SECAC Newsletter April 2005

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Beth Mulvaney Looking attheRenaiss C 2 7510-0 by 65 Charles R.Mack Charles delivered theannualFacultyDistin- 6 ance: Ess , UniversityofSouth ays T oward aContextual John Carey . 20200 aurorajournal.org/conference%20announcement% October 27-29, http://www. 2006. Woodcliff LakeHilton,Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, USA, www.aurorajournal.org. placeatthe Organizationtotake further information,visitourwebsiteat August. SessionsubmissiondeadlineisJuly31,2005.For call forsessions.Aindividualpaperswillbeginin or thepursuitofimmortality. Atthemoment,thereisonlya triumphoverdeath,apotheoses, suicide, humansacrifice, plague, oldageandpreparationfordeath,martyrdoms, commemoration ofthedead,deathasaresultwar, the a and Memory”. Sessionsaresoughtonanyaspectofdeath second conference,“ConstructionsofDeath,Mourning, Collectors Conference),announcetheirpatronageofa WAPACC NEWS FROM OTHERORGANIZATIONS nd dyingasrepresentedinart.Topics mayincludethe 6.htm , (originallytheWomen ArtPatronsand Phone/F Email: [email protected] Carrboro NC27510-0656 Carrboro www.furman.edu/secac o.XXII No.2 Vol. XXXVIII, PO Box656 April 2005 ax: 919/942-8235 Headquarters andtheVietnam Veterans MemorialEducationCenter, bothin His currentprojectsinclude Newseum/ Institution Cooper-HewittNational DesignAward forArchitecture. the AIANewY Architectural FirmAward; in2003,thefirmreceived thePresident’sMedalof diversity authenticallyexpresstheindividualclient’smission. tion ofhundredsprojectsthatintheirtypological,geographical andformal nologies. This commitmentandtheresultingapproach haveledtothecomple- most elegantarc urban precincts.T timehavetransformedtheirnaturaland architectural formsthatatthesame in 19 andscientificinstitutions.Sincethefoundingoffirm tional, governmental commitmenttocultural,educa- excellence andforthefirm’slongstanding tects ofthebuilding. of context,program,publicimageandenvironment arc vant totheirtimeandplace.Characterizedbyacollaborative process,the seCenter forthekeynotelectureby all willgatherintheGreatHallofWilliam JeffersonClintonPresidential ClintonSchool ofPublicService.Then now hometotheUniversityofArkansas thatis meeting inLittleRock willhaveareceptionattherestoredtrainstation cin NorthLittleRock, reachable bybridgeorastreetcar system. Breckling RiverfrontParkinLittleRock, andtheNorthShore RiverfrontPark whose bankshavebecomethesiteoftwopopularpublicparks,Julius Clinton Library. River, The RiverMarketareaoverlooksthecoursingArkansas is theheadquarterbuildingofHeiferProjectInternational,locatedeast only remainingbuildingwithacastironfaçade.LikelytobeopenbyOctober Hotel,the a formernewspaperbuilding,andthebeautifullyrestoredCapital House,andtheMuseumofDiscovery(science)locatedin Revival OldState Museum,theGreek (formerly afurniturewarehouse),theHistoricArkansas aof thenight. beer emporiumandwarehouse-typebarsremainopenuntiltheweehours also isthrivingintheRiverMarketdistrict.AnEnglish-stylepub,adraught theFlyingFish,UndergroundPub,andAndina’s.The nightlife beers ontap, Vermilion’s, andSonnyWilliams with100 SteakHouse,theFlyingSaucer outlets.There’sitself offersseveralethnicfoodandsandwich NuCuisine, in thedistrictrangefromupscaletomorecasual,andMarket optionsduringmuch oftheyear.shops andoutdoorentertainment Restaurants eclectic Market Districtisbrimmingwithdininganddrinkingestablishments, ccollection ofunusedwarehousesandforgottenbusinesses.Today, theRiver and museums.Justfifteenyearsago,thispartofdowntownLittleRock wasa S LITTLE ROCK 2005UPDATE James S.Polshek isthefoundingpartner ofPolshek PartnershipArchitects. In 1992, theAIApresented Polshek Partnershipwithitshighesthonor,In 1992, the P On Thursday membersattendingtheannual eveningOctober28,SECAC thecity’sMainLibrary memberswillhavewithinwalkingdistance SECAC hitectural solutionsarerootedinextensiveresearch involvingtheanalysis olshek Partnershiphasbeenacclaimedinternationallyforarchitectural 63 apartnershiphasevolvedthatcreateduniqueandpowerful ork Chapter;andin200 to the Clinton Library there are restaurants, nightspots,shops to theClintonLibrarytherearerestaurants, River. Inaddition River MarketDistrict,thatsitsontheArkansas (1-800-PEABODY, www.peabodylittlerock.com) inLittleRock's will bechairing. The conferencehotelisthePeabody LittleRock of University ECAC willbemeetinginLittleRock, October26-29.The hitectural responsesarebothtec he sevenpartnersproceedfromthesharedbeliefthat A rkansas atLittleRock willhost,and Floyd Martin rkansas James Polshek 4, thefirmreceivedSmithsonian Freedom F hnically andsociallyrele- and orum F al andconstructiontec Richard Olcott oundation W , archi- orld h - Washington DC. From 1972-1987 he served as Dean of Matthew Ritchie; Uncommon Denominator: New Art from • The Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and 2004 FINANCIAL SUMMARY the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Vienna (2002); Ann Hamilton: corpus (2003); Cai Guo- Publication The following statement of SECAC finances as of Preservation