NEWSLETTER OF THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION VOLUME 33 NUMBER 5 SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS CONTENTS
FEATURES 1 From the Executive Director 2 caa.reviews at Ten Years 5 Contemporary Art Galleries in Downtown Los Angeles 7 New Directories of Graduate Programs in the Arts
CURRENTS 8 Upcoming Workshops for Artists 8 Exhibit Your Art in Los Angeles 8 Linda Downs at the Rachofsky Mentors Needed for Conference House in Dallas during the 2008 9 Los Angeles Conference Annual Conference (photograph by Registration Teresa Rafidi) 10 Participate in Conference Mentoring FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 10 Conference Travel Grants 11 Projectionist and Room Monitors As the new academic year begins, various CAA committees and staff members are finish- Needed ing preparations for the Annual Conference in Los Angeles in February 2009. In the ten years since CAA was last there, LA has experienced tremendous growth in the visual 11 Conference Curatorial Proposals arts, especially with its diverse art-school and university programs; new and expanded art 12 Publications museums; booming art galleries in many neighborhoods; and a revived, lively downtown. 12 Intellectual Property and the Arts The conference program is rich and varied, and special events will occur all over the city. I 15 CAA News urge all members to take advantage of this year’s conference by registering early—starting 15 Affiliated Society News online in October. On July 24, CAA organized a daylong editorial workshop with experts in the legal and publishing fields for members of the Board of Directors, journal editors, Publications END NOTES Committee members, and CAA staff to explore the risks of publishing journals internationally 18 Solo Exhibitions by Artist and to review editorial procedures and policies. Our goal is to maintain open scholarly debate Members in our publications and at the conference and to ensure greater legal protection to authors, 19 Books Published by CAA editors, and speakers—and to CAA as a whole. A summary of workshop discussions and Members actions being taken by CAA will be posted, as they are developed, on www.collegeart.org. 19 Exhibitions Curated by CAA Also this summer, CAA began preparing for updating our strategic plan as we Members approach our centennial year in 2011. President Paul Jaskot will establish a steering com- mittee comprised of board members, external representatives in the field, and CAA staff, 19 People in the News with consultants from the firm LaPlaca Cohen. The new plan will establish major strate- 19 CAA Thanks Donors and gies and financial projections for CAA from 2010 to 2015. Over the next year, the board will Contributors solicit ideas from all CAA members in order to launch the new plan in January 2010. Issues 21 Grants, Awards, and Honors such as increased member benefits, advocacy, conference podcasting, digital publishing, 22 Institutional News interactive websites, fundraising, and financial stability will be addressed. We look forward 22 Classifieds to hearing your ideas about CAA’s future! 22 Datebook 23 Photo Credits
Linda Downs, CAA executive director SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS 2 FEATURES
caa.reviews at Ten Years
Christopher Howard is editor of CAA News.
In October 1998, CAA launched its first online journal, caa.reviews, published at www.caareviews.org. Founded by Larry Silver of the University of Pennsylvania and Robert Nelson of Yale University,1 the journal has since reviewed more than 1,100 books, exhibitions, and more. Ten years ago, art and scholarly publishers were strug- gling. Few magazines or newspapers were giving serious atten- tion to reviewing art books. The Art Bulletin and Art Journal were nearly alone, and they could review at most about several dozen books per year each. Meanwhile in academia, art scholar- ship was flourishing, but new publications couldn’t get the peer A recently published exhibition review of The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from assessment they needed. CAA’s print journals are quarterlies; Antiquity to the Present at the J. Paul Getty Museum, reviewed by Marjorie L. Harth as a website that could regularly publish texts as they are writ- ten and edited, caa.reviews could be a means of reviewing new CAA a $79,000 grant to get the project started. The grant terms books more quickly. required that the journal eventually become financially self- sustaining, which was attractive to the board. CAA was able BEGINNINGS to offer the journal freely on the internet, with open access, for several years to non-CAA members, which built a readership In the early 1990s, Larry Silver, who was then CAA president, and in turn helped to attract more reviewers. But in 2003 conceived of a reviews journal. He recalled, “I hoped that CAA caa.reviews became a benefit of CAA membership, like The Art could sponsor an inexpensive bimonthly reviews journal, on Bulletin and Art Journal are, and is now also available to institu- the model of the German Kunstchronik, to fill this gap.” A few tions through a subscriber agreement. years later, Robert Nelson had the idea to go from a print to Work began on both building the journal’s website and online publication. At that time, he and Silver regularly read commissioning reviews. Nelson, Silver, and Kinney enlisted two scholarly reviews distributed electronically. Founded in the library and computer expertise of Katherine Haskins, then 1993, the Medieval Review sent its reviews via an email listserv at the University of Chicago libraries,2 for technical issues (its archives are found at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tmr). The and assembled a small editorial board for leadership; Nelson second review, the Bryn Mawr Classical Review also published served as editor-in-chief for the first year. Together they col- its reviews via a listserv (with archives at http://ccat.sas.upenn lected a group of about ten to fifteen field editors to commis- .edu/bmcr). Perhaps, they thought, CAA could do something sion reviews. This is still the working structure of the journal: similar. editors specializing in one area of art or art history, and located In the mid-1990s, CAA had limited IT—no full-time staff, no anywhere in the world, commission reviews within that field or website—so it was a steep learning curve all around. “In some specialty. ways caa.reviews was the tail that wagged the dog,” Silver The first handful of texts, posted in October 1998, reflected said, “and got CAA to think about electronic communications, the diversity of scholarship in art history: reviewed were books a homepage, and related services.” And as it turned out, CAA on old masters such as Hans Holbein, Nicholas Poussin, and was ahead of most other scholarly societies in the arts and Édouard Manet, as well as on subjects like Byzantine ivories, humanities in making this investment in electronic publishing. women artists in the Renaissance, Islamic inscriptions, the art It had been common in the sciences for several years, but not of late imperial and early modern China, aesthetic theory, and in our world. Leila Kinney of the Massachusetts Institute of much more. Technology joined Silver and Nelson to advocate for not only a Silver, who took the editorial reins from Nelson in 1999 reviews journal but also a homepage for the organization. and served until 2005, said, “It didn’t take long for readers to The board was enthusiastic, but CAA didn’t have the find us and to send compliments on the quality of the reviews. I money to simply launch an entirely new publication. Funding particularly remember getting a response to a review on a book was sought, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded on Dutch art from the author in Holland, who was delighted to 3 CAA NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008 FEATURES
The art publishing world took notice of the journal, and in the ensuing years blurbs from caa.reviews began appearing in print advertisements and on publishers’ websites, alongside Larry Silver, cofounder of caa.reviews, editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2005, and current field quotes from reviews in more established publications. “I am editor for books in Northern European art pleased to see that our reviews are being cited by scholars and quoted by publishers just as much as print reviews,” Silver have his book reviewed well and quickly, while there was still a said. “After a decade of activity, we certainly do seem to be chance to discuss ideas freshly.” taken seriously and regarded as a peer institution of other aca- demic journals.” THE NEW MEDIUM EXHIBITION REVIEWS At first caa.reviews felt resistance about scholarly writing on the internet. Online publication was certainly seen as less Reviews of exhibitions, while published regularly since the prestigious at the beginning, so the editorial board had to work journal began, became a priority in 2004. A half-dozen field edi- hard to make it clear that the standards for reviewing were the tors, representing geographic areas in the United States and same as those at The Art Bulletin and Art Journal. Sheryl Reiss, internationally, began commissioning evaluations of shows in currently teaching art history at the University of Southern museums and university galleries. Lucy Oakley, the incoming California, was