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. 16 Grants, Awards, & Honors dialogues, and interdisciplinary para­ BOARD digms. It is important that new Board Nicholas Mirzoeff, Conferences & Symposia members work at keeping CAA current State University of 17 with the ever changing needs of its New York, Stony MEMBERS members. My experience with the Brook. Statement: 19 Resources & Opportunities Professional Practices Committee and An eleven-year the Career Development Workshop and member of CAA, I Classifieds my degrees in studio art and art history am running for the closed to people of color and women, positive contribution to the future of nJanuary 2001, ballots to elect new 21 Datebook have given me a solid understanding of Board of Directors to represent the aims and the current hiring trend of staffing CAA at a time of significant social and members to CAA's Board of Direc­ the issues facing artists, art historians, of those artists and art historians who classrooms with adjuncts and graduate aesthetic transition. tors for the 2001-2005 term were I and museum professionals. If elected I now describe themselves as working in students is problematic. Additionally, eAA News is published six times per year by the mailed to members. For the first time, would specifically work to: 1) strengthen visual culture. As editor and author of the technological revolution continues to Tran T. Kim-Trang, College Art Association, 275 7th A venue, New we asked voters to indicate where they York, NY 10001; www.collegeart.org. the participation of artists within the several books on visual culture, an impact on art praxis, pedagogy, and Scripps College. reside as well as their area of profes­ organization through CAA-sponsored organizer of panels, seminars, and scholarship. It is important that we plan Statement: There has Editor-in-Chief Susan Ball sional specialization. More than half of art reviews, exhibitions, and dialogues conferences, and a moderator of a for and support the development of new been mOllllting Editor Rachel Ford all voters responded to at least one of the Associate Editor Christopher Howard between artists and art historians in listserv on the field, I am well placed to media, classroom practices, and scholarly technological and two demographic questions, resulting in onllne and other formats; 2) expand the take on this responsibility. Although tools to advance our work. Finally, I am social convergence the following two trends: 1) Voter Material for inclusion should be sent via email to voice of CAA using the electronic media: some have presented visual culture as a particularly concerned with encouraging in recent times. I Christopher Howard at [email protected]. participation was low in all regions of cybershows, e-sessions, and Web coruer­ threat to art history, I see it as an visual arts education from an early age. believe a future direction of CAA should Black-and-white photographs may be submitted the United States; and 2) slightly more ences; 3) acknowledge the concerns of expansion of the interdisciplinary aims We must reach out to educators in the be to participate in these growing to the above street address for consideration. art historians voted in the election than untenured and adjllllct faculty, part-time of what was called the New Art History. public schools to develop joint projects in developments by facilitating artists', art They cannot be retumed. did studio artists. This said, we continue museum professionals, and other Further, its appeal to many artists which we can learn from one another historians', and arts professionals' to urge all CAA members to vote in groups; 4) develop a greater awareness crosses the institutional divide in CAA. and ensure that arts education is part of critical use and analysis of new tech­ Board elections and welcome your of CAA within the international arena As the gap between criticism and the lifelong learning process. nologies, as well as to conh'ibute to Printed on recycled paper feedback on ways to increase voter by providing information in foreign © 200l College Art Association

2 CAANEWS !vlAYZOOl CAA NEWS MAYZODl 3 stronger collaborations between at local venues. And who can forget the individuals and organizations. As a School of the Art Institute's bash, "2001 Board member I would devote myself to Dessert Oddities?" This festive reception advocacy work including organizing and dance party concluded the con­ artists and other cultural workers for ference on an exceptionally upbeat note. increased political effectiveness; In all, from the weather to the increasing diversity in CAA member­ Conference Wrap-Up watusi, the 2001 Annual Conference was ship and ranks; providing artists with an invigorating and rewarding experi­ legal, financial, and professional ears about Chicago's harsh and musical introduction, a bluesy harmonica ence. CAA extends its sincerest thanks development assistance; highlighting unpredictable winters-some solo performed by Marshall himself). to all the individuals and institutions the work of regional artists, art histori­ Fmay recall 1976 as the coldest Baird recognized the seven CAA that attended and participated. Philadel­ ans, arts professionals, and institutions Annual Conference in memory­ Fellowship recipients and presented ten phia in 2002 promises to be just as through regular profiles in CAA's disrupting this year's event were of the CAA Awards for Excellence stimulating. publications and programs; and unwarranted, as unexpectedly and (please see www.collegeart.org/caal_ -Emmanuel Lemakis, Conference Director exploiting new channels to expand the relatively mild weather enabled news/2001/awards.html to read about international scope of CAA's work and attendees to dig deeply into the rich the winners). CAA sadly notes the exposure. I would be very excited and and stimulating program. The vast neo­ passing of Hollis Sigler, who received the committed to serve on the Board. Rococo spaces of the Chicago Hilton Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime easily allowed CAA planners to Achievement this year. Josely Carvalho to accommodate all activities under one The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) Fill Vacant Board Seat roof and to conveniently link all three hosted the postconvocation reception. In March 2001, the CAA Board of rings of the conference circus­ While browsing through one of the Directors elected Josely Carvalho to placement, trade and book fair, and world's great museum collections, The CAA Committee on Women In the Arts Annual Recognition Awards Breakfast: from serve on the Board for the remainder of sessions. Additionally, the hotel attendees were served an array of left, Ferris Olin, chair and CAA Board Member; Norma Braude; Elsa Honig Fine, honoree; Archle Rand's term (2003). Carvalho's provided ample social space for dining, delicious hors d' oeuvres and beverages, Karen A. Bearor; and Margaret Barlow Thanks original candidate statement from the schmoozing, and networking, as well as Also, AlC curators and staff chaired PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE 1999 Board election appears below. many quiet corners and comfortable conference sessions held at the museum. curators, and institutions. One hundred the heavily trafficked Candidates' To armchairs for reflection and prepara­ CAA warmly thanks Director James N. nineteen sessions covered every area of Center. A new computerized system Statement: As a U.S. tion. Altogether, an estimated 5,000 Wood for making this and other AIC­ art history, contemporary issues, and was designed to ease the process of and Brazilian citizen people attended the conference. related events possible. studio art. Thirty-five Affiliated Societ­ placing ads in Careers and its conference Mentors and part of the Latin Led by CAA President Ellen T. The program of sessions was the ies, CAA Committees, and allied supplements. American art Baird, the opening convocation result of the engaged and hardworking organizations took advantage of the CAA's commitment to providing community, I will featured presentations by Chicago efforts of the members of the Annual CAA wishes to thank the artists, art short, 1-1 /2-hour special sessions to opportunities for professional advance­ bring to the Board mayor Richard M. Daley, his wife Conference Committee. The committee's historians, curators, and critics who offer panels about their particular ment extended to two popular my experience as a Maggie-a noted Chicago arts advo­ regional representatives-Eunice served as mentors for the Career interests. mentoring workshops-the Career socially corrunitted woman artist cate-and a brilliant keynote address Maguire, Henry Maguire, Buzz Spector, Development Workshops and the Artist The Trade and Book Fair featured Development Workshop and Artist working both independently in my by artist Kerry James Marshall (printed and Anne Wilson-encouraged the Portfolio Review sessions at the Chicago an expanded CAA booth-with a Portfolio Review. This year, CAA served studio and collectively with artists, in the insert, regretfully without his participation of local artists, scholars, conference. preview demonstration of ArtsBiB, our more than 400 individuals. feminists, and community groups. My new online books database--and 108 A number of firsts characterized work has evolved from woodcut to exhibitors. This year, more manufactur­ this year's conference. Art's Place, a one­ photo silkscreen, video, and digital ers and distributors of art supplies day" conference within a conference" imagery in the shape of book-art/ exhibited alongside the traditional print tailored to CAA's artist members, was a sculpture objects and installations. As a publication exhibitors than in previous great hit (see p. 6). Special thanks goes CAA Board member, I would help to: years. CAA welcomed the first-time to Pearl and Marshall Field's for 1) promote policies of inclusion and exhibitor, Publisher's Group West, sponsoring Art's Place events. Equally diversity, questioning artistic view­ which sponsored a book signing in the successful was the Distinguished points and new ways of representation exhibit hall by the performance artist Scholar's Session dedicated to James S. in order to comprehend the global Karen Finley, Mixed Greens, a multime­ Ackerman and frmded by the Samuel H. perspective within a national cross­ Kress Foundation; it drew 800 attendees. cultural platform; 2) develop programs dia company devoted to promoting the work of emerging artists, joined the Local institutions contributed and raise funding to include indepen­ growing number of digital resources for generously to the conference. Columbia dent, nonaffiliated art professionals; 3) visual arts professionals who now College Chicago sponsored the first strengthen the position of university art exhibit at the fair. They also sponsored online CAA members' exhibition, New adjuncts; 4) formulate a national and the 2001 CAA Regional M.F.A. Exhibi­ Space, New Audience; opened the doors international exchange program of art tion. to its Museum of Contemporary professionals through residencies; 5) At the Interviewers' Check-in Photography for two offsite sessions; explore new ways to use electronic Center, ground zero of CAA's job and provided free access to its computer communication, including use of CAA's placement services, an impressive 328 labs for email. Mixed Greens and the website as a public space for artists; 6) jobs were advertised, and almost 400 Chicago and Urbana-Champaign incorporate Latino art within larger 'interviewers checked in. Many job campuses of the University of Illinois American exhibition practice. Past CAA President Judith Brodsky, current President Ellen T. Baird, and Executive seekers scanned the message boards in sponsored M.F.A. students' exhibitions PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE Director Susan Ball share a moment at the Terra Museum of American Art reception PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE

eAA NEWS MAY 2001 4 eAA NEWS MAY 2001 5 Special thanks go to Michael School of Design and CAA Board University; Roger Shimomura, Univer­ needs of CAA's artist members. It Especially prominent was the critical Aurbach, of Vanderbilt University and member; Moira Geoffrion, University sity of Kansas; Tanja Softie, University offered ?