at Columbia University. In 2002, he was Qiang: Inopportune (2004); Matthew Ritchie: Proposition • The Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement honored by the City of New York Municipal Art Society with Player (2004); and Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings December 31, 2004 • The Award of Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal and was inducted from the Rubell Collection (2005). In addition to her Beginning Balance $124,821.13 Historical Materials into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This curatorial work, she oversaw an internship program at Income year, he joins the American Academy of Arts and Letters. MASS MoCA, and has taught, most recently a Minimalism • The President’s Award Membership@$100 12,340.00 Mr. Polshek received a Master of Architecture degree seminar at Bennington College. • Certificates of Merit Membership@$35 14,480.00 from Yale University Graduate School of Architecture in On Saturday afternoon there will be an architectural tour, • Awards of Distinction Membership@$10 570.00 1955, and in 1956, was a Fulbright Fellow at the Royal studio workshops, and free time to visit other museums and Each letters of nomination should include evaluation of Contributions 1,775.00 Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. sites in Little Rock. The final Saturday event will be an the nominee and other supporting materials that will provide Conference 31,360.00 Richard M. Olcott is a design partner in Polshek Partner- evening party at the Arkansas Arts Center the committee members the information necessary to reach Interest checking 18.00 ship Architects. Among Mr. Olcott’s current projects are The Call for Papers, where sessions were described and a decision. Send nominations and requisite materials by Interest CDs 358.00 the Public Broadcasting Station WGBH Headquarters, conditions for submission were announced, was published June 1 to Debra Murphy, Department of Art and Design, Total Income $61,721.00 Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Communica- in the February newsletter, and is also on the SECAC 4567 St. John’s Bluff Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32224. 904- tions, and the renovation and expansion of the Yale Uni- website. Although the deadline is past, submissions sent 620-4037, email: [email protected]. Expenses versity Art Gallery. Since 1996, he has been a Commis- immediately upon receipt of the newsletter will be Artist/Travel Grant 3,535.00 sioner on the New York City Landmarks Preservation considered. Capital Expenditure 2,731.97 Commission, and he is a Fellow of the Municipal Art So- CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS Conference 46,340.47 ciety of New York. Mr. Olcott is the recipient of the 2003– Fees 1,221.48 2004 Founders Rome Prize Fellowship awarded by the Since the February Newsletter, the following sessions have It is always a pleasure to acknowledge the generosity of FICA/Tax 2,844.00 American Academy in Rome. Mr. Olcott received a Bachelor been added, and are also on the website. those members who make a contribution of $45 or more in Miscellaneous 1,012.31 of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1979. 2004. SECAC expresses gratitude to all on this list and ART HISTORY Postage 1,579.84 James Polshek and Richard Olcott have worked together offers special thanks to those whose names are in bold for Printing 2,653.18 as design partners on several of the firm’s projects. Recent CONTEMPORARY FOLK, SELF-TAUGHT, their exceptionally generous contributions. Repair 75.00 collaborations include the William Jefferson Clinton AND OUTSIDER ART Review 0.00 Presidential Center, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Omaha This session calls for papers dealing with the work of self- K. Porter Aichele Staff Assistant 1,800.00 Performing Arts Center, and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor taught artists (sometimes also known as outsider, visionary, A.S. Arbury Carole Leake Staff Salary 5,768.04 Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. or contemporary folk artists). Topics focusing on the Michael Aurbach Robert Lemon Supplies 494.98 creations of artists active in Arkansas are especially Robert Barnum Virginia R. Liles Fees: Conference registration fees will be $110 regular Telephone 962.27 encouraged but proposals dealing with the creations of Anne Beidler Peggy McDowell and $35 student prior to September 26; $140 and $50 Travel Reimbursement 1,000.00 Kyra Belan Linda F. McGreevy after that date. self-taught artists working elsewhere are also encouraged. Total Expenses $72,018.54 Papers should seek to situate an artist’s work within his or Martha B. Caldwell Heather McPherson 2005 Members’ Exhibition: On Friday evening, the her cultural framework. Carol Crown, University of Dean Carter Cynthia Mills Net -$10,315.72* Debra Murphy viewing of the SECAC Members Juried Exhibition will be Memphis. Email: [email protected]. Kevin Concannon * Conference deficits were due primarily to media