field editor for early modern Italian art from editor-in-chief who is head of education and programs at the 1998 to 2003: “I generally didn’t have problems finding review- Grey Art Gallery at New York University, said, “caa.reviews ers in a field rich in publications. Initially, though, some younger aims to cover exhibitions at a wide spectrum of art institutions, scholars were justifiably concerned whether an electronic book from prominent museums such as the Metropolitan, National review would carry the same weight in tenure decisions as a Gallery, Art Institute, and Getty to small university art galler- print review.” More and more readers and academics, however, ies and alternative spaces. Indeed, it’s at university art muse- came to embrace the new publishing medium. ums where the quality of scholarship counts more than the “I wonder how early readers felt about the change from admissions gate, where some of the most interesting, creative, handwritten manuscripts to the printed page,” said Frederick and intellectually ambitious exhibitions are being presented. Asher, who joined as field editor of South Asian art in 1999 and Typically such shows receive little notice in the commercial art then served as editor-in-chief from 2005 to 2008. “Did they resist that new access to knowledge? With caa.reviews and other “I am pleased to see that our reviews are carefully refereed and edited journals, we are only speaking of being cited by scholars and quoted by the mode of presentation, not the content, which is impeccable, publishers just as much as print reviews.” no different from any other CAA publication.” The resistance in some fields was problematic but under- standable: both contemporary art and cinema were fields in and book review press. Here caa.reviews is poised to make a which reviewers are accustomed to being paid and making a major contribution in helping to evaluate and spread the word living as critics, and caa.reviews had difficulty for a while find- about such exhibitions and their catalogues.” ing those who could write reviews for free. Contemporary art With the new group of field editors in place, reviews of con- remains an underdeveloped area of coverage for this reason. temporary artists such as Robert Smithson, Rachel Harrison, Theory is a difficult field to encompass as well, though and Louise Bourgeois soon appeared alongside considerations caa.reviews has always been sensitive to that topic and active of monographic shows on Duccio, Peter Paul Rubens, and in reviewing new works of importance since the journal began. Georges Seurat; surveys on Minimal, Turkish, and American Despite these issues, the journal has flourished. “I think Indian art were also reviewed. Because of its immediacy, that the greatest strength of caa.reviews is its breadth of cover- caa.reviews strives to publish an evaluation quickly, sometimes age,” said Silver, “particularly outside the traditional European while an exhibition is still on the walls. strengths of the discipline. caa.reviews has vastly expanded The author of many exhibition reviews himself, Silver said, the attention given to East Asian, Islamic, and other fields in “The crowds who attend museum exhibitions obviously love art history, and the journal has striven to give more attention to and care about art and are interested in how it’s shown. They exhibitions of importance in all fields. Certain publishers, such deserve proper, thoughtful, informed reviews from people who as the University of Hawai‘i Press, a leader in East Asian art know the material. So do the curators who put their scholarly books, have been particularly gratified to get coverage of their efforts into a show. After all, these are the means by which publications in caa.reviews.” > SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS 4 FEATURES
generations of people learn about art. And I should think that the reviews editors of CAA’s three journals, but it’s also a great living artists would particularly benefit from having shows way to gauge the state of publishing in the arts. reviewed by scholars, who are less interested in market issues Early concerns about the ephemeral nature of digital pub- than, perhaps, newspaper and magazine staff reviewers. That lishing and broader access to non-CAA readers will be met is one reason why I reviewed exhibitions in my hometown of when the journal becomes available on JSTOR. The journal will Philadelphia for caa.reviews in the early days of the journal. initially be archived through Portico, an archiving service for American newspapers are afraid that scholars will write in scholarly electronic journals, and then be presented through obscurantist prose and speak only to their specialist peers. So the JSTOR platform, probably by early 2009. Broader access caa.reviews has a wide-open field.” to caa.reviews is also available through institutional subscrip- tions, which authenticate users seamlessly through an institu- ESSAYS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE tion’s website. And all reviews published since 1998 can still be accessed on the caa.reviews website by individual members Essays are still not a major part of the journal, nor are confer- using their CAA user ID and password. ence reviews, as originally envisioned, but these areas are growing and include many notable highlights. In celebration A DIGITAL FUTURE of the one hundredth anniversary of Meyer Schapiro’s birth in 2003, caa.reviews published a trio of essays on the renowned Many daily and weekly newspapers are cutting art and culture scholar’s writings, with authors looking at Schapiro’s books staff and decreasing column inches devoted to book reviews on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, his approaches to and arts features. The New York Times seldom reviews art methodologies on the study of medieval art, and his ideas on books at all, even in its Christmas gift issue, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review just ceased publication. Though “As we approach CAA’s centenary we publications like caa.reviews, the Art Book, Bookforum, and the can think historiographically by looking reviews section of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, another born-digital journal, continue to carry the torch, this alarming at the published work produced over shift indicates something about our current larger intellectual the past century. And by ‘published’ I culture. The importance of the book and exhibition review is mean published in any venue, print or just as crucial in 2008 as it was in 1998. internet.” Silver said: “When even the New York Times continues to call its Sunday section ‘Arts and Leisure,’ we know where style and semiotics. Review essays on such topics as the 2006 review of exhibitions stand in terms of priority. And I have Rembrandt Year, contemporary Asian art in biennials and trien- always lamented the absence of feuilleton sections, where nials, the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, scholars could communicate about exhibitions or books of wider and the Walker Art Center expansion have appeared over the interest to a larger public through serious newspapers, as they years. do in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. And why is it that Other projects soon developed. In 2006 caa.reviews pub- museum reviews are done by John Updike in the New York lished extensive reviews of general art-history survey text- Review of Books? Perhaps art scholars should review novels in books—the first in CAA publications since the 1990s—and of exchange.” survey books specific to nineteenth-century art and visual cul- “caa.reviews is much more than a review journal for art ture. And just last year, caa.reviews began realizing one of its books,” Asher noted. “As we approach CAA’s centenary, all of original goals, reviewing academic conferences and symposia. us will be thinking about how the art disciplines have devel- Silver noted, “The dreams of the first year still provide a sign- oped and matured. We can think historiographically by looking post for future editors of the journal to strive for.” at the published work produced over the past century. And by In a redesign and relaunch in 2007, caa.reviews added a ‘published’ I mean published in any venue, print or internet.” new feature, Recent Books in the Arts. Replacing the tradi- 1. At the time, Larry Silver was at Northwestern University and Robert Nelson was at the tional Books Received list, which accumulated only the titles University of Chicago. of review copies of art publications sent to the CAA office, the 2. Katherine Haskins, now project development officer for Yale University’s library system, remains the journal’s technical advisor. new section collects titles published by university and com- mercial presses worldwide and divides them into disciplinary categories (e.g., Architectural History/Historic Preservation, Oceanic/Australian Art, and Critical Theory/Gender Studies/ Visual Studies). Recent Books in the Arts is not only useful to 5 CAA NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008 FEATURES
Contemporary Art Galleries in Downtown Los Angeles
From now until the CAA Annual Conference in Los Angeles, taking place February 25–28, 2009, both CAA News and www.collegeart.org will focus on the lively art scene—museums, galleries, magazines, and other art centers and institutions—of the conference city.
