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Newsletter of the College Art Association Volume 31, Number 1 January 2006

Arthur C. Danto Is Boston Convocation Speaker

rthur C. Danto, art critic for The Nation and Johnsonian A Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University 2 From the Executive Director in New York, will speak at Convoca- Nicola Courtright Elected CAA tion at the 2006 CAA Annual President Conference in Boston. His talk is entitled “Art and Interpretation.” 3 Search for New CAA Executive Director The author of such noted books as The Transfiguration of the Candidates for 2006–10 Board Commonplace (1981), Beyond the of Directors Brillo Box (1992), After the End of 4 John Szarkowski Is CAA Art (1996), and, most recently, Distinguished Scholar Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the 5 Book and Trade Fair in Boston Gap between Art and Life (2005), Danto taught philosophy at Columbia 6 Exhibitions at the Boston from 1952 to 1992, influencing Conference countless students of philosophy, art, 7 ARTspace in Boston Photo: Steve Pyke and art history. Annual Conference Update Arthur C. Danto Danto was recently curator of The Art of 9/11, a group show of art made 8 CAA Offers Preconference Workshops in response to the tragedy of 2001 terrorist attacks. The exhibition was held at apexart in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca from September 7 to October 15, 2005. 11 Notice of the 94th Annual Danto earned a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia in 1952 and began teaching there Members’ Business Meeting that same year. He was chair of the Philosophy Department from 1979 to 1987 and served as 12 Former CAA Fellow: Gallery editor and president of the board of trustees for the Journal of Philosophy from 1975 to the Director Amy Ingrid Schlegel present. He is also a contributing editor to Artforum magazine. Danto has served as president 13 CAA Offers MFA and PhD of the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics. Fellowships Danto has written on a number of modern and contemporary artists in essays and exhibition catalogues in addition to his reviews for The Nation, where he has been art critic since 14 Advocacy Update 1984. His work for this publication earned him CAA’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for art 15 CAA News criticism in 1996. 18 New Institutional Member Convocation at the Annual Conference takes place Wednesday evening, February 22, Categories and Benefits 2006, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM. A gala reception, to be held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Affiliated Society News follows this event. See http://conference.collegeart.org for full details. 21 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members BOSTON CONFERENCE BEGINS ONE DAY EARLY. SEE 23 People in the News PAGE 6. 28 Classifieds From the Executive Director Nicola Courtright Elected CAA A New Tomorrow President

fter nearly membership of 15,500, and an endowment icola twenty of nearly $9 million. The Annual Court- A years, I Conference has grown significantly in N right, will be stepping attendance, the number and types of ses- professor of fine down as executive sions offered, and related professional and arts at Amherst director of the social events; the prestigious publications College in Am- College Art program has added an additional journal, herst, Mass., has Association. These born digital, devoted to book and exhibi- been elected

Photo: Andrei Ralko have been twenty tion reviews; we developed a graduate- president of the Susan Ball wonderful and student fellowship program and raised an College Art challenging years endowment to support it; we rose to the Photo: Irina Ivanova Association for a for me, personally and professionally. I challenge during the “culture wars” when Nicola Courtright two-year term, feel privileged to have been given the the arts and humanities were under attack, beginning May opportunity to lead CAA and have made taking a strong leadership role in advoca- 2006. many wonderful friends in the process. cy. (And we continue to do so for issues Courtright earned a BA in art history The association is well positioned to con- affecting our members, among them, free- from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, tinue its record of success with a dedicated dom of expression, funding in the arts and and a PhD at New York University’s membership, Board of Directors, commit- humanities, higher education, copyright, Institute of Fine Arts in 1990. A specialist tees, editorial boards, and staff. and workforce concerns.) I am proud of in the art and architecture of early modern When I joined CAA in January 1986, I what we have accomplished together in Europe, she is the author of The Papacy had big shoes to fill. I was told that my the past twenty years. This could not have and the Art of Reform in Sixteenth- predecessor, Rose Weil, had “brought happened without the help and support of Century Rome: Gregory XIII and the CAA where it is today” and that it was up so many of you, and of the strong, dedi- Tower of the Winds in the Vatican (New to me “to take it where it will be tomor- cated, hardworking CAA staff. York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). row.” That tomorrow is here today, and it The tomorrow of twenty years ago is Courtright has also published in the is time for a new tomorrow. During my here. We recently completed a new strate- Grove Dictionary of Art, Zeitschrift für time here, CAA has grown from a budget gic plan (2005–10) that takes CAA to the Kunstgeschichte, and The Art Bulletin. of $750,000, a staff of 6, a membership of brink of its centennial. That plan includes She recently organized an international 6,000, and an endowment of $1 million to many exciting goals, among them to conference on the latest subject of her a budget of $4 million, a staff of 30, a “develop new exhibition opportunities research, the expression of political ide- comparable in quality to our prestigious ologies of rule for early modern French publications program,” to “build an infra- queens in the art and architecture of their Volume 31, Number 1 structure to gather and analyze field data,” palaces. CAA News is published six times per year by the and “to advocate on workforce issues.” Courtright has been a member of the College Art Association, 275 Seventh Avenue, We are making steady progress on the pri- CAA Board of Directors since 2000 and 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001; orities and goals in the plan; now is the served as vice president for publications www.collegeart.org. time for new leadership to come in, build from 2004 to 2006. Editor-in-Chief Susan Ball on the momentum in place, establish a CAA’s Board chooses the president Editor Christopher Howard new baseline, and take CAA to a new from among its elected officers in the fall Designer Steve Lafreniere tomorrow. It will be up to all of you to during the current president’s final year of continually revisit these goals and help Material for inclusion should be sent via e-mail to service, thereby providing a period in Christopher Howard at [email protected]. realize them. which the incoming officer can learn the Photographs and slides may be submitted to the Happily for me, I will maintain a close responsibilities of the presidency and pre- above street and e-mail addresses for considera- relationship with CAA. I am excited about pare for his or her term. The president- tion; they cannot be returned. All advertising and my next steps, which include pursuing a submission guidelines can be found at elect continues to serve in his or her elect- www.collegeart.org/news. project that has long been on my mind and ed capacity until he or she assumes the that many of you have been urging me to office of president. Copyright © 2006 College Art Association undertake—that is, producing a published history of CAA. CAA will celebrate its Founded in 1911, the College Art Association promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching centennial in 2011, and we believe that in the history and criticism of the visual arts and our organization’s history is important to in creativity and technical skill in the teaching document. Among the more notable and practices of art. CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

2 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 is well positioned to begin an exciting new Board except for Robertson, who was a Search for New CAA era. Board member from 1998 to 2002. Executive Director The search for a new executive director Our search is directed by Gregory is already in motion. The CAA Board Kandel, a director at Management appointed a search committee that reflects Consultants for the Arts, a company that t the October 2005 meeting of the CAA’s diverse strengths and constituen- brings a depth of understanding of cultur- CAA Board of Directors, Susan cies. Balance was sought in many ways, al, humanities, and related communities, A Ball announced that, after nearly including geographic location, profession, including academia. No stranger to CAA, twenty years of service, she will step gender, and ethnicity, among other criteria. Kandel worked closely with the Board to down as executive director. In July 2006, The following colleagues agreed to serve develop its current strategic plan and she will become director of the Centennial on the committee: Diane Edison (artist, advised a recent publications task force Book Project in preparation for CAA’s Georgia), Dale Kinney (art historian and that established governance guidelines for one-hundredth anniversary in 2011. administrator, Pennsylvania), Paul Jaskot our journals program. The search commit- Ball’s energetic stewardship has brought (art historian and administrator, Illinois), tee has worked with him to clarify CAA’s about a number of remarkable accomplish- Susan Grace Galassi (curator, New York), needs for the coming years and to locate ments. Through her dedication, CAA has and Duane Slick (artist, Rhode Island). and review qualified candidates appropri- become an internationally prominent Nicole Courtright (art historian, ate to our mission and direction. We antic- organization that assists its members in Massachusetts, and CAA president-elect) ipate that this search will take about six expanding their professional opportunities and Ellen K. Levy (artist, New York, and months. and in fostering the understanding of art as current CAA president) are cochairing the The search committee explored the an essential form of human expression. committee, and Bruce Robertson (art his- qualities desired in a new executive direc- With CAA’s 2005–10 strategic plan com- torian and administrator, California) is tor, especially since that person will suc- pleted (please see www.collegeart.org/ serving in an advisory capacity. All search- ceed a leader who has served for almost aboutus/plan2005.html), the organization committee members are on the current two decades. The committee discussed criteria and qualifications of the position with the CAA staff and Board. From these Candidates for 2006–10 Board of Directors meetings, Kandel drafted a profile that provides the background, job description, and required qualifications of candidates AA’s 2005 Nominating Committee has selected the following slate of six and asked the full Board and staff to candidates for our Board of Directors for the 2006–10 term: Anne Collins respond to it. CGoodyear, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Andrea Kirsh, As many of you are aware, we invited University of Delaware; Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the broader CAA membership to send Katherine Manthorne, the Graduate Center, City University New York; Barbara comments to me via e-mail about the Nesin, Spelman College; and Charles Reeve, Ontario College of Art. roles, qualifications, and background that In accordance with a 2004 CAA by-law amendment, the CAA membership will you’d like to see in our next executive elect four new members to the Board of Directors at the Annual Business Meeting, director. Many thanks to those who which will be held at the 2006 Annual Conference in Boston. All members received responded. At this point, interested candi- a ballot and the candidates’ biographies and statements in December (either by postal dates, and recommenders of qualified indi- mail or e-mail, depending on what you indicated on your membership form). viduals, are invited to contact Kandel: You will have the option either to return your ballot by mail or e-mail before the Management Consultants for the Arts Annual Business Meeting, or to cast it in person during the 2006 Annual Conference. Gregory Kandel, Partner in Charge All voting will end at 5:00 PM EST on Friday, February 24. Results will be 132 East Putnam Avenue announced at the close of the Annual Business Meeting (see page 11), and new Cos Cob, CT 06807 Board members will take office at the spring meeting. [email protected] (preferred) If you wish to vote during the conference, CAA will provide computers in the 203-661-3003, ext. 303 registration area for electronic ballots and a ballot box for paper ballots. Please join the Board in expressing We urge you to attend our Meet the Candidates session at the Boston conference, appreciation for Susan Ball’s tenure at our to be held Wednesday, February 22, at 5:00 PM EST. Please take this opportunity to upcoming Annual Conference in Boston. speak with the candidates before casting your ballot. Deadline to return ballots: —Ellen K. Levy, CAA president, Friday, February 24, at 5:00 PM EST. [email protected] Members of the 2005 Nominating Committee were: Diane Edison, University of Georgia, CAA vice president for committees, chair; Kaucyila Brooke, CalArts, CAA To read the full job profile for position of Board; Dennis Ichiyama, Purdue University, CAA Board; Joan Marter, Rutgers, the CAA executive director, please visit State University of New Jersey, CAA Board; Steven Bleicher, Costal Carolina www.collegeart.org. University; Anna Calluori Holcombe, Kansas State University; Katie Hollander, ArtTable; and Richard Saunders, Middlebury College Museum of Art.

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 3 Szarkowski holds honorary doctorates John Szarkowski Is from the Philadelphia College of Art CAA Distinguished (1965), the school of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (1978), the Portland Scholar School of Art (1980), Parsons School of Design (1988), Northland College (1990), the University of Wisconsin (1991), he CAA Distinguished Scholar’s Massachusetts College of Art (1993), and Session at the 2006 Boston confer- Columbia College Chicago (2001). He is T ence honors John Szarkowski, the recipient of the City of New York director emeritus of the Department of Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts and Photography at the Museum of Modern Culture (1979), the Friends of Photography Art (MoMA) in New York. This special Award for Distinguished Career in panel is chaired by Joel Snyder of the Photography (1988), the International University of Chicago and includes Peter Center of Photography Infinity Awards for Galassi, MoMA; Michael Fried, Johns Writing (1989) and Lifetime Achievement Hopkins University; and André Gunthert, (1995), the Association of Independent professor at the École des hautes études en Photography Dealers Lifetime Achieve- sciences sociales, directeur of the ment Award (1992), the Royal Photo- Laboratoire d’histoire visuelle contempo- Photo: Rachel Crognale graphic Society Progress Medal (1992), raine; secretary of the Société française de John Szarkowski and the National Arts Club Gold Medal for photographie, and editor of Études. The Photography (1998). session takes place Thursday, February 23, Animals: Photographs by Gary Szarkowski has taught at Columbia, Winogrand (1969), From the Picture Press from 2:30 to 5:00 PM in Ballroom B of the Cornell, Florida International, Harvard, Hynes Convention Center. (1973), New Japanese Photography Yale, and New York Universities, the As director of MoMA’s Department of (1974; with Shoji Yamagishi); Photo- University of Wisconsin, Bennington and Photography from 1962 to 1991, graphs by William Eggleston (1976), Williams Colleges, the Sterling and Szarkowski oversaw more than one hun- Mirrors and Windows: American Photo- Francine Clark Art Institute, and the dred exhibitions, the publication of more graphy since 1960 (1978), Photography University of Arizona, where he was than thirty books and catalogues, the until Now (1990), and Lee Friedlander: appointed the first Ansel and Virginia inauguration of the museum’s first pho- Nudes (1991). Retrospectives have sur- Adams Visiting Scholar at that school’s tography collection galleries in 1964 and veyed the work of André Kertész (1964), Center for Creative Photography. Before their expansion in 1984, the establishment Dorothea Lange (1966), Brassaï (1968), joining MoMA, Szarkowski received two of endowments to support the depart- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1968), Bill Brandt Guggenheim fellowships in photography, ment’s programs, and the continued (1969), Walker Evans (1971), Diane which he used to produce The Idea of development of Arbus (1972), Harry Callahan (1976), Louis Sullivan (1956; reissued in 2000 by the collection, Eugene Atget (in four parts, 1981–85; Bulfinch Press) and to photograph the which now with Maria Morris Hambourg); Irving Quetico wilderness area of western includes more Penn (1984); and Gary Winogrand (1988). Ontario. Supported by a grant from the than twenty-five In 1985, Szarkowski inaugurated the University of Minnesota Press, he made thousand works annual New Photography series, which the photographs and wrote the text for The spanning the his- introduced the work of dozens of artists Face of Minnesota (1958). During these tory of photogra- in the following fourteen years. years, his work was widely exhibited, phy. In June 2003, MoMA issued a Russian including one-person shows at the Walker The exhibi- edition of Szarkowski’s highly acclaimed Art Center (1949, 1958), the George tions Szarkowski book, Looking at Photographs, an intro- Eastman House (1952), and the Art organized at the duction to the history and aesthetics of Institute of Chicago (1961). museum ranged from presentations of new photography first published in 1973. The Szarkowski returned to picture making work to retrospectives of major figures, new edition was issued to accompany in 1991 and during the past decade has and from considerations of the formal Szarkowski’s exhibition based on the photographed throughout the United vocabulary of photography and its varied book, which was on view at the State States. Mr. Bristol’s Bam, a book of his applications to broad surveys of important Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and photographs, was published in 1997. historical episodes. Many exhibitions the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York has were accompanied by publications edited Moscow in 2003. In addition to Ansel presented his work in two solo exhibitions and often written by Szarkowski. Among Adams at 100, Szarkowski’s other MoMA (1995 and 1999) and in a joint exhibition the most important are: The Photographer exhibitions since 1991 have included with Lee Friedlander (2000). and the American Landscape (1963), The Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George (1995) and Szarkowski was born in Ashland, Photographer’s Eye (1964; publication Come Sunday: Photographs by Thomas Wisc., in 1925 and received his bachelor’s 1966), New Documents (1967), The Roma (1996). degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1948.

4 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 Book and Trade Fair in Boston

his year’s Book and Trade Fair includes more than 125 exhibitors T displaying new publications, artist’s materials, digital resources, and other innovative products of interest to artists, scholars, and educators. Daily special events include book signings and conversations with distinguished authors, inform- ative lectures, and demonstrations of digital resources and new art materials and products. Here are a few highlights.