cost Laura Heon Marry Murray capped with an address by juror , and with the Robert M. Craig overruns and low attendance. Florida experienced 4 major John Myers SECAC annual awards ceremony on the University of Ar- George Cress hurricanes in 2004 before the conference. kansas at Little Rock campus. (See your February 2005 STUDIO ART Carol Crown Sandra Reed newsletter or the SECAC website (www.furman.edu/secac) Anna Fariello Perri Lee Roberts Revision: Ending Balance $114,505.41 Donna Sadler for an entry form.) WHAT’S SHAKIN’ IN THE STUDIO? Elisabeth L. Flynn-Chapman John M. Schnorrenberg Assets as of December 31, 2004: Laura Heon is the former curator at the Massachusetts OUTSTANDING STUDENT WORK Jaroslav Folda Museum of Contemporary Art and recently has been Katherine Francesso-Lee Gregory W. Shelnutt AIG/Valic $111,768.10 Chair will be: Elizabeth Smith, University of Central named director and curator of SITE Santa Fe. A central Margaret Gluhman Mary Stewart Checking account 5,887.05 Arkansas [email protected]. Proposals may be sent to Elizabeth Arkansas native, she earned her B.A. in art history, cum Lawrence Goedde Scotland Stout Total assets $117,655.15 Smith, or to Katherine Strause at UALR, as listed in the laude, from Harvard in 1992, then studied in Italy and did Joan Gregory Anne Wall Thomas original call for papers, or to both. Change in balance reflects change of value in AIG/Valic internships at the Philadelphia Museum and the Smith- F. Hamilton Hazlehurst Christine B. Updike account. Donald Van Horn sonian before taking her master’s at the Williams/Clark THE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT Janet A. Headley Graduate Program in the History of Art. Arthur F. Jones Frances Van Keuren This session will explore how creative and ethical consid- Heon has organized many of the exhibitions presented by Charles Joyner Evelyn C. Voelker NEWS FROM MEMBERS erations affect meaning in portrait photography. Of par- MASS MoCA since its inception, and written most of its Geraldine Kiefer Barbara Watts ticular interest is how the portrait subject is approached by Martha Scotford catalogs. She has curated exhibitions including Billboard: Tom Lee Tina Yarborough , Professor of Graphic Design, North the photographer, and how advancements in technology Art on the Road (a retrospective of 25 artists’ billboards Carolina State University will offer an online graphic have raised ethical concerns. Donna Pinckley, University of from the last 30 years (1999); Unnatural Science (2000), design course, 16 weeks beginning mid-August 2005 Central Arkansas and Mitch Kern, Louisiana Tech Uni- a look at ways contemporary artists use physics, biology for 3 credit hours. Course focuses on last 150 years of versity. Email: Donna Pinckley, [email protected]. and chemistry in the service of art, with thirteen artists graphic design practice in historical, cultural, and economic including Janine Antoni, Lim Young-Sun, Kiki Smith, and contexts. Website provides lectures, writing assignments,

2 secac April 2005 5 how can small and medium sized universities, where new speakers for the Nashville conference. Heartney, a Con- artistic practices like installation, performance, and tributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress, has written MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT environmental art are frequently grouped with sculpture, extensively on contemporary art issues for Artnews, The Don Van Horn survey contemporary practices without diluting traditional New Art Examiner, The New York Times, and The Washington practices? Would it be effective to teach a narrow but Post. She is a recipient of the College Art Association’s Arkansas is beautiful in October. I know because my I have been devoting some time over the past several intensive approach that limits the field of sculpture by Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism and is currently family and I lived there for six years and I worked at the months to securing future conference sites and I am concept, regional interest, practice, or media? How can Co-President of the American section of the International University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). pleased with the progress being made. As it stands now, theoretical and critical thinking be developed in the cur- Art Critics Association. UALR is our 2005 SECAC host, and I invite you to when the SECAC Board of Directors meets in Little riculum along with traditional visual, spatial, and kinesthetic An additional keynote speech in art history will be funded make plans now to attend the conference in October. Rock this coming fall, we should receive a number of skills? A range of proposals from new and experienced through Vanderbilt’s Goldberg Lecture series. Vanderbilt’s Floyd Martin is an experienced meeting organizer and invitations for upcoming meetings. sculpture professors is sought. Historians, critics, and Sarratt Gallery will host the SECAC Fellowship show. you can count on a spectacular conference to comple- It has occurred to me as