Since the mid-1950s, Los Angeles has been a hotbed of new art and groundbreaking galleries, museums, and other art spaces and institutions. Throughout the greater LA area are many pockets of art-world panache, from Malibu to Culver City to Chinatown. With the 2009 conference headquartered at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown LA, we thought Installation view of Christopher Michlig’s exhibition Negations at Jail in 2008. Foreground: we would start with a focus on the robust gallery culture there Turnstile, 2008, Birch plywood and laminate, dimensions variable; background: Redaction (orange, yellow, light orange, pink), 2008, found posters, cardstock, and glue, 28 x 22 in. and in its subdistricts. each (artworks © Christopher Michlig; photograph by Peter Lograsso and provided by Jail)
CHINATOWN collaged from detritus and other nonart materials—the stuff recent biennials are made of. A short walk or cab ride from the conference, Chinatown has Black Dragon Society (www.black-dragon-society.com) a long history of culture and commerce dating back to the late is another uber-hip gallery that focuses largely on painting, nineteenth century. In the 1930s, Chinatown’s central plaza such as the faux naïve, Mad magazine–inspired work of Steve saw development as a tourist attraction with the creative Canaday and the informal portraiture of Raffi Kalenderian. help of Hollywood set designers. The cinematic simulacrum of China Art Objects (www.chinaartobjects.com) features artists Chung King Road is now the high street of the area’s gallery such as Walead Beshty, Pae White, and Bjorn Copeland, who scene. While the art that is shown is cutting-edge contempo- also performs in the noise band Black Dice. rary, the galleries still pay tribute to the culture and history of Presenting installation, video, new media, and technology- Chinatown, often repurposing the original storefront names to minded work, Fringe Exhibitions (www.fringexhibitions.com) give us spaces called China Art Objects, Black Dragon Society, opened in 2006 with work by Survival Research Laboratories. and the Happy Lion. The gallery’s website features a Net art project each month. Kontainer (www.kontainergallery.com) has a painting- Recommended Galleries heavy roster, and Acuna-Hansen Gallery (www.ahgallery.com) A nonprofit organization since 2003, Telic Arts Exchange presents a number of drawing specialists, such as Eric Beltz (www.telic.info) serves as a platform for exhibitions, perfor- and Tracy Nakayama, in addition to artists who work in pho- mances, screenings, lectures, and discussions on art, archi- tography and sculpture. The Fifth Floor Gallery (www.fifthfloor tecture, and media, with an emphasis on social exchange, gallery.com) and David Salow Gallery (www.davidsalow interactivity, and public participation. From its basement gallery.com) were two of nine Chinatown venues that hosted location, Betalevel (http://betalevel.com) similarly operates CalArts’ MFA exhibition, We Want a New Object, in May 2008. as a studio, club, stage, and screening space. Its members are Both feature artists working in diverse mediums. artists, programmers, writers, designers, agitprop specialists, Mesler and Hug Gallery (www.meslerandhug.com) is filmmakers, and reverse engineers. big on multimedia installation, and Bonelli Contemporary The bad-boy scenesters of contemporary art, including (www.bonellicontemporary.com) maintains an Italian pres- Dash Snow, Dan Colen, Bruce Labruce, and Terence Koh, are ence in Chinatown, showing mostly painting and drawing. represented by Peres Projects (www.peresprojects.com). Here High Energy Constructs (www.highenergyconstructs.com) is you’ll find edgy, trendy, abrasive, and provocative art, often an exhibition and performance venue, and the Mountain Bar > SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS 6 FEATURES
(www.themountainbar.com), a nightclub and gallery space, is a central hang-out spot for artists that anchors the area. Other recommended spaces include Farmlab/Under Spring Gallery (www.farmlab.org); Mandarin (www.mandaringallery .com), Happy Lion Gallery (www.thehappylion.com); LMAN Gallery ([email protected]); and Sister (www.sisterla.com). Cottage Home (www.cottagehomela.com) is a unique venue run by Sister, China Art Objects, and Tom Solomon Gallery, with monthly solo and group shows alternately staged by each gallery. Pharmaka is a nonprofit gallery in downtown Los Angeles GALLERY ROW national and regional exchange shows. The newer Pharmaka Another area downtown, located just a short walk or bus (www.pharmaka-art.org), another nonprofit space, stages ride from the convention-center complex, is Gallery Row. A curated exhibitions while also programming lectures, panel seven-block concentration of galleries in the very center of discussions, podcasts, and accessible community events. downtown, Gallery Row was designated by city council in 2003 Other neighborhood highlights include Compact Space as a thriving, pedestrian-friendly, culturally abundant, urban (www.compactspace.com), which recently moved to the locus of art and nightlife. In a few short years, this experiment area, and De Soto (www.gallerydesoto.com), which is strong in urban planning has changed these blocks into a spontane- on photography. The work of gallery artist Connie Samaras ous laboratory of street art and creative culture, with fashion appeared on the cover of the Summer 2008 issue of X-TRA, a shows, live music, spoken word, and traditional art exhibitions. Los Angeles–based quarterly art magazine. The following galleries are located in or near this area. Rounding out the recommended downtown galleries is the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (www.lacda.com), which in Recommended Galleries addition to staging group exhibitions offers large-format print- Located in the main lobby of the Banco Popular Building, ing from artists’ and photographers’ digital files with an Epson *BANK (www.bank-art.com) has developed a distinctive cura- 9800 archival printer. torial platform showcasing emerging and midcareer artists, such as the work of Paul Butler, known not only for his own MORE TO COME work but also for his Collage Parties. MATERIAL, a critical arts journal, is a creation of the *BANK artist Kim Schoen and Ginny There’s lots more to downtown Los Angeles, with the Museum Cook. Similarly, a new nonprofit organization called Phantom of Contemporary Art, the REDCAT Galleries and Theater, and Galleries LA (www.phantomgalleriesla.com) places temporary the Frank Gehry–designed Walt Disney Concert Hall. Keep art installations in vacant storefront windows throughout Los an eye out in upcoming issues of CAA News and at www.col- Angeles County; its call for proposals is open ended. legeart.org to see the growing list of galleries, previews, and Established in spring 2007, Morono Kiang Gallery highlights of the Los Angeles scene, a West Coast bastion of (www.moronokiang.com) promotes contemporary art by both culture and cool. recognized and emerging artists, focusing on Chinese art from the last decade. Recently shown artists include Xu Bing, Ai Weiwei, Li Jin, and Liu Qinghe. Jail (www.thejailgallery.com) presents solid curated group shows, including Hef, dedicated to the founder of Playboy magazine, as well as solo exhibitions by emerging artists such as Christopher Michlig. Bert Green Fine Art (www.bgfa.us) focuses on contemporary painting and works on paper. Recently shown were works by the underground fanzine legend Dame Darcy and the horror novelist Clive Barker. Founded in 1979, LA Artcore (http://laartcore.org) is an established nonprofit with two gallery spaces for solo, two- person, and thematic group shows. The space also hosts inter- 7 CAA NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008 FEATURES
