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r---------------------------------------, I NOMINATION FOR CAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2002-2006 I I Mail to: CAA Nominating Committee Fax to: Marta Teegen c/o Marta Teegen 212/627-2381 I College Art Association I 275 Seventh Avenue I New York, NY 10001 I I Name: I Title: I I Affiliation: I s Address: I I by most recent publication date," you I can create a list of the latest books Phone: Fax: Email: I published about 18th-century art in I Europe. You can also view the list in I ascending or descending order by Person submitting this nomination: publication date. Or, you can perform an I From downloacling an mp3 file to the Art Bulletin and on CAAReviews, Phone: Fax: Email: "and" search instead of an "or" search. I choosing a sweater for your uncle in provides basic bibliographic information, Of course, there is always the minimalist I Detroit, the interactivity of the Internet but is not always timely for the digital query approach-the keyword search by I allows the user to customize his or her age's rapid pace. Thus, the need for subject, author, or title of a specific book. Deadline: June 15, 2001 online experience. As Jakob Nielsen ArtsBiB has surfaced. Even beyond the In addition to its interactive public L _______________________________________ ~I explains in Designing Web Usability: The needs of the CAA community, ArtsBiB functions, ArtsBiB assists CAA's book Practice afSimplicity, liThe Web is the addresses the vacancy of a bibliographic review editors with day-to-day busmess, ultimate customer empowering environ reference service specific to art and art mcluding the ability to track commis ment. He or she who clicks the mouse history. sioned book reviews for the Art Bulletin, gets to decide everything" (9). Similarly, ArtsBiB provides instant access to Art Journal, and CAA.Reviews, both CAA desires to empower its members detailed information on newly published pending and published. ArtsBiB creates with dynamic online services such as books, including direct links to publish an editorial transparency so that few, if surveys, forums, listservs, and order ers' websites and to reviews in any, review-worthy books will slip forms. In the September 2000 issue of CAA.Reviews. ArtsBiB also features basic through the cracks. 5 CAA News, Head of Reference and and advanced search options, and the Thanks to the remaining funds of a Information Services, University of ability to sort search results by title, three-year grant from The Andrew W. May 2001 Chicago Library, and CAA.Reviews Editorial Board member, Katherine College Art Association Haskins, profiled the last stages of 275 Seventh Avenue development for one of our first New York, New York 10001 interactive ventures, a bibliographic • books database. (See her "Between Everything and Nothing," rts I Board of Directors Ellen T. Baird, President· www.collegeart.org/caa/news/2000/ Michael Aurbach, Vice President, Committees categories.html). Now, CAA proudly Vanalyne Green, Vice President, External Affairs announces the launching of ArtsBiB-an author, or most recent publication date. Mellon Foundation, ArtsBiB and Bruce Robertson, Vice President, Annual Conference online searchable database of the latest With ArtsBiB, users can customize book CAA.Reviews will remain free to the Joe Deal, Secretary books published in art and art history. searches using indexes, keywords, and public until July 1, 2001. Afterward, both John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer Think of it as a taste of the future. subject categories. The broad range of will become a benefit of CAA member Jeffrey P. Cunard, Counsel categories developed by the CAA.Reviews ship. CAA members can access the Susan Ball, Executive Director Administered by the online journal CAA.Reviews, ArtsBiB is accessible at Editorial Board and the Council of database with their membership ID Commissioning Editors makes ArtsBiB a number for the username and their five Catherine Asher John W. Hyland, Jr. www.caareviews.org. Smce its inception powerful research tool for both novice digit zip code as their password. N on Michael Atirbach Dorothy Johnson in October 1998, CAA.Reviews has Ellen T. Baird Ellen K. Levy reviewed 352 art and art history books, and advanced Internet users. members may log on to ArtsBiB as Holly Block Virginia M. Mecklenburg including 47 exhibition catalogues. Here's how ArtsBiB works, Say you guests. I encourage you to test drive Josely Carvalho Valerie Mercer Moreover, CAA receives more books are an art historian who specializes in ArtsBiB, and let me know what you Irina D. Costache Nicholas Mirzoeff each year than its publications could 18th-century European art. By choosing think. Nicola Courtright Andrea S. Norris possibly review. The popular "Books the categories "18th century" and CAA wishes to thank past and Jeffrey P. Cunard Ferris Olin "Europe," along with the option to "sort current members of the CAA.Reviews Joe Deal Thomas F. Reese Received" list, published quarterly in Nancy Friese Bruce Robertson Joanna Frueh Gregory G. Sholette Vanalyne Green Joyce Hill