Book Signings and Receptions

The renowned Photo: Emily J. Gomez Ellen Wickhorn of the University Press of New England speaks to Robert Kirsch of Trinity College at the critic and art his- Book and Trade Fair at the 2005 Atlanta conference. torian Irving Sandler will sign copies of his learn how to submit material for consider- pant, Woman’s Art Journal, will continue latest book, ation, and ask questions. Profs. Marc publication under the auspices of Rutgers Avant Garde to Gotlieb of The Art Bulletin, Patricia C. University’s Dept. of Art History and Old Pluralism, An Phillips of Art Journal, and Frederick City Publishing, after the retirement of On-the-Spot Asher of caa.reviews will be at the booth founding editor and publisher Elsa Honig History (Lenox, Friday, February 24, 2006, from 10:00 AM Fine. CAA extends congratulations to Prof. Mass: Hard Press to 12:00 PM. Fine for her pioneering contribution to the Editions, 2005), field of scholarship in women’s studies in at the Antique Saturday Discounts on Books the visual arts. Beginning with volume 27, number 1, the journal will have new coedi- Collectors Club booth on Friday, February and Artist Materials 24, from 11 AM to 2 PM. tors: Joan Marter, professor of art history at Rutgers, and Margaret Barlow, the jour- Also on Friday, Thames and Hudson Many Book and Trade Fair vendors offer nal’s longtime associate editor. Stop by will host a reception for the authors of reduced rates—anywhere from 10 to 50 the booth shared by Woman’s Art Journal, Art since 1900: percent off—on books, art supplies, jour- the Women Artists Archive National Modernism, nals, and other materials on the last day of Directory, and Rutgers Art Review to learn Antimodernism, the fair: Saturday, February 25. Some pub- more. Postmodernism lishers allow conference attendees to (2005). Hal reserve copies of books in advance for the Foster, Rosalind Saturday sale—ask a booth representative Hours, Location, and Cost Krauss, Yve- how you can do this! Alain Bois, and The Book and Trade Fair takes place in Benjamin Exhibit Hall A, Plaza Level, at the Hynes Buchloh will be CAA Honors Saskia and Woman’s Convention Center, the headquarters of the present at the Art Journal conference sessions and meetings. It is publisher’s booth at 4:30 PM. open three days, February 23–25, 2006: On Thursday, February 23, at 5:00 PM, CAA extends congratulations and appreci- Thursday and Friday 9:00 AM–6:00 PM, Routledge is holding a reception to cele- ation to Renate Wiedenhoeft of Saskia and Saturday 9:00 AM–2:30 PM. Admission brate thirty years of the quarterly journal Cultural Documentation for more than to the Book and Trade Fair is free with an History of Photography. thirty-five years of participation in the Annual Conference registration badge. Book and Trade Fair. Saskia has been a Tickets are available in the registration Meet the Editors at the CAA Booth leader in visual resources for arts profes- area (Level 4, South Lobby) for those not sionals for more than forty years. Saskia’s registered for the full conference: $15 for Conference attendees are invited to meet ongoing support has made it possible for CAA members and $25 for nonmembers, the editors-in-chief of CAA’s three schol- CAA to continue to provide a growing and cash only. arly publications at the CAA booth. successful conference for our members. Discuss the journals, present your ideas, A longtime Book and Trade Fair partici-

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 5 Exhibitions at the Boston Conference

hree art exhibitions are being held in conjunction with the 2006 T Annual Conference in Boston. For more information, please see the conference Program or visit the conference website, http://conference.collegeart.org.

Annual CAA Exhibition

The Annual CAA Exhibition, now in its tenth year, will be held at the Mills Gallery. Part of the Boston Center for the Arts in South End, the city’s newest gallery district, the Mills Gallery is housed in a Victorian pile that was once the site of the Cyclorama, built in 1884 to display panoramic painting. Entitled After, the exhibition explores the aftermath of tem- Mary Magsamen and StephenHillerbrand, Bubble Burst, 2005, still from video installation, single chan- poral events that range from the personal nel video, 3-minute loop. Artwork © Mary Magsamen and StephenHiller brand. The artists’ work will be and intimate to the cataclysmic and world appearing in After, the Annual CAA Exhibition changing. ized by the Boston University School of Laura Donaldson, director of the Mills BFA Exhibition Visual Arts, the BFA show will become an Gallery and curator of the exhibition, CAA is premiering the regional BFA exhi- annual event, complementing the regional writes, “All of the artwork is to some bition, which provides an opportunity for MFA exhibition, inaugurated in 1988. The degree experiential: how one makes sense CAA members to view the creative BFA exhibition takes place at Boston of an event, the way memory is evoked, accomplishments of undergraduate stu- University’s 808 Gallery. See www.bu.edu/ and how absence is captured are the main dents from New England schools. Organ- cfa/visual/galleries/808_gallery.htm. thrusts. In video, sculpture, drawing, digital collage, and photography, the selected artists make the notion of ‘after’ palpable.” Included in the exhibition are: Anna Boston Conference Begins One Day Early Broell Bresnick, Gary Duehr, Emily Puthoff, Jonathan Whitehall, Kimi Weart, The 94th CAA Annual Conference, to be held February 22–25, 2006, in Boston, will Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand, begin one day early. J. Jacob Bloomer, Julie Levesque, David Under the new conference plan, sessions begin Wednesday morning—not Politzer, Julie Roberts, Andrew Johnson, Thursday, as before. Each conference day, from Wednesday through Saturday, fea- Misa Saburi, and Cynthia Greig and tures morning and afternoon sessions; no panels are scheduled for Thursday and Richard H. Smith. Friday nights. This change does not reduce the number of sessions and panels, which After is on view February 3–April 2, continues to provide the same rich core of intellectual, creative, and practical content 2006; a special CAA opening takes place as before, but rather extends the conference for one full day. Friday, February 24, 6:00–8:00 PM, and is At the same time, the number of short sessions offered during the early morning, linked to gallery open houses in South End lunchtime, and early evening slots will also remain unchanged, providing the usual and elsewhere. For gallery information, opportunities for affiliated societies, allied organizations, and institutional members see www.bcaonline.org/exhibitions.htm. to hold special sessions, business meetings, reunions, and receptions. And Convocation will still take place Wednesday evening, February 22; a gala reception MFA Exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will follow this event. We hope that all participants and attendees will now be able to enjoy special The MFA exhibition is a multigallery events, exhibition openings, receptions, and opportunities for socializing and net- affair organized by the Massachusetts working during the evening hours. Please make sure your travel plans accommodate College of Art. The opening reception will the extended conference. take place Thursday, February 23, 5:30– Conference information and the Preliminary Program can be found on CAA’s website; please visit http://conference.collegeart.org for details. We look forward to 7:00 PM. See www.massart.edu for details. seeing you in Boston!

6 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 Publications, ARTspace in Boston Annual Conference 2005); Alison Update Wright, The RTspace, the “conference within Pollaiuolo the conference” programmed by Brothers: The For more information about the 2006 CAA artists for the enjoyment of all Arts of Florence A Annual Conference in Boston, please visit attendees, includes a full slate of sessions, and Rome (New http://conference.collegeart.org or write to performances, interviews, and film and Haven: Yale Susan DeSeyn, CAA manager of programs, video screenings. This year, ARTspace University at [email protected]. takes place in Room 312, 3rd Level, at the Press, 2005); Xiaoneng Yang, Hynes Convention Center. Below is a Preliminary Program Online selection of events slated for the Boston New Perspectives on China’s Past: conference. Please check http://conference Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth The Preliminary Program, which contains Century (New Haven: Yale University .collegeart.org or the conference Program session and meeting listings for the 2006 for the full schedule. Press, in association with the Nelson- Annual Conference in Boston, was Atkins Museum of Art, 2004). launched in November on CAA’s website. Video Lounge Programs The Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for The program enables you to sample the museum scholarship is presented to the approximately 150 sessions in detail, and On Thursday, February 23, 9:00 AM–5:30 author(s) of an especially distinguished to search by keyword and browse by con- PM, ARTspace features Expanded Cinema catalogue in the history of art, published ference day. Please visit http://conference for the Digital Age, a video screening between September 1, 2004, and August .collegeart.org. curated by Leslie Raymond and Antony 31, 2005, under the auspices of a museum, The Conference Information booklet Flackett. “Expanded cinema” emerged in library, or collection. The finalists are: was mailed to all CAA members in late the 1960s with aspirations to explore Robert October. It contains information about reg- expanded consciousness through the tech- Thomson, istration, hotels, travel, receptions, and nology of the moving image. This thriv- Philip Dennis other special events for the Boston confer- ing, contemporary manifestation of Cate, and Mary ence. (This information is also available expanded cinema is many things: visual Weaver Chapin, online.) Conference registration is now music, video improvisation, intermedia Toulouse- available online; you must be a paid 2006 improvisation, video performance, audio/ Lautrec and member to take advantage of Advance reg- visual performance, improvised cinema, Montmartre istration: $200 for individual members and live-music video, and live video collage. (Washington, $120 for student members. Deadline for This screening surveys a selection of sin- D.C.: National Advance registration: January 13, 2006. gle-channel video works made by artists Gallery of Art, and Chicago: who perform with the moving image. Barr and Morey Award Finalists Video in the Built Environment (VIBE; Art Institute of Chicago, in association with Princeton University Press, 2005); www.v1b3.com) will present a survey of CAA is pleased to announce the finalists Eleana Phipps, Johanna Hecht, and public video projects. An artist-led project for the 2006 Charles Rufus Morey Book Cristina Esteras Maratin, eds., The begun in 2004 in the U.K. by the artists Award and the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award. Mat Rappaport, Conrad Gleber, and John The winners of both prizes will be Marshall, VIBE focuses on the integration announced at the Boston conference dur- Enrich Your Knowledge of Jewish Art of new-media art with the built environ- Join us for the Henry Luce Foundation ing Convocation, taking place Wednesday Seminar on Jewish Ceremonial Art ment through curated site-specific inter- evening, February 22. ventions, screened presentations, and col- Includes classes and visits to museums and private The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award collections, under the direction of Dr. Vivian B. Mann. laborations with architects and developers. honors an especially distinguished book in The screening will be held Friday, the history of art, published in any lan- February 24, 9:00–5:30 PM. guage between September 1, 2004, and May 21-26, 2006* Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, a visual August 31, 2005. The finalists are: The Jewish Theological Seminary artist on the faculty at the Massachusetts D. Medina Lasansky, The Renaissance 3080 Broadway, New York City Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and *Plus Sept. 17-18 and Nov. 13-14. will coordinate a video presentation featur- Tourism in Fascist Italy (University Park: ing recent faculty work from the MIT Pennsylvania State University Press, Media Lab. Faculty members Gloria For more information, contact Aliza Fine at 2004); Michael Leja, Looking Askance: (212) 280-6098; [email protected]. Davenport and/or John Maeda will also Skepticism and American Art from Eakins participate. For details, write to csik Double Marriage Cup by Tamar de Vries Winter. Silver and to Duchamp (Berkeley: University of enamel. Photo credit: Richard Goodbody, Inc. Courtesy of @media.mit.edu. This event will be held California Press, 2004); Carol C. The Jewish Museum (2002-2003), under the auspices of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Wednesday, February 22, 12:30–2:00 PM. Mattusch, The Villa dei Papyri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 Sculpture Collection (Los Angeles: Getty

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 7 Colonial Andes: Tapestries and CAA Offers Preconference Workshops Silverwork, 1530–1830 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2004); AA is pleased to announce its first preconference series of professional-devel- Richard F. Townsend and Robert V. Sharp, opment workshops for visual artists, art educators, museum professionals, and eds., Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: Cart historians at different points in their careers. Sessions take place in Boston American Indian Art of the Ancient on February 21, the Tuesday afternoon of the conference week. This year, the pri- Midwest and South (Chicago: Art Institute mary focus is on artists. of Chicago, in association with Yale University Press, 2004); Wendy Kaplan, Computing for a Better Portfolio ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America (New York: Thames Many technological advances are available to help visual artists enhance and organ- and Hudson, 2004). ize their portfolios. This CAA workshop addresses three important areas: identifying different technologies to use for your portfolio; understanding these technologies; Student Guide to the Boston and choosing the appropriate technology for you. Led by Alex Khost of Conference CampiKhostLLC, a web design and development company, the discussion will focus on the importance of understanding digital imagery, compatibility, and how this In December, CAA’s Student and knowledge makes it easier to upgrade a portfolio. The discussion will also include an Emerging Professional Committee pub- introduction to input/output tools for computers, basic digital-camera interface and lished the Student Guide to the Boston how to use it with your computer, and an overview of the useful tools and features of Conference, which provides links to inex- Photoshop. The workshop will examine different types of portfolios, uses, and pensive hotels, restaurants, and transporta- requirements for portfolios. The workshop will be given twice on Tuesday, February tion in the Boston area, as well as to 21, 2006, at 1:00–2:00 PM and 5:00–6:00 PM. Each workshop is limited to fifteen par- museums, galleries, and other sites of ticipants. Preregistration price is $35. To register, e-mail [email protected]. interest. Please visit http://conference .collegeart.org/2006/student. Writing a Better Artist’s Statement Projectionists and Room An artist’s statement is a standard element of any artist’s portfolio and résumé pack- Monitors Needed age. Although we would like to think that our digital images or slides speak for themselves, a poorly written artist’s statement may weaken an otherwise strong pres- CAA seeks applications for projectionist entation. Exhibition curators, academic hiring committees, and gallery owners who positions at the 2006 Annual Conference receive artists’ portfolios are skilled critical readers as well as judges of visual art. in Boston. Successful applicants will be What information should an artist’s statement include? Is it okay to use the same paid $10 per hour and will receive com- statement for an academic job application and when submitting a portfolio to a plimentary conference registration. gallery? How creative, stylized, or impressionistic should the writing be? Workshop Projectionists are required to work a min- 1 participants will explore various modes of statement and may bring their own draft imum of four 2 ⁄2-hour program sessions, texts for review and critique. In addition to content and style, the workshop will from Wednesday, February 22, to review basics of grammar, syntax, and punctuation. Led by Eve Sinaiko, CAA direc- Saturday, February 25, and attend a train- tor of publications, this workshop will be given twice, 3:00–4:00 PM and 4:00–5:00 ing meeting Wednesday morning at 7:30 PM, on Tuesday, February 21, 2006. AM. Projectionists must be able to operate Each workshop is limited to fifteen participants. Preregistration ($35) is required; a 35-mm slide projector; familiarity with use the preregistration form in the Conference Information booklet, which was video and overhead projectors is pre- mailed to all CAA members in October, or visit http://conference.collegeart.org. ferred. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. residents. Send a brief Grant-Writing for Artists letter of interest to: Manager of Programs, CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th CAA is pleased to announce a special preconference grant-writing workshop for Floor, New York, NY 10001. Deadline visual artists, taking place on Tuesday, February 21, 2:00–5:00 PM. Led by Barbara extended: January 20, 2006. Bernstein, the workshop will be given in two parts. Part 1 is an overview of the com- Room monitors are needed for CAA’s plete grant proposal writing process for individual and/or collaborative projects, two mentoring programs, the Artists’ including gathering background information, setting goals and objectives, activity Portfolio Mentoring Sessions and the plans, budget, and assessment. In part 2, small groups will engage in “hands on” Career Development Mentoring Sessions, practice exercises, including writing abstracts, conceiving goals and objectives, creat- as well as for several off-site conference ing documentation and assessment plans, and formulating a budget. Information on sessions. Successful candidates will be researching sources of grant funding will be provided at both sessions. The two parts paid $10 per hour and will receive com- of the grant-writing workshop will run back-to-back. Each session is limited to fifty plimentary conference registration. Room participants. To register, please write to [email protected]. monitors will work a minimum of four hours, checking in participants and facili-