- place to network, converse, dialogue between the artist who CAA Vice President for Committees, of Arizona; Reni Gower, Virginia of Richmond; David Sokol, University showcase new art and dynamic pro­ purposefully chooses to make use of and Ellen Konowitz of State University Commonwealth University; Richard of Illinois, Chicago; Lauren Soth, gramming, and exchange ideas and stereotypical imagery in order to of New York, New Paltz, for their Gray, University of Notre Dame; Myron Carleton COllege; Annie Storr, Ameri­ infonnation of interest to artists. We Conference subvert the concepts behind it, and a continuing work on the Career Develop­ Helfgott, Virginia Commonwealth can University; Barbara Tsakirgis, :: wanted to break away from the tradh disconcerted and sometimes appalled ment Workshops, as well as to University; Alison Helm, West Virginia Vanderbilt University; Ann Tsubota, tional format of the panet the time Reflections public. Stephanie Davies and Margaret University; Glenn Hild, Eastern Illinois Raritan Valley Community College; constraints of session slots, and to o The first ever-I believe-"all­ This month, we followed Fellow Wilkerson of the CAA staff. University; Jim Hopfensperger, Nadine Wassennan, State University of repond to feedback we had received Carribbean-all-the-time" panel was also ...J Rodo Aranda-Alvarado to the CAA also appreciates the contribu­ Michigan State University; Dennis New York, New Paltz. from artists about what would be featured this year. For those of us who Annual Conference. She tions of David M. Sokol, University of Ichiyama, Purdue University; Dorothy meaningful to them at the conference. focus on Caribbean art, the organization ...J describes two of her favorite Illinois, Chicago; Ruth Weisberg, Joiner, State University of West Georgia; 2001 Artist Portfolio Review Mentors: Thus, Art's Place brought in and sent of this panel was particularly important. sessions and suggests a new University of Southern California, Gary Keown, Sou theastem Louisiana Holly Block, Art in General and CAA out a wide range of ideas. The commit­ Chaired by Yasmln Ramirez and CAA location for a future conference. School of Fine Arts; and CAA Board University; Amy Kirschke, Vanderbilt Board member; Michael Bzdak, Johnson tee wishes to thank Pearl and Marshall o Board member Edward Sullivan, - Ellen Staller, Manager of members Michael Aurbach and Linda University; John Kissick, Ontario & Johnson; George eisele, Maryland Field's for their generous support of "Visual Culture in the Caribbean: 20th Fellowships and Placement' Hults, College of Wooster, who served College of Art and Design; James Institute, College of Art; Sandra Dupre!, Art's Place. u... Century" was stocked with six present­ on the panel at the candidates and Krehbiel, Ohio Wesleyan University; Wayne State University; C. L. Terry During the afternoon, visitors ers who covered a variety of topics on interviewers placement orientation. Michael Krueger, University of Kansas; Gips; Caren Heft, University of talked about myriad subjects, including Cuban, Puerto Rican, Haitian, and Alexis Kuhr, University of Minnesota; Wisconsin, Stevens Point; Susan ideas for future Art's Place events. A Jamaican art. The presentation of this 2001 Career Development Workshop Paul Lee, Washington State University; Knowles, Independent Curator; video from the exhibition Art in Motion, Cultural Diversity & Las panel is important in the history of CAA Mentors: Von Allen, Brigham Young Jefferey Cote de Luna, Dominican Suzanne Lemakis, Citigroup; Lisa sponsored by the University of Southern Vegas for a number of reasons. Most impor­ Lodeski, Lisa Lodeski Fine Arts; Joseph University; Catherine Angel, University University; Janet Marquardt, Eastern California, played in one part of the This year's conference turned out a tant, it spotlighted an area of study that, Mella, Vanderbilt University; Thomas of Nevada, Las Vegas; Steve Arbury, Illinois University; Charles Mayer, room. A computer set up in another area wealth of engaging panels. Especially in spite of a long history, continues to Radford University; Anne Beidler, Indiana State University; Judith Morrissey, Community College of displayed New Space, New Audience, the provocative was the panel on stereotyp­ receive very little recognition. At other Rhode Island; Julia Morrisroe, Central Agnes Scott College; Roy Blackwood, McCrea, University of Kansas; Phyllis CAA members' online exhibition hosted ing ("Stereotypes Unbound: Racial and major conferences, Caribbean visual Southeastern Louisiana University; McGibbon, Wellesley College; Thomas Michigan University; Norie Sato, by Columbia College Chicago. Anne Ethnic Caricature in Contemporary culture is often neglected, leaving little Independent Artist; Eleanor Williams, Bruce Bobick, State University of West McGovern, Pennsylvania State Univer­ Wilson and Buzz Spector, the artist Art"), organized by CAA Board member room for scholars working in this field Georgia; Diane Bywaters, University of sity; Virginia Mecklenburg, Mixed Greens. Regional Chairs for the conference, Valerie Mercer and Jorge Daniel to voice their praises and concerns. I presented their work and discussed studio artists' roles in planning the Annual Conference. HHappy hour" came next; hors d' oeuvres and refreshments were served. This presented another wel­ comed chance to talk with fellow artists. Meanwhile, a mesmerizing demonstra­ tion of a "3-D Rapid Proto-typing Printer" from the Z-Corp took place. This machine creates physical objects, layer by layer, out of powdered plaster. Needless to say, closing time-IO:30 p.M.-came too early. Art's At the 2002 Conference in Philadel­ phia, Art's Place will be extended to three days. The Services to Artists Place Committee welcomes feedback from Art's Place attendees and suggestions for the future. Please watch for further details in we look forward to eople first came in the morning CAA News; At the Fifth Annual Artists' Interview in Art's Place, artist Ann Hamilton, right, speaks seeing you there. with Mary Katherine Coffey for the coffee and then stayed for -Norie Sato, Services to Artists Committee PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE the compelling interviews with P member and a programmer of Art's Place 2000 Professional Development Fellow Adam Frelin, right, with a friend at the Terra artists Ann Hamilton and Ed Paschke. Museum of American Art reception Wisconsin, Stevens Point; Laurie Beth Smithsonian American Art Museum; Two completely different aesthetics and PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE Clark, University of Wisconsin, Madi­ Anita Moskowitz, State University of working modes characterized each son; Bradford Collins, University of New York, Stony Brook; James Nestor, artist, and they spoke eloquently about Veneciano. The speakers attacked a was pleased to see that the panel was South Carolina; Irina Costache, Califor­ Indiana University of Pennsylvania; their work and working processes. variety of issues, including the "prob­ well attended; the audience seemed nia State University, Northridge and Ljubica Popovich, Vanderbilt Univer­ Inaugurated this y'ear as an lematic" work of some contemporary genuinely interested in the topics CAA Board member; Diane Edison, sity; Wayne Potratz, University of initiative by CAA's newly fonned artists who use stereotypical imagery, covered and asked provocative ques­ University of Georgia; Don Evans, Minnesota; Howard Risatti, Virginia Services to Artists Committee, Art's the denotations of particular words that tions. I would suggest that CAA sponsor Vanderbilt University; Nan Freeman, Commonwealth University; James Place was a day-long event held March describe race, and concepts of race that more presentations like this one in the The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Rogers, Florida Southern University; 1,2001, that addressed the conference are less palatable to society at large. future, especially panels that examine Boston; Nancy Friese, Rhode Island Joseph Seipel, Virginia Commonwealth

CAANEWS MAY200! 6 CAA NEWS MAY 2001 7 Advocates also urged members of Clinton. Attended by more than 1,000 agency budgets in the coming year. the influences that criss-cross national, Congress to support legislation that people, Miller's lecture drew loud Similarly, President Bush presented his racial, and ethnic groups both in the Thanks ensures a place for arts education in all cheers and applause from many in the first budget request to Congress in mid­ United States and abroad. public elementary and secondary audience who shared his opinions. April that included level funding for all So, let me end my recap of the education programs, including profes­ On Jefferson Day, a humanities federal cultural agencies, with an conference by saying that Chicago is to Update sional development opportunities for advocacy day scheduled in conjunction additional request for cost-of-living okay ... but what about Vegas next time? arts teachers, funding for afterschool with the Jefferson Lecture, CAA salary increases for 2002. Neither the Imagine the possibilities for panel Corporate arts learning, and support for arts representatives Marta Teegen, Rachel Senate nor the President, however, has proposals! Certainly, sessions would education partnerships between schools Ford, and Deirdre Barrett visited the committed to a specific timetable for have to deal with Robert Venturi's and community cultural organizations. offices of the following senators: Conrad budget increases to the NEA, NEH, and classic text Learningfrom Las Vegas: The Sponsors The message was reinforced at the IMLS. Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and -Marta Teegen, Manager of Governance, and consider the influence of Public Policy. Frank Rich, an op-ed Advocacy & Special Projects, and Paul Skiff postmoderrusm in architecture. An CAA wishes to thank our 2001 Annual Report from·Washington columnist and theater critic for the New Assistant Annual Conference Director abundance of panels on kitsch, pastiche, Conference sponsors: American CAA co-sponsored Arts Advocacy Day York Times, spoke about the need to monuments, and United States popular Airlines, F~ying Colors, Marshall Field's, (March 19-20), hosted by Americans for develop audiences for the arts through WWII Memorial Update culture would be requisite as welL Las Mixed Greens, Pearl, Philadelphia the Arts, and Jefferson Day (March 26- education and improved access to In March, the United States Department Vegas-where more is always better­ Marriott, and Tower Travel Manage­ 27), hosted by the National Humanities cultural events. of Justice halted the progress of the provides an excellent opportunity to ment. Alliance, in Washington, DC. Both CAA representatives Marta Teegen controversial WWII Memorial project examine the American love of excess A special thanks to the following events brought together a broad cross­ and Paul Skiff visited the offices of until legal questions concerning its and its reflection in consumer culture institutions for their generous support: section of national cultural organiza­ Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY), approval process could be resolved. The and art. Where else can you visit the The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago tions, academics, and grassroots arts Charles Schumer (D-NY), and Thad Department is questioning the legiti­ Brooklyn Bridge, the Sphinx, and the Architecture Foundation, Chicago Art leaders to promote the arts, arts educa­ Cochran (R-MS) on Arts Advocacy Day. macy of a vote taken in 2000 by the Eiffel Tower on the same street? Let's Dealers Association, Columbia College tion, and humanities to Congress CAA learned that the general tone National Capital Planning Commission, not forget that this is an excellent place Chicago, The Musewn of Contemporary through increased support for the regarding an increased level of govern­ the group that approves memorials and to dissect the definition of the term Photography, The Oriental institute federal cultural agencies. ment funding has stabilized-and monuments on federal land in the II American." I would begin with the fact Museum, The Robie House, The School In addition to increased funding for overall pessimism has softened-as a capital. Former chairman Harvey Gantt that its very name, Las Vegas, is a of the Art Institute of Chicago, The the National Endowment for the Arts result of the benefits museum and visual presided over these votes even though Spanish word that means "an extension Smart Museum of Art, The Terra (NEA), National Endowment for the arts organizations have emphasized his term expired in 1999. The final vote of low and fertile plains." Museum of American Art, University of Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of during the past several years on in favor of approving the project was 7 -Rocfo Aranda-Alvarado Chicago, the University of Illinois, Museums and Library Services (IMLS), education programs, and because of to 5. If reconsidered, a change of one Chicago, and the University of illinois, advocates at Arts Advocacy Day tangible financial impact on communi­ vote could stop the memorial being Urbana-Champaign. focused on two key policy issues ties served by cultural organizations. To sited as proposed. The NCPC scheduled championed by President Bush's representatives from both parties and a closed Executive Session in April to administration-taxes and education. legislative branches, however, indi­ From left, Deirdre Barrett, CAA's Assis­ respond to the Justice Department's Advocates urged elected officials and tant to the Executive Directorj Peter vidual-artist grants continue to be Givler, Executive Director, Association of temporary decision. As a result of that their staffs to support tax legislation that neglected by key arts lobbyists and American University Pressesj Marta meeting, they also decided to hold a will encourage private contributions to members of Congress. This year, they Teegen, CAA's Manager of Governance, new Special Public Hearing solely all nonprofit organizations by expand­ were at least willing to discuss reinstat­ Advocacy & Special Projects; and John dedicated to the wwn Memorial to ing the charitable gift deduction to those Hammer, Executive Director, National review their previous actions and new ing these grants, but, as the office of Humanities Alliance, pose in front of the who do not itemize on their tax returns. Senator Cochran acknowledged, these Capitol on Jefferson Day public testimony generated on all Other proposals include the retention of grants have become a political liability aspects of the proposed memorial. This some charitable giving incentives in the for the NEA rather than a substantive meeting is scheduled to take place on estate tax, and permission to direct IRA flaw in the Endowment's mission. Burns (R-MT), Ted Stevens (R-AK), Ben June 14, 2001. gift roll overs and withdrawals to Senate staffers found it easy to consider Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), Harry As noted in the March issue of CAA charities without penalty. Another tax arts advocacy issues relating to tax Reid (D-NV), and Byron Dorgan (D­ News, CAA wrote President Bush and change could allow artists to ded uct questions, but it seems that a more ND), all of whom sit on the Senate Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton to contributions of their art works at full ideological initiative, such as grants for Subcommittee on Interior and Related express our opposition to the proposed market value. For the first time, Republi­ individual artists, is still not something Agencies-the group that deals directly location of the WWII Memorial. Secre­ can legislators and staffers said that they our elected officials have the outspoken­ with funding for federal cultural tary Norton's office responded by definitely can agree with the arts ness to treat. agencies. After explaining that NEA and saying that the Department of the community on this and were excited to One person who was outspoken­ NEH Challenge Grants have allowed Interior has approved the current design hear about this issue. It is important to though on a different issue--was Arthur CAA to offer Professional Development and location, and believes that "little note that should Congress enact any Miller, the 30th annual Jefferson Fellowships to individuals from would be served through yet another charitable tax legislation, the resulting Lecturer. He targeted the role of traditionally underrepresented popula­ review" of the plan.