Stoner Alison Hilton Edward Sullivan Michael Ann Holly Tran T. Kim-Trang • Editorial Board and COllllcil of Commis participation. Send your comments to languages (website and publications) practice becomes blurred by new Gregory G. Sholette, sioning Editors, particularly Leila Marta Teegen, Manager of Governance, and in cross-cultural and transcontinen technology, visual culture offers a model The School of the Art Kinney, Massachusetts Institute of Advocacy & Special Projects, at tal discussions. to enhance dialogue within and outside Institute of Chicago. If Voll/me 26, Number 3 Technology; Robert S. Nelson, University [email protected]. CAA. elected, I would support all Statement: I am May 2001 of Chicago; Sheryl Reiss, Cornell CAA's members have elected six Virginia M. initiatives to diversify the organization enthusiastic about University; and Sandy Isenstadt, new Board members. With the addition Mecklenburg, and to enhance the role of women. the possibility of University of Kentucky. Special thanks to of these six, 73 percent of the voting Smithsonian joining CAA's Board A Taste of the Future CAA.Reviews Executive Editor, Larry members on the Board is now female American Art Ferris Olin, Rutgers because I believe those charged with 1 Silver, University of Pennsylvania; and 27 percent is male. In comparison, Museum. Statement: University. State setting cultural policy must understand Katherine Haskins, University of 63 percent of the overall membership is CAA has long been ment: My experi the need for diversity, be comfortable T1U?l} Represent You: 2001-2005 2 Board Members Chicago; and CAA staff, especially female, and 37 percent is male. In terms an important forum ences as a curator, with collaboration, work across disci Lavinia Diggs Richardson, Manager of of professional specialization, 65 percent for linking artists and art historians. scholar, teacher, plines, and be fluent in the use of new Conference Wrap-Up IT /Statistics; John Alan Farmer, Acting of the voting members of the Board are During the past decade, especially, it librarian, academic technologies. As a founding member of 4 Director of Publications; and freelance art historians or work in museums and has been remarkably effective in administrator, and two diverse artist-rllll groups-Political programmer, Lauren Gill (www.gill galleries, and 35 percent are visual expanding awareness of new method project director can serve to find answers Art Documentation and Distribution Thanks to Mentors 5 design.com). artists. In comparison, 57 percent of the ologies in art and art history. And yet I to many challenges CAA now faces. As and REPOhistory-I know how to work -Rachel Ford, Manager oj Electronic overall membership work as art histori find that museum colleagues increas Chair of the Committee on Women in collaboratively for the common good. As 6 Art's Place Publications, [email protected] ans or in museums and galleries; visual ingly feel that, with a few exceptions, the Arts and committee liaison to the an artist and writer, I continually learn artists make up 43 percent. CAA's the Annual Conferences have had little Cultural Diversity Committee, I have new modes of production and put them Follow-A-Fellow Nominating Committee will be charged to offer them. The issues facing art seen how much CAA has done to into practice. Finally, as Chair of the 7 with correcting imbalances on the Board museum curators and educators today promote multiculturalism. Yet the Master of Arts in Art Administration Thanks to Corporate Sponsors in such areas as gender and professional are especially challenging, as questions findings of the "Survey on Women and Program at the School of the Art 8 Advocacy Update specialization for future elections. This is of audience appeal, attendance, and People of Color in the Visual Arts," Institute of Chicago, I teach in a field important for CAA's members to keep funding sources are factored into compiled by the Committee on Women that intersects several disciplines and CMNews in mind when making nominations to decisions about what can be shown and in the Arts, have demonstrated the need brings together different cultures. If 10 the Board. Following are the new Board how it should be interpreted. I would for new sh-ategies. Tenured ranks remain given the opportunity, I will make a Affiliated Society News members' statements of candidacy: very much like to see CAA take the lead 11 Annual Conference Update in offering conference sessions and Irina D. Costache, formulating other programs that 2003 Call for Session Proposals THEY California State reinforce the bonds between artists, 12 University, academic art historians, and museum Northridge. State staff members, and that are critical to 14 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members REPRESENT ment: The creative, presenting art in meaningful ways. We scholarly, and must devise new strategies for making People in the News YOU: educational identity art COllllt for the huge numbers of 15 of the arts is being redefined in the 21st people who choose to spend their 2001-2005 century by new media, multicultural leisure time in museum settings.