I’ve gone about this work that theorists are also encouraged to submit proposals that Those submitting work for the membership show at ment spectacularly beautiful fall weather that will greet there may be SECAC members and/or member address these or related issues. Christopher McNulty, Nashville’s Parthenon will be pleased to learn that other you in Arkansas that time of the year. SECAC was last in institutions interested in hosting a future meeting but Department of Art, 108 Biggin Hall, Auburn University, AL institutions in Nashville will select future solo shows using Little Rock in 1989, which happens to be the year I was who don’t know how to go about opening up the 36849. Email: [email protected] the same pool of slide submissions. In other words, artists introduced to our organization. I saw first hand Floyd’s discussion. If you have any interest in talking about will actually be reviewed for multiple exhibition opportunities organizational talents, and his handiwork is evident in the SECAC meeting at your institution, please feel free to with one set of slides. plans he has made for the 2005 meeting. Little Rock has contact me at [email protected], or by calling 304 AFFLIATED SESSION SECAC and MACAA (www.macaart.org) have worked changed dramatically since we were last there, and with 696-6433. I would be happy to talk with you. CWAO: COALITION OF WOMEN out issues related to administrative fees and revenues. The the addition of the Clinton Presidential Library and its We are also working on putting together an ad hoc IN THE ARTS ORGANIZATION Holiday Inn Select next to Vanderbilt will serve as the central role in Floyd’s plans, we can expect another committee to examine conference practices including conference hotel with a rate of $93/night, free parking, and memorable meeting. identifying hosts for future meetings, meetings where we The Chalice and the da Vinci Code: Reinterpreting the free Internet service. The Hampton Inn will be our Going to Little Rock will be a homecoming of sorts for don’t have identified hosts and possibly meetings outside Divine Feminine in Art from Renaissance to Post Modern. secondary hotel ($92/nite, free parking, free internet). me, and I look forward to seeing many friends and the immediate Southeast region. This panel will examine and analyze the images of the On Saturday morning of the conference, Vanderbilt will renewing acquaintances with SECAC and UALR • • • sacred feminine from art historical and/or artist’s per- host a college fair (free to the public). Faculty attending the colleagues alike. The spring term is flying by for me at a rapid pace and I spective. Kyra Belan, Broward Community College, PO Box conference will be able to represent their institutions at • • • suspect the same is true for most it not all, of you. My 6735, Hollywood FL 33081. Email: [email protected]. individual tables to visit with high school students Jonathan Walsh at South Carolina State University is open door policy for faculty, staff and students extends to throughout Tennessee as they search for college art pro- working on the design and production of the 2003 members of SECAC. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you grams. These faculty can represent their MFA programs as Review. We anticipate publication in the next several have any concerns about our organization. SPECIAL SESSION well to the college students in the area. We hope that this 2004 event will help our attendees receive additional travel weeks and that will be followed closely by the Enjoy the spring and summer, and don’t forget to make ART AND THE COPYRIGHT. Speed & Rogers, P.A. is a Review support. It would be great to have twenty or more , which is being edited by Michael Duffy at East your plans to attend SECAC in Little Rock this fall! Little Rock law firm, which practices in the area of patents, . Review individuals representing their schools. Carolina University Our hope is to have the back trademarks, copyrights, and other matters of intellectual on a regular publication schedule by 2006. I want to property. Clients range from small inventors to large, thank Jonathan and Michael for working to get the publicly traded companies. The firm handles all types of Review on track. matters concerning the protection and enforcement of BOSCH GRADUATE TRAVEL intellectual property rights, including prosecution of matters ASSISTANCE before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and litigation PEDAGOGICAL SESSION: with indication of title, medium, size & date), curriculum vita, in the federal courts. Mr. Speed is a registered patent Thanks to the generous bequest of the late Gulnar Bosch, USING PEN AND VOICE IN ART HISTORY artist statement (500 word maximum), and supplementary attorney and has been the president of Speed & Rogers, SECAC offers assistance for graduate students who are on This session focuses on teaching writing and speaking materials (catalogs, reviews etc.). While it may be P.A. since 1996. Previously he was a senior member of the the program for the 2005 conference. Graduate