financial benefits to the nonprofit II acting" by politicians, and gave a tions at the professional level in muse­ community-and specifically the scathing analysis of the recent presiden­ ums and universities, CAA was encour­ CAA Advocacy Policy Susan Senseman (center), Dir.ector of Undergraduate Studies at the School Of. P:~ and cultural and education communities­ aged to hear that, at the very least, Design, University of illinois, Chicago, with friends at the Regional M.F.A. exhibition tial election. Not only did Miller find CAA's Board of Directors approved an PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE could easily surpass any federal funds fault with George W. Bush and the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcom­ advocacy policy at its meeting in March currently available through the NEA, Supreme Court, but he also expressed mittee members currently have no plans 2001. The policy sets forth the advocacy- NEH, or IMLS. Indeed, some estimates clisappointment with Al Gore and Bill to make further cuts to federal cultural put the amount at 14 to 16 billion dollars.

CAANEWS MAY2001 9 8 CAANEWS MAY2001 related issues CAA will follow and get Board-held in April, October, and at and cultural representations in Mexico, directly shapes and transforms the involved in at the local, state, federal or the Annual Conference-and submits an Her research has ranged from Spanish meaning of images. international levels. The full policy is annual report to CAA's Publications Surrealism to 1930s Mexican art to Affiliated Annual available at www.collegeart.orglcaal Committee. The editor-in-chief works Chicano lowrider culture, She hopes to 2002 Session Correction advocacy/policy.html. closely with CAA staff in New York, deepen Art Journal's commitment to I The following listing contained errors as where production for the publication is Latin American art, "especially the printed in the 2002 Call for Participation. organized. This position usually consideration of the increasingly fluid News Update With apologies to the chair, we reprint requires one-half of the editor's working boundaries between Latin America and the correct version. time. CAA provides financial compensa- the rest of the world." American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies Design Forum Meeting 2002 Session Addition AI-Andalus and Its Reception in Design Forum: History, Criticism, and Historians of German and Central Europea11 Europe and the Mediterranean Theory will hold a business / organiza­ Art D. Fairchild Ruggles, Dept. of Architec­ tional meeting at CAA's 2002 Annual Shaping the Image: Art and the ture, Sibley Hall, Cornell University, NEW Conference to elect new officers and Popular Press Ithaca, NY 14853, [email protected] YORK plan future activities, inducting a Design Jay A. Clarke, Art Institute of Chicago, A caae~y Forum-sponsored panel in 2003. 111 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60613; I-listorians often turn a blind eye on the Founded in 1983, Design Forum and David Ehrenpreis, School of Art and eight hundred years of Islamic presence O/ART nurtures and encourages the study of Art History, MSC 7101, James Madison in the land that became Spain and design history, criticism, and theory and University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Portugal. Even after the landmark provides better communication among exhibition AI-Andalus and the attention Full-Time MFA Program, Undergraduate, its members, the academic and design Advances in printing technology and Certificate, Non-Credit and Study Abroad Courses. given to convivencia in 1992, histories community, and the general public, For the explosion of the popular press and academic departments are still many years, Design Forum was lead by throughout the nineteenth century shaped around the vision of countries p: 212.966.0300 Joe Ansell and the late Richard Martin. brought art and art writing firmly into f: 212.966.3217 where only Romance languages were To place your name on the mailing the public sphere. The complex relation­ spoken and only Christianity was e: [email protected] list, write to Carma Gorman at ships between text and image that have practiced. For the post-1492 era, the www.nyaa.edu [email protected]; School of Art and resulted are most evident in the wide categories seem to simplify so that we 111 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013 speak of a fully Christian and European Spain and Portugal, without the paid advertisement qualifiers "mudejar" or "Galician."This session reconsiders that apparent tion for three years. Candidates must be Staff Changes cultural and religious unity by looking CAA members, and nominators should News Marguerite Price, formerly a part-time at representations that reveal the ethnic ascertain their nominees' willingness to worker in CAA's membership depart­ complexity of Iberian culture. Potential serve, A c.v., a statement by the nominee ment, is now Membership Services topics are: diversity within and ex­ of interest in the position, and at least Assistant. Her duties include any and all changes between kingdoms, mozarabes, Call for Editor-in-Chief, one letter of recommendation must tasks associated with serving the CAA conversos, Jews, Christians, Arabs, The Art Bulletin accompany each nomination. Please membership, including payments and Berbers, and mudejars from 711 to the mail to: Director of Publications, Art The Art Bulletin Editorial Board invites dues, publication orders, claims, present; or neomudejarismo, Bulletin Editor-in-Chief Search, CAA, nominations and self-nominations for membership enrollment, and renewals. Orientalism, historiography, and the 275 7th Ave., New York, NY 1O00l. the position of editor-in-chief for the She attended Audrey Cohen College for methodological consequences, if any, of Deadline: September 1, 2001. human services and administration and term July 1, 2002-June 30, 2006 (service the quincentennial's legacy, was an administrative assistant at during the first year is as editor desig­ Design MC4301, Southern minois range of illustrated magazines and Metropolitan Anesthesia in New York. nate). Supervised by the Editorial Board, New Art Journal University at Carbondale, Carbondale, newspapers published in Germany and 2002 Session Canceled the editor-in-chief is responsible for the Editorial Board Member IL 62901-4301; 618/453-8634; central Europe during the last two The session entitled "Curatorial Quan­ content and character of the journal. Robin Adele Greeley has been ap­ M.F.A. Survey Online www.siu.eduJ-artdesnJdesignforum.htm. centuries. Artists, editors, and critics dary," chailed by Katy Kline and Alison Each issue has approximately 150 pointed a member of the Art Journal All those with an M,F.A. degree are have manipulated the presentation and Ferris, has been canceled, editorial pages (135,000 words), not Editorial Board for a three-year term asked to complete this survey that will Summer in Cuba reception of images for a variety of inclucting book reviews. The editor-in­ beginning on July 1, 2001. Greeley is an assess how the M.F.A, has influenced The Community College Professors of ideological purposes. We encourage 2001 Sessions Omitted chief reads all submitted manuscripts, art historian who teaches Latin Ameri­ the status of fine artists with regard to Art and Art History (CCP AAH) is proposals that investigate these diverse from Abstracts 2001 can art at the University of Connecticut, salary, rank, tenure, promotion to strategies from a range of methodolo­ refers them to appropriate expert sponsoring the Third Cuban Cultural Two session abstracts were omitted Storrs. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. in administrative levels, and the reception gies and historical time frames, Topics referees for scholarly review, provides Seminar in Cuba, July 13-22, 2001. The from Abstracts 2001 because of an email art history from the University of of grants. The survey can be found at could include the appropriation of so­ guidance to authors concerning the form trip will bring participants to Havana, transmission failure. They are"Abstract California, Berkeley; her dissertation www.collegeart.orglcaalethics/ called high art for caricature and and content of submissions, and makes Trinidad, Cienfuegos, and Santa Clara. Painting," chaired by Clarence Morgan, was entitled "Surrealism and the mfa_survey.html. For more informa­ advertising, the transformation of final decisions regarding the acceptabil­ Attendees may visit galleries, museums, and "Chicago Architecture," chaired by Spanish Civil War: Politics and the tion, please contact Bruce Bobick Cubist or Constructivist idioms in ity of articles for publication, Also, the art schools, and community art projects. Franz Schulze. Copies of these abstracts Surrealist Imagination." She is presently ([email protected]) or Dorothy avant-garde periodicals, or the uses of editor-in-chief attends the three annual The ten-day trip is limited to fourteen may be obtained free of charge by working on two books: one based on her Joiner (djoiner®westga.edu), photomontage, Papers are also welcome meetings of the Art Bulletin Editorial people. For information, call or write contacting Stephanie Davies at dissertation, and the other on gender Tom Morrissey at 401/333-7270; that investigate how art criticism [email protected].

