1991); winner of the Award for a Distinguished Body of the individual from the region in which ASHAHS Distinguished Publication Volume 17, Number 3 Work, Exhibition, Presentation, or the conference will be held. Where Award; editor of Al Andalus: The Islamic May/June 1992 News Performance; Distinguished Artist for the 1994 proposals overlap, the chairs reserve the Arts of Spain (Metropolitan Museum of Award for Lifetime Achievement; Alfred right to select the most considered Art, 1992) and Essays in Honor of Whitney H. Barr, Jr., Award for museum scholar­ version or, in some cases, to suggest a Stoddard (Gesta, 1986); and co-editor, ship; Charles Rufus Morey Award for a Annual fusion of two or more versions from with V. Mann and T, Glick, of Conviven­ Face to Face with Ellen Lanyon book in the history of art; and CAA and among the proposals submitted. The cia: Art and Society in Medieval Iberia 1 CAA Protests Denial of Grants National Institute for Conservation Joint Conference program chairs may invite submissions (Jewish Museum, 1992). She has Award for Distinction in Scholarship from people who have not submitted published and lectured widely on early Sydelle Zemering Retires and Conservation. Nominations for proposals but whose experience, medieval and Romanesque architecture With April 1992 marking the beginning award recipients should be sent to: expertise, and outreach would, in the and arts produced by and for Christians, CAANews 2 of her 25th year at the College Art College Art Association, 275 Seventh chairs' opinion, be important to shaping Muslims, and Jews. Association, Sydelle Zemering, place­ Ave., New York, NY 10001. Deadlille: an interesting and balanced program. In Dodds was special consultant to the ment coordinator, has decided to retire. October 1, 1992. doing so, program chairs wi11 consider a Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Guidelines for the he 1994 annual conference will After working for the United Parents number of factors, including which exhibition"Al Andalus," and is consult­ 1994 Annual Conference be held in New York, with the 3 Association doing newsletters, she came topics were not covered in recent CAA ing curator (with Vivian Mann) to the New York Hilton and Towers to CAA on April 1, 1968, as a part-time Affiliated Society News T conferences. All other things being Jewish Museum for the upcoming serving as headquarters. Sessions will I CAA wishes to extend special thanks to "Convivencia" exhibition, Particularly clerical worker overseeing a staff of take place Thursday, January 27, equal, preference may be given to Legal Update 5 three. Early on she did bookkeeping and the American Society for llispanic Art through Saturday, January 29. Chair of artists I scholars from the region in concerned with issues surrounding the Historical Studies (ASHAHS) for its co­ which the conference will be held. representation of art on film, she has catalogued the review books that came the art history program is J errilynn D. sponsorship of the session "Old World­ into the office. She eventually moved on Dodds, and the studio art program is co­ Deadline for program chairs to receive collaborated on two documentary films: to placement, New World--Old World: Cultural chaired by Archie Rand and Lowery S. session proposals: September 1, 1992. a screenplay written with Pablo Romero 7 From the Executive Director Interaction between Europe and where over the Sims. for Canal + Espana titled Al Andal"s: Las years she worked Colonial rbero-America," at the 1992 Artes Islamicas de Espai1a, and A Mosque Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members with Gene CAA annual conference in Chicago. For Art History in Time, created with filmmaker Edin 10 People in the News Lessard, Nanette their contribution, the acknowledgment Proposal Submission Program Chair Velez under the auspices of the Program RodneyI Rose of which was inadvertently omitted for Art on Film. Her current area of Weil,and from the Marchi April newsletter, we Guidelines Jerrilynn D, Dodds is associate professor research centers on issues of representa­ Programs, New & Revised Minerva express our appreciation. Session proposals should be submitted of architectural history at the School of tion and the meaning of monumental Architecture of City College of the City 12 Grants, Awards, & Honors Navarette, CAA would like to remind its to the program chairs in the form of a painting for Christians and Muslims on among others. affiliated societies that they are eligible one-to-two page letter I essay framing of New York. She has taught at Colum­ the medieval Iberian peninsula. Zemering attended her first CAA to receive meeting space at the annual the topic of the session and explaining bia University, Duke University, and Conferences & Symposia conference in 1973 in New York, and she conference in 1993 in Seattle for either a any special or timely significance it may University of North Carolina at Chapel Opportunities Hill, and will be visiting associate 13 has been the placement coordinator ever session or a business meeting. Affiliated have for a particular field andlor Art History since. She has worked with hundreds of societies are also encouraged to submit discipline. When possible, potential professor at Harvard University in fall people in the CAA office over the comse proposals to the art history andlor panelists and procedures should be 1992. Her research centers on the Program Statement meaning of artistic interchange between The CAA annual conference has in­ Classified Ads of her career, and she says, "It's been an studio art program chairs for sessions to outlined. Explanatory or supportive 15 experience." She said that she will miss be co-sponsored at the 1994 conference materials may be included. Send a c.v., divergent cultures, in particular as it creasingly come to be one of the terms her co-workers, the excitement of the in New York (see page 3 for guidelines). biographical statement, mailing address, occurs in the arts of medieval Spain. through which art historians express a Information Wanted conferences, and the people with whom and work and home telephone numbers.