students skills in art history classes. Presentations will be followed appropriate to submit some earlier works to establish a Rose Law Firm and has been licensed to practice law in who have received notice of acceptance of their proposals, by discussions about integrating the crafts of composition context, your emphasis should be on recent work. Submit Arkansas for more than twenty years. Gary Speed, Speed are members of SECAC, and reside more than 200 miles and articulation into class curricula. How can teacher help to: Gary Cawood, Department of Art, 2801 South & Rogers, P.A. Convener: Thomas Clifton, UALR. Email: from the conference site may apply for assistance. A students write readable, professional-quality papers and University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72204. 501-569-3128, [email protected]. submission form can be found on the SECAC website, click make convincing, skillful presentations before an audience? [email protected]. on Forms, or from [email protected]. Ute Wachsmann-Linnan, Nancy Tuten, and Kyle Love, Columbia College. Ute Wachsmann-Linnan, Dept. of Art, 1301 Columbia College Dr, Columbia SC 29203. 803-786- STUDIO AND ART HISTORY NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE 2005 SECAC AWARDS 3159, fax: 803-786-3893. Email: [email protected]. (email REVISING THE SCULPTURE CURRICULUM address correction) 2006 SECAC/MACAA CONFERENCE Debra Murphy, SECAC Vice President and chair of the This session will address some of the following questions: IN NASHVILLE (October 25-28) Awards Committee, solicits nominations for the 2005 IMAGE-MAKERS CAUSUS How can sculpture curriculums be revised from within the SECAC awards. Nominations can be made for: traditional academic disciplinary structure? How have or If you wish to be considered for the image-makers caucus Eleanor Heartney, a New York based art writer and cultural • The Award for Exemplary Achievement should sculpture curriculums survey the immense con- at the Little Rock conference, please submit the following critic has agreed to jury the 2006 SECAC/MACAA ceptual and technical territory of their field? In particular, • The Award for Excellence in Teaching materials: 10-20 images of your work (either slides or CD membership show and serve as one of the keynote

April 2005 3 4 secac how can small and medium sized universities, where new speakers for the Nashville conference. Heartney, a Con- artistic practices like installation, performance, and tributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress, has written MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT environmental art are frequently grouped with sculpture, extensively on contemporary art issues for Artnews, The Don Van Horn survey contemporary practices without diluting traditional New Art Examiner, The New York Times, and The Washington practices? Would it be effective to teach a narrow but Post. She is a recipient of the College Art Association’s Arkansas is beautiful in October. I know because my I have been devoting some time over the past several intensive approach that limits the field of sculpture by Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism and is currently family and I lived there for six years and I worked at the months to securing future conference sites and I am concept, regional interest, practice, or media? How can Co-President of the American section of the International University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). pleased with the progress being made. As it stands now, theoretical and critical thinking be developed in the cur- Art Critics Association. UALR is our 2005 SECAC host, and I invite you to when the SECAC Board of Directors meets in Little riculum along with traditional visual, spatial, and kinesthetic An additional keynote speech in art history will be funded make plans now to attend the conference in October. Rock this coming fall, we should receive a number of skills? A range of proposals from new and experienced through Vanderbilt’s Goldberg Lecture series. Vanderbilt’s Floyd Martin is an experienced meeting organizer and invitations for upcoming meetings. sculpture professors is sought. Historians, critics, and Sarratt Gallery will host the SECAC Fellowship show. you can count on a spectacular conference to comple- It has occurred to me as I’ve gone about this work that theorists are also encouraged to submit proposals that Those submitting work for the membership show at ment spectacularly beautiful fall weather that will greet there may be SECAC members and/or member address these or related issues. Christopher McNulty, Nashville’s Parthenon will be pleased to learn that other you in Arkansas that time of the year. SECAC was last in institutions interested in hosting a future meeting but Department of Art, 108 Biggin Hall, Auburn University, AL institutions in Nashville will select future solo shows using Little Rock in 1989, which happens to be the year I was who don’t know how to go about opening up the 36849. Email: [email protected] the same pool