10 CAANEWS MAY200! eM NEWS MAY 2001 11 [email protected] or 212/691-1051, Studies, Contemporary Issues/Studio CAA Conference Director. Each copy over mediocrity. But, if you don't practice based on the sciences." The ext. 242. We regret the omissions and Art, and Educational and Professional must include: Knowing expect students to make this kind of education I received would not have extend apologies to the session chairs. Practices. Also included in the mix are distinction, tell me, just what aspirations been a problem if I hadn't been led to sessions presented by Affiliated 1) a completed session proposal form are you teaching from your comfortably expect a more difficult and analytical Societies, committees of the CAA Board (see p. 13) Better: secure tenured positions? course of study for full-time students by of Directors, and, for balance and 2) a one-page statement that describes In the real world, we know, Sam Clayberger, whose Saturday programmatic equity, open sessions. the session topic and explains any Access, everything is not equal, And this painting class I took at Otis when I was The majority of sessions, however, is special or timely significance it may is America, where ideals and implementa­ fourteen. drawn from submissions by individual have for a particular field or discipline tion have always had trouble coming It is also no secret that I have little members, and the corrunittee greatly 3) a c.v. of no more than two pages in the together. For many, words like to no respect for the Master of Fine Arts depends on the participation of CAA length excellence imply the imposition of degree as a certificate of higher learning. membership in the conference. 4) a self-addressed, stamped postcard, Academy, restrictive slandards and the suppression If we are going to continue conferring The Annual Conference Committee so that CAA can acknowledge receipt of of individuality. This is seen as this degree, it should be for more than welcomes session proposals that include the proposal (or, send your proposal via problematic, since we all know that simply being able to do one's work. I 2003 the work of senior scholars and artists, certified mail.) and freedom of expression is one of the very could not justify spending the time and along with that of younger scholars, cornerstones of the idea of art. But if the the money for what seemed to me then, CAll emerging and midcareer artists, and Guidelines. The Annual Conference Expectations truth be told, and I'm sure all you de­ as it does now, a hollow document. This graduate students. Particularly welcome Corrunittee consider proposals from constructionists out there will agree, all is not to say that there are no good are those that highlight collaborative CAA members only, and, once selected, cultural productions are extremely artists with M.F.A.'s, but the record FOR and interdisciplinary work. Artists are session chairs must remain members in convention-bound, art no less so than clearly shows that artists like Minnie especially encouraged to propose good standing through 2003. No one any other. And real knowledge about its Evans, Bill Traylor, Martin Rimerez, and SESSION sessions appropriate to dialogue and may chair a session more than once in a mechanics, how artworks work, is the Henry Darger have produced genuinely information exchange relevant to artists. three-year period (i.e., individuals who only effective tool for demystifying art's These sessions need not conform to chaired sessions in 2001 or 2002 may not production. PROPOSALS The following address was delivered by traditional panel formats; indeed, chair a session in 2003). It is interesting how much discussion artist Kerry James Marshall at the convoca­ experimentation is highly desirable. The committee makes its selection about education standards is in the tion ofCAA's 2001AnnHal Conference in Sessions may bring together scholars in solely on the basis of merit. Where news these days. The Bush administration Chicago: CAA will hold its 91st Annual Confer­ a wide range of fields, including, but not proposals overlap, CAA reserves the has made it one of its highest priorities. ence in New York from Wednesday, limited to, anthropology, history, right to select the most considered There is an article in the New York Times February 19, to Saturday, February 22, economics, philosophy, religion, literary version, or, in some cases, to suggest a from February 25, 2001, about a decline 2003. This conference will be the third to theory, and new media. In addition, the fusion of two or more versions from in academic competence in Japanese implement the changes recommended to committee seeks topics that have not among the proposals submitted. elcome to Chicago/ every­ schools. Noboyuki Tose, a Professor of the Board of Directors by the Annual been addressed in recent conferences or The committee may invite open body. I want to thank CAA Mathematics at Keio University in Conference Committee. The success of areas that have been traditionally sessions-submissions from members President Ellen T. Baird for Tokyo, began testing students at some the new program criteria and categories underrepresented. who have not submitted proposals, but W extending to me this opportunity to elite colleges for basic mathematics is evident in the exciting program whose expertise and range of knowl­ address so many of my fellow artists, aptitude and was shocked~as was the developed for the 2001 conference in Session Categories edge would, in the committee's opinion, teachers/ and administrators-all of you nation-to find that many students were Chicago and the 2002 conference in Historical Studies. This category be important in shaping a balanced who have taken up the challenge of incapable of even elementary-level Philadelphia. The new system has broadly embraces all art-historical program. In doing so, we will consider shaping the future of art, and by mathematics. He goes on to say, produced a conference program that proposals up to the mid-twentieth number of factors, including what topics extension, the future of the art world at "Japanese students are among the best more effectively embraces the diversity century. were not covered in recent conferences. large. But what kind of shape is this art in the world in junior high mathematics, of CANs growing membership and the Each CAA Affiliated Society and world of the future to have? And what but by the time they reach high school, variety of methodological approaches to Contemporary Issues/Studio Art. This the Board Committee may submit one kind of shape will the artists we prepare their performance in mathematics is the study and practice of art. An equally category is intended for studio art proposal that follows the call for for it be in? That depends in large already mediocre." Do you remember in Kerry James Marshall at Convocation stimulating program is expected in New proposals, as well as those concerned proposals and the guidelines outlined measure on how well we ourselves the eighties when Prime Minister PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE York. with contemporary art and theory, above. A letter of support from the demonstrate what it is to which signifi­ Nakasone said the intellectual standards compelling bodies of work with no criticism, and visual culture. Affiliated Society or committee must cant artists aspire. It also depends on of American schools was being dragged Introduction and accompany the submission. The Annual how clearly we communicate what we down by the presence of black people? formal art education at all. But these Call for Proposals Educational and Professional Practices. Conference Committee will consider it, know to be good and why. Well, what goes around comes around. artists remain outside, and are often exploited by, the system of privileges The Annual Conference Committee This category pertains to session along with the other submissions, on the This concept of the good should in Now it seems the chickens are coming available to those who have come invites session proposals that cover the proposals that develop along more basis of merit. no way be limited to our own taste, but home to roost in Japan, and there are no through academia; and no one really breadth of current thought and research practical lines and address the profes­ Proposals should be sent by mail to: must address the performance of black people to blame for that. goes to school wanting to learn how to in art, art and architectural history, sional concerns of CAA members as Conference Director, Sessions 2003, celebrated production across a broad Now, it's no secret that I feel I was be a Henry Darger. We go to school to theory and criticism, pedagogical issues, teachers, practicing artists and critics, or CAA, 275 7th Avenue, New York, NY spectrum of historical and cultural cheated out of the education I had acquire the skills and knowledge to museum and curatorial practice, museum curators. 10001. Deadline: September 14, 2001. arenas. This assessment should provide dreamed of having. Good teachers like exceed what we happen to be, in order conservation, and developments in students with a clear understanding of Charles White, Arnold Mesches, and to choose what we want to become. A technology. Proposal Submission the terms by which things are judged to ceramicist Bob Glover notwithstanding, master's degree in every academic field The process of fashioning the be important or advanced. I know that I was looking for something more like Guidelines should be an achievement respected by programs is a delicate balancing act. The The Proposal. Prospective chairs must a lot of poststructuralists become what Leonardo Da Vinci suggested in everyone because its bearers embody in 2003 program is shaped by three broad submit eighteen collated and stapled downright apoplectic at the mention of his advice to young painters: "First practice everything that the concept of submission categories: Historical copies of their session proposals to the hierarchical noun sets such as excellence study the sciences, then follow by

12 CAANEWS MAYZOOI mastery implies: serious inquiry, in­ But none of this is possible, in we'll return to that later. I use a lot of conditions and in different contexts. devotees through ordained intermediaries, The hoped-for result, supported by depth knowledge, a command of science or art, without an understanding terms in my teaching that many would Thinking about which one might be but whose existence is unverifiable other initiatives put in practice by the method, possession of a reliable set of of what the fundamental problems or the consider outmoded, words like mastery, most effective for a given passage in the except by faith, and a belief in undefinable university, is aimed at developing better analytical tools to use in problem most intractable issues in the disci-pline quality, skill, intent, and verifiability. I painting would make it richer and and unknowable values in art and the prepared junior high and high school solving, and a healthy ambition to are. Year 2000 Nobel laureate in econom­ expect my students to have a working chromatically more complex." Then one innate prescience of the artist, or students, and, ultimately, to increase the position oneself alongside other ics James Heckman says, "The funda­ knowledge of materials, methods, of the graduate students chimed in, curator, who knows the formless, number of minority students enrolled in practitioners who have distinguished mental problem of economics is how to forms, and ideas going way back, even "Why would anybody need to know shapeless essence of the thing by heart. the UC system. This, after a precipitous themselves as significant contributors in deal with a scarcity of resources." The beyond 1961. Any student who graduates that, when you can do anything you Besides, it is no small coincidence that drop two years ago. the field. hmdamental challenge of physics is art college without that is functionally want to do nowadays?" A'iI sat there art world heretics are still referred to as I believe there is no difference in an All pretense toward an engagement unpacking the building blocks of matter illiterate as far as I'm concerned, and trying to comprehend the implications philistines. I find it hard to understand artwork and an art school. Artworks with theory aside, I believe art should be and energy, time and space. Until any school that allows it is guilty of of his remark, all the reasons that I how an area devoted to freedom of don't happen; they are made. When we taught in the same manner as any other recently, the most difficult question gross dereliction of its duty to equip its thought higher degrees in fine art expression, that projects a criticality of approach a project, we decide to make a science, hard or social-engaged in a asked in biology had been: what is it that students for the incredibly