8 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 tating the work of the mentors. Candidates and reception Thursday, February 23, last ten years. Preregistration is $30; this must be U.S. citizens or permanent U.S. 5:30–10:00 PM. Founded in 1896, the event is limited to the first fifty people. residents. Send a brief letter of interest to: museum surveys fifty centuries of art from The Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery of Manager of Programs, CAA, 275 Seventh antiquity to the present. Highlights of Providence College and the Bell Gallery Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001. European art include early Italian panel at the List Art Center of Brown Univer- Deadline extended: January 20, 2006. paintings, and masterpieces by Piero di sity, both in Providence, R.I., are offering Cosimo, Andrea del Sarto, El Greco, a daylong event on February 26 (9:00 Show Your Art at the Boston Leyster, Greuze, Gainsborough, Monet, AM–5:00 PM) related to their exhibition on Conference and Gauguin. The American collection Joseph Beuys. The tour will begin at the features pre-Columbian art, Colonial por- Hunt-Cavanagh, meeting Prof. James CAA invites artist members to exhibit traits, silver, and furniture; and paintings Baker to view Beuys’s work. Next the their work at Arts Exchange, the annual by Inness, Bierstadt, Homer, Sargent, tour meets Vesela Stretenovic, curator of open-portfolio session at the Annual Hassam, Benson, and Tarbell, some of the Bell Gallery, for an informal tour of Conference sponsored by the Services to them acquired directly from the artists. Another View of Joseph Beuys: Multiples Artists Committee. Six-foot tables have Other highlights are the museum’s from New England Collections at the been reserved for artists to show prints, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art, including Bell. Participants will then attend a sym- paintings, drawings, photographs, work on the exceptional sixth-century Antioch posium on Beuys with participants Lynne battery-powered laptops, or anything else mosaics; a twelfth-century Romanesque Cooke, curator of the Dia Foundation; that will fit on the table. The general pub- Chapter House; prints, drawings, and pho- Peter Nisbet, curator of the Busch- lic is able to attend this session free of tographs, with special concentrations of Reisinger Museum, Harvard University; charge; a cash bar will be available. All color prints; an Asian collection with art Carin Kuoni, director of the Vera List reservations for tables are filled on a first- from Japan, China, Korea, India, Thailand, Center for Arts and Politics, New School; come, first-served basis; please send your Vietnam, and Islamic countries; and cut- Cornelia Lauf, curator at the American request to Julie Green of Oregon State ting-edge contemporary works from the Academy of Art in Rome; and Ronald University, Corvallis, at [email protected], with the subject heading “CAA Arts Exchange.” Indicate your CAA membership number in your e-mail and if you are #/,,%'% !24 !33/#)!4)/. interesting in presenting work on a laptop. Participants are responsible for their work; CAA is not liable for any losses or damages. Sales of work are not permitted. Confirmation reply e-mails will be sent. Deadline: February 1, 2006. Boston Conference Tours

CAA offers three tours during the 2006 Annual Conference. For full details on these tours, please see http://conference .collegeart.org/2006/tours. #!!4( !..5!, #/.&%2%.#% An architectural tour of H. H. Richardson’s Trinity Church, a short walk from the Hynes Convention Center, will take place Thursday, February 23, 12:45–2:00 PM. This tour offers an exclu- sive look at the art and architecture of this "/34/. Romanesque Revival masterpiece. Jean &%"25!29 n Carroon of the American Institute of Architects and director of preservation at Goody, Clancy and Associates in Boston 2%')34%2./7 will lead a tour that highlights the recently restored interior and the famous tower murals of John La Farge. The tour costs $10 (cash or credit card, payable on-site at 0ROVIDING0ROFESSIONAL3ERVICESAND2ESOURCESFOR Trinity Church) and is limited to the first !RTISTS !RT(ISTORIANS AND3TUDENTSOFTHE6ISUAL!RTS HOTO#AMILO2AMIREZ fifty people. 0 The Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Mass., is hosting an open house WWWCOLLEGEARTORG

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 9 Feldman of Ronald Feldman Gallery. individual organizations, and a stipend, For more information, see www.as-ap.org. Preregistration is $35; this event is limit- inclusive of travel funds, will be awarded ed to the first fifty people. for on-site work to be performed by the Publications Committee Session end of 2006. The edited oral history will on Art-History Survey Texts Greek and Roman Art Session at be published by winter 2007 on AS-AP’s the MFA Boston website and potentially in print media. The CAA Publications Committee is spon- AS-AP is a nonprofit initiative founded soring a 2006 conference session, entitled This session, to be held February 23, by a consortium of alternative art organi- “The Art History Survey Text: The Next 12:30–2:00 PM, will involve a walk through zations, including Bomb magazine, CAA, Big Thing?” and chaired by David A. one of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Franklin Furnace Archive, New York State Levine and Larry Silver. Panelists include premier collections of Greek and Roman Council on the Arts, New York State Artist two textbook authors, John Paoletti and art with Christine Kondoleon, George and Workspace Consortium, and the Henry Luttikhuizen, and a textbook editor, Margo Behrakis Senior Curator of Greek Skowhegan School of Painting and Lee Ripley. Audience participation is and Roman Art, and a select group of col- Sculpture, with a mandate to help pre- encouraged. This session will take place leagues who use the collections for teach- serve, present, and protect the archival her- Thursday, February 23, 12:30–2:00 PM. ing. As the planning for new installations itage of living and defunct for- and not- The session abstract states: “Few things of these galleries is underway, the for-profit spaces of the “alternative” or matter more to the long-term health of art exchange of ideas will focus on issues of “avant-garde” movement of the 1950s to history than vital, well-conceived introduc- presentation and interpretation. Issues to be the present throughout the United States. tions to the field. Introductory courses and addressed include: how to present objects of dubious authenticity, thematic versus chronological displays, and how much context can be given in a label. Art Spaces Archives Project Panel

Art Spaces Archives Project (AS-AP) is presenting a panel, “Three Activist Organizations of the 1970s and ’80s: Research Opportunities of Scholars,” at the CAA conference in Boston. This panel features founding members of High Find a Fellowship Performance magazine and Godzilla: The Asian Art Network, among other organizations, who will provide a historical The Association of Research Institutes in Art History overview and describe why these organiza- is holding an information breakfast at the annual CAA tions were founded, how they functioned at “midlife,” and why their activities conference in Boston. The event is to be held in the ended. In particular, participants will dis- Wellesley Room at the Marriott Boston Copley Place, cuss who or what each organization spawned and how these groups interacted on Friday, February 24, 2006, from 7:30–9:00 a.m. with a community, for example, how they coexisted, melded into, or changed their communities or broader constituencies. Directors and organizers of research programs from Following the panel, AS-AP will solicit across the United States and beyond will be available proposals from emerging scholars to con- duct the research with individual organiza- to talk about the fellowship opportunities offered at tions, including: their institutes. • Performing original research using their physical archives (such as founding papers, ephemera, documentation of Coffee, tea, and continental breakfast will be available. activities); • Conducting oral histories with the founder(s) of the organizations; • Publishing the conclusion of the research and oral history on AS-AP’s website. More about ARIAH at www.ariah.info A single scholar per organization will be chosen by AS-AP in consultation with the

10 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 their textbooks serve as the discipline’s introductory texts often become de facto pedagogy of introductory courses and text- main emissaries to the public. They are the guides for instructors teaching outside books designed for novice students. means by which most undergraduate stu- their main fields of expertise, they even Generally not considered scholarship, dents first encounter art and art history, influence the curriculum at higher levels. these volumes have been left largely in the and their enrollments influence the alloca- Nevertheless, our profession has historical- hands of publishers and a few intrepid tion of resources at the university. Since ly paid scant attention to the content or authors. “What should be the parameters of the next great survey text? How should it differ in focus from those we have today? Notice of the 94th Annual Members’ What is its mission? What teaching tech- Business Meeting niques should it employ? Such questions elicit a wide variety of answers that will stimulate our thinking about shaping art otice is hereby given that a meeting of the members of the College Art history for our students and constructing a Association, Inc., will be held Friday, February 24, 2006, at 5:00 PM in new generation of instructional tools for N Ballroom B, Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA our profession. Short presentations and a 02115. CAA President Ellen K. Levy will preside. long discussion period will permit mem- In accordance with the By-laws, Article IV, Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4: “The bers of the audience to provide commen- Association shall hold an annual business meeting in conjunction with the Annual tary, suggestions, and comments. After- Conference at a place and on a date and time fixed by the Board of Directors. The ward, the chairs will prepare a brief report purpose of the Annual Meeting is to transact such business as may come before the to CAA on the session. Meeting. Active Members may propose resolutions for consideration at the Annual “We aim to create a sense of communi- Meeting. Any such proposals must (i) be received by the office of the Executive ty at CAA among art historians interested Director no later than eighty (80) days prior to the Annual Meeting; (ii) be in proper in the problem of introducing our disci- parliamentary form; (iii) be signed by at least twenty-five (25) Active Members of pline to new audiences. To that end, we the Association in good standing; (iv) be no more than three hundred (300) words in will ask interested session attendees to length; and (v) deal with matters relating to the purposes of the Association as set give their contact information to us so that forth in Article II. The Board may also propose matters for consideration at the we may involve participants in subsequent Annual Meeting. meetings and discussions on the topic.” The Notice of the Annual Meeting shall give notice of the date, time, and place of the Annual Meeting and of any resolutions or other matters to be considered at the Committee on Intellectual Annual Meeting. The Notice shall be served personally or by mail to all members Property Session on Copyright entitled to notice at least sixty (60) days prior to the date designated for the Annual Meeting. At the Annual Meeting, the President shall determine the order in which The CAA Committee on Intellectual resolutions or other matters may be considered. As the President may deem appropri- Property is sponsoring a session at the ate, resolutions from the floor may be considered at the Annual Meeting.” Annual Conference in Boston, entitled “Copyright: Cutting Edge or Bleeding Agenda Edge: Where Do We Stand?” The session will be held Friday, February 24, 2006, I. Call to Order – Ellen K. Levy 12:30–2:00 PM. I. President’s Report – Ellen K. Levy In 1994–96, the federal government II. Financial Report – John Hyland, Jr., Treasurer called upon copyright stakeholders from III. Old Business many perspectives to meet and negotiate V. New Business guidelines for the fair use of electronic VI. Results of Election of Directors – Ellen K. Levy materials in a variety of nonprofit educational contexts. The Conference on Fair Proxies Use (CONFU) failed to reach agreement on guidelines, leaving copyright holders If you are unable to attend the meeting, please sign and return your proxy to so that and users to navigate the uncertainties of it is received by no later than 5:00 PM EST on February 24, 2006. By doing so, you fair use by defining best-practices codes appoint the individuals named thereon to (i) vote, in their discretion, on such matters for themselves or by attempting to resolve as may properly come before such a meeting; and (ii) vote in any and all adjourn- specific areas of potential conflict. The ments thereof. session will focus on recent efforts to address some of these specific concerns. Christine L. Sundt Christine Kuan, editor of Grove Art Secretary Online, will discuss how museums are College Art Association reassessing attitudes toward sharing December 7, 2005 images and information; Jeffrey Cunard,

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CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 11 Did you have a clear idea of the career Obviously networking should begin Former CAA Fellow: path you would take after graduating early. The contacts students make while in Gallery Director from Columbia? graduate school and in the entry-level job are incredibly valuable; this is something Amy Ingrid Schlegel I always knew I wanted to make a differ- that I emphasize because it’s not always ence in people’s lives, but not by holing common sense or easy to do. myself up in an office writing a book or by ombining the skills of an art histo- researching in a library. I knew I’d be hap- Describe some of your major accomplish- rian, curator, educator, and arts pier in a setting where I could interact ments as director of galleries and collec- C administrator, Amy Ingrid with a range of people, but it was not clear tions at Tufts. Schlegel, a 1995 CAA fellow, has estab- exactly what job would best provide that lished herself as the director of galleries setting. The job market is so influential: Devising a five-year strategic plan has and collections at the Tufts University Art what opportunities are available, how will- been my number-one priority since I’ve Gallery in the ing you are to relocate, how much pay to been here—and our board of advisors is Aidekman Arts expect. These personal decisions are not almost finished. By the spring, we will Center in discussed in graduate school, but they cer- have written the document that will solidi- Medford, Mass., tainly play a big role in how quickly an fy our five-year goals and describe how five miles north emerging arts professional can move best to reach them. I also assembled a of Boston. While ahead. committee to revise and update our mis- completing her sion and vision statements. I reassessed all PhD in art history What advice do you give to your students staff positions and created new job at Columbia who are interested in pursuing a higher- descriptions. I developed governance and University in New education degree? administrative protocols that heretofore York in 1996, didn’t exist. I lobbied for an increase in Schlegel never Students interested in noncuratorial roles the gallery’s operating budget by a third in imagined a career don’t need a PhD. They often move into one year, and we seek to grow that budget Amy Ingrid Schlegel path involving the workplace after completing their each year. arts management degree. Those interested in curatorial In the meantime, I am organizing and to the extent that she would one day work ask themselves, do I need to spend inviting exhibitions. Right now, we are recruit an organization’s advisory board, another four to six years in graduate working with a guest curator who has con- embark on a strategic-planning process, school after the two that I just spent at ceived a wonderful, ambitious thematic significantly increase an operating budget, Tufts? For most, the answer is no. The group show that we brought to fruition cultivate donors, or launch a public-art experience that master’s students garner during the past year. This exhibition is program. either before, during, and immediately now traveling nationally—a first for Tufts. The success of Schlegel’s career path after earning their degrees is what helps We are thinking of innovative ways to has led her to contribute to future genera- them to land a first job. grow the institution’s programs, audience, tions of arts professionals. In addition to her directorship, Schlegel curates exhibitions, teaches an exhibition-planning course in the Museum Studies Certificate Program at Tufts, employs graduate students as curatorial assistants, and mentors students seeking advice about PhD programs and the curatorial profession.

While pursuing your doctorate, did you consider curatorial work as a career goal?

Yes, but not seriously. Since the mid- 1990s, the museum field has undergone tremendous growth and professionaliza- tion. At the academic, institutional level, there are certainly more museum-studies, arts-administration, and curatorial-studies programs now than ten years ago. It seems much easier today for people studying art history to be more open to curatorial work, Diane Burko, Grandes Jorasses at Marguerite, 1976, oil on canvas, 68 x 104 in. Artwork © Diane Burko. but I didn’t have a role model for this type Photograph provided by Locks Gallery. of work in graduate school.

12 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 and fundraising capacity, and touring exhi- ing in a stand-alone nonprofit organization This kind of work takes us far from post- bitions can potentially generate income. such as a museum run by a board of direc- structuralist theory debated in the graduate- The next step will be to establish endowed tors. In many ways, being a gallery direc- school seminar room. I am not sure that programs so that we can be less reliant on tor for a university is a much more stable even curatorial-studies and the other types grants, which are never a reliable source of environment but at the same time a much of master’s-degree programs can give you funding, and shore up the vision that more bureaucratic one; I am interfacing this kind of training. To be a successful we’ve started with this strategic plan. with many different departments and deans director or curator, one must accumulate As you can see, the roles of a director and on many administrative levels. Under- years of experience—figuring out what and curator are very different. The job of a standing how the university operates and works and what doesn’t—and draw on curator who works in a university setting furthering its priorities and vision are keys strong interpersonal skills beyond the strong is distinct from the role of a curator work- to being successful in my position here. analytic or writing capacities developed in graduate school. CAA Offers MFA and PhD Fellowships What exhibitions at the Tufts University Art Gallery coincide with the CAA Annual Conference in Boston? he CAA Professional Development Fellowship Program is a unique opportunity for emerging artists and scholars to receive funding toward the comple- On Thursday, February 23, from 5:00 to T tion of their degrees and receive one-on-one professional-development sup- 9:00 PM, the gallery will host an open port. Established in 1993 to aid MFA and PhD students in bridging the gap between house. One exhibition, on view February graduate school and professional life, the program nurtures outstanding artists and 9–April 2, is Flow, a solo show of work scholars with the necessary financial support, employment advice, and mentoring by Diane Burko, an active CAA member that can empower them at the beginning of their careers. as well as a former CAA Board member. CAA has awarded fellowships to seventy-eight artists and scholars. Former artist This exhibition features paintings and fellows have exhibited in prestigious group shows, including the Whitney Biennial archival ink-jet prints of recent work and the Venice Biennale, and at institutions such as the Walker Art Center, the depicting locations in Iceland, Sicily, Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institute Hawai‘i, and Washington State. Burko’s of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and the landscapes deal with not just water but any Smithsonian Institution’s International Gallery, liquid environment in a state of transfor- among others. Former fellows have published in mation. Waterfalls, glaciers, and lava flows such journals and magazines as Artforum, Art Asia are subjects that, for the artist, examine the Pacific, Visual Resources, and History of incredibly interesting boundary between Photography, as well as in CAA’s three scholarly representation and abstraction—both as a publications. Both artist and art-historian fellows photographer, which is her newest prac- have earned teaching positions in public and private tice, and as a painter, a medium for which colleges and universities nationwide, while other she is well known. The other exhibition I recipients work as curators in important museums have cocurated with art-historian col- and galleries in the United States and Canada. leagues from Tufts and Brandeis Each CAA fellow receives an unrestricted University is called Cross-Currents in $5,000 grant during his or her final year of study. Recent Video Installation: Water as a Previous fellows have applied the grant toward Metaphor, featuring new work by four arttists with ties to southern, central, and Eik Kahng, a 1994 fellow, was the tuition, travel, supplies, and day-to-day living curator of the 2002–3 exhibition expenses. CAA continues to offer support to each northern Africa, which I conceived to Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the fellow for an additional year after graduation by dovetail thematically with the Burko Court of Marie-Antoinette and the advocating for accessible employment opportuni- exhibition. coeditor of the accompanying cata- —Stacy Miller, Emily Conradson, and logue. ties. Upon securing a position, CAA provides a $10,000 subsidy to the employer as part of the Beth Herbruck fellow’s salary. Four fellowships, each with generous matching grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, are open to MFA and PhD candidates who will complete their degrees in 2007. Two honor- able-mention recipients will be selected to receive a $1,000 award. CAA encourages applicants from socially and economically diverse backgrounds. Applications are now available at www.collegeart.org/fellowships. For more information, please call 212-691-1051, ext. 219, or write to [email protected]. Deadline: January 31, 2006.