Covers of the forthcoming directories of graduate schools for art history and the visual arts
New Directories of they also provide a wealth of data for academic departments and programs, researchers, publishers, and funders. Graduate Programs Linda Downs, CAA executive director, says, “Our mem- bers and the field have been eagerly awaiting these new in the Arts editions. We have been very pleased by the high level of par- ticipation from schools and programs. The new volumes prom- Ten years after CAA last published our popular directories of ise to be far more detailed in the information they provide than graduate programs in the arts, CAA is issuing two new edi- the old books, and vastly more useful than any other guide to tions, available this fall. The CAA directories are the most graduate study in the arts currently on the market.” comprehensive source books for graduate education for artists The two volumes will cost $49.95 each—$39.95 to CAA and art scholars, with program information for some six hun- members—plus shipping and handling charges. They may dred schools, departments, and programs in the United States, be preordered from CAA through our website later this month Canada, Great Britain, and elsewhere worldwide. Colleges, (please see www.collegeart.org/directories) or purchased at universities, and independent art schools are all included. retail and online bookstores. The first volume, Graduate Programs in Art History: The CAA Directory, includes programs in art history and visual studies, museum studies, curatorial studies, arts adminis- tration, library science, and related areas. The second book, Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts: The CAA Directory, describes programs in studio art, graphic design, digital media, art education, conservation, film production, and more. Conveniently divided into separate volumes, these invalu- able guides present information on programs for MA, MFA, PhD, and other advanced degrees, with detailed data on admis- sions requirements, contact addresses, application deadlines and processes, curricula, special programs, facilities (such as studio equipment, libraries, museums, and image resources), financial aid and scholarships, lists of tenured faculty members with their specializations, assistantships, internships, and work opportunities; and myriad other useful facts. Although these invaluable books are designed primarily for students who are considering graduate study in the arts, SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS 8
panel discussion called “How the Heck to Sell that this parameter sparked creative dis- Upcoming the Work Outside” and workshops entitled plays, and the committee looks forward Workshops for “Career Alternatives: How to Support Yourself to surprises and inspiring solutions at the as a Working Artist,” “Beyond Slides: How upcoming conference. Please note that art- Artists to Be an Artist in the Twenty-First Century,” work cannot be hung on walls, and it is not and “Working in an Artist Collaborative,” pre- possible to run power cords from laptops or In locations around the country, CAA offers sented by Two Girls Working. There will be an other electronic devices to outlets—bring workshops for visual artists on a range of afternoon reception. fully charged batteries. topics, from health and safety in the studio To participate in Los Angeles, please to grant writing to professional relationship More Information write to the ARTexchange coordinators building. Each workshop is developed in col- CAA’s National Career Development Work- at [email protected], with the laboration with regional institutions to serve shops are supported by a generous grant subject heading “CAA ARTexchange.” the specific interests of their local constitu- from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Include your CAA member number and encies. Questions regarding the workshops for art- a brief description of what you plan to Please check www.collegeart.org/careers/ ists should be directed to Melissa Potter at present. Please provide details regard- CURRENTS nationalcareerdev periodically as more work- [email protected]. ing performance, sound, spoken word, or shops are announced for 2008. Below are technology-based work, including laptop two upcoming workshops. Exhibit Your Art in presentations. You will receive an email confirmation. Because ARTexchange is a Cleveland, Ohio Los Angeles popular venue and participation is based On October 22, 2008, 10:30 AM–3:00 PM, on available space, early applicants are CAA will offer career-development work- CAA’s Services to Artists Committee given preference. shops at the Cleveland Institute of Art. The invites artist members to participate in Participants are responsible for their program will take place at the Russell B. ARTexchange, an open forum for shar- work; CAA is not liable for losses or dam- Aitken Auditorium and include “The Tools ing work at the Annual Conference. ages. Sales of work are not permitted. of Self-Promotion: How to Initiate and Build ARTexchange, to be held Friday evening, Deadline: December 15, 2008. New Relationships,” with Jackie Battenfield; February 27, at the Los Angeles Convention a lunch and networking event; and “Pricing Center, is free and open to the public; a Your Work,” with Susan Schear of ArtIsIn. Mentors Needed cash bar is available. The space on, above, and beneath a for Conference Anchorage, Alaska six-foot table is available for each artist’s On November 8, 2008, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM, exhibition of prints, paintings, draw- Participating as a mentor in CAA’s two CAA will offer a day of professional-develop- ings, photographs, sculptures, and small Career Services mentoring programs— ment workshops hosted by the Alaska State installations; performance, sound, and the Artists’ Portfolio Review and Career Council on the Arts at the BP Energy Center spoken word are also welcome. Previous Development Mentoring—is an excellent in Anchorage. The program will include a ARTexchange participants have found way to serve the field while assisting the professional growth of the next generation of artists and scholars.
Artists’ Portfolio Review CAA seeks curators and critics to par- ticipate in the Artists’ Portfolio Review during the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles. This program provides an opportunity for artists to have slides, VHS videos, digital images, or DVDs of their work critiqued by professionals; member artists are paired with a critic, curator, or educator for twenty-minute appointments. Whenever possible, artists are matched with mentors based on medium or disci- pline. Volunteer mentors provide an impor- tant service to artists, enabling them to receive professional criticism of their work. Art historians and studio artists must be tenured; critics, museum educa- tors, and curators must have five years’ The artist Miguel Angel Rivera talks about his work during ARTexchange at the 2008 Annual Conference (photograph by Teresa Rafidi) experience. Curators and educators must 9 CAA NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008
Los Angeles Conference Registration
The 97th Annual Conference convenes February 25–28, 2009, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California. The Book and Trade Fair, Career Services, and most
conference sessions take place at this loca- CURRENTS tion; the headquarters hotel is the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. Offsite sessions and events take place at the museums, gal- leries, and other locations throughout Los Angeles and the surrounding cities.