competitive were a fraud came rushing back­ history and institutional power as certain kind of work. Once the basic search for hard facts, driven by speculative makes us what we are? Now that world they will enter. conversational critiques based largely on fundamental to its raison d'etre, can still structure is established, every choice we theories, and followed by tests in practice unsubstantiated opinion and interpreta­ accommodate a leadership in art world consider and every decision we make is that compel analysis that lead to the tion, weak formal analysis, and medio­ instihltions that so closely resembles that of directed toward clarifying and refining formulation of proofs that generate cre skills perpetuated by low expecta­ ultraconservative corporations. the idea or impression the artist wants more speculation. Instead, what I've tions. We saw how Republican presidential to project through the appearance of the noticed in my own school, and in many The sad thing is that this is not an convention organizers strained to create work That's what intelligent artists do. I've visited, are students at every level isolated incident. I constantly encounter the illusion of a more inclusive party by They apply reasons throughout the with limited production skills, a shallow students who matriculate through featuring close-ups of as many people of production of their work to ensure it has sense of history, and weak analytical advanced level courses, in and out of color as they could. I think they managed to all the qualities that support their intent, abilities. graduate school as painters, who don't get all twelve of them. Wide establishing and they modify the ones that seem to We run programs that prematurely understand the functional relationship shots would have exposed the artifice of undermine it. We alter and shift every confer the status.l/ Art" on every clever, between inherently transparent and the display, and the deception in the element until the whole thing looks trendy, and therapeutic display, giving inherently opaque colors. And the rhetoric. But how much better would a about right. the impression that, in Donald Judd's intellectual aims of conceptual art have group portrait of art school and museum The composition of most university words, "All things are equal," and as become a joke the way it is currently put delegates be? The art world didri't like the art programs just never looks right to Robert Hughes amplifies, "Any idea, no into practice. Little could be more idea of affumative action any more than me; they always seem to be a little off, matter how fribbling or faint, can be the simpleminded than the way much Ronald Reagan or George Bush did. It is the contrasts a bit tentative, and the subject of a putative work of art." photography, installation, and video as comfortable with a token representa­ regularity of elements a little too Furthermore, he adds, "This enables work is conceived these days. Glossy tion of nonwhite members as any monotonous, as if no one really thought ideas about art which were stale, trivial, pictures and projections give the illusion Fortune 500 company would be. A much about the potential of saturated or both to be recycled in the name of of competence, though there may be paucity of meritorious others is our fields of multivalent color and the criticality." An overemphasis on little or nothing else there. fallback excuse, too. interplay of boldly different shape types topicality and interpretation denies, to Students like that one at Cal Arts­ And yet current teaching practices as the embodiment of a complex paraphrase Rosalind Krauss, the work and anybody else sympathetic to the cultivate none of the knowledge representation of culture. This is how that artists do, which is always work on attitude he reflects-aim for what I've through skills and analysis that would institutionalized racism and classism the signifier, not the signified. Kerry James Marshall at Convocation come to call the George W. Bush enable more of the disenfranchised to work They naturalize their selection It's not hard to see why suspicion PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE threshold of intelligence. During the last work their way toward competitive processes around a series of felt prefer­ hovers around the idea of knowledge in presidential debates, expectations for participation, if not parity. Even the idea ences. They speak generally about high I had an experience two years ago fine art, and why Plato relegated it to DNA-the genetic code that constitutes candidate Bush's performance were so that artists can have work fabricated for ideals and ambitions while evading that illustrates what I'm talking about. I the lowest level on his hierarchical all living things-has been displayed, if low that all he had to do was show up, them reflects a class bias that privileges clarification of their standards of had the pleasure of spending a few days ladder of knowledge, that place where not cracked, the question now turns to: remember his name, and remember the dominant culture and individuals judgement. Institutions talk about at Cal Arts as one of the benefits of shadows, impressions, and opinions what specific functions do certain what he was there for to be declared a with the social access to capital that diversity, access, and opportunity, but receiving the Herb Albert A ward in about things reside. I try not to speak patterns and combinations of genes winner by the people who supported might offset personal deficiencies. then evaluate"outsiders" using standards Visual Art. While there, I did studio about such numinous things as art, perform, and in what ways can we him. Those who were undecided just When the University of California guaranteed to preserve the status quo. visits and held a seminar and open preferring, instead, to talk about real intervene, in the case of damaged genes, needed to find him more likable than Al system adopted Proposition 209- There is simply no way that a wide open critiques with undergraduate and things, like how paintings, objects, films, to counteract their potentially debilitat­ Gore. effectively outlawing the use of race as a field, like fine art, that rejects the notion graduate students. A young woman videos, and other visible manifestations ing effects? Indeed, the last election turned up factor in admissions to these state­ of quality can sustain the demographic (undergraduate) brought a painting she of thought, work. In that discussion, a Now, the fundamental problem of several parallels between the institutions funded schools-its effect went largely consistency it has for so long without had done-a landscape occupied by true science of visual communication art is representation-the lifelong of art, the Republican Party, and the unnoticed in the halls of art schools broad agreement about what is good, some surreal imagery, if I remember emerges, one that vigorously examines struggle of how to handle imagery. And fundamentalist religious right. I can't across the country, since building and without judging artworks that don't correctly. It was all blue, painted with the mechanics of projection and the fundamental prentise of the academy, think of anything more conservative, at diverse classes of students had hardly look right as inferior. And what looks the same ultramarine color, lightened response. Only then can the purveyors as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., puts it, is that the beginning of the new millennium, been a priority. So it's ironic that mo right to most participants in positions of with white and darkened with black. I of images and objects operate as fully all these things are knowable, and that than art schools and museums dominated weeks ago, the president of the Univer­ power are things that reflect who they remember saying to her, /I A monochrome empowered producers, making truly they are teachable. The fundamental by supermajorities of white faculty, sity of California system, Richard are and what they are comfortable and painting doesn't have to be just one kind intelligent choices, and knowing-not problem in most universities and art student bodies, and curators. Furthermore, Atkinson, a cognitive psychologist, has familiar with. Everything acceptable of blue; there are a variety of blues wondering-if their work is hopelessly programs, in particular, is the there seems to be little difference, called for abandonment of the SAT as a looks the way it is supposed to. Malcolm available, each with different properties derivative or in the realm of crafting underrepresentation of genuinely ideologically, between devotion to a factor in admissions, for among other X spoke of this when he said, "There is that perform differently under certain new paradigms. diverse faculties and student bodies. But transcendent God that privileges his reasons, being highly discriminatory. nothing that the white man will do to bring about true, sincere citizenship or skepticism on the part of the larger civil rights recognition for black people society about our intellectual capacity. It in this country ... they will always talk is a skepticism .. ,which was laboriously CAA 2003 Annual Conference but they won't practice it." forged from the Renaissance through It seems a bit ironic that this the Enlightenment, with all sorts of Session Proposal Submission Form address follows a convocation ceremony Western philosophers wondering about that, among other thingsr is awarding the fundamental inequality of the mind fellowships to promote the inclusion of of the black vs. the European. Such underrepresented minorities in various viewpoints were important to establish Check one session category (*Ietter of support from sponsor required): sectors of art world institutions. We like in order to justify an economic and having minorities around, as long as social order that kept black people in the they stay in the minority. Anyparticipation basement." Thank you very much. o Historical Studies o Contemporary Issues/Studio Art o Educational and Professional Practices that begins to approach critical mass -Kerry James Ma,,;hall might begin to call some firmly en­ o Affiliated Society-Sponsored* o CAA Committee-Sponsored* trenched values and ideas into question. In a truly open field, more diverse ideas and examples would come into Session title ______play. There would be more frequent demographic shifts of balance, especially in the composition of student bodies, Sponsoring affiliated society ICAA committee (i£ applicable) ______-: __ _ because preferences would be actively challenged in favor of less familiar Brief synopsis of session topic ______encounters. Using this approachr yOU don't take affirmative action because of guilt or obligation, and you try to build diversity in schools, because that's what you want to see. So why do I insist so strongly on skills, definitions, clarifications, objecti­ fied knowledge, and standards? Because any system that dispenses privileges using judgments all9. values: tha~ cann~t Chair 1 ______be codified and understood as a baseline of merit will continually operate for the benefit of America's white majorityr CAA memb~shlp # _____------______with no reliable means of access for CAA membership from submission of proposal through 2003 is required of all chairs. If not a member, call 212/691-1051, ext. 12, for an application. people of color, except for your generosity. And that just won't do. Black people Adruess ______cannot play games with incompetence. So, for us, when it comes to questions about skills and knowledge, Richard Telephone: office/studio ______horne ______Pryor's motto is an' apt one: lilt is better to have them and not to need them, than to need them and not have them.Il Ernrul ______------Knowing the rules of the game is indispensable in demanding access or maintaining independence. Chair 2 (if applicable) ______I want to close with a beautiful articulation of these same sentiments, as CAArnembeffihlp# ______expressed by Hemy Louis Gates, Jr., in a conversation with Maurice Berger in the CAA membership from submission of proposal through 2003 is required ofall chairs. If not a member, rail 212/691-1051, ext. 12,for an application. September 1990 issue of Art in America magazine. It followed an article by Adilless ______Mr. Berger entitled, "Are Art MuseUms

Racist?" Mr. Gates says, II American horne ______society still perpetuates the most subtle Telephone: office/studio ______and pernicious forms of racism against blacks-doubt about our intellectual Email ______capacities. All the talk about SAT scores, and black people's competency on standardized tests reflects deeper Make 18 copies of (1) completed form,; (2) l-page proposal; and (3) C.v. (2 pages max.) and collate, staple, and mail to: Conference Director, Sessions 2003, CAA, 275 7th Ave., New York, NY 10001. Deadline: September 14, 2001.