of slide submissions. In other words, artists introduced to our organization. I saw first hand Floyd’s discussion. If you have any interest in talking about will actually be reviewed for multiple exhibition opportunities organizational talents, and his handiwork is evident in the SECAC meeting at your institution, please feel free to with one set of slides. plans he has made for the 2005 meeting. Little Rock has contact me at [email protected], or by calling 304 AFFLIATED SESSION SECAC and MACAA (www.macaart.org) have worked changed dramatically since we were last there, and with 696-6433. I would be happy to talk with you. CWAO: COALITION OF WOMEN out issues related to administrative fees and revenues. The the addition of the Clinton Presidential Library and its We are also working on putting together an ad hoc IN THE ARTS ORGANIZATION Holiday Inn Select next to Vanderbilt will serve as the central role in Floyd’s plans, we can expect another committee to examine conference practices including conference hotel with a rate of $93/night, free parking, and memorable meeting. identifying hosts for future meetings, meetings where we The Chalice and the da Vinci Code: Reinterpreting the free Internet service. The Hampton Inn will be our Going to Little Rock will be a homecoming of sorts for don’t have identified hosts and possibly meetings outside Divine Feminine in Art from Renaissance to Post Modern. secondary hotel ($92/nite, free parking, free internet). me, and I look forward to seeing many friends and the immediate Southeast region. This panel will examine and analyze the images of the On Saturday morning of the conference, Vanderbilt will renewing acquaintances with SECAC and UALR • • • sacred feminine from art historical and/or artist’s per- host a college fair (free to the public). Faculty attending the colleagues alike. The spring term is flying by for me at a rapid pace and I spective. Kyra Belan, Broward Community College, PO Box conference will be able to represent their institutions at • • • suspect the same is true for most it not all, of you. My 6735, Hollywood FL 33081. Email: [email protected]. individual tables to visit with high school students Jonathan Walsh at South Carolina State University is open door policy for faculty, staff and students extends to throughout Tennessee as they search for college art pro- working on the design and production of the 2003 members of SECAC. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you grams. These faculty can represent their MFA programs as Review. We anticipate publication in the next several have any concerns about our organization. SPECIAL SESSION well to the college students in the area. We hope that this 2004 event will help our attendees receive additional travel weeks and that will be followed closely by the Enjoy the spring and summer, and don’t forget to make ART AND THE COPYRIGHT. Speed & Rogers, P.A. is a Review support. It would be great to have twenty or more , which is being edited by Michael Duffy at East your plans to attend SECAC in Little Rock this fall! Little Rock law firm, which practices in the area of patents, . Review individuals representing their schools. Carolina University Our hope is to have the back trademarks, copyrights, and other matters of intellectual on a regular publication schedule by 2006. I want to property. Clients range from small inventors to large, thank Jonathan and Michael for working to get the publicly traded companies. The firm handles all types of Review on track. matters concerning the protection and enforcement of BOSCH GRADUATE TRAVEL intellectual property rights, including prosecution of matters ASSISTANCE before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and litigation PEDAGOGICAL SESSION: with indication of title, medium, size & date), curriculum vita, in the federal courts. Mr. Speed is a registered patent Thanks to the generous bequest of the late Gulnar Bosch, USING PEN AND VOICE IN ART HISTORY artist statement (500 word maximum), and supplementary attorney and has been the president of Speed & Rogers, SECAC offers assistance for graduate students who are on This session focuses on teaching writing and speaking materials (catalogs, reviews etc.). While it may be P.A. since 1996. Previously he was a senior member of the the program for the 2005 conference. Graduate students skills in art history classes. Presentations will be followed appropriate to submit some earlier works to establish a Rose Law Firm and has been licensed to practice law in who have received notice of acceptance of their proposals, by discussions about integrating the crafts of composition context, your emphasis should be on recent work. Submit Arkansas for more than twenty years. Gary Speed, Speed are members of SECAC, and reside more than 200 miles and articulation into class curricula. How can teacher help to: Gary Cawood, Department of Art, 2801 South & Rogers, P.A. Convener: Thomas Clifton, UALR. Email: from the conference site may apply for assistance. A students write readable, professional-quality papers and University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72204. 