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 13 in today’s “ownership society” affects the The report can be downloaded from Advocacy Update arts. FEPP conducted more than a year of www.fepproject.org/policyreports/ research on the impact of current copy- WillFairUseSurvive.pdf. It will be also For more information on CAA’s advocacy right law and practice on the arts and has available at CAA Annual Conference in efforts, visit www.collegeart.org/advocacy issued a report, entitled “Will Fair Use Boston; pick up a free copy at the CAA or write to Rebecca Cederholm, CAA Survive? Free Expression in the Age of booth at the Book and Trade Fair. To order director of governance and advocacy, at Copyright Control.” The report argues that additional copies, please write to [email protected]. increasingly heavy assertions of control by [email protected]. copyright and trademark owners are Report on Fair Use and smothering fair use and free expression. 2005 Election Impact on the Copyright Control With background on copyright, trademark, “cease and desist” letters, and dozens of Arts In summer 2005, CAA members—includ- firsthand stories from artists, scholars, The Americans for the Arts Action Fund ing artists, scholars, curators, and gal- bloggers, and others, “Will Fair Use has completed its preliminary report of the lerists—took part in a focus group con- Survive?” paints a striking picture of an “2005 Election Impact on the Arts.” The ducted by the Brennan Center for Justice’s intellectual-property system out of bal- report shows that citizens voted over- Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP) to ance. Six recommendations for change are whelmingly for proarts ballot initiatives gather information on how copyright law proposed. and candidates throughout the country. While 2005 is considered an off year for national and most statewide elections, hundreds of local elections took place in $576 ('8&$7,21 communities across the country; two statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia were also notable exceptions. &216,'(5 7+( 9&$ Four local ballot initiatives having a positive direct impact on the arts and arts '$1&($57),/0 7(/(9,6,21 education passed by large margins, as well as one statewide ballot that could poten- '5$0$086,&352'8&7,21 tially benefit the arts. “2005 Election &20081,7< &8/785$/ '(9(/230(17 Impact on the Arts” contains details of these ballots initiatives as well as highlights of the arts policy positions of 7KH 9LFWRULDQ &ROOHJH RI WKH $UWV 9&$ LQ 0HOERXUQH LV RQH RI $XVWUDOLD·V Governor-Elect Jon Corzine of New Jersey OHDGLQJ LQVWLWXWLRQV IRU HGXFDWLRQ DQG WUDLQLQJ LQ YLVXDO DQG SHUIRUPLQJ and Governor-Elect Tim Kaine of Virginia, DUWV ,W LV DQ LQVWLWXWLRQ ZKHUH FUHDWLYH SHRSOH IURP D GLYHUVH UDQJH as well as top city mayors across the coun- RI FXOWXUHV JDLQ WKH VNLOOV LQVSLUDWLRQ DQG FRQILGHQFH WR WKULYH try. For the full report, please visit LQ D FRPSHWLWLYH HQYLURQPHQW www.artsactionfund.org.

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14 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 New Comparative State Policy • The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ing outstanding universal value. The new Database on Arts Education theft; sites include: Qal’at al-Bahrin, an archaeo- • The Swedish National Museum theft; logical site in Bahrain; the Old Bridge The Education Commission of the States • Theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream; Area of the Old City of Mostar in Bosnia has published a comprehensive online data- • Theft of the Cellini Salt Cellar; and Herzegovina; the Plantin-Moretus base, ArtScan, which allows users to com- • Theft of Caravaggio’s Nativity with San House-Workshops-Museum Complex in pare state policies for arts education across Lorenzo and San Francisco; Belgium; and the Museum-City of Gjiro- states and to view compiled reports on state • Theft of the Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius; kastra. For the complete list, see policies for arts education. ArtScan is avail- • The Van Gogh Museum robbery; http://whc.unesco.org/en/list. able on the commissions website: • Theft of Paul Cézanne’s View of Auvers- www.ecs.org/html/educationIssues/ sur-Oise; ArtsinEducation/ArtscanDB_intro.asp. • Theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna of the Yarnwinde. CAA News National Medal Of Arts Since the creation of ACT in November Awarded 2004, the agency has been involved in the recovery of more than one hundred items For more information on CAA activities, visit www.collegeart.org. On November 10, 2005, President George of art and cultural property, valued at more than $40 million. For more information, W. Bush awarded the National Medal of Board of Directors Meeting Arts to nine individuals and one organiza- please visit www.fbi.gov. tion. The National Medal of Arts, estab- Report lished by Congress in 1984, is awarded by Twenty-Four Sites Added to At its October 23, 2005, meeting, the CAA the president to those who have made World Heritage List Board of Directors approved the following: extraordinary contributions to the creation, • Nicola Courtright, professor of fine arts growth, and support of the arts in the Twenty-four sites (seven natural and sev- at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., United States. The Pennsylvania Academy enteen cultural) have been added to was elected CAA president for the of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia is the UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The list 2006–8 term (see page 2). institutional recipient. For a complete list now includes 812 properties, forming part • The Board unanimously approved a of awardees, visit www.whitehouse.gov/ of the cultural and natural heritage that the revised program for institutional news/releases/2005/11/20051108-2.html. World Heritage Committee considers hav- NGA Report on Rural Economic Development and the Arts

The National Governors Association (NGA) has published a report, entitled “Strengthening Rural Economies through the Arts,” which shows how rural communities benefit economically from having arts organizations work in their area. Based on the findings, NGA recommends that the arts industry be integrated into state development planning, and that more money is invested in rural cultural recours- es. For the full report, please visit www.nga.org/portal/site/nga. FBI Announces Top Ten Art Crimes

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced the “Top Ten Art Crimes.” The FBI Art Crime Team (ACT) estimates that these ten criminal cases, priceless in terms of their cultural value, represent losses of approximately $600 million. According to the FBI, the top ten art crimes are: • Iraqi looted and stolen artifacts;

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 15 memberships (see page 18). and self-nominations to Alexis Light, Lang, Chaos and Cosmos: Critical • The Board unanimously chose Los Governance and Advocacy Assistant, Reflections on the Image, Aesthetics, and Angeles as the site for the 2009 Annual CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New Art History (Cornell University Press); Conference. York, NY 10001; [email protected]. Denise Blake Oleksijczuk, The First Deadline, April 8, 2006. Panoramas: Vision, the Body, and British Nominations Requested for Imperialism, 1787–1820 (University of 2007–11 CAA Board Millard Meiss Publication Grant Minnesota Press). Winners Books eligible for a Meiss Fund subsidy Want to help shape the future of CAA? are those already under contract and whose Tell us who you would like to see on CAA is pleased to announce five Millard subject is in the arts or art history. Authors CAA’s Board of Directors. Nominations Meiss Publication Grant recipients for fall must be CAA members in good standing. and self-nominations are sought for indi- 2005. Thanks to the generous bequest of Application criteria and guidelines are viduals interested in serving on CAA’s the late Prof. Millard Meiss, these grants available at www.collegeart.org/meiss or Board for the 2007–11 term. The Board is are awarded twice annually to publishers from [email protected]. responsible for all financial and policy to support the publication of scholarly Deadlines: March 15 and October 1 of matters related to the organization. It pro- books in art history and related fields. every year. motes excellence in scholarship and teach- The grantees are: Carl F. Barnes, The ing in the history and criticism of the visu- Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt Paris, CAA Publishing Grant Offered al arts, and it encourages creativity and Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr technical skill in the teaching and practice 19093: A New Critical Edition and Color CAA invites publishers in art, art history, of art. CAA’s Board is also charged with Facsimile (Ashgate); Elizabeth Hill visual studies, and related fields to submit representing the membership on issues Boone, Cycles of Time and Meaning in applications for a new grant to support the affecting the visual arts and humanities. the Mexican Books of Fate (University of publication of a book (or booklike work in Nominations should include the follow- Texas Press); Dorothea Burns, The another format) in the arts. ing information: the nominee’s name, Invention of Pastel Painting (Archetype); This grant is an annual award to a pub- affiliation, e-mail address, and telephone Darby English, How to See a Work of Art lisher in the sum of $23,000 to support the number, as well as the name, affiliation, in Total Darkness (MIT Press); Andrea publication of one book. Applicant books and e-mail address of the nominator, if dif- Giunta, Avant-Garde, Internationalism, are original works of exceptional merit ferent from the nominee. You may use the and Politics: Argentinean Art in the and significant contributions to the schol- form below. Please forward nominations Sixties (Duke University Press); Karen arship of art, art history, visual studies, art

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16 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 theory or criticism, or a related field. PDF format for download at tributed to NYFA’s website. Gilbert holds Applications for works in the following www.collegeart.org/news/archives.html. a BA in humanities from the University of areas are especially welcomed: African, Included are recent special issues of Colorado in Boulder and a PhD in English East Asian, South Asian, Native American, CAA News: health and safety in the artist’s literature from the University at Buffalo, or contemporary art; works that focus in studio (July 2004); slides and digital State University of New York. He is a depth on a single theme, artist, work of art, images (September 2004); art pedagogy widely published art and literary scholar or cluster of works with an overarching (September 2005); and career development and critic, with a forthcoming book from intellectual connection; a first full-length (November 2005). For more information, Wesleyan University Press entitled work by a younger author, or by one who write to Christopher Howard, CAA man- Another Future: Poetry and Art in a has received a PhD within the past ten ager of media and communication, at Postmodern Twilight. years. For complete guidelines, application [email protected]. Beth Herbruck has joined CAA as forms, and grant description, please visit career-development associate, working www.collegeart.org/pubgrant. Deadline: Staff Retirement predominately on the Online Career March 1, 2006. Center and the Career Fair at the Annual Theresa Smyth, Conference. A background in event pro- Call for Articles on New and CAA director of duction and graphic design, she has Digital Media member services worked at the Brooklyn Academy of since 1978, has Music as senior special-events coordinator CAA News seeks article ideas, drafts, and retired. She was and as project manager at Splashlight completed texts for an upcoming special responsible for a Studios and Karen Bussen Inc. Former issue on the teaching and practice of new number of tasks graphic-design clients include Marc media and digital technology. The length over the years, Jacobs, Fuel Digital Inc., *surface maga- of articles may be between 500 and 2,000 including mem- zine, Time Out New York, the American words. Submissions are subject to editing bership renewals, Cancer Society, and the San Francisco Art and revision, and we cannot return submit- Theresa Smyth processing, and Institute. Herbruck studied fine art and ted materials. The editor will work with payments, confer- design at the University of Georgia in authors on securing photographs and other ence-registration operations, and CAA’s Athens and completed her BFA in graphic images. For more information, write to job-placement publications, both print and design at Georgia State University in Christopher Howard, CAA manager of online. Smyth possessed a long, valuable Atlanta. media and communications, at institutional memory of CAA, and her Austin Hoo is CAA’s new information- [email protected]. direct knowledge of every facet of CAA’s technology (IT) specialist, working in the core services and operations was unparal- IT and Statistics Department. He received CAA News Archived on Website leled among the staff and Board of an associate’s degree at Queensborough Directors. CAA wishes her the best in the Community College in New York, major- Issues of CAA News from 2003 to the coming years. ing in computer information systems. present have been archived on the CAA Before coming to CAA, Hoo worked for website. Full, intact issues are available in New Staff Members three years at Learning Leaders, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recruiting, Asha De Costa is a new member-services screening, training, and supporting school CAA ANNOUNCES assistant at CAA. Her position includes volunteers who provide instructional sup- NEW PUBLICATION GRANTS correspondence with individual and insti- port and other enrichment services to New tutional members, database input and York public school students. maintenance, and other administrative Bonnie Huie is CAA’s new publica- The College Art Association now offers three grant tasks. De Costa attended Parsons School programs to publishers to support publication of tions cataloguer. She orders and receives scholarly art and art-history books: of Design in New York, earning a BFA and new books from publishers, compiles the an MFA in fine arts. During that time, she Books Received list in The Art Bulletin CAA Publication Grant worked at the Noguchi Museum in Deadline: March 1 and caa.reviews, and dispatches review For eligibility and application guidelines and forms: Queens, N.Y. An artist working in sculp- materials to commissioning editors, www.collegeart.org/pubgrant ture, she recently started a charity that is reviewers, and publicists. She holds a BA raising money and collecting art supplies Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant from Oberlin College in English and East Deadlines: March 15 and October 1 each year and school materials to send to children in Asian studies. Huie is also a freelance For eligibility and application guidelines and forms: Sri Lanka who were affected by the tsuna- proofreader and cataloguer for such organ- www.collegeart.org/meiss mi in December 2004. izations as Sotheby’s, the 92nd Street Y, Wyeth Foundation for American Art Grant Alan Gilbert has joined CAA as editor VidiPax, and the European film journal Deadline: October 15 of caa.reviews, CAA’s online reviews jour- Kinoeye. She is a writer and filmmaker For eligibility and application guidelines and forms: nal. Prior to CAA, Gilbert worked for the www.collegeart.org/wyeth whose work has been screened in the New York Foundation for the Arts United States, Europe, and Japan. Or visit www.collegeart.org/publications (NYFA), where he edited the art maga- Eugenia Lewis has joined CAA as con- for general information. zines FYI and NYFA Quarterly and controller in the Finance Department. She is

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 17 responsible for overseeing the fiscal opera- New Institutional Membership Categories tions, maintaining financial books and records, and financial reporting. Lewis and Benefits comes to CAA from Learning Leaders, where she was controller for eight years. She has also worked at Haitian Women his month, CAA is unveiling a new trilevel institutional-membership struc- Program, Medical and Health Research ture, which has been created to better serve all our institutional members. No Association, and Newsweek. She holds an T matter the size or structure of your organization, CAA offers a membership MBA in quantitative analysis from St. level designed to suit your specific needs. John’s University and a BA from Baruch Some of the exciting new benefits available to your institution include discounts College, both in New York. on employment listings in our Online Career Center, discounts on CAA’s limited- Cheryl Stoever is CAA’s part-time pro- edition prints, discounts on advertising in CAA publications, and much more. grams assistant, working with the director If your institutional membership is current, you will continue to receive benefits of programs and the manager of programs under the previous “Basic” or “Premium” membership structure. When that member- on the Annual Conference. She is a senior ship expires, you may take advantage of the new benefits structure. at Marymount Manhattan College in New The new institutional membership structure and benefits are listed below. We have York, majoring in communication arts with your needs in mind and are sure you will find a membership level that is most bene- a minor in art history. Stoever was an ficial to your organization. If you have questions about the new structure, please con- intern in CAA’s Governance and Advocacy tact CAA Member Services at [email protected] or 212-691-1051, ext. 12; or Department during summer 2005. Previous visit www.collegeart.org/membership/institution.html. to CAA, she worked as an assistant designer at a jewelry company. Primary Membership ($300) CAA Thanks Interns

The following benefits: CAA would like to thank its recent interns: • Four issues of The Art Bulletin. Adrienne Lei, a recent graduate of Amherst • Four issues of Art Journal. College in Amherst, Mass., served in the • Six issues of CAA News. Publications Department during summer • Access to caa.reviews. 2005. Megan Boomer of Hunter College • Complimentary Annual Conference Abstracts. High School in New York worked in the Research and Career Development during Library/Department/Museum Membership ($450) the summer, and Emily Conradson, an MA student in visual arts administration at All above benefits plus: New York University, also served in that • Annual Conference registration for up to ten faculty/staff at reduced individual- department in the fall. Cheryl Stoever member rate. worked in CAA’s Governance and • 50 percent discount on one thirty-day Online Career Center job listing. Advocacy Department during the summer • Member rate on additional Online Career Center job listings. and is now a part-time programs assistant • Free reception room at the Annual Conference. (see New Staff Members above). • 25 percent discount on interview tables at the Annual Conference. • 25 percent discount on CAA limited-edition prints. • Discounts on subscriptions to more than twenty art magazines. Affiliated Society Academic/Corporate Membership ($750) News All above benefits plus: • Up to two additional complimentary subscriptions to The Art Bulletin and Art For more information on CAA’s affiliated Journal. societies, visit www.collegeart.org/caa/ • Complimentary individual membership for one staff member. aboutcaa/affsocieties.html or write to • 20 percent discount on advertising with CAA (The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, CAA Emmanuel Lemakis, CAA director of News, and Annual Conference Program). programs, at [email protected]. • 15 percent discount on mailing-list rentals. • 15 percent discount on Book and Trade Fair booths at the Annual Conference. American Society for Hispanic • Acknowledgment in CAA publications. Art Historical Studies • Invitations to special events at the Annual Conference. The American Society for Hispanic Art Institutional membership is not transferable among departments, libraries, or muse- Historical Studies (ASHAHS) invites ums within a college or university, or transferable to individuals. CAA Annual Conference attendees to a

18 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 reception and presentation for the upcom- Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Association for Textual ing Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition, talked about his ideas and visions for his Scholarship in Art History Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí institute, and plans were laid for a joint (October 15, 2006–January 7, 2007). The gathering of ARIAH and the International Liana De Girolami Cheney, professor of reception will take place during the Association of Research Institutes in the art history and chair of the Department of ASHAHS business meeting, to be held History of Art (RIHA) in 2007. ARIAH Cultural Studies at the University of February 25, 2006, 7:30–9:00 AM in members were invited by Carmela Massachusetts in Lowell and president of Room 203 at the Hynes Convention Franklin, director of the American the Association for Textual Scholarship in Center. Refreshments will be provided. Academy in Rome, to tour the academy Art History (ATSAH), has received the ASHAHS also invites attendees to its after the meeting in Florence. Southeastern College Art Conference sponsored session, “Barcelona and ARIAH would like to thank Franklin and Award for Excellence in Scholarly Modernity, 1868–1939,” to be held her staff, as well as Joseph Connors, Alexa Research and Publication for her book, February 25, 12:30–2:00 PM, also in Mason, Susan Bates, and the Villa I Tatti Self-Portraits by Women Painters Room 203. staff, for the warmth of their hospitality, (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000). the extent and thoughtfulness of their pro- Arts Council of the African gram for the meeting, and their consider- Historians of German and Studies Association able effort to ensure a few productive, Central European Art and enjoyable days of conversation and The fourteenth Triennial Symposium on exchange. Architecture African Art takes place March 28–April 1, The website for the Historians of German 2007, at the University of Florida in Art Libraries Society of North and Central European Art and Archi- Gainesville. The conference theme, “Global America tecture (HGCEA) has moved to a new Africa,” investigates the location of African location: www.hgcea.org. The HGCEA expressive arts in global contexts. The The North American Lantern Slide Survey newsletter, Eurotexture, is now available organizers encourage proposals for panels was initiated by Jenni Rodda and Maryly as a PDF download. and papers that address Africa’s internation- Snow of the Visual Resources Division of al and transcultural reach. Proposals should the Art Libraries Society of North America International Center of include: 1) your title; 2) a description of the (ARLIS/NA). Lantern slides played a sig- proposal’s theme and scope, not to exceed nificant role in the development of numer- Medieval Art one page; 3) a short abstract, not to exceed ous academic disciplines in the nineteenth The year 2006 marks the fiftieth anniver- 100 words; 4) potential participants with and twentieth centuries, especially the his- sary of the International Center of contact addresses; and 5) the panel chair’s tory of art, architecture, and the allied arts. Medieval Art (ICMA), an organization contact information (address, phone, fax, Opportunities now arise to convert the dedicated to the study of art and architec- and e-mail). Submit proposals to: Victoria images on lantern slides, many of which are ture from Europe, the Mediterranean, and L. Rovine, Panels Chair, University of now in the public domain, to digital for- Byzantium from ca. 300 to ca. 1500 CE. A Florida, School of Art and Art History, Box mats. Knowing which lantern slides might series of anniversary events is planned, 115801, Gainesville, FL 32611-5801; fax: warrant such attention is dependent on including the annual meeting and reception 352-392-8453; [email protected] (e- understanding unique collection strengths, for the membership, for February 25, mail preferred); www.doce.ufl.edu/acasa. both within and between institutions. Deadline: June 15, 2006. The purpose of this survey is to learn more about lantern-slide collections Association of Research throughout the United States and Canada; Institutes in Art History to discover unique lantern slide holdings; and, in the process, to learn about the early The fall business meeting of the history of visual-resources collections. Association of Research Institutes in Art This survey aims to document the rise and History (ARIAH), which took place fall of lantern-slide collections; to learn October 13–16, 2005, was generously and who the major vendors were and their graciously hosted by the Villa I Tatti dates of activity; and to seek out the hid- (Harvard University Center for Italian den treasures of special collections and Renaissance Studies). In the glorious sun- original lantern slides. This broad survey shine of the Tuscan autumn, ARIAH mem- will help each institution make more bers shared information and best practices informed judgments about the disposition and discussed a number of important issues of their lantern-slide collections. facing research institutes, including copy- For more information, please consult right, visa regulations, and collaboration http://arlisna.org/nalss/index.htm. with our partner institutes in Europe and beyond. Gerhard Wolf, director of the

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 19 2006, at Boston College’s McMullen workshops are welcomed. Opportunities for this year. One-on-one portfolio review ses- Museum of Art, and a two-day sympo- artists to exhibit work are available, and sions for registrants attending the full con- sium, to be held October 14–15, 2006, in Eleanor Heartney will jury the membership ference will also be given. SPE is also conjunction with the special exhibition show (no entry fee). Registration fee is introducing a number of new workshops Facing the Middle Ages at the $100 for SECAC and MACAA members; on color management, book publishing, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York $35 for graduate students. SECAC and and digital workflow. Register by February University’s Institute of Fine Arts will MACAA memberships are $35 each. A 15, 2006, for discounted entrance rates. hold a gala reception on October 14. For complete prospectus can be viewed at See www.spenational.org for full confer- further information, please contact: ICMA, www.furman.edu/secac or ence details. The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, New York, www.macaart.org. For additional informa- NY 10040; 212-928-1146; ICMA@med- tion, contact the conference coordinator at Women’s Caucus for Art ievalart.org; www.medievalart.org. [email protected]. Deadline for panel proposals and exhibition submis- On the eve of the CAA’s 2006 Annual New Media Caucus sions: February 1, 2006. Conference, the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) will present its Lifetime Achieve- Look for posters for New Media Caucus Southern Graphics Council ment Awards at an awards ceremony and (NMC) events at the CAA conference in dinner to be held Tuesday, February 21, Boston: the NMC members exhibition at The Southern Graphics Council (SGC) will 2006, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Arts Interactive; NMC meeting and gath- present a panel, “Over and Over: The Dinner will be served 5:30–6:45 PM, with ering nexus, sponsored by the Art Depart- Methodical Impulse,” at the CAA confer- a ceremony immediately following, at ment at the University of Massachusetts in ence in Boston this February. Panelists will 7:00–9:00 PM. The ceremony is free and Lowell; an open panel; and much more. examine the widespread use of multiplicity, open to the public. Dinner tickets are $65; For more information, please visit indexing, repetition, and accumulation in we offer $130 patron tickets to those who www.newmediacaucus.org. contemporary art. They will consider the would like to make a donation to offset methodical impulse, not only as it relates the costs of the awards program. Purchase Southeastern College Art to making prints but also how its expanded tickets at www.nationalwca.com. Conference / Mid-America use reinvigorates our sense about what we The year 2006 marks the 27th time that College Art Association are doing and why. Phyllis McGibon of WCA has honored outstanding women in Wellesley College and Jennifer Schmidt of the visual arts. A full announcement of the A joint meeting of the Southeastern College the School of the Museum of Fine Arts will 2006 honorees will be made pending their Art Conference (SECAC) and the Mid- cochair the session. acceptance of the award. Please check the America College Art Association SGC will hold its 35th annual confer- WCA website for updates and biographical (MACAA) will be held October 25–28, ence, “Genetic ImPrint,” in Madison, statements. 2006, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Wisc., April 5–9, 2006. The theme loosely Tenn. Art historians, artists, visual-resource blends that city’s instrumental roles in professionals, curatorial staff, and graduate both biotechnology and printmaking by students are invited to submit panel propos- considering issues surrounding genetics als; innovative formats for panels and through the framework of prints. Send e-mail inquiries regarding the conference to [email protected]. 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20 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 December 10–16, 2005, and January 2–6, SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006. Rural Bastard. Mixed media. BY ARTIST MEMBERS Jill Moser. Westby Gallery, Rowan Only artists who are CAA members are University, Glassboro, N.J., November included in this listing; group shows are 8–December 16, 2005. Naming Game. not published. Send your name, member- Painting, drawing, and photocollage; ship ID number, venue, city and state, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Va., October dates of exhibition (no earlier than 2005), 7–29, 2005. Naming Game. Painting, title of show, and medium(s). You may drawing, and photocollage. also send digital images of the work in the exhibition; include the title, date, Janet L. Pritchard. Gallery 1401, medium, and dimensions. E-mail to University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa., [email protected]. September 30–October 28, 2005. Dwelling in Mansfield. Photography.

Abroad Stan Smokler. Garrubbo Bazan Gallery, West Chester, Pa., September 9–October Suzanne Benton. Gallery Art 21, Munich, 8, 2005. Beg, Borrow, and Steel. Germany, October 22–November 20, Sculpture. 2005. Monoprints with Chine Collé and Paintings. Blaise Tobia. Beckler Gallery, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilming- Jill Moser. Studio Caparrelli, London, ton, Del., November 4–December 7, Michael Lasater, Flight, 2000, video, animation, single channel, stereo, dimensions England, October 21–December 3, 2005. 2005. Blaise Tobia: Direct Objects. variable. Artwork © Michael Lasater. New Drawings. Digital photography. 18, 2006. Replacement Landscapes. Mark Iwinski. Clinton House Art Space, Mid-Atlantic Chris Wright. Martin Art Gallery, Painting and work on paper. Ithaca, N.Y., September 8–30, 2005. Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., Crosscuts: Intersections of Forest and Brian Bishop. University Gallery, November 9–December 17, 2005. New Carrie Notari. Gallery 350, Illinois History. Work on paper. University of Delaware, Newark, Del., Paintings. Institute of Art, Chicago, Ill., November February 2–25, 2006. [pause]. Painting. 14, 2005–January 11, 2006. Fish of Ellen K. Levy. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Yuriko Yamaguchi. Numark Gallery, Atlantis. Digital printmaking. Gallery, Wesleyan University, Gene Fenton. Moxie, Pittsburgh, Pa., Washington, D.C., November 4–Decem- Middletown, Conn., January 28–March 5, October 1–31, 2005. Papier Maché ber 17, 2005. Return. Sculpture. Patricia Opel. Muskegon Museum of 2006. evolutionn. Mixed media; Project Creatures by Gene Fenton. Art, Muskegon, Mich., January 14– Room, Michael Steinberg Fine Arts, New March 19, 2006. Through a Crack in the York, January 5–February 5, 2006. evolu- Lake: Collaborative Paintings with tionn. Mixed media. Timothy Norris; Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, Mich., November 1–30, 2005. Cyrilla Mozenter. Aldrich Museum of Through a Crack in the Lake: Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., Collaborative Paintings with Timothy October 16, 2005–March 12, 2006. More Norris; Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, Saints Seen. Drawing and sculpture. Albion College, Albion, Mich., January 5–31, 2005. Through a Crack in the Shervone Neckles. Art Gallery, Adam Lake: Collaborative Paintings with Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building, Timothy Norris. New York, November 12–30, 2005. The Tales of Red Rag Rosie and Little Miss Deborah Rockman. Alden B. Dow Pinky. Museum of Science and Art, Midland, Mich., October 1–December 31, 2005. Karen Schiff. 511 Gallery, New York, Drawn from Life: Works by Deborah October 27–December 3, 2005. Traces: Rockman. Drawing and digital Lazertran. The Agnes Martin Obituary Project. Drawing and mixed media. Jered Sprecher. Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, Ill., October 21–November 26, 2005. The Cabinet. Painting. Gene Fenton, Gargoyle, 2004, papier-mâché, 30 x 15 x 40 in. Artwork © Gene Fenton. Robert Stagg. B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Ky., January 7–February 8, Michael Lasater. Georgetown University Naijun Zhang. Michael Berger Gallery, 2006. Winter Blooms. Painting. Art Gallery, Washington, D.C., November Pittsburgh, Pa., December 1, 2005– 2–December 7, 2005. Michael Lasater: February 4, 2006. Oil Paintings by New and Recent Work in Video, Naijun Zhang. Northeast Animation, and Sound. Suzanne Benton. Branchville Gallery, Beauvais Lyons. Sawhill Gallery, James Midwest Ridgefield, Conn., January 5–February 3, Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va., 2006. Paintings, Prints, and Sculpture. Caren Cunningham. Amyx Art Gallery, October 17–November 10, 2005. Hokes Smith Berry Winery, New Castle, Ky., Medical Arts. Drawing and printmaking. June Blum. SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, September 17–October 15, 2005. New New York, November 1–26, 2005. June Work. Virginia Maksymowicz. Penelee Gallery, Blum’s Line. Painting. Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., Virginia Maksymowicz. Center Art November 8–December 7, 2005. Stations Thomas Germano. Dumbo Arts Festival Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, of the Cross. Drawing and sculpture. 2005, Brooklyn, N.Y., October 15–16, Mich., January 4–28, 2006. Searching for 2005. New Paintings Preview. Deborah Rockman, Potential for Disaster: Patterns. Installation. Lee S. Millard. Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Razing the Children VII, 2005, graphite on paper, image 10 x 8 in., paper 29 x 23 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa., Erik Geschke. ZieherSmith, New York, Armin Mühsam. Manhattan Arts Center, September 6–October 8, 2005. in. Artwork © Deborah Rockman. Manhattan, Kans., January 6–February Missgeburt. Mixed media.