CAA NEWS t.1A Y 2001 13 .. David Brody. Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, Sigler was diagnosed with cancer in 1985; High Museum, helping build a strong collection WA, Apt;l 5-28, 2001. New Paintings and Select her work since then incorporated references to of 19th-cenhtry American art. He had previously SOLO Paintings 1985-1996. the disease in images of fragmented bodies and worked at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Pierce texts. "I realized this was not something that was known for his love of kitsch objects as well EXHIBITIONS was going to go away," she said in an interview as fine art and antiquities. He is survived by his Julia A. Fenton. University Art Gallery, in the New Art Examiner. "I really do have to live father, G. Roland Pierce, and a brother, John California State University, Chico, January 22- with this disease, and probably die with this Pierce. BY February 9, 2001. Foul Is Fair. Installation. disease. With this in mind, I decided to change my work." The Breast Cancer Journal series was Academe ARTIST exhibited at the National Museum of Women in Holly Lane. Natalie & James Thompson Gallery, Dawn Barrett, former Head of the Deparhnent the Arts in Washington, DC, and Hollis Sigler's San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, April of Design at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Breast Cancer Journal was published in 1999. MEMBERS 25-May J 8, 2001. Masstricht, The Netherlands, has been ap­ Sigler is survived by her companion, pointed Dean of Architechtre and Design at the Patricia Locke; her father, Philip Sigler; and her Only artists WllO are CAA members are included Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. ill this listing. Group shows are /Jot listed. When Ann P. Meredith. La Galeria, San Francisco, brother, Andrew Sigler. submitting informatioll, include name, membership March 13--April20, 2001. SURVIVORS! T1Je Phil Lonergan has been named Assistant Balthasar Klossowski, the reclusive painter number, venue, city, dates of exhibitioll, and medium Sitting Room. Photography. Professor of Sculphtre at Plymouth State College known as Balthus, died February 18, 2001. He (or website address of online exhibits). Omission of in New Hampshire. membership IlIlIllh.t'r 011 submission will prevent your was 92. Balthus was known for sexually suggestive figurative paintings involving young listingjrom being published. Black-and-white Christine J. Vincent has been appointed women in risque poses and situations. photographs are welcome but will be used only if space President of the Maine College of Art. Previ­ Balthus showed his work at Pierre Matisse allows. Photographs cannot be returned. Please be ously, she was Deputy Director of Media, Arts, Gallery in New York and had retrospectives at advised that listings alld images may be reproduced on and Culture at the Ford FOW1dation's Education, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, the Tate Gallery, the CAA website. Submit to: Solo Member Media, Arts, and Culture Program in New York. Exhibitiolls, CAA News, 275 7th Ave., New York, tlle Venice Biermale, the Spoleto Festival, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum NY 10001; [email protected]. The Art and Film History Departments at Sarah of Modem Art in New York. H~ had a major Lawrence College has added the following new PEOPLE ABROAD Mark Staff Brandl. Espace Lhomond, Paris, IN April 2001. The Mighh) Metaiepso (with music Stall the Man by Duncan YOlmgerman). Painting and installation. THE NEWS MIDWEST Karen Baldner. New Harmony Gallery, New Holly Lane, Gaia Inquiries, mixed media, 171/2" x 161/2" x 3112" Harmony, IN, March 25-May 5, 2001. Dis­ memberment and Re-memberil1g. Installation and In Memoriam drawing. Sharon Gold. Pardo Lattuada Gallery, New Miriam Schaer. Ceres Project Room at the Hollis Sigler, a Chicago-based artist and winner York, March 14-Apri117, 2001. Seeing Subjects. Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, of the 2001 CAA Distinguished Artist Award for Installation of painted works. May S-25, 2001. Solitan} Confinements: A Family Lifetime Achievement, died March 29, 2001. She Dana Fritz. Lincoln Gallery, Northern State Portrait, an Installation. Multimedia sculptural was 53. University, Aberdeen, SD, March IS-May 14, books. Sigler was best known for her faux-Haif 2001. Divide + Conquer. Photography. Susanna Heller. Luise Ross Gallery, New York, paintings-sweetly colored and deeply personal February 17-March 31, 2001. City of Wakes. depictions of domestic settings and suburban Painting. SOUTH landscapes, with links to the art of Florine .­ Holly Lane. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Mary Louise Carter. WFAB Art Gallery, Stettheimer, the Hudson River School, and MT, June 25-August 19, 2001. Louisiana College, Pineville, LA, January 12- Chicago'S Hally Who school of cartoon- and Colleen Kiely. Maurine and Robert Rothschild February 9, 2001. Porcelain. folk-influenced work-and for her series of oil Gallery, Cambridge, MA, March 29-April26, pastel paintings Breast Cancer Journal: Walking JiB Pope. Contemporary Art Workshop, 2001. Glimmer. Chicago, December 8, 2000-January 16, 2001; With the Ghosts of My Grandmothers (1992-1993), Gary Cassidy. Colgan Hall Exhibit Space, and Illinois Instihtte of Art, Chicago, January 8- a project that included historical information Northern Virginia Community College, and statistical data on the disease from which Hollis Sigler, center, with her assistant Joe Howard, left, and eAA President Ellen T. Baird 31,2001. Painting. Thomas Matsuda. New York Buddhist Church! Manassas, VA, January 8-February 11, 2001. American Buddhist Study Center, New York, Sigler'S mother and grandmother also suffered. PHOTO: CHRIS TRICE Reflective Interdidion. Sculpture and mixed­ JW1e 3--July 1, 2001. Searching for the Buddha in the In addition to CAA's award, she recently media assemblage; and 4th Floor Gallery, museum retrospective in Lausarme in 1993 and NORTHEAST Forest: Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Sculpture. received the Chicago Caucus for Women in the faculty: Judith Rodenbeck in Modem and Northern Virginia Community College, Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. a lesser, but significant, exhibition of his Contemporary Art Theory and History; Pat Adams. Zabriskie Gallery, New York, May Woodbridge, VA, June 8-August 17, 200I. Sigler attended the Moore College of Art drawings in Bern in 1994. Malcolm Turvey in 20th-Century Film Theory 8-June 15, 2001. Reiteratiolls: Laterals, Discs, Impending Reflections. Sculpture, drawing, and and the School of the Art Instihtte of Chicago, In 1961, France's :Minister of Culhtre, and History; Lee Edwards in 19th-Century Art; OvoIds, Overlays; and Amy E. Tarraut Gallery, Mimi Oritsky. Amos Eno Gallery, New York, mixed-media assemblage. received an honorary doctorate from Moore Andre Malraux, appointed Balthus to Director and Dominique Malaquais in Art and Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, March 31-April 19, 2001. New Work. Painting College, and taught at Columbia College of the French Academy in Rome, a position held Architecture of Sub-Saharan Africa. Michelle Burlington, VT, April 27-]W1e 30, 2001. Painting. and drawing. Chicago for more than twenty years. Her work in the past by Ingres and Berlioz. Murray is the new Curator of Visual Resources. WEST was shown at Barbara Gladstone, Carl Hammer Antonia Papatzanaki. Battery Park, New York, Luca Buvoli. Queens Museum of Art, New Sharon Allicotti. West Valley Art Museum, Gallery, Printworks Gallery, and Steven Scott Donald Pierce, Decorative Arts Curator at the November 2000-0ctober 2001. Agora. Installa­ Museum York, February 22-May 27, 2001. Around, Surprise, AZ, May 31-August 26, 2001. Works Gallety, and she was a fOW1ding member of High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, died in Hubertus von Amelunxen was appointed Senior Around, and Away: Not-a-Superhero and the Myth tion. on paper. Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, one of the first early February 2001. He was 52. One of the first Visiting Curator of the Photographs Collection at of New York with composer Jeffrey Lependorf. women's cooperative galleries in the United 3 full-time curators, he spent 21 years at the the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Multimedia work. States.

CAANEWS MAY 2001 15 14 CAA NEWS MAY 2001 mural on the Chandler Corridor in the Noho Altoona, P A 16803; [email protected]; ments in household tedmoiogy, increased ethnic Lucinda Barnes has joined the University of GRANTS, Arts District in Los Angeles County. CONFERENCES www.sama-sfc.org. Deadline: May 15, 2001. and religious diversity, the change from a California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific commercial/craft-based economy to one based Film Archive as Senior Curator for Collections. AWARDS, Marianne Weil, lecturer in the Fine Arts Dept. at & SYMPOSIA The State of Feminism in Visual Culture is the on industrial production, developments in State University of New York, Stony Brook, was theme of the Ninth Front Range Art Symposium, urban planning, architecture, and the fine and For fhe mosf up-to-date and expanded list of David R. Brigham has been named Director of awarded a 2001 New York State COllllcil for the to be held at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts decorative arts, and transportation with the conferences and symposia, consult Collections and Exhibitions at the Worcester Art & HONORS Arts Individual Artist Community Cormection Center, September 28-29, 2001. We invite opening of the Erie Canal. Participants will be www.collegeart.org. Museum in Worcester, MA. He also will retain Grant. Her grant will fund the creation of two proposals from art historians, artists, and asked to prepare a 30-minute presentations, his responsibilities as Curator of American Art Only grants, awards, or honors received by indiv­ bronze sculptures and several community performative srudies scholars for 20-minute preferrably with visuals. Panel discussions are at the museum. idual members are listed. Submit name, membership workshops on Long Island to correspond with papers/presentations that address the current also encouraged. Submit a 1-page session number, institutional affiliation, and title of the the development of the lost wax casting process. and fuhlIe state of feminism in visual culture. proposal description to Stacy Pomeroy Draper, Barbara Brotherton, Associate Professor of Art grant, award, or honor, and use or purpose ofgrant Proposals should look critically at feminist 59 Second St., Troy, NY 12180; 518/272-7232; at Western Michigan University, has joined the to: Christopher Howard, [email protected]. Ruth Weisberg, CAA President from 1990 to Calls for Papers visual culture, whether through analyzing [email protected];www.rchsonline.org. Seattle Art Museum as Native American Art 1992, has received a Doctor of Humane Letters, Brazil: Visual Culture Matters is a symposium existing practices or proposing new directions. Deadline: May 31, 2001. Curator. -honOris causa, from Hebrew Union College. to be held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Send a 1-page abstract and short C.v. to Joarma Museum, New York, on November 3, 2001. It is Roche, Ninth Front Range Symposium, Dept. of Technology and the Home, the Mid-Atlantic Lisa Graziose Corrin, Chief Curator of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Popular Culture Annual Conference taking Diane Apostolos~Cappadona has received the sponsored by the art history programs at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and former Chief NeWington-Cropsey Foundation Cultural Graduate Center, City University of New York, Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1420 Austin place November 2-4, 2001, in Silver Spring, MD, Curator of Baltimore's The Contemporary Studies Center's Annual Award for Excellence in and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York Bluffs Pkwy, Colorado Springs, CO 80933; invites papers addressing the various interac­ Museum, will become Deputy Director for Art/ the Arts. UniverSity. Held in conjunction with the [email protected]. Deadline: May 25, 2001. tions between living environments and Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and exhibition Brazil: Body and Soul at the technology. Throughout time, technology has Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum in Mark Staff Brandl has a painting featured as the Guggenheim, the symposium will include a The Rensselaer County Historical Society in been used in the building, designing, elaborat­ September 2001. cover of the March 2001 issue of the London art series of half-hour, slide-illustrated lectures. Troy, NY, requests papers for Advancing ing, improving, and maintenance of the living magazine the Art Book. Featuring masterpieces of Brazilian art from the Prosperih;: Reexamining Life alld Culture in Upstate envirOrunent. The technology and homes under Marianne Lamonaca, Curator