Registration Costs Early registration through December 19, 2008: Visitors at the Kara Walker exhibition at UCLA’s Hammer Museum (photograph by Stefanie Keenan) Members $155 Student and retired members $90 have current employment with a museum educators must have current employment Nonmembers $280 or university gallery. with a museum or university gallery. Interested candidates must be current This mentoring session is not intended as Advance registration until January 23, CAA members, register for the conference, a screening process by institutions seeking 2009: and be willing to provide at least five suc- new hires. Applications are not accepted Members $225 cessive twenty-minute critiques in a two- from individuals whose departments are Student and retired members $130 hour period on one of the two days of the conducting a faculty search in the field in Nonmembers $350 review: Thursday, February 26, and Friday, which they are mentoring. Mentors should February 27, 8:00 AM–NOON and 1:00–5:00 not attend as candidates for positions in the Onsite registration at the conference: PM each day. same field in which workshop candidates Members $270 Send your CV and a brief letter of interest may be applying. Student and retired members $155 to: Lauren Stark, Artists’ Portfolio Review, Please send your CV and a brief let- Nonmembers $400 CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, ter of interest to: Lauren Stark, Career NY 10001; or email them to lstark@collegeart Development Mentoring, CAA, 275 Seventh CAA members can register by completing .org. Deadline: Decem ber 12, 2008. Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001; or the online registration form (with your credit- e-mail them to [email protected]. card information) at the conference website, Career Development Mentoring Deadline: December 12, 2008. http://conference.collegeart.org, beginning in CAA seeks mentors from all areas of art his- October 2008. Or you may fill out the form tory, studio art, art education, film and video, in the 2009 Conference Information and graphic design, the museum professions, Registration booklet, which will be sent to and other related fields to serve in CAA’s you in September; mail or fax the form to CAA Career Development Mentoring. Mentors give valuable advice to emerging and mid- SYMPOSIUM with your check or credit-card information. career professionals, reviewing cover letters, : Institutional members at the Academic/ Formation, Innovation, and Legacy CVs, slides, and other pertinent job-search Corporate and Library/Department/ Thomas Hope and English Regency Design materials in twenty-minute sessions. Museum levels can register up to ten Interested candidates must be current faculty and staff members at the reduced Tuesday, October 21, 2008 CAA members, register for the conference, individual-member rate (early or advance, speakers include: Barry Bergdoll, John Hardy, and be prepared to give five successive twen- depending on the deadline). Contact your Jason Kelly, Tim Knox, Tessa Murdoch, ty-minute critiques in a two-hour period on school or department chair to find out Tania Buckrell Pos, Robin Middleton, one of the two days of the session: Thursday, if your institution holds an institutional and David Watkin. February 26, and Friday, February 27, 8:00 CAA membership at these levels. For AM–NOON and 1:00–5:00 PM each day. Art information: 212-501-3011 other membership questions, contact CAA [email protected] historians and studio artists must be tenured; Member Services at 212-691-1051, ext. critics, museum educators, and curators must The Bard Graduate Center 12, or [email protected]. for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture have five years’ experience. Curators and 18 West 86th Street, NY, NY 10024 212.501.3000 SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS 10
Participate in Conference Mentoring
CAA is committed to supporting and advancing the careers of arts professionals. As a CAA member, you have access to a diverse range of mentors at Career Services during the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles. All emerging, midcareer, and advanced arts professionals can benefit from one-on-one discussions with dedicated men- tors about career-management skills, artists’
CURRENTS portfolios, and professional strategies. You can enroll in either the Artists’ Portfolio Review or Career Development Mentoring. These sessions are offered free of charge.
David Raizman of Drexel University (left) talks to Zehavi Husser, a doctoral student at Princeton University, at the 2008 Artists’ Portfolio Review Annual Conference (photograph by Teresa Rafidi) The Artists’ Portfolio Review offers artist members the opportunity to have slides, interviews. Sessions are filled by appoint- reimbursement of expenses for travel to the VHS videos, digital images, or DVDs of their ment only and are scheduled for Thursday, 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles. work reviewed by curators and critics in February 26, and Friday, February 27, 8:00 To qualify for the grant, students must be personal twenty-minute consultations at AM–NOON and 1:00–5:00 PM each day. current CAA members. Candidates should the 2009 Annual Conference. You may bring All applicants must be current CAA mem- include a completed application form, a brief battery-powered laptops; wireless internet bers. Participants are chosen by a lottery of statement by the student stipulating that he is not available in the room. Sessions are applications received by the deadline; all or she has no external support for travel to filled by appointment only and are sched- applicants are notified by email. To apply, the conference, and a letter of support from uled for Thursday, February 26, and Friday, please download the Career Development the student’s adviser or head of department. February 27, 8:00 AM–NOON and 1:00–5:00 Enrollment Form at http://conference For application forms and more informa- PM each day. .collegeart.org/2009/mentoring or use the tion, please contact Lauren Stark, CAA All applicants must be current CAA form in the Conference Information and manager of programs, at 212-691-1051, ext. members. Participants are chosen by a lot- Registration booklet to be mailed to you 248, or [email protected]. Send applica- tery of applications received by the dead- later this month. Please send the completed tion materials to: Lauren Stark, Graduate line; all applicants are notified by email. To form to: Career Development Mentoring, Student Conference Travel Grant, CAA, apply, download the Career Development CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY Enrollment Form at http://conference York, NY 10001. Deadline: January 16, 10001. Deadline: September 26, 2008. .collegeart.org/2009/mentoring or use the 2009. form in the Conference Information and International Member Conference Registration booklet to be mailed to you Conference Travel Travel Grant later this month. Please send the completed CAA presents a $500 grant to artists or form to: Artists’ Portfolio Review, CAA, 275 Grants scholars from outside the United States Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY as partial reimbursement of expenses for 10001. Deadline: January 16, 2009. CAA offers Annual Conference Travel Grants travel to the 2009 Annual Conference in Los to graduate students in art history and stu- Angeles. To qualify for the grant, applicants Career Development Mentoring dio art and to international artists and schol- must be current CAA members. Candidates Artists, art historians, art educators, and ars. The grants are funded by donations from should include a completed application form, museum professionals at all stages of CAA members. CAA warmly thanks those a brief statement by the applicant stipulat- their careers may apply for one-on-one members who made voluntary contributions ing that he or she has no external support for consultations with veterans in their fields to this fund. travel to the conference, and two letters of at the 2009 Annual Conference. Career support. For application forms and additional Development Mentoring offers a unique Graduate Student Conference Travel information, contact Lauren Stark, CAA opportunity for participants to receive can- Grant manager of programs, at 212-691-1051, ext. did advice on how to conduct a thorough This $150 grant is awarded to advanced 248, or lstark@college art.org. Send materi- job search, present work, and prepare for PhD and MFA graduate students as partial als to: Lauren Stark, International Member 11 CAA NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008
Conference Travel Grant, CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Deadline: September 26, 2008. 2009–2010 Clark Fellowships
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a center for research and Projectionists and higher education as well as a public art museum, offers fellowships for Room Monitors national and international scholars, critics, and museum professionals who are engaged in projects that enhance the understanding of the Needed visual arts and their role in culture. The program supports all gen- res of art historical scholarship about all places and periods, but CAA seeks applications for projectionists at especially those projects with a critical commitment to research in the- the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles. ory, history, and interpretation.Included is the Gould Fellowship, a CURRENTS Successful applicants are paid $10 per hour year-long award for the study of French art and culture, split and receive complimentary conference between Williamstown and Paris and sponsored jointly by the Clark registration. Projectionists are required to and the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, as well as work a minimum of four 2½-hour program the year-long Clark/Oakley Fellowship (with the Oakley Center for sessions, from Wednesday, February 25, to Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College) for a scholar in the humanities whose study addresses some aspect of the visual field. Saturday, February 28, and attend a train- ing meeting Wednesday morning at 7:30 Clark Fellows are in residence for one to ten months and are provided AM. Projectionists must be able to operate a with offices in the Sir Edwin and Lady Manton Research Center that 35mm slide projector; familiarity with digital houses the Institute’s exceptional art history library and visual projectors is preferred. resources collection. The Clark is within walking distance of Williams Room monitors are needed for CAA’s College and its libraries and museum of art and is a short drive from two Career Services mentoring programs, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). the Artists’ Portfolio Review and Career Clark Conferences, Symposia, Workshops, and Colloquia, as well as Development Mentoring, and for several frequent lectures, are a vital part of the Institute’s activities. The offsite conference sessions. Successful can- Clark also houses a graduate program in the history of art, co-sponsored didates are paid $10 per hour and receive with Williams College. complimentary conference registration. Room monitors are required to work a mini- Clark Fellows receive generous stipends, dependent on sabbatical and salary replacement needs, and reimbursement for travel expenses. mum of eight hours, checking in participants They are housed in apartments in a scholars’ residence across the and facilitating the work of the mentors. road from their offices in the Institute, located in a rural setting in All projectionist and room-monitor can- the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Both Boston and New didates must be US citizens or permanent York City are about three hours away by car. US residents. Please send a brief letter of interest to: Lauren Stark, CAA Manager Applications are invited from scholars with a Ph.D. or equivalent of Programs, CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th professional experience in universities, museums, and related insti- Floor, New York, NY 10001; or write to tutions. For guidelines and an application form, as well as further [email protected]. Deadline: December information, please visit www.clarkart.edu or contact Michael Ann Holly, 12, 2008. Starr Director of Research and Academic Program, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267.