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 21 Annie Shaver-Crandell. Paula Barr Sharon Linnehan. Greenwood Museum, Salwa Mikdadi. In/Visible: Contempo- William S. Bartman, the founder of Art Chelsea, New York, October 27–30, Greenwood, S.C., September 5–Novem- rary Art by Arab American Artists Resources Transfer (ART), died Septem- 2005. Dyed and Gone to Heaven: ber 2, 2005. Now and Then. Monotype. (Dearborn, Mich.: Arab American ber 15, 2005, in Manhattan at age 58. Garments that No Longer Suit. Mixed National Museum, 2005). Born in Chicago, Bartman founded media. Beauvais Lyons. Eyedrum Gallery, ART—a nonprofit publishing company Atlanta, Ga., January 7–February 18, Olivier Mosset. Deux ou trois choses que and exhibition space dedicated to record- Alan Singer. Arts and Cultural Council 2006. The George and Helen Spelvin je sais d’elle…: Écrits et entretiens, ing and documenting artists’ voices and Gallery, Rochester, N.Y., October 14– Folk Art Collection. 1966–2003 (Geneva, Switzerland: creating innovative publications and alter- November 4, 2005. Virtual Locations. Museum of Modern and Contemporary native distribution systems for them—in Painting, printmaking, and drawing. Sheri Fleck Rieth. Wright Gallery, Delta Art, 2005). Edited by Lionel Bovier and Los Angeles in 1987; it moved to New State University, Cleveland, Miss., Septem- Stéphanie Jeanjean. York 3 years later. He ran a bookstore Stan Smokler. Kim Foster Gallery, New ber 11–October 7, 2005. Turn. Printmaking. and gallery in the Chelsea art district York, November 19–December 17, 2005. Greta Pratt. Using from 1996 to 2004. He also started the Steel Structures. Sculpture. West History (Gottingen, Distribution to Underserved Communities Germany: Steidl, (DUC) program, which distributes free Les Barta. Horton Gallery, San Joaquin 2005). books on contemporary art and cultural Delta College, Stockton, Calif., January issues to more than 1,600 public libraries, 26–February 23, 2006. Photoconstruct- Peter Selz. The Art of schools, and community centers through- ions by Les Barta. Engagement: Visual Politics in out the U.S. California and Beyond (Berkeley: Carson Fox. Boulder Museum of University of California Press, 2005). Patrick Caulfield, a British painter and Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colo., printmaker, died September 29, 2005, in September 16–December 31, 2005. Sandra Sider. Handbook to Life in London. He was 69. Louche. Sculpture. Renaissance Europe (New York: Facts on Caulfield is known for representation- File, 2005). al work that avoids the figure, focusing Margaret Griffith. Haus Gallery, instead on Poplike scenes of architecture, Pasadena, Calif., January 19–February Leonard A. Woods. interiors, and still-lifes with bold colors 11, 2006. Margaret Griffith. Drawing. Meditations on the and sharp, black outlines. He also worked Paintings of Carl in decorative arts and graphic design and Yuki Nakamura. Howard House, Seattle, Hessay (Victoria, created stage sets. He was nominated for Wash., October 6–November 12, 2005. British Columbia: the Turner Prize in 1987 and was award- Mapping the Moment. Treeline Press, 2005). Edited with an ed the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1995, introduction by Maidie Hilmo. shared with Maggi Hambling. Caulfield began training in commer- BOOKS PUBLISHED BY cial art at the Chelsea School of Art, OBITUARIES where he studied from 1956 to 1960, before deciding paint. He then attended Stan Smokler, Nomad, 2005, welded steel CAA MEMBERS and fabricated and found objects, 70 x 62 the Royal College of Art in London from Arman, a French sculptor and a x 33 in. Artwork © Stan Smokler. 1960 to 1963, where David Hockney and Only authors who are CAA members are cofounder of the Nouveau Réalistes R. B. Kitaj were his classmates. He included in this listing. Please send you group, died October 22, 2005, in New returned to Chelsea to teach from 1963 to Monika Weiss. Lehman College Art name, membership ID number, book title, York at age 76. 1971. Caulfield emerged in the influential Gallery, Bronx, N.Y., September 6– publisher’s name and location, and the Born Armand Pierre Fernandez, 1964 exhibition New Generation at December 16, 2005. Monika Weiss: Five year published (no earlier than 2005) to Arman received a baccalaureate in philos- London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, along Rivers. Drawing, sculpture, performance, [email protected]. ophy and mathematics in 1946 and then with Hockney, Kitaj, Anthony Caro, and video. trained as a painter at the École Nationale Bridget Riley, and others. Gloria K. Fiero. d’Art Décoratif in Nice, where he met Robert Fraser Gallery hosted the South Landmarks in Yves Klein. Arman later studied archaeol- artist’s first solo exhibition in London in Humanities (New York: ogy and Asian art at the École du Louvre. 1965, and Robert Elkon Gallery did the McGraw-Hill, 2006). With Klein, Daniel Spoerri, and Michael Aurbach. Gallery 130, Univer- same in New York the next year; he has Jean Tinguely, Arman founded the sity of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., since shown his work internationally. His Alyce Mahon. Nouveau Réalistes movement. He January 23–February 16, 2006. Aurbach: first print retrospective was held at Surrealism and the emerged in the early 1960s with assem- Installation. Sculpture. Waddington Galleries, the London estab- Politics of Eros, blage works made from or incorporat- lishment that has represented him for 1938–1968 (New York: Thames and ing trash and found objects: paint tubes, Brian Bishop. Eichold Gallery, Spring more than 30 years, in 1973. Other retro- Hudson, 2005); Eroticism and Art (New buttons, typewriters, musical instru- Hill College, Mobile, Ala. November spectives were held at the Walker Art York: Oxford University Press, 2005). ments, car parts, and bicycles—a move 2–December 2, 2005. [pause]. Drawing Gallery in Liverpool and the Tate Gallery influenced by a Kurt Schwitters exhibi- and painting. in London (1981), as well as the Pierre Alain Mariaux, tion he saw in the mid-1950s. Previous- Serpentine Gallery (1992–93), Alan Lucas Burkart, ly he had created Surrealist inspired Roberto Bocci. Melvin Art Gallery, Cristea Gallery (1999), and Hayward Philippe Cordez, and paintings and abstract works. Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Fla., Gallery (all in London); the latter exhibi- Yann Potin. Le trésor Arman’s first solo exhibitions took October 7–28, 2005. Installations and tion toured to Luxembourg, Portugal, and au Moyen Âge: place in London and Paris in 1956 and Interfaces: Roberto Bocci, 1994–2005. the U.S. The Hayward held another retro- Questions et perspec- in New York five years later. His work spective in 1999, which traveled to the tives de recherche / Der was shown in numerous international Andrew Kaufman. Tennessee Arts Yale Center for British Art. Schatz im Mittelalter: exhibitions, including the Venice Commission Gallery, Nashville, Tenn., Fragestellungen und Forschungsperspek- Biennale and Documenta 4, and he rep- August 18–September 23, 2005. Raymond Klibansky, a noted historian tiven (Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Institut resented France in Expo ‘67, the world’s (re)present. Mixed media, sculpture, of philosophy, died August 5, 2005, in d’histoire de l’art et de Muséologie, fair held in Montreal. Retrospectives video, and painting. Montreal at age 99, 2 months short of his 2005). have been held at the Walker Art Center 100th birthday. and Stedelijk Museum (1964) and the Kel Keller. Moving Spirit Gallery, Klibansky was John Frothingham Elizabeth Ferrer, ed. Ricardo Mazal: La Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Atlanta, Ga., October 14–30, 2005. A Emeritus Professor of Logic and Tumba de la Reina Roja; From Reality to Contemporain in Nice (2001). Tribute to Harry Callahan. Photography. Metaphysics at McGill University in Abstraction (Santa Fe, N.Mex.: Fresco Arman became an American in 1973 Montreal. He was the last survivor of the Fine Art, 2005). but kept his French citizenship. He had Gary Keown. University Center Gallery, original group of scholars at the lived and worked in New York and University of Alabama, Huntsville, Ala., Kulturwissenshaftliche Bibliothek Maurie D. McInnis. The Politics of Taste Vence, France, since 1975. October 3–28, 2005. Installation and Warburg, founded by Aby Warburg in in Antebellum Charleston (Chapel Hill: Hamburg in the 1920s, which included digital printmaking. University of North Carolina Press, 2005).

22 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 Fritz Saxl, Erwin Panofsky, and Ernst Cusanus’s Latin works and was the coedi- sented a paintings retrospective. Her last Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., Cassirer. Warburg’s approach to cultural tor of the 7-volume Corpus Platonicum exhibition was held at Sommer Gallery in where he holds appointments in the history was new in his advocacy of an Medii Aevi, the Latin and Arabic transla- Tel Aviv in 2002. Depts. of the History of Art and Classics. interdisciplinary study of the classical tra- tions of Plato, published by the Warburg dition in philosophy, science, literature, Institute in London between 1940 and W. Jackson and symbolic images in the visual arts. In 1962. He was also the president of the PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Rushing III has 1964, he published Saturn and Institut International de Philosophie in been appointed pro- Melancholy: Studies Paris, for which he edited Philosophy in fessor of aesthetic in the History of the Mid-Century (vols. I–IV, 1958–59) Please send your name and listing to studies and associate Religion, Art, and and Contemporary Philosophy (vols. [email protected]. dean for graduate Natural Philosophy, 1–IV, 1968–71), and coedited Philosophy studies in the School which had been in Europe (1991). Academe of Arts and written jointly with Klibansky was a fellow of Wolfson Humanities at the Panofsky and Saxl College and of Oriel College, Oxford University of Texas Walt Bistline has been appointed artist in W. Jackson before WWII. University, a member of the senate of the at Dallas. residence in photography at Earlham Rushing III Klibansky University of Heidelberg, and received College in Richmond, Ind. Photo: Désirée Park received his doctor- honorary doctorates from the Universities The Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri Raymond Klibansky ate in philosophy of Marburg, Bologna, and Ottawa. In Katharine Burnett has received tenure has promoted Laura Berman, a faculty from Heidelberg University in 1931, 1994, he was awarded the Lessing Prize at the University of California, Davis. member since 2002, to assistant professor where he studied with Karl Jaspers. That from the University of Hamburg and in in printmaking. Newly joining the insti- same year, Klibansky became a 2002 was made a Companion of the Sara Nair James has been appointed tute are: Julie Farstad (assistant profes- “Privatdozent” at the University of Order of Canada. In 1995, he married professor of art history at Mary Baldwin sor in painting), Jessie Fisher (instructor Heidelberg and began his publication of Ethel Groffier, a professor of law at College in Staunton, Va. in painting), David Harrison (special the Latin writings of the Nicolas Cusanus McGill, who edited The Notion of instructor in painting), Tom Lewis (spe- and Master Eckart. Klibansky’s first pub- Tolerance and Human Rights: Essays in Napoleon Jones-Henderson has joined cial assistant professor in foundation), lications of Cusanus’s Opera omnia Honour of Raymond Klibansky (1991) the faculty of Benedict College in Katherine McCoy (Joyce C. Hall appeared between 1929 and 1932, fol- with Michel Paradis. Klibansky was the Columbia, S.C., as a tenure-track assis- Distinguished Professor of Design), and lowed by a volume of Eckart’s Latin subject of an autobiography, Le tant professor of art. Patrick Saunders (special instructor in writings (1934). Philosophe et la Mémoire du Siècle, edit- animation). In 1933, Klibansky fled Germany, ed by Georges Leroux (1998) and of a Michael Koortbojian has been named ending up in London. He became a lec- film, De la philosophie à la vie (2002) the inaugural Nancy H. and Robert E. The Maryland Institute College of Art in turer at Kings College in London and in made by the National Film Board of Hall Professor in the Humanities at Johns Baltimore has welcomed four new faculty 1936 at Oriel College in Oxford. Before Canada. leaving Germany, he convinced the Klibansky was an inspiring professor Warburg family to transfer the Warburg who had a powerful impact on genera- Library to London, where it became the tions of students. Not only was Klibansky Warburg Institute of the University of a living library and a fascinating lecturer, 5)&5)&"35#6--&5*/ "35 #6--&5*/ "/% London. Klibansky was an active mem- but he was also the living personification "35"35+063/"- +063/"-*/+4503*/ +4503 ber of the institute in the 1930s and of the sacredness of the search for knowl- 1940s, which at that time included Saxl, edge. 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CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 23 members for the 2005–6 academic year: Roberts, who has returned to independ- director of the Miami Art Museum in Jason Kalajainen has been appointed Rebecca Bradley (illustration), Firmin ent consulting. Florida. Riley succeeds Suzanne executive director of Ox-Bow, a summer DeBrabander (language, literature, and Delehanty, who has been the museum’s school of art and artists’ residency in culture), Mary Hafeli (art education), Rebecca Sexton Larson, formerly muse- only director for almost 11 years. Saugatuck, Mich., which is affiliated with and Fletcher Mackey (foundation). um educator for community programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida, has Nicolaus Schafhausen has joined Witte in Illinois. The Dept. of Art History at the University become curator of education at the Polk de With in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as of Wisconsin in Madison has promoted Museum of Art in Lakeland, Fla. director and chief curator, succeeding for- Marta Kuzma has been appointed direc- Ann Smart Martin to associate profes- mer director Catherine David and inter- tor of the Office for Contemporary Art sor with tenure and Thomas Dale and David Mitten has retired from his post of im director Hans Maarten. Norway, a private foundation founded by Nicholas Caholl to full professor. George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Norway’s Ministry of Culture and the Ancient Art at the Harvard University Art Kristel Smentek has been appointed Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Museums Museums in Cambridge, Mass. He will Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at continue as James Loeb Professor of the Frick Collection in New York for Kirsten Rook has been named director of Lisa Dennison, for- Classical Art and Archaelogy at Harvard. 2005–7. the Jewelry Center at Meadow Hill, part merly deputy direc- of the Division of Continuing Studies at tor and chief curator Susan Oxtoby of the Cinémathèque Marc-Olivier Wahler, formerly artistic the Maryland Institute College of Art in at the Solomon R. Ontario in Canada has been named senior director of the Swiss Institute in New Baltimore. Guggenheim film curator at the Berkeley Art Museum/ York, has been appointed director of the Museum in New Pacific Film Archive at the University of Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France. Michael L. Royce, formerly president of York, has been California, Berkeley. Edith R. Kramer, the Moynihan Station Development appointed director senior film curator and director of the Karen York has been appointed associate Corporation in New York and deputy Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders of the museum, suc- archive since 1983, retired in June 2005. curator of collections and exhibitions at director of the New York State Council Lisa Dennison ceeding Thomas the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in on the Arts from 1996 to 1999, has been Krens, who will remain director of the Aaron J. Paul has resigned as Richard E. Alabama. appointed executive director of the New Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art at York Foundation for the Arts, succeeding the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida. The Contemporary Arts Center in Ted Berger, who had been director since Joseph Godla, formerly of Historic New Cincinnati, Ohio, has appointed Melodee 1980. England in Boston, Mass., and the J. Paul Terence Riley, who will resign as chief DuBois as director of external relations Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., has curator of the Dept. of Architecture and and Scott Boberg as education curator. Peter Zec has become president of the joined the Frick Collection in New York Design at the Museum of Modern Art in International Council of Societies of as chief conservator, succeeding Barbara New York in March, has been appointed Organizations Industrial Design.

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24 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 Parsons has an ambitious academic agenda for the next decade, focusing on establishing graduate and undergraduate programs at the cutting-edge of technological, critical, intellectual and social developments. The following new faculty appointments present exciting opportunities for working with us at the forefront of art and design education.

Architecture, Interior Design & Lighting Department Chair: Associate/Full Professor Communication Design Director of the MFA: Assistant/Associate Professor Director of the BFA: Assistant/Associate Professor

Design and Technology Director of the BFA: Assistant/Associate Professor

Photography Director of the BFA: Assistant/Associate Professor Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor

Illustration Assistant/Associate Professor

Design & Management Assistant/Associate Professors Fashion Marketing Assistant/Associate Professors Fashion Design Visiting Assistant/Associate Professors

For a complete description of the position, selection criteria and information about Parsons please visit our website at http://faculty.parsons.edu/jobopportunities All positions are Pending Budget Approval and will begin from July 1, 2006. Salary and beneﬁts are competitive and negotiable.

The New School, as well as its individual academic divisions, is committed to a policy of equal opportunity in all its activities and programs, including employment and promotion. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical disability, veteran or marital status. toral fellowship at the Aga Khan Program Humanities at UCLA, Royce Humanities Invisible Culture seeks papers for an Regionalism and Identity in British Art: for Islamic Architecture at Harvard Group, 212 Royce Hall, UCLA, Los issue entitled “The Symptom,” which will History, Environment, and Contempo- University’s Sackler Museum in Angeles, CA 90095. For more details, examine definitions of, and cultural, visu- rary Practice is an interdisciplinary 1-day Cambridge, Mass., taking place March contact Cyndia Soloway at 310-267- al, and social manifestations of, the symp- symposium hosted by the Royal West of 30–June 30 2006. 4842; [email protected]. tom (and its subject) as well as identify or England Academy in partnership with Deadline: February 1, 2006. posit new definitions of the term from his- University of the West of England; it will Virginia Derryberry, associate professor toricist and psychoanalytic perspectives. be held October 28, 2006, in Bristol. The of painting and drawing at the University The Massachusetts Historical Society The symptom demands interpretations of symposium seeks to create dialogue of North Carolina in Asheville, has been offers approximately 20 short-term the disparity between its manifest (visible) among artists, cultural commentators, awarded the 2005–6 Southeastern College research fellowships in 2006. Each grant content and its latent (invisible) content. social historians, curators, and arts organi- Art Conference (SECAC) Artist will provide a stipend of $1,500 for 4 Submissions should be 2,500–6,000 words zations to interpret and understand the Fellowship. In addition to the financial weeks of research at the society between in length. Please e-mail inquiries to association between contemporary and support, a solo exhibition of her work July 1, 2006, and June 30, 2007. Short- Michael Williams at mwillia4@rochester past fascinations with regionalism, locale, will be featured at the 2006 SECAC terms awards are open to independent .rr.com or Linda Edwards at elinda1 and belonging. Abstract proposals (300– annual meeting at Vanderbilt University scholars, advanced graduate students, and @rochester.rr.com. Submissions can be 500 words) for 20-minute papers can be in Nashville, Tenn. holders of the PhD or the equivalent, with submitted as Word attachments to either sent as an attachment to conferences@rwa. candidates who live 50 or miles from e-mail address or as hard copies to: org.uk; ww.rwa.org.uk/edprog1.htm. Jennifer Marshall, a postdoctoral schol- Boston receiving preference. Candidates Invisible Culture, Attn: Michael Williams Deadline: February 10, 2006. ar in art history at the University of must be U.S. residents or foreign nation- and Linda Edwards, 424 Morey Hall, California, Los Angeles, has been award- als with permission from the U.S. govern- University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Conferences & Symposia ed a 2005–6 fellowship from the ment to hold such awards. For more 14627; www.rochester.edu/in_visible American Academy of Arts and Sciences. information, visit www.masshist.org. _culture/current_CFP.html. Deadline: The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Deadline: March 1, 2006. February 1, 2006. Worth, Tex., is holding a symposium Bissera V. Pentcheva, assistant professor February 11, 2006, in conjunction with at Stanford University in California, has Calls for Papers Surrealism and the American West the exhibition Gauguin and Impression- received an Alexander von Humboldt Conference, to be held October 26–27, ism. In this daylong event, leading schol- Fellowship to work on her new research (Be)longing: Art and Identity in an Age 2006, at Arizona State University in ars from the U.S. and Europe will discuss project, “Sensual Splendor: The Icon in of Anxiety Conference is an interdisci- Tempe, will explore the multifaceted aspects of Gauguin’s engagement with Byzantium.” plinary conference to be held May 4–7, Surrealist engagement with the myths, Impressionism and exchange fresh ideas 2006, at Trinity Western University in landscapes, and cultures of the American inspired by the exhibition. Moderated Langley, British Columbia. The theme West. We encourage papers treating jointly by Richard R. Brettell and Stephen INSTITUTIONAL NEWS addresses the intersection of art, identity, diverse aspects of cultural history or cul- Eisenman, the symposium will include and belonging in light of our current tural production, including film and pho- talks by Tamar Garb, Joachim Pissarro, Only CAA institutional members are geopolitical climate. Globalization and its tography. Questions posed by the confer- Richard Kendall, and Richard Shiff. The included in this listing. Please send your fallout have reinforced the idea that iden- ence include: How does the American symposium is free and requires no reser- name, membership ID number, and news tity is entangled within myriad social net- West compare to New York as a locus of vations. For more information, visit item to [email protected]. works and histories and is both formed American/Native American/European www.kimbellart.org. and destabilized by our relationship with exchange during the 1940s and 1950s? The Corning Museum of Glass in others. How does art find a space for Did the Surrealist fascination with Native Museum Quality: Collecting and Corning, N.Y., has established a new negotiating a sense of belonging on this American culture spawn a new variety of Exhibiting Fashion and Textiles, the online database presenting links to past, embattled terrain? What does it mean to modernist primitivism? Did the Museum at FIT’s 4th annual symposium, current, and upcoming exhibitions on articulate notions of identity, citizenship, Surrealists’ obsession with ethnography will be held February 17–18, 2006, at the glass and glassmaking around the world. and home? This conference welcomes impact the appreciation of Native Fashion Institute of Technology, State Compiled and maintained by the muse- papers that address these issues from a American art or the field of anthropolo- University of New York. In light of the um’s Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow contemporary or art-historical perspec- gy? What is the legacy of the Surrealists increasing popularity of—and controver- Research Library, the database is found at tive. Submit abstracts (200-word max) or in the West? Please e-mail 1-page sy over—fashion exhibitions, Christopher www.cmog.org/exhibitionsdatabase. panel abstracts (3–5 presenters on a topic, abstracts of proposed papers and your c.v. Breward, Alexandra Palmer, and Valerie 400-word max) to [email protected]; to Claudia Mesch at claudia.mesch Steele will discuss the status of fashion http://verge.the-outpost.ca. Deadline: @asu.edu and Samantha Kavky at bsk10 and textiles as “art,” since clothing and OPPORTUNITIES February 1, 2006. @psu.edu; www.public.asu.edu/~cmesch/ fabric have long been collected and SurrWesthome.htm. Deadline: February exhibited by museums worldwide. 1, 2006. To read more listings or to submit your own, please visit www.collegeart.org/ opportunities. Awards, Grants, Art History Assistant Professor Search Fellowships Butler University, Jordan College of Fine Arts invites applications and nominations

The Humanities Division at the for the position of Assistant Professor of Art History: full-time, tenure-track, University of California, Los Angeles three-year renewable contract effective Fall, 2006. Teach art history (three courses (UCLA) will appoint 4 Andrew W. per semester), advise undergrads, continue research/professional engagement, and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows for a 2-year tenure, beginning fall 2006. Fellows must further partnerships with Indianapolis museums. Completed doctorate preferred. have earned the doctoral degree between Successful research or curatorial experience important. Specialization in art of the January 2000 and June 2006. The fellow- 19th and 20th century essential. Send cover letter, resume, list of three to five ship provides a stipend, 1-time moving allowance, and a research budget. The references to: Mellon program at UCLA is designed to explore the emerging field of transnation- Dr. Peter Alexander Dean, Jordan College of Fine Arts al studies and to broaden the study of Butler University minority cultures from a national focus to global and comparative perspectives. 4600 Sunset Avenue Applicants should send a cover letter, Indianapolis, IN 46208. description (1,500 words max) of the scholarly project relevant to the program, c.v., and 3 letters of recommendation to: Review of applications begins on January 15, 2005. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the

26 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 Admission is $75 for 2 days, and $50 for conjunction with the Sacramento State will also participate. For information or www.mofa.fsu.edu/combinedtalents.htm. 1 day; free to students with valid ID. For Festival of the Arts. The symposium is tickets, contact [email protected]. Deadline: February 14, 2006. more information, write to museuminfo free and open to the public, but seating is @fitnyc.edu; www.fitnyc.edu/museum. limited. For more information, write to Exhibition Opportunities Particular Places is a national painting [email protected]. exhibition to be held May 5–June 23, The Research and Academic Program The Northeast National Pastel 2006, at the Creative Arts Workshop. The of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Historiography and Ideology: Architec- Exhibition is taking place June 9–July show is juried by Bernard Chaet, William Institute will host a colloquium, “Art tural Heritage of the “Lands of Rum” 13, 2006. Cash and merchandise awards Leffingwell Professor of Painting History and Its Publishers,” March is the Harvard Aga Khan Symposium, are available. Entry fee is $20 for 1 slide; Emeritus at the Yale University School of 30–April 1, 2006, funded by a grant from taking place May 11–13, 2006, at $30 for 2. Richard McKinley is juror of Art. Two prizewinners will be awarded a the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Harvard University. Organized by Gülru selection, and Robert Carsten is juror of joint exhibition in 2007. The entry fee is colloquium will bring together directors Necipoglu and Sibel Bozdogan and spon- awards. For exhibition prospectus, send $25 for up to 3 works in any painting and editors from scholarly, museum, and sored by the Aga Khan Program for an SASE to: Arts Center/Old Forge, NNPE medium. For prospectus, please send an commercial publishers, as well as book Islamic Art and Architecture, the symposium Prospectus, P.O. Box 1144, Old Forge, SASE to: Gallery Committee, Creative buyers and sellers, to discuss the present will be held at the American Academy of NY 13420; 315-369-6411. Deadline: Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St., New and future of art-history publishing. This Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass. For February 1, 2006. Haven, CT 06510; 203-562-4927; roundtable event, convened by the Clark more information, visit www.fas.harvard www.creativeartsworkshop.org. with Catherine Soussloff and Ken .edu/%7Eagakhan/index.html. The Arizona State University Art Deadline: February 24, 2006. Wissoker, is designed to spur conversa- Museum seeks film and video work for tion and debate about this pressing issue. Art Theft: History, Prevention, its 10th Annual Short Film and Video Micro Museum and Reflect-arts seek For more information, contact Mora Detection, Solution is the 1st internation- Festival, taking place April 15, 2006. entries for Circus Surreal 2006, an Beauchamp-Byrd at mbeauchamp@ al conference on the academic study of Works should be 10 minutes or less; there extravaganza of artwork in all media. The clarkart.edu; www.clarkart.edu. art theft and its history, exploring how is no charge for entries or attendance. The title encourages artists to interpret this such study can inform contemporary law complete history of the festival, guide- notion with their personal imagination In Light of the Pacific: Photography enforcement and museum protection. lines for entry, list of past works, and a and craft. The exhibit will run May 1–31, from the Pacific Rim is an art-history Sponsored by the British Academy and few success stories can be found at 2006, at Micro Museum in Brooklyn, symposium to be held March 4, 2006, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/filmfest. N.Y. Download prospectus at California State University, Sacramento. Social Sciences, and Humanities, the con- Deadline: February 10, 2006. www.micromuseum.com/Jan05/ Sandra Phillips, senior curator of photog- ference will be held June 9, 2006, in Entry_FormCircusSurreal.pdf or contact raphy at the San Francisco Museum of Cambridge, England. Key speakers Combined Talents, an annual juried com- [email protected]. Deadline: Modern Art, will deliver a keynote include Robert Wittman, founding direc- petition sponsored by the Florida State March 1, 2006. address on the photographer Shomei tor of the FBI Art Squad; Robert University (FSU) Museum of Fine Arts Tomatsu. Art historians will present lec- Goldman, chief U.S. prosecuting attorney and taking place August 28–September 24, A national juried competition of works tures on the art and politics of photogra- on art crime cases; and Vernon Rapley, 2006, is open to artists 18+ working in any of art on paper will take place July phy (1840s to the present) from the head of Scotland Yard’s Arts and medium. Entry fee is $20 for 2 slides 7–26, 2006. Carter E. Foster, curator of Pacific Rim. A reception follows in the Antiquities Division. Other academics, (images may be submitted on CD instead drawings at the Whitney Museum of University Library Gallery where 2 pho- law-enforcement professionals, lawyers, of slides). Combined Talents is juried by a American Art, is juror. Cash awards are tography exhibitions will be on view in and museum and gallery professionals panel of FSU College of Visual Arts, available. For an entry form, send an SASE Theatre, and Dance faculty. First-place to: Long Beach Island Foundation of the award is $1,000; 2nd $500. A color cata- Arts and Sciences, 120 Long Beach logue will be produced, and return ship- Blvd., Loveladies, NJ 08008; ping is provided (some exceptions apply). [email protected]. Deadline: For more information, contact Jean Young March 15, 2006. DEPARTMENT OF ART at [email protected]; 850-644-3906; AND ART PROFESSIONS ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, TENURE TRACK Located in New York's historic East Village, NYU's Studio Art Program is closely tied to the international art world and focuses on the contribution of contemporary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/ visual art to a broader cultural dialogue. Graduate and undergraduate studio art programs are interdisciplinary and combine theory and practice with painting, FACULTY FELLOW sculpture, photography, digital art, video, and ceramics. Students and faculty at NYU have access to the resources of a major research university, as well as the Department of Fine Arts department's graduate programs in visual culture, art education, arts administration and art therapy. FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Applications are invited from artists working in sculpture and mixed media The Department of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York installation. Candidates should have an established influential and continuing University seeks a historian of modern art to be appointed as an Assistant presence in the international art community, a strong interest in the evolution of Professor/Faculty Fellow. The appointment will begin September 1, 2006, new forms and ideas, and an ongoing engagement with students as part of an renewable annually for a maximum of three years, pending administrative innovative creative practice. and budgetary approval. Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. in art Responsibilities: Teach graduate and undergraduate courses; advise students; main- history, no earlier than January 2003. Candidates should also have teaching tain a productive presence in the art community. experience, publications and ongoing research in a field of specialization. Qualification: MFA Degree or earned doctorate; an exemplary international record Courses to be taught, all undergraduate, would include: introductory of exhibitions, publications, and reviews; and, college teaching experience. surveys; advanced courses in art since 1780; and thematic seminars for Letters of application with curriculum vitae, slides, CD or other examples of senior majors. creative work, and five reference letters should be sent to:John Torreano, Chair, Sculpture/Installation Search, Department of Art and Art Professions, New Please send detailed letter of application, CV and names of three references, York University, Steinhardt School, 34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY by January 15, 2006, to: Professor Kenneth E. Silver, Chair, 10003. Applications reviewed beginning November 30th and continue until filled. Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University, 303 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, New York, New York University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. NY 10003-6688.

Women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 27 awarded. The complete course descrip- CLASSIFIEDS tion and an application are available at www.attinghamtrust.org. Deadline: To place a classified ad in CAA News, January 31, 2006. visit www.collegeart.org/news or write to [email protected]. The Space Program offers free studio ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/ space in New York to visual artists over 21. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or For Rent FACULTY FELLOW permanent U.S. residents and not in Florence. 5 minute walk to Ponte school at the time of residency. Vecchio. Old building, 2nd floor, recently Department of Fine Arts Emerging, midcareer, and older artists are refurbished 2 bedrooms/2 baths, large encouraged to apply. The 14 studios are FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE living room. 2 weeks to several months. nonliving spaces for making new works [email protected]. The Department of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York of art. No stipend or equipment is provided. Applicants are juried by a panel of Paris. Apartment to rent, 9eme. 2-bdrm University seeks a historian of modern or pre-modern East Asian art to be artists. Studios are available after duplex. Fully furnished. Available sum- appointed as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. The appointment will September 1, 2006, for periods of up to 1 mer and/or academic year ‘06–07. For year. Artists who presently have a New begin September 1, 2006, renewable annually for a maximum of three full description and details contact York studio larger than 400 sq. ft. are not years, pending administrative and budgetary approval. Candidates must [email protected]. eligible. To apply, send 8 slides of recent have completed the Ph.D. in art history, no earlier than January 2003. work or a CD of 8 images (max. height Paris. Lovely fully-furnished and Candidates should also have teaching experience, publications and ongoing or width of 1,240 pixels; file format must equipped one bedroom apartment., 50 sq. be .jpg or .gif and 300-dpi resolution; file research in a field of specialization. A total of three courses each academic m., 17th (near Parc Monceau); two weeks size should be no larger than 1.2 MB). year, all undergraduate, would include: introductory surveys covering the to 11 months. [email protected]. Also include a résumé and a statement history of East Asian art; advanced courses in the areas of the candidate's indicating why you need studio space. Rome. Fully furnished apartment near specialization; and thematic seminars for senior majors. Please see www.sharpeartfdn.org for American Academy. 2 bedrooms, study, more information. Deadline: January 31, living-dining, eat-in kitchen, bath, bal- Please send detailed letter of application, CV and names of three references, 2006. by January 15, 2006, to: Professor Kenneth E. Silver, Chair, conies. $1,700 plus utilities. Available August 1. [email protected]. Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York The KHN Center for the Arts offers residencies 2–8 weeks long, 11 months of University, 303 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, New York, Tuscany. Beautiful, quiet duplex apart- the year, to writers, visual artists, and ment in hilltop village. 1,800 sq. ft., two NY 10003-6688. composers; 6 additional residencies per double bedrooms, three baths, terrace, year are reserved for recent masters’ NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. reasonable rates. Near Florence and degree program graduates. The newly [email protected]. renovated center is located in the historic Missouri River town of Nebraska City. Direct Art Magazine announces a competi- Residents are provided with housing, stu- Opportunities Residencies, dio space, Internet access, and a tion for publication in vol. 13 (Fall 2006), The Bowery Gallery will be sponsoring the annual book edition. Twenty-six awards Workshops, Exchanges $100/week stipend; each apartment has a balcony and shares 3 private landscaped a national juried show Aug 1–19. The of more than $22,000 include covers of juror will be Lois Dodd nationally known The Attingham Summer School seeks courtyards. For guidelines and an applica- magazine and feature articles. For prospec- artist. It will be open to all artist working applicants for its 2006 summer study pro- tion, please contact: KHN Center for the tus, write to [email protected]; in two dimensional media. For prospectus www.slowart.com/prospectus. Deadline: gram in England. The school is an inten- Arts, 801 3rd Corso, Nebraska City, NE send SASE to Bowery Gallery, 530 W. sive 3-week course designed primarily for 68410; ph/fax: 402-874-9600; March 31, 2006. 25th St., NY, NY 10001. Americans to study fine arts, decorative [email protected]; arts, architecture, and landscape design in www.KHNCenterfortheArts.org. The Thompson Gallery at Furman Call for entries. 20th annual juried exhi- 16th- to 19th-century British county Deadlines: March 1, 2006 (for June University seeks proposals for its 2006–7 bition organized by New Visions Gallery. houses. The program addresses issues of 1–July 31), May 15 (August 1–early exhibition schedule. A proposal should Culture and Agriculture features fine art collecting and collections, conservation, December), and October 1 (February include 20 slides of recent work, an artist with agricultural themes. Submission preservation, and interpretation. Past par- 1–May 31, 2007). statement, slide list, bio, and SASE. The deadline is February 6, 2006. Artists ticipants include curators, museum gallery cannot provide shipping but will working in media such as painting, draw- administrators, academics, educators, col- provide postcards and press for the exhi- ing, photography, sculpture, original lectors, and decorators from the U.S. and bition. Please send submissions to: prints, mixed media, and fine crafts such abroad. In 2006, participants will visit Furman University, Art Dept., Gallery as ceramics, batik, metals, tapestry, etc., houses and historic sites in Sussex, Committee, 3300 Poinsett Hwy., Green- are encouraged to enter. All styles of Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, ville, SC 29613; http://alpha.furman.edu/ work are considered. Exhibition atten- Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, academics/dept/art. Deadline: March 31, dance is estimated at over 4,500. To 2006. and Staffordshire. Scholarships are

Tenure-track position in Tenure-track position in UIC Moving Image UIC Graphic Design S chool of Art and Design, University of Illinois at C hicago is seeking S chool of Art and Design, University of Illinois at C hicago is seeking tenure-track facultyinMovingImage atrank ofAsst/Assoc Prof. for tenure-track facultyinGraphic Designatrank ofAsst/Assoc Fall 2006. Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications Professor for Fall 2006. Salary commensurate with experience and dependent upon Board of Trustees approval. MFA or equivalent and qualifications and dependent upon Board of Trustees approval. required. Demonstrated excellence and distinction through MFA or equivalent required. S trong portfolio of professional work, exhibitions, critical reviews and catalogs, publications, research and exceptional typographic skills, and interdisciplinary approach to signifi cantawards. C ollege level teaching experience preferred. teaching and research. C ollege level teaching experience preferred. S ubmit applications by Feb. 15 for fullest consideration; screening S ubmit applications by Feb. 15 for fullest consideration; screening continues until position is fi lled. For complete application continues until position is fi lled. For complete application instructions visit our website: www.uic.edu/aa/artd/. AA/EOE instructions visit our website: www.uic.edu/aa/artd/. AA/EOE

28 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 receive a prospectus, send SASE to: New March 21, 2006. Send: letter of interest/ 2006 Annual Conference in Boston nominations for the 2007–11 Board of Visions Gallery, Culture & Agriculture, intent, résumé, list of references and Directors 1000 N. Oak Avenue, Marshfield, WI phone numbers, 10 slides of own work, January 20, 2006 54449-5703. Or call 715-387-5562. Or and SASE for return of slides to: Todd Deadline for applications for projectionist May 10, 2006 e-mail [email protected]. Johnson, c/o Webb School, 9800 Webb and room-monitor positions at the 2006 Deadline for submissions to the July 2006 School Drive, Knoxville, TN 37923. Annual Conference in Boston issue of CAA News Call for proposals. National Undergrad- uate Symposium in Art History, co-spon- O’Keeffe and Me: Abstracts of Our January 31, 2006 July 10, 2006 sored by Portland State University and Letters is a website that explores Georgia Deadline for applications to the Deadline for submissions to the the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), April O’Keeffe’s latter days of her life in New Professional Development Fellowship September 2006 issue of CAA News 27th and 28th. All undergraduates are Mexico. Featured are previously unpub- Program invited to submit a 1–2 page abstract, lished conversations among the artist, September 10, 2006 along with a short bibliography, cover let- her guests, house staff, and the artist February 1, 2006 Deadline for submissions to the ter, including contact information (e-mail, Mym Tuma, as well as other unpublished Deadline for participation in Arts November 2006 issue of CAA News phone, address), and a brief letter of sup- correspondence. Please visit Exchange at the 2006 Annual Conference port from a faculty mentor by Feb. 17 to: www.okeeffeandme.com. in Boston October 1, 2006 Dr. Charles Colbert, Symposium Commit- Deadline for fall submissions to the tee, Art Dept., Portland State University, Prince Street Gallery is reviewing work. February 22–25, 2006 Millard Meiss Publication Grant 2000 SW 5th Ave., Portland, OR 97201; Deadline for submissions of slides (10 94th CAA Annual Conference in Boston or contact Dr. Beth Hudson at images) is March 15th. Include biography October 15, 2006 [email protected]. and SASE. 530 West 25th Street NY, NY February 24, 2006 Deadline for submissions to the Wyeth 10001 http://www.princestreetgallery.com. Deadline to return ballots for the CAA Foundation for American Art Publication Formulating a Response: Methods of Board of Directors election Grant Research on Italian and Northern European Art, 1400–1600. April 20–23, March 1, 2006 November 10, 2006 2006. Leiden University, Netherlands. To DATEBOOK Deadline for submissions to the CAA Deadline for submissions to the January view the complete concept of the program, Publications Grant 2007 issue of CAA News please visit: www.pallas.leidenuniv.nl. January 6, 2006 Deadlines for nominations and self- March 10, 2006 February 14–17, 2007 Independent Day School seeks Artist in nominations to the CAA Nominating Deadline for submissions to the May 95th CAA Annual Conference in New Residence. Enthusiastic working artist Committee 2006 issue of CAA News York sought for production of own work during 4–5 week on campus residency either January 10, 2006 March 15, 2006 February 20–23, 2008 October or February. Exhibition, public Deadline for submissions to the March Deadline for spring submissions to the 96th CAA Annual Conference in Dallas lecture, and ability/willingness to provide 2006 issue of CAA News Millard Meiss Publication Grant K–12 students access to their artistic February 25–28, 2009 thoughts and processes. Stipend, housing, January 13, 2006 April 8, 2006 97th CAA Annual Conference in Los and studio provided. Application Deadline Deadline for Advance registration for the Deadline for nominations and self- Angeles

CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 29 From the Executive have anecdotes, facts, stories, ARTspace in Boston Media” chaired by Mina Cheon. Director and personal recollections that CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 The Services to Artists would provide valuable insight Committee is sponsoring two CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 and continuity to the project, ARTspace Sessions sessions: “Artist as Curator: and I urge you to write me at chapters in CAA’s history, Alternative Exhibition [email protected] at any which began in 1911 when the Sessions in ARTspace include a Strategies,” cochaired by time. college art teachers split off studio-art open session on Virginia Derryberry and Reni I joined CAA in 1972 when I from the Western Drawing and painting, chaired by John Gower; and “Curators as was a graduate student and Manual Training Association Walker and Alfredo Gisholt; Artists,” chaired by Joe Seipel. intend to maintain my member- (later the National Art “Printerly Painterly: The ship. I have agreed to stay at Film Screening Educators Association, now an Interrelationship of Painting CAA for at least six months affiliate of CAA), was the and Printmaking,” chaired by but am eager to start my new M. C. Richards: The Fire organization’s role in the 1930s Nona Hershey; “Interrogating project by July 1. Thank you Within, produced by potter and as the headquarters of the Boston as a Site for Contem- for your support and friendship arts educator Melody Lewis- Federal Arts Project of the porary Art,” Cynthia Fowler; during these last twenty years. Kane and filmmaker Richard Works Progress Administration “Can We Fall in Love with a —Susan Ball, CAA executive Kane, explores the poet, in New York State. Machine?” chaired by Claudia director painter, and potter Mary Indeed, I know many of you Hart; and “Asia Effects in New Caroline Richards’s adventure into unearthing the source of Why not her creativity. This film will be Why not change the world? shown Saturday, February 25, 12:30–2:00 PM. Known for her book, Center- Tenure-Track ing: In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person, Richards (1916–1999) Faculty Vacancy was a pivotal figure at Black Mountain College, serving as Assistant Professor of New Media/Electronic Arts head of faculty from 1949 to We are seeking a motivated and energetic candidate who will contribute to the visual computing initiatives of the 1951 with those who later Department of Arts, including animation, digital imaging and interactive hardware and software development to begin in August 2006. This position includes teaching undergraduate and graduate studio courses and became avant-garde luminaries coordinating curriculum with other faculty, as well as advising on the configuration and operation of a lab facility. A in the New York art scene. priority for this position is competency in the area of computer animation and real time graphics. In the film, we witness The ideal candidate will be an established practicing artist and educator who uses techniques of animation in both Richards engaging in contem- linear and interactive media in their creative practice, and has experience working with professional digital platforms and applications. Additional desirable skills and interests may include plative questioning regarding robotics and/or interactive installation, bio-art, game development, and related theoretical topics. Candidate must the nature and mystery of art, be willing to become an active member of the Arts Department, with a strong commitment to creative work, research and teaching. imagination, wholeness, com- The Arts department at Rensselaer is the home of a highly visible program in integrated electronic media which includes munity, and our place in the the iEAR Studios (integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer), state-of-the-art facilities dedicated to interdisciplinary cre- cosmos. For more information, ative research and artistic development in audio, interactivity, video, computer imaging, animation, web, multi-media contact Richard Kane, Kane- installation and performance. As an art program situated within the context of a technological university, we offer a unique creative environment in which to develop and realize cutting edge electronic art. Lewis Productions, Rope Ferry Qualifications: Professional activity and visibility as a practicing artist and previous experience in university teaching Rd., Sedgwick, ME 04676; and organizational administration are desired. This position requires either MFA, PhD, or equivalent professional 207-359-2320; accomplishment and recognition. [email protected]. Rank: Tenure Track, Assistant Professor Salary: Commensurate with experience To apply, send a resume, a cover letter describing your qualifications, your teaching philosophy, and a sample of your work. Please include the names and contact information (current phone, email, and address) of three persons from whom letters of reference may be obtained. Letters of recommendation may be requested after receipt of Annual Conference your application. Work samples may be in the form of DVDs, videotapes (MiniDV, DVCAM, VHS), websites, and CDs. Update Books and articles can also be submitted for amplification. Please also include the work of your students and sample syllabi. Applications will be considered beginning January 15, 2006, and will be accepted until the position is filled. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 Applications should be sent to: Prof. Kathleen Ruiz, Chair/Animation Search Committee, Arts Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, West Hall, 107, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, tel: (518)276-4784, fax: (518)276-4730, email: [email protected], http://www.arts.rpi.edu CAA counsel, will discuss We welcome responses from individuals who will bring diverse intellectual, geographical, gender and ethnic perspectives efforts by the U.S. Copyright to Rensselaer’s work and campus communities. Office to study and develop proposals regarding the status of so-called orphan works; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is an Affirmative Kenneth Hamma, executive Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. director of digital policy and initiatives at the J. Paul Getty

30 CAA NEWS JANUARY 2006 Trust, will discuss advancing against the illicit traffic in cul- their use by the UNESCO, about the initiatives and other the availability of works in the tural property. The Code of Interpol, the World Customs cultural-heritage issues that public domain. Ethics, with its stringent guide- Organization, and other inter- confront and are debated by the lines on museum practice, has national agencies. In combina- museum and art-history com- American Institute for been a reference for museum tion, they have allowed ICOM munity. The session will be Conservation Workshop legislation in various countries to make a substantial contribu- moderated by Barbara and is frequently quoted by the tion to the safeguarding of the Hoffman, former CAA counsel, Chaired by Andrea Kirsh, United Nations Educational, world’s cultural heritage. chair of the Interna-tional Bar “Looking Again at Cubism” is Scientific, and Cultural Alissandra Cummins, direc- Association Commit-tee on a gallery-based workshop to be Organization (UNESCO), tor of the Barbados Museum Art, Cultural Institutions, and held Friday, February 24, 2006, while the effectiveness of the and president of ICOM, and Heritage Law, and editor of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, tools designed to fight illicit Rick West, Museum of the and Cultural Heritage: Law, Boston. As many Cubist works traffic has been corroborated American Indian, will discuss Policy, and Practice (New approach the century mark, we by seizures of illegally export- the above initiatives to engage York: Cambridge University will examine how they were ed cultural artifacts and by the audience in a dialogue Press, 2005). made and how time has time affected them. What does this means for their study and dis- #!!ISYOURLEADINGVISUALARTS play? We will discuss these ANDEDUCATIONRESOURCE questions in the gallery of a temporary exhibition, Facets of Cubism, which includes paint- 9OURCONTRIBUTIONWILLHELPUS ing, sculpture, and work on s%NHANCE#!!SCAREER DEVELOPMENTSERVICES paper. Priority will be given to s%XPANDTHE!NNUAL#ONFERENCEANDEXHIBITIONS those who preregister, with consideration given to a balance of s!DDEXHIBITIONREVIEWSTOCAAREVIEWS participants among art histori- s'ATHERRESEARCHDATAONHIRINGANDTENURETRENDS ans, curators, artists, and con- s5PDATEANDEXPANDOURINmUENTIAL0ROFESSIONAL servators. To register, contact 3TANDARDSAND'UIDELINES Andrea Kirsh at akirsh@udel #/,,%'% !24 !33/#)!4)/. .edu and include a one- or two- 7EWELCOMEYOURSUGGESTIONSFORISSUES sentence description of your !..5!, YOUWOULDLIKEADDRESSED9OUMAYCONTRIBUTE discipline and experience. # ! - 0 ! ) ' . TO#!!S'ENERAL&UNDORDIRECTLYTO Safeguarding of Cultural s3ERVICESTOARTISTS Heritage Session s3ERVICESTOARTHISTORIANS s3ERVICESTOTHEMUSEUMlELD Celebrating its sixtieth anniver- s3ERVICESTOINTERNATIONALMEMBERS sary in 2006, the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a nongovernmental organiza- "Y CONTRIBUTINGTOTHE tion that groups museums and more than 21,000 museum pro- !NNUAL#AMPAIGN fessionals from 148 countries, s#ONTRIBUTORSWILLBELISTEDIN#!!.EWS has an ongoing commitment to s#ONTRIBUTORSWILLRECEIVEANINVITATIONTOASPECIAL safeguarding the world’s cul- EVENTDURINGTHE"OSTON!NNUAL#ONFERENCE tural heritage. The awareness s#ONTRIBUTORSOFnWILLRECEIVEA#!! of a pervasive homogenizing TRAVELUMBRELLA process that threatens the identity of minority cultures—and s#ONTRIBUTORSOFORMOREWILLRECEIVEONEOF with it world cultural heritage #!!SART HISTORYMONOGRAPHS as a whole—prompted ICOM s#ONTRIBUTIONSARETAX DEDUCTIBLETOTHEEXTENT to embrace initiatives to protect ALLOWEDBYLAW cultural diversity. The corner- stones of such initiatives are 4OCONTRIBUTE ICOM’s Code of Ethics for 6ISITWWWCOLLEGEARTORG ORSENDACHECKTO #OLLEGE!RT!SSOCIATION Museums (first approved in 3EVENTH!VENUE 1986) and the development of .EW9ORK .9 information and awareness- /RCALL EXT #/.42)"54% raising tools for the fight 0,%!3%

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ellen K. Levy, President Nicola Courtright, Vice President for Publications Dale Kinney, Vice President for Annual Conference Diane Edison, Vice President for Committees Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Vice President for External Affairs Christine Sundt, Secretary John Hyland, Jr., Treasurer Jeffrey P. Cunard, Counsel Susan Ball, Executive Director

Kaucyila Brooke Joan Marter Coco Fusco Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker Susan Grace Galassi W. Jackson Rushing III Dennis Y. Ichiyama Duane Slick Paul Jaskot Buzz Spector Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann William Tronzo