at the Baroque era to the 20th century, the exhibition New York, 1825-1861. Held November 2~3, 2001, discussion may be real or speculative. Papers Wolfsonian-Florida International University Joan Branham has been selected as a 2001-2002 will also focus on the key role of Afro-Brazilian this conference will bring together curators, from all disciplines and historical periods are since 1993, has been named Assistant Director Research Associate at Harvard University for and indigenous cultures. We welcome papers histOrians, students of history and material invited. Appropriate topics include: appliances, for Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs at the her project "Sacred Space as Gendered Space: that focus on one or more aspects of Brazil's culture, and interested members of the public to air conditioning, automobiles, building Wolfsonian. Women, Blood, and Sacrifice in Late Antiquity." visual culture, whether painting, sculpture, focus on upstate New York during the first half materials, communications, computers, architecture, film, photography, performance, of the 19th century. The conference will construction, decorating, entertaining, flooring, Constance LewaIIen, formerly the University of Gary Cassidy, Adjunct Assistant Professor of new media, or popular arts. We seek a variety of complement the exhibition Advancing Prosperity: hearth, HVAC systems, insulation, kitchens, California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Art at Northern Virginia Community College, methodological approaches, including papers Life and Culture ill Troy and Rensselaer County, laundries, lighting, pets, preservation, recre­ Film Archive's Senior Curator, has been has accepted an Adjunct Faculty Grant. The that provide a comparative or cultural analysis 1825, that will focus on a number of national and ation, sanitation, security, and television. Send a appointed Senior Curator for Exhibitions at the grant will be used to develop a Pilot Distance to contextualize Brazil's unique position in local forces that were atworkin Troy and 1-page proposal and c. v. to Loretta Lorance, museum and archive. Education Drawing I Course. South America. For consideration, graduate and Rensselaer County. These forces included CUNY Graduate Center, P.O. Box 461, Inwood doctoral students should submit a I-page changing consumer trade patterns, improve- Station, New York, NY 10034-0461; Patrick McCaughey has announced that he will Anthony Cutler, Research Professor of Art abstract to Vivien Greene, Curatorial Dept., [email protected]:Junel, be leaving the Directorship of the Yale Center History at Penn State University, has been Guggenheim Museum, 575 Broadway, 3rd Floor, 2001. for British Art to seek new opportunities in the Diane Apostolos~Cappadona, left, and awarded a Humboldt Prize for research on late New York, NY 10012. Deadline: May 15, 2001. arts and to undertake a period of research and James F. Cooper, Director of Cultural antique and Byzantine ivories. He spent the first A Garry Winogrand symposium is planned for writing. Studies at the Newington-Cropsey three months of 2001 at the Ludwig-Maximilians Foundation The Pacific Art Association's 6th International November 8-11, 2001, at the Center for Creative UniversitiH at Munich, and will spend part of Symposium will take place July 23-28, 2001, in Photography, University of Arizona, during the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas 2002 at the University of Bonn. Noumea, New CaledOnia, and Lifou, Loyalty exhibition The Gam) Willogrand Game of City, MO, has made sev~ral appointments: Philip Zuchman has been invited to participate Islands. The theme is "Creative Arts in the Photography. Please submit a 300-600 word Deborah Emont Scott is now Chief Curator; Jan Lee MacCormick Edwards, of Sarah Lawrence in the Sharjah International Arts Biennial in the Pacific Today: Expression of Continuity or proposal on any research topics that directly Schall has been promoted to Sanders Sosland College, has been awarded the Henry RUSsell United Arab Emirates. Rupture?" Proposed sessions will include: address the photography of Garry Winogrand, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Hitchcock Prize for best book by the Victorian museums and collecting; the influence of This cross-disciplinary conference will resume, and cover letter. For more information Leesa Fanning has been promoted to Assistant Society of North America for Herkomer: A The Association for Latin American Art has cultural festivals pn contemporary art, cultural examine infringements of the physical about attending and/or submitting papers, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Victorian Artist. announced the wirmer of the first aruma! ALAA revival, and cultural representation; Pacific integrity of representational objects in write to Winogrand Symposium, Center for Steven Watennan has joined as Director of Book Award. The award, for the best scholarly artists in the international art world; and voices Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Design; and Cindy Cart has been promoted to different historical periods and in different Roy Johnston, Professor of Art at Eastern book about Latin American art published of contemporary artists. Potential participants p.o. Box 210103, Tucson, AZ, 85721; 520/626- Curator of Exhibitions Management. cultures, and how terminology shapes the 5219; fax: 520/621-9444; www.creative Michigan University, is the guest curator for an between January 1999 and September 2000, should send a proposed title to Emmanuel field of study and interpretations of it. exhibition of prints by the Irish Post-Impression­ went to Elizabeth Hill Boone (CAA.Reviews Kasarherou, Tjibaou Cultural Centre, B.P. 378, photography.org. Deadline: July 2, 2001. Organizations ist artist Roderic O'Conor, to be held at the field editor) for Stories in Red and Black. Two 98846 Noumea, New Caledonia; 687/41-4555; Speakers include: Hans Georg Hiller Joanne Kuebler has become the first Executive National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin this other books received honorable mention: Maya fax: 687/41-4556; emmanuel.kasarherou@ (Berlin), Matthew Hunter (University of The 3rd Interdisciplinary John Dee Collo~ Director of the National Association of Women summer. Johnson has written a catalogue Art and Arc11itecture by Mary E. Miller, and adck.nc; htlp:llpacificarts.orglsymp.html. Chicago), Joseph Koerner (University quium, hosted by the University of Aarhus, Artists, Inc. raisonne of O'Conor's prints that will accom­ CaMlogo comentado del acervo del Museo Nacional Deadline: May 15, 2001. College London), Erika N aginski Denmark, from December 6-7, 2001, seeks papers about John Dee, his work, his life and pany the exhibition. de Arte, Nueva Espana, Tomo 1., by Jaime (Harvard University) acquaintances, and his reception in scientific and The Cormecticut GraphicArts Center has Cuadrlello, et al. Rau in Context: Part Two, a new journal, seeks and Ramon Sarro (St Anne's, Oxford). announced two new appointments: Anthony Adnan Morshed has received the two-year paper submissions concerning 19th-century cultural history. Send I-page abstracts to Jan Kirk will serve as Artistic Director/Master (2001-2003) predoctoral Wyeth Fellowship from The Historians of British Art announced that the expedition photography. Sample topics include: Organised by Richard Clay (UniverSity Backlund, Center for Cultural Research, Printer, and Benjamin Ortiz will become the Center for Advanced Shldies in Visual Arts follOWing books have received awards for best the influence of survey photography on College London) and Stacy Boldrick Finlandsgade, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark; Associate Director of Operations/Curator of (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, books published in English on British art and contemporary landscape photography; the (Henry Moore Institute). [email protected]. Deadline: August 1, 2001. Prints and Exhibitions. Washington, DC. His dissertation is "Seeing the architecture in 1999: Picturing Imperial Power: concept and formation of the term "pictur­ Future: An Aesthetic of Ascension in Norman Colonial Subjects in Eigl1teentll-Century British esque"; visions of arcadia; the lure of the Art and Alchemy, also hosted by the University Bel Geddes's FutUl'a111a." Painting by Beth Fowkes Tobin; The Crafts in American landscape; and u.s. geological of Aarhus, Denmark, welcomes contributions Britain in the Twentieth Century by Tanya surveys. This journal is published in conjunction covering the whole field of alchemical imagery Mahara T. Sinclaire has been granted a Phase III Harrod; and A Passion for Peljormal1ce: Sarah with the exhibition Rim in Context: Part Two at for a December 7-9, 2001, colloquium. Possible public art commission from the Community Siddons and Her Portraitists by Robyn Asleson, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Send topics might include the interrelationship Redevelopment Agency to create an outdoor ed. I-page abstract to Karen Serago, Southern between art and alchemy, methods and Alleghenies Museum of Art, 1210 Eleventh Ave., problems of alchemical interpretations of art paid advertisement

16 CAANEWS MAY20(!J CAA NEWS MAY 2001 17 works, or the use of alchemy in modern and 970/925-2257; fax: 970/925-8495; [email protected]; contemporary art. Send I-page abstracts to Jan www.idca.org. RESOURCES & Kicklund, Center for Cultural Research, Finlandsgade, 8200 Aarhus N, Derunark; Ancestors, Priests, and Gods: Portraits in East OPPORTUNITIES [email protected]. Deadlil1e: August 1, 2001. Asia will take place June 16, 2001, in conjunction with a preview of the exhibition, Worshiping the The Association of Historians of Nineteenth­ Allcestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits at the For the most up-to-date and expanded list of • Century Art (AHNCA) welcomes article Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler resources and opportunities, consult submissions for Nineteenth-Cel/tury Art Gallery of the Smithsonian Instihttion, www.collegeart.org. 5 I Worldwide, the first scholarly, refereed e-journal Washington, DC. An international group of devoted to the study of 19th-cenhtry painting, specialists in anthropology, art history, history, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architec­ and religious studies will present papers that ture, and decorative arts across the globe. Set to focus on ancestral and other types of formal laW1ch online in February 2002, this journal will commemorative portraits-both paintings and be open to various historical and theoretical sculpture---in China, Korea, and Japan from approaches and will reach across national imperial times to the 20th cenrury. Issues of Calls for Entries bOW1daries to illllininate intercultural contact influence, convergence, and divergence in these Florida's Art in State Buildings Program is zones. The chronological scope will be the three traditions will be considered, as well as the offering 16 new public art projects with "long" 19th century, stretching from the religious significance of portraits. To register, submission deadlines in May, June, and July. American and French Revolutions to the send your name and address to asianportraits@ The various art selection committees need a outbreak of WWI. This journal seeks to expand asia.si.edu; www.asia.sLedu. wide variety of art, from existing 2-D interior the period's canon-particularly into geographi­ artwork to large scale indoor and outdoor cal regions traditionally ignored in mainstream The 5th Annual International Limestone commissioned works. For more information and scholarship-and to demonstrate the Sculpture Symposium is taking place in two to receive the booklet, March 2001 Call to Artists, interconnectedness of the artistic achievements sessions-JW1e 16-22 and June 25-July I, 2001~ which contains descriptions about each of the of different nations. 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CAA NEWS MAY 2001 19 the body as we know it. Send 5 slides, current Telluride International Experimental Cinema papermaking, letterpress, and clay. Fellowship Classifieds Accademia Caerite Summer Programs. Mosaic restune, artist's statement, and S.A.S.B. to Janet Exposition requests enbies for their 2001 festival awards provide artists with concentrated work workShop, August 1-15, 2001. Scagliola/Stucco Datebook Marstine, Dept. of Art, Central Washington to be held in Telluride, CO, October 26-29, 2001. time to explore new ideas in a dynamic and Do you want to guarantee that your evellt or listing Marmo workshop, August 1-15, 2001. Tradi­ May 14, 2001 University, Ellensburg, WA 98926-7564; All entries must be experimental or avant-garde cooperative community of women artists in a will be published by CAA News? We accept tional Decorative Painting, September. 