Conference Telephone: 413 458 0460 E-mail: [email protected]
Curatorial The application deadline for fellowships awarded for the 2009–2010 Proposals year is November 1, 2008.
CAA invites curators to submit proposals for exhibitions whose openings coincide with upcoming Annual Conferences. The exhibi- tion must be held in the conference city and be on view during the conference dates: • Chicago, February 10–13, 2010. Deadline extended: October 31, 2008 Sterling and Francine • New York, February 2010. Deadline: Clark Art Institute September 1, 2009 225 South Street, Williamstown There are no limitations on the theme or Massachusetts 01267 media of work to be included in the exhibi- tion, except that it must be a group show SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS 12
anticipated sources of funding or in-kind Intellectual Property and the Arts support Please send your proposal to Emmanuel CAA recently launched a new section of its website called “Intellectual Property and the Arts,” Lemakis, CAA director of programs, at found at www.collegeart.org/ip. This section provides links to CAA’s activities on intellectual- [email protected]. property and copyright matters and to useful websites and resources of other organizations. Included in the section are links to authoritative texts by universities, library organizations, and the US Copyright Office; suggestions for clearing permissions and rights for images used Publications in publication; and articles by CAA’s Committee on Intellectual Property from past issues of For more information on CAA’s publications, CAA News, on topics such as the legal status of appropriation in art, work for hire, and art- please visit www.collegeart.org/publications ists’ moral rights in their artworks. or write to Alex Gershuny, CAA editorial CAA’s members are both copyright owners and users of copyrighted material. Artists and assistant, at [email protected]. authors create new works, and many also quote from or repurpose material created by others. CAA encourages all members to become familiar with intellectual-property law as it affects you. Call for Dissertation Listings
CURRENTS Dissertations in art history and visual stud- of contemporary art comprising about fif- affiliation(s), and CV(s) ies, both completed and in progress, are teen artists. CAA’s Exhibitions Committee • A brief statement of 250 words or less published annually on both the CAA and reviews and evaluates proposals based on describing the exhibition’s theme and caa.reviews websites. (Dissertations for- merit. CAA provides support for the exhi- explaining any special or timely signifi- merly appeared in the June issue of The Art bition with a grant of up to $10,000. An cance it may have Bulletin but will no longer be listed there.) additional grant of $5,000 is available for an • Identification of the designated venue, PhD-granting institutions may send a list of exhibition catalogue to be printed in suf- including a brief description of the exhi- doctoral students’ dissertation titles to ficient numbers for distribution to all Annual bition space, its staffing and security [email protected]. Full instruc- Conference attendees. Preference is given features, and the approval for this exhibi- tions regarding the format of listings are to those proposals that include both an open tion by the venue’s appropriate officer or found at www.collegeart.org/dissertations; call and some CAA members among the authority; a space of no less than three instructions will be sent by email and fax exhibiting artists. thousand square feet is highly recom- to department heads later this fall. CAA Proposals must be submitted by email mended does not accept listings from individuals. and should include the following: • A detailed exhibition budget for Improperly formatted lists will be returned • Name(s) of curator(s) or organizer(s), expenses and income, showing other to sender. For more information, write to the above email address. Deadline: December 1, 2008.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Millard Meiss Publication Grants Research Center stipend program CAA awards Millard Meiss Publication Grants to support book-length scholarly sponsors research relating to the study of manuscripts in the history of art and related ( American Modernism 189 0 s to the present) in subjects that have been accepted by a pub- the fields of art history, architectural history and lisher on their merits but cannot be design, literature, music, and photography. published in the most desirable form with- out a subsidy. For complete guidelines, Stipends are available for three-to-twelve month application forms, and grant description, periods to qualified applicants at the pre- and please visit www.collegeart.org/meiss post doctoral levels, including one that can be or write to [email protected]. awarded to a museum curator or otherwise Deadline: October 1, 2008. qualified individual interested in organizing an Wyeth Foundation for American Art exhibition pertaining to American Modernism Publication Grant for the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Thanks to a second generous three-year grant from the Wyeth Foundation for More information and application instructions are American Art, CAA awards a publication grant to support book-length scholarly available by phone at 505.946.1002, or at manuscripts in the history of American www.okeeffemuseum.org/center/scholarships.html art and related subjects. Books eligible for the Wyeth Grant have been accepted by a Application deadline: Monday after Thanksgiving. publisher on their merits but cannot be pub- lished in the most desirable form without a 13 CAA NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008
subsidy. For complete guidelines, applica- decisions regarding the acceptability of all torial board of a competitive journal or on tion forms, and grant description, please submissions for publication. The editor-in- another CAA editorial board or committee. visit www.collegeart.org/wyeth or write chief is not responsible for commissioning Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s to [email protected]. Deadline: reviews. The editor-in-chief works closely willingness to serve before submitting a October 1, 2008. with CAA staff in New York, where the name; self-nominations are also welcome. publication is produced. This is a half-time Please send a statement describing your Journals Welcome New Editorial-Board position. CAA may negotiate course release interest in and qualifications for appoint- Members or other compensation for the editor. ment, CV, and at least one letter of recom- CAA welcomes the following people to the The editor-in-chief attends the three mendation to: Director of Publications, Art editorial boards of its three scholarly jour- annual meetings of the Art Journal Editorial Journal Editor-in-Chief Search, CAA, 275
nals. All members serve four-year terms. Board—held in the spring and fall in Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY CURRENTS Natalie Kampen of Barnard College has New York and in February at the Annual 10001. Deadline: September 15, 2008; finalists joined the Art Bulletin Editorial Board. The Conference—and submits an annual report will be interviewed on October 23, 2008, in Art Journal Editorial Board welcomes Jan to CAA’s Publications Committee. CAA New York. Estep, Regis Center for Art at the University reimburses the editor-in-chief for travel and of Minnesota; Karin Higa, Japanese Ameri- lodging expenses for the spring and fall New The Art Bulletin Seeks Reviews Editor can National Museum; and Terence E. York meetings in accordance with its travel As the current term of the Art Bulletin Smith, University of Pittsburgh. Laura policy, but he or she pays these expenses to reviews editor is coming to its conclusion, Auricchio of Parsons the New School for attend the conference. CAA invites applicants for the next term, Design has joined the caa.reviews Editorial Candidates must be current CAA mem- July 1, 2009–June 30, 2012 (with service Board. bers and should not be serving on the edi- as incoming reviews editor designate from