501-569-3128, [email protected]. submission form can be found on the SECAC website, click make convincing, skillful presentations before an audience? [email protected]. on Forms, or from [email protected]. Ute Wachsmann-Linnan, Nancy Tuten, and Kyle Love, Columbia College. Ute Wachsmann-Linnan, Dept. of Art, 1301 Columbia College Dr, Columbia SC 29203. 803-786- STUDIO AND ART HISTORY NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE 2005 SECAC AWARDS 3159, fax: 803-786-3893. Email: [email protected]. (email REVISING THE SCULPTURE CURRICULUM address correction) 2006 SECAC/MACAA CONFERENCE Debra Murphy, SECAC Vice President and chair of the This session will address some of the following questions: IN NASHVILLE (October 25-28) Awards Committee, solicits nominations for the 2005 IMAGE-MAKERS CAUSUS How can sculpture curriculums be revised from within the SECAC awards. Nominations can be made for: traditional academic disciplinary structure? How have or If you wish to be considered for the image-makers caucus Eleanor Heartney, a New York based art writer and cultural • The Award for Exemplary Achievement should sculpture curriculums survey the immense con- at the Little Rock conference, please submit the following critic has agreed to jury the 2006 SECAC/MACAA ceptual and technical territory of their field? In particular, • The Award for Excellence in Teaching materials: 10-20 images of your work (either slides or CD membership show and serve as one of the keynote

April 2005 3 4 secac Washington DC. From 1972-1987 he served as Dean of Matthew Ritchie; Uncommon Denominator: New Art from • The Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and 2004 FINANCIAL SUMMARY the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Vienna (2002); Ann Hamilton: corpus (2003); Cai Guo- Publication The following statement of SECAC finances as of Preservation at Columbia University. In 2002, he was Qiang: Inopportune (2004); Matthew Ritchie: Proposition • The Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement honored by the City of New York Municipal Art Society with Player (2004); and Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings December 31, 2004 • The Award of Outstanding Exhibition and Catalog of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal and was inducted from the Rubell Collection (2005). In addition to her Beginning Balance $124,821.13 Historical Materials into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This curatorial work, she oversaw an internship program at Income year, he joins the American Academy of Arts and Letters. MASS MoCA, and has taught, most recently a Minimalism • The President’s Award Membership@$100 12,340.00 Mr. Polshek received a Master of Architecture degree seminar at Bennington College. • Certificates of Merit Membership@$35 14,480.00 from Yale University Graduate School of Architecture in On Saturday afternoon there will be an architectural tour, • Awards of Distinction Membership@$10 570.00 1955, and in 1956, was a Fulbright Fellow at the Royal studio workshops, and free time to visit other museums and Each letters of nomination should include evaluation of Contributions 1,775.00 Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. sites in Little Rock. The final Saturday event will be an the nominee and other supporting materials that will provide Conference 31,360.00 Richard M. Olcott is a design partner in Polshek Partner- evening party at the Arkansas Arts Center the committee members the information necessary to reach Interest checking 18.00 ship Architects. Among Mr. Olcott’s current projects are The Call for Papers, where sessions were described and a decision. Send nominations and requisite materials by Interest CDs 358.00 the Public Broadcasting Station WGBH Headquarters, conditions for submission were announced, was published June 1 to Debra Murphy, Department of Art and Design, Total Income $61,721.00 Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Communica- in the February newsletter, and is also on the SECAC 4567 St. John’s Bluff Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32224. 904- tions, and the renovation and expansion of the Yale Uni- website. Although the deadline is past, submissions sent 620-4037, email: [email protected]. Expenses versity Art Gallery. Since 1996, he has been a Commis- immediately upon receipt of the newsletter will be Artist/Travel Grant 3,535.00 sioner on the New York City Landmarks Preservation considered. Capital Expenditure 2,731.97 Commission, and he is a Fellow of the Municipal Art So- CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS Conference 46,340.47 ciety of New York. Mr. Olcott is the recipient of the 2003– Fees 1,221.48 2004 Founders Rome Prize Fellowship awarded by the Since the February Newsletter, the following sessions have It is always a pleasure to acknowledge the generosity of FICA/Tax 2,844.00 American Academy in Rome. Mr. Olcott received a Bachelor been added, and are also on the website. those members who make a contribution of $45 or more in Miscellaneous 1,012.31 of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1979. 