40 km. Deadline for submission of preliminary [email protected]. Deadlille: JUlle 9, 2001. in nature. Preview copies must be submitted in rural environment. Fellows have unlimited classified ads of a professiollal or semiprofessional from Rome in Cere Italy. Live/work in tmusual proposals for the 2002 conference to session VHS format (NTSC or PAL). Final screening Shldio access, and may work in 2 to 8 week /lature. $1.50/word jor lI1embers ($15 millimum); 16th-century palazzo amid Etruscan landscape. chairs The Starr Gallery at the Jewish Community format must be a film print if the entry is sessions from September through June. Send a $2.50Iword for 1IOIImembers ($25 minimum). Tel: 212/877-4717; fax: 212/799-8864; Center of Greater Boston seeks entries for selected. All lengths of film are accepted. For proposal, resume, 10 slides of work, proposed Classified ads /Ill/st be paid in advance of [email protected];www.artitaly.org. June 1, 2001 Material Histon;: A Cultural Exploratioll in Fiber more information and a submission form, visit dates and length of fellowship, studio requested, publicatioll. CAA News also accepts boxed display Deadline for submission to the July 2001 issue of and Glass, an exhibition taking place September www.experimentalcinema.com; 720/904-5573; and an S.AS.E. for return of materials to P.O. advertising. COl/tact Christopher Howard, Associate Art Workshop International In Assisi, Italy, CAANews 9-November 4, 2001. The show will create a [email protected]. Deadline: Box 489, Rosendale, NY 12472. UPS/FED EX Editor, at [email protected] 212/691- Jtme 13-July 24,2001. Let your creativity soar! dialogue between traditional/ritual uses of fiber September 1, 2001. address: 722 Binnewater Ln., Rosendale, NY 1051, exf. 220'[01' details. Live/work in a 12th-century hilltown in Umbria. June 15, 2001 and glass and contemporary implementation of 12472; 845/658-9133; [email protected]; Instructional courses, painting, drawing, art­ Deadline for nominations for CANs Board of these materials. Send up to 10 slides and restune Alder Gallery is seeking submissions for the www.wsworkshop.org.Deadline:May15,2001 making, artist's books, all levels. Art history, Directors for the 2002-2006 term to Starr Gallery, Jewish Community Center of small-format exhibition La Petite IX. This call is for September-Februanj fellowships, and November creative writing, all disciplines. Independent Greater Boston, 333 Nahanton St., Newton, MA open to U.S. artists working in 2-D and 3-D 1, 2001 for March-August fellowships. program for professional painters/writers. June 18, 2001 02459; 617/558-6484. Deadline: Jlllle 11, 2001. media. Entry fee: $10/slide, 3 for $25. For Separate trip to Venice Biennale. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 2002 session chairs notify applicants of their prospechIs, send an S.AS.B. to Alder Gallery, Online FOR RENT week sessions. The longer you stay, the more acceptance or rejection. CAA Conference Target Gal1ery seeks entries for Journeys: milJd­ Box 8517, Coburg, OR 97408; 541/342-6411; abovestream.com offers any art-related website Amsterdam center. Smail two-bedroom economical the price. Hotel, two meals, studio Director receives session rosters and a-v request body-spirit, an exhibition taking place August 22- www.alderart.com. Deadline: October 15, 2001. with access to more than 500 full-length furnished aparhnent available August­ space, critiques, lectures. 2 weeks: $2,870. Calli forms from session chairs. (This information is December. 17th-century canal house, modem September 30, 2001. The call is open to all artists streaming videos relating to art, architecture, write for our brochure. 463 West St., #1028H, used for the Preliminary Program and in all media. $25 for 3 slides. For prospechIs, Dupreau Gallery is now accepting submissions and literature. The videos offer comprehenSive interio!', large garden, 5-minute walk to most New York, NY 10014; 800/835-7454; fax: 646/ conference scheduling) mUSellinS, libraries. $950/month; discount for send an S.AS.B. to Target Gallery, 105 N. Union for the 2001-2002 season. Please send slides, treatment of all major art periods from 486-4701; email: [email protected]. website: St., Alexandria, VA 22314; 703/838-4565, ext. 4; videotapes, CD-ROMs, or photos, with resume, prehistoric times to the present. Visitors may willing gardener. [email protected] or www.artworkshopintl.com. June 29, 2001 [email protected]. Deadline: Jlllle 22, 2001. brief statement, and an S.A.S.E. to Donald screen videos as well as add their work to the 510/666-9910. Deadline for renewing, joining, or rejoining Schmaltz, Dupreau Gallery, 4229 N. LincoIn site's expanding listings. Jentel Artist Residency Program. Accepting CAA membership for calendar year 2001 October International Competition welcomes Ave., Chicago, IL 60618; [email protected]. Brooklyn, NY. Top floor of private home for applications postmarked until September 1, artists working in any traditional or experimen­ Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss rent to visiting faculty. Daily, weekly, or 2001, from visual artists and writers for one June 29, 2001 tal meditun for an exhibition taking place HotHouse Gallery is accepting submissions for (CRUMB) has announced a new discussion list monthly. Two big rooms plus private bath. Safe month residency in March 2002 only. Includes Deadline for submissions to the August issue of October 19-November 21, 2001. Work must have exhibitions, preferably experimental or about curating new media art that will help area. Two blocks to subway. Affordable. 718/ accommodation, workspace, $400 stipend. For Careers been completed in the last 2 years. $25 entry fee. multimedia. Send proposals for events, curators deal with the challenges of new media 389-4309. information and application, download website Send anS.AS.E. to Armory Art Center, 1703 installations, or exhibits, along with slides, art. Join the list at www.jiscmail.ac.ukllists/ or send self-addressed label and $.55 postage to: August 31, 2001 House in Florence. Owners of house along the Lake Ave., West Palm Beach, FL 33401; photographs, or other samples of work, and an new-media-curating.html or email Admissions Committee, Jente! Foundation, 11 Deadline for nominations for the 2002 CAA www.armoryart.orglcompetition.html. Deadline: S.A.5.E. to Megan McDowell, HotHouse, 31 B. [email protected] the 2-line Amu in central Florence eager to exchange for Lower Piney Creek Rd., Banner, WY 82832~ A wards for Excellence June 30, 200L Balbo, Chicago, IL 60605; 312/362-9707; command: join new-media-curating. an equally exciting venue in the United States. website: www.jentelarts.org. [email protected];www.hothouse.net. for August 2001. Email: [email protected]. September 1, 2001 Pel1usylvania School of Art and Design seeks Syllabus.website, a resource for educators in Textbook for sale: Social I-listonj ojWestenl Art, Deadline for nominations and self-nominations entries for Col/age, Assemblage, and Montage, an Call for Participants the media arts, features a growing archive of New York City. For rent. 1000 s.f. Tribeca loft 1300-2000.2,000 pages, CD-ROM, $25.00. for the Art Bulletin editor-in-chief available for weeks throughout the summer/fall. exhibition of work in all media, induding The 15th New York lesbian & Gay Experimen­ syllabi from instructors currently teaching nvb [email protected]; http://www.concoll.ed ul $700 week, $1,300 two weeks, beginning May 17. September 14, 2001 photography, video, and computer-based art, tal Film/Video Festival will take place photography, digital imaging, alternative academics/departments/arthistorylbaldwin. Two person maximum. Phone 212/766-5090 or that investigates the juxtaposition of materials November 14-18, 2001. A portion of the festival processes, film, video, web design, theory, Deadline tor session proposals for the 2003 email [email protected] Annual Conference in New York and/or ideas. It will be held February through will consist of programs designed by guest criticism, and histories associated with these Institutional News March 2002. Submit slides of 3 works (3-D art curators. Curators or curatorial teams can disciplines. Visit www.syllabus.ws. NYC Apartment for Rent. August. Central Park may be represented by 2 views for each piece), submit proposals for film and video programs. Beaver College, Glenside, PA, has changed its February 20-24, 2002 West on 87th Street. One BR, quiet, art library, VHS cassettes, or CD-ROMS along with res tune, We also encourage the submission of multime­ name to Arcadia University in recognition of its 90th Annual Conference in Philadelphia Programs antiques, AC, OW. $1,800. 212/877-9689, fax: artist statement, and an S.A.S.E. to Gallery dia installations, interactive projects, audio­ new university status. Director, PSA&D, 204 N. Prince St., P.O. Box 59, Minneapolis College of Art and Design's ESl 212/877-4386, [email protected]. visual projects, media-based performances, and Institute announces an annual program that Lancaster, PA 17608-0059; www.psad.edu. any other alternative explorations of the moving The Maier Museum of Art, of the Randolph­ prepares ESL shIdents for the study of art and NYC, B&B Manhattan. Affordable, comfortable, Deadline: June 30, 200L image. Each curator or team will receive an Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, has design in the United States to be held July 16- convenient. Private room and bath. All honorarium and a budget for expenses. been awarded a grant from the Henry Luce August 17. Enrollment is limited to 15 shIdents. amenities, continental breakfast. Call for Seventh Annual International Exhibition of Programs must have a minimum running time Foundation. The grant will allow the Maier to Women's Art, a juried show, is open to all Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and information, brochure. 212/222-4357. place digital images of the entire collection and of 75 minutes, and the program must involve must be accepted to a u.s. college or university international women artists ages 21 and older sexualities that transgress the heterosexual all collection records in a computer database, for the 2001-2002 academic year. In addition to NYC, July/August Sublet. Chelsea Gallery working in all media. Best in show will receive a norm, either via the sensibility of the maker, the and to make the images accessible from a kiosk daily skill improvement workshops and District. 2000 sq. ft. studio; 13 ft. ceilings; 10 ft. solo exhibition concurrent with selected group subject matter, or both. Emphasis must be situated inside the Maier and from the Internet. show winners. $25/3 slides; $5/each additional. exercises in conversational English, students will wraparOlmd windows on 2 sides. $3,000/mo. placed on new and innovative, short, experi­ concentrate on three areas of art-related study: Exhibition to be held in September 2001. Visit mental work. Curators may include their own Please contact Melinda at 212/414-4998 or email The Universities Art Association of Canada art and design vocabulary and terminology, at [email protected]. Photos available via our website for an application or send an work in the program. Feature-length works are announces its new website, www.uaac­ S.AS.E. to Soh020, 545 Broadway, 3rd floor, critique, and presentation and public speaking. email. aauc.com. not eligible. Send a concise written proposal for For more information or to receive an applica­ New York, NY 10012; 212/226-4167. Deadline: a program explaining the unifying idea, theme, July 10, 2001. tion, write or call Margaret McGee, liberal Arts, OPPORTUNITIES regional approach, and/or other organizational ESL Summer InstihIte, Minneapolis College of Corrections feahIres to Mix, 29 John St., PMB 132, New York, A Questioll of Faith: An all media, national Figurative Works Competition welcomes for Art and Design, 2501 Stevens Ave. S., Minneapo­ In the January issue of CAA News, the name of NY 10038; 212/571-4242; fax: 212/571-5155; lis, "MN 55404; 612/874-3633; fax: 612/874-3702; juried exhibition exploring all viewpoints artists with works based on human form in all [email protected]. Deadline: concerning religion/spirihlality. October 1-26, 65-year member Julius S. Held was omitted media except video for an exhibition from [email protected];www.mcad.eduf from the list ofCAA's 50 plus year members. We Mily 15, 2001. esl. Deadline: JUlie 1, 2001. 2001. Juror: Eleanor Heartney. Cash awards. September 14-0ctober 13, 2001. $25 entry fee. Entry fee: $25/3 works. For prospectus, send an apologize for the omission. Send an S.AS.E. to Armory Art Center, 1703 Grants & Fellowships S.AS.E. to UNI Gallery of Art, 104 KAB, Lake Ave., West Palm Beach, FL33401; University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA In the March issue, Ellen Konowitz of the State Women's Studio Workshop has fellowship University of New York, New Paltz, was www.armoryart.org/competition.html. Deadlim': 50614-0362; email: [email protected]. Entnj July 31, 2001. opportunities are available in water-based omitted from the Distinguished Teaching of Art deadline: May 29, 2001. screen printing, intaglio, photography, History Award Committee.

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