caa.reviews Names New Field Editors caa.reviews welcomes three new field edi- tors who will serve three-year terms for the journal: Linda Komaroff of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will commission National Gallery of Art, Washington reviews of books on Islamic art; Marjorie CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN THE VISUAL ARTS Munsterberg of City College of New York, City University of New York, will assign Visiting Senior and Senior Fellowship Program, 2009 – 2010 reviews of books on nineteenth-century art; and Jon Seydl of the Cleveland Museum of The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its program for visiting senior Art will commission reviews of exhibitions and senior fellowships. Fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars reside in Wash- in the Midwest. ington and participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Art Journal Seeks Editor-in-Chief Fellows are provided with studies and have access to the notable resources represented by As the current term of the Art Journal edi- the collections, the library, and the photographic archives of the National Gallery of Art, tor-in-chief is coming to its conclusion, CAA as well as to the Library of Congress and other research libraries and collections in the area. invites applicants for the next term, July Applications will be considered for research in the history, theory, and criticism 1, 2009–June 30, 2012 (preceded by a term of the visual arts of any geographical area and of any period. Visiting senior and senior as editor designate from November 2008 to fellowships are intended for those who have held the PhD for five years or more or June 2009). Art Journal, published quarterly who possess an equivalent record of professional accomplishments. Stipends for two- by CAA, promotes informed discussion month visiting senior fellowships range from $6,000 to $8,000 depending on relocation about issues across disciplines in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, nationally and requirements. A senior fellowship award is normally limited to one-half of the applicant’s internationally. salary for the academic year, up to a maximum of $50,000, depending on individual Candidates may be artists, art historians, circumstances. Fellows will be provided with housing in apartments near the Gallery, art critics, art educators, curators, or other subject to availability. Visiting senior fellowship award period: March 1, 2009 – August 31, art professionals; institutional affiliation is 2009; application deadline: September 21, 2008. Senior fellowship award period: academic not required. year 2009 – 2010; application deadline: October 15, 2008. For information and application Advised by the Art Journal Editorial forms contact: Board, the editor-in-chief is responsible for the content and character of the journal. He National Gallery of Art • Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts or she reads all submitted manuscripts and 2000b South Club Drive, Landover, md 20785 reviews all submitted artist projects, sends Tel: 202-842-6482 • Fax: 202-789-3026 them to peer reviewers, provides guidance
to authors and artists concerning the form E-mail: [email protected] • Web address: www.nga.gov/resources/casva.htm and content of submissions, and makes final SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS 14
February to June 2009). The Art Bulletin, in the fields of art history, criticism, theory, nee’s willingness to serve before submitting published quarterly by CAA, is the leading visual studies, and museum publishing. This a name; self-nominations are also welcome. publication of art history in English. is a three-year term, which includes mem- Please send a statement describing your Candidates should be art scholars with bership on the Art Bulletin Editorial Board. interest in and qualifications for appoint- stature in the field and experience in editing The reviews editor attends the three ment, CV, and at least one letter of recom- book and/or exhibition reviews; institutional annual meetings of the Art Bulletin Editorial mendation to: Director of Publications, Art affiliation is not required. Candidates should Board—held in the spring and fall in New Bulletin Reviews Editor Search, CAA, 275 be published authors of at least one book. York and in February at the CAA Annual Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY The reviews editor is responsible for com- Conference—and submits an annual report 10001. Deadline: September 15, 2008; final- missioning all book and exhibition reviews to CAA’s Publications Committee. CAA ists will be interviewed on October 24, 2008, in The Art Bulletin. He or she selects books reimburses the reviews editor for travel and in New York. and exhibitions for review, commissions lodging expenses for the spring and fall New reviewers, and determines the appropri- York meetings in accordance with its travel caa.reviews Needs Field Editors for ate length and character of reviews. The policy, but he or she pays these expenses to Art Exhibitions in the Northwest reviews editor also works with authors attend the conference. and Southeast CURRENTS and CAA’s director of publications in the Candidates must be current CAA mem- CAA invites nominations and self-nomina- development and preparation of review bers and should not be serving on the edi- tions for two field-editor positions for exhibi- manuscripts for publication. He or she is torial board of a competitive journal or on tion reviews in caa.reviews for a four-year expected to keep abreast of newly published another CAA editorial board or committee. term, through June 30, 2012. Each field edi- and important books and recent exhibitions Nominators should ascertain their nomi- tor covers a geographic region of the United States; needed now are editors covering art exhibitions in the Northwest and Southeast. PRESENTS caa.reviews is an online journal devoted to the peer review of new books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art history, visual studies, and the arts. Candidates may be artists, art histo- rians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals; institutional affilia- tion is not required. Field editors should live in the region covered. Each field editor commissions reviews of important museum and gallery exhibitions for caa.reviews. He or she selects shows to be reviewed, commissions reviewers, determines the appropriate character of the reviews, and works with reviewers to devel- op manuscripts for publication. These field editors work with the caa.reviews Editorial Board as well as the caa.reviews editor-in- chief and CAA’s staff editor. Each field edi- tor is expected to keep abreast of current and upcoming exhibitions (and other related projects) in his or her geographic region. The Council of Field Editors meets annu- ally at the CAA Annual Conference. Field editors must pay travel and lodging expens- es to attend the conference. Candidates must be current CAA mem- bers and should not be serving on the edi-
1)050#:+0)/1&%&/ torial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. Nominators should ascertain their nomi- nee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. NOW THROUGH NOVEMBER 2 CO – CURATED WITH Send a statement describing your interest in TICKETS: WWW.NYBG.ORG OR 212.721.6500 BRONX RIVER PARKWAY AT FORDHAM ROAD | 20 MINUTES ON METRO-NORTH FROM GRAND CENTRAL and qualifications for appointment, CV, and 15 CAA NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008
contact information to: Chair, caa.reviews www.collegeart.org/committees. be submitted in hard copy and mailed to Editorial Board, CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., Nominations and self-nominations for CAA with the CD. Deadline: October 1, 2008; 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Deadline committee membership should include a fellows are chosen by December 31, 2008. extended: September 15, 2008. brief statement (no more than 150 words) Visual-Art Fellowships: Visual-art fel- describing the individual’s qualifications lowship applicants must include the follow- CAA News and experience and an abbreviated CV (no ing on CD or DVD: application form; essay; more than two pages). Please send all mate- résumé or CV; description of your MFA exhi- rials to: Vice President for Committees, c/o bition and its timetable; all visual documen- For more information on CAA activities, Vanessa Jalet, Executive Assistant, CAA, tation (up to six images of your work, prop- please visit www.collegeart.org. 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, erly labeled and formatted for both PC and