2004. SECAC expresses gratitude to all on this list and ART HISTORY Postage 1,579.84 James Polshek and Richard Olcott have worked together offers special thanks to those whose names are in bold for Printing 2,653.18 as design partners on several of the firm’s projects. Recent CONTEMPORARY FOLK, SELF-TAUGHT, their exceptionally generous contributions. Repair 75.00 collaborations include the William Jefferson Clinton AND OUTSIDER ART Review 0.00 Presidential Center, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Omaha This session calls for papers dealing with the work of self- K. Porter Aichele Staff Assistant 1,800.00 Performing Arts Center, and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor taught artists (sometimes also known as outsider, visionary, A.S. Arbury Carole Leake Staff Salary 5,768.04 Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. or contemporary folk artists). Topics focusing on the Michael Aurbach Robert Lemon Supplies 494.98 creations of artists active in Arkansas are especially Robert Barnum Virginia R. Liles Fees: Conference registration fees will be $110 regular Telephone 962.27 encouraged but proposals dealing with the creations of Anne Beidler Peggy McDowell and $35 student prior to September 26; $140 and $50 Travel Reimbursement 1,000.00 Kyra Belan Linda F. McGreevy after that date. self-taught artists working elsewhere are also encouraged. Total Expenses $72,018.54 Papers should seek to situate an artist’s work within his or Martha B. Caldwell Heather McPherson 2005 Members’ Exhibition: On Friday evening, the her cultural framework. Carol Crown, University of Dean Carter Cynthia Mills Net -$10,315.72* Debra Murphy viewing of the SECAC Members Juried Exhibition will be Memphis. Email: [email protected]. Kevin Concannon * Conference deficits were due primarily to media cost Laura Heon Marry Murray capped with an address by juror , and with the Robert M. Craig overruns and low attendance. Florida experienced 4 major John Myers SECAC annual awards ceremony on the University of Ar- George Cress hurricanes in 2004 before the conference. kansas at Little Rock campus. (See your February 2005 STUDIO ART Carol Crown Sandra Reed newsletter or the SECAC website (www.furman.edu/secac) Anna Fariello Perri Lee Roberts Revision: Ending Balance $114,505.41 Donna Sadler for an entry form.) WHAT’S SHAKIN’ IN THE STUDIO? Elisabeth L. Flynn-Chapman John M. Schnorrenberg Assets as of December 31, 2004: Laura Heon is the former curator at the Massachusetts OUTSTANDING STUDENT WORK Jaroslav Folda Museum of Contemporary Art and recently has been Katherine Francesso-Lee Gregory W. Shelnutt AIG/Valic $111,768.10 Chair will be: Elizabeth Smith, University of Central named director and curator of SITE Santa Fe. A central Margaret Gluhman Mary Stewart Checking account 5,887.05 Arkansas [email protected]. Proposals may be sent to Elizabeth Arkansas native, she earned her B.A. in art history, cum Lawrence Goedde Scotland Stout Total assets $117,655.15 Smith, or to Katherine Strause at UALR, as listed in the laude, from Harvard in 1992, then studied in Italy and did Joan Gregory Anne Wall Thomas original call for papers, or to both. Change in balance reflects change of value in AIG/Valic internships at the Philadelphia Museum and the Smith- F. Hamilton Hazlehurst Christine B. Updike account. Donald Van Horn sonian before taking her master’s at the Williams/Clark THE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT Janet A. Headley Graduate Program in the History of Art. Arthur F. Jones Frances Van Keuren This session will explore how creative and ethical consid- Heon has organized many of the exhibitions presented by Charles Joyner Evelyn C. Voelker NEWS FROM MEMBERS erations affect meaning in portrait photography. Of par- MASS MoCA since its inception, and written most of its Geraldine Kiefer Barbara Watts ticular interest is how the portrait subject is approached by Martha Scotford catalogs. She has curated exhibitions including Billboard: Tom Lee Tina Yarborough , Professor of Graphic Design, North the photographer, and how advancements in technology Art on the Road (a retrospective of 25 artists’ billboards Carolina State University will offer an online graphic have raised ethical concerns. Donna Pinckley, University of from the last 30 years (1999); Unnatural Science (2000), design course, 16 weeks beginning mid-August 2005 Central Arkansas and Mitch Kern, Louisiana Tech Uni- a look at ways contemporary artists use physics, biology for 3 credit hours. Course focuses on last 150 years of versity. Email: Donna Pinckley, [email protected]. and chemistry in the service of art, with thirteen artists graphic design practice in historical, cultural, and economic including Janine Antoni, Lim Young-Sun, Kiki Smith, and contexts. Website provides lectures, writing assignments,

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