NY 10001. Materials may also be sent to Macintosh); and image script (caption list CURRENTS Join a CAA Committee [email protected]; email submissions and short descriptions of the work). Letters CAA invites you to join one of our nine must be sent as Microsoft Word attach- of recommendation; a copy of your 2007 IRS diverse, active Professional Interests, ments. Deadline: October 17, 2008. income-tax form or 2008 Free Application Practices, and Standards Committees. for Student Federal Aid (FASFA); and gradu- These committees address crucial issues 2008 Art History and Visual Art ate transcript must be submitted in hard in the fields of art and art history and Fellowship Applications Available copy and mailed to CAA with the CD or help to shape CAA’s activities and goals. Applications for the 2008 Professional DVD. Deadline: October 1, 2008; fellows are Committees initiate and supervise ongo- Development Fellowship Program are now chosen by December 31, 2008. ing projects and recommend new programs available at www.collegeart.org/fellowships. and formal statements and guidelines to the CAA awards fellowships in the amount Board. Joining a committee is also an excel- Affiliated Society of $15,000 to qualified graduate students lent way to network with other members in visual art and art history; grants may be News and to provide service to the field. used to help recipients with various aspects Committee members serve three-year of their work, whether for their job-search For more information on CAA’s affiliated soci- terms (2009–12), with at least one new expenses or purchasing materials for their eties, visit www.collegeart.org/affiliated or member rotating onto a committee each studio. In addition, one or more fellowships write to Emmanuel Lemakis, CAA director of year. Candidates must possess expertise are awarded to a PhD student specializing programs, at [email protected]. appropriate to the committee’s work and in American art; this award is made possi- be current CAA members. Members of all ble with support from the Wyeth Foundation Association of Historians of American Art committees volunteer their services to CAA for American Art. As in the past, honorable The Association of Historians of American without compensation. CAA’s president and mentions may also be recognized. Art (AHAA) is offering a grant for CAA con- vice president for committees will review all The main purpose of the fellowship pro- ference expenses up to $500 to be awarded candidates and make appointments prior to gram is to support outstanding graduate to an ABD student of historical art of the the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles. students from diverse backgrounds who United States who will travel to the 2009 All new members are introduced to their may have been underrepresented in their meeting in Los Angeles to participate in the committees at their respective business fields. By offering financial assistance to program. The successful recipient must be meetings at the conference. promising MFA and PhD students, CAA currently enrolled in a graduate program and The following vacancies will be filled for can assist the rising generation during this an AHAA member in good standing. The terms beginning February 2009: important transitional period in their lives. application deadline is February 1, 2009. For • Committee on Diversity Practices: two This year, application forms and require- more information, see www.ahaaonline.org. members ments for both visual-art and art-history • Committee on Intellectual Property: one fellowships have changed. Submission of Association of Historians of Nineteenth- member material by all applicants must now be Century Art • Committee on Women in the Arts: up to sent on CD or DVD; slides, videocassettes, Michael Duffy will be chairing the Associa- six members and some paperwork in hard copy are not tion of Historians of Nineteenth-Century • Education Committee: one member accepted. Please go to the website for spe- Art (AHNCA) sponsored session at the 2009 • International Committee: two members cific application requirements; published Nineteenth Century Studies Association • Museum Committee: at least three mem- below are general guidelines. conference. The conference theme is “The bers Art-History Fellowships: Applicants to Green Nineteenth Century,” and the event • Professional Practices Committee: at least the art-history fellowships must include the will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, two members following on a CD: application form; essay; March 26–28, 2009. • Services to Artists Committee: one mem- CV; dissertation prospectus; sample disserta- ber tion chapter; and timetable for dissertation International Association of Art Critics • Student and Emerging Professionals completion. Letters of recommendation; a The annual International Association of Art Committee: at least four members. copy of your 2007 IRS income-tax form or Critics (AICA) Distinguished Critics Lecture For information about the mandate and 2008 Free Application for Student Federal at the New School in New York will be pre- activities of each committee, please visit Aid (FASFA); and graduate transcript must sented by Linda Nochlin on November 10, SEPTEMBER 2008 CAA NEWS 16
2008. Questions to be considered are: What PDF document (include your last name in University, and Moholy Nagy University; and are the goals of art criticism? How are they title) via email to Cathleen Fleck, IAS Victoria Vesna of the UCLA Art/Sci Center. different from the goals of art history? How travel committee chair, at cfleck@artsci Levy will serve as cochair for 2009–10 and does a trained art historian consider the .wustl.edu. The deadline for both applica- as chair for 2011. multiple directions of contemporary art? tions is November 1, 2008, with notification For more information about Leonardo/ What are the obligations of the critic, and by December 1. IAS expects each grant ISAST membership benefits, please visit what are the pleasures in writing criticism? recipient to become a member and to attend http://leonardo.info/members.html. Nochlin will address these issues by looking our business meeting at the conference. For at a wide variety of artists, from Gustave membership, see www.italianartsociety.org/ Midwest Art History Society Courbet and Édouard Manet through Jenny membership.html. The Midwest Art History Society (MAHS) is Saville and Sam Taylor-Wood, as well as at pleased to announce its sponsored publica- critics from Charles Baudelaire and John Japan Art History Forum tion, A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Ruskin through Roberta Smith. The lecture, In July 2008, the Japan Art History Forum Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian open to the public, is presented in conjunc- (JAHF) announced its selection of the Drawings (Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller, tion with the Vera List Center for Art and essay “Electric Dress and the Circuits of 2008), with catalogue entries by Edward CURRENTS Politics and starts at 6:30 PM. Subjectivity” by Namiko Kunimoto of the Olszewski and fifteen additional contribu- University of California, Berkeley, as the tors. The Corpus is the second in a series International Sculpture Center recipient of the Chino Kaori Memorial Essay under the auspices of MAHS dealing with The International Sculpture Center (ISC) Prize. The prize is administered annually by European drawings in Midwestern col- will publish a new book in September JAHF for an unpublished English-language lections. The first volume, published by 2008, Landscapes for Art: Contemporary essay on Japanese art history written by a the University of Missouri Press in 1996, Sculpture Parks, under the ISC Press graduate student. The winner receives a dealt with drawings before 1500. The new imprint, in collaboration with the University gift of $400 in books from the University of study represents a gathering of drawings of Washington Press. Since the mid-twen- Hawai‘i Press and a complimentary two- from forty institutions between Ohio and tieth century, sculpture parks and gardens year JAHF membership. The deadline for Oklahoma based on a census of seventy-five have become important tourist destina- submission of papers is July 1. museums and art centers. tions and essential aspects of public life. During the MAHS thirty-fifth annual Landscapes for Art surveys a wide range of Leonardo Education Forum conference in Chicago (April 2–5, 2008), sculpture parks and gardens that focus on The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) is the society’s board of directors announced contemporary art—from well-established, pleased to announce that Ellen Levy has that The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins museum-type institutions to small-scale, been elected LEF cochair. Levy is currently Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 noncollecting, experimental programs. The a visiting scholar at New York University (Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, book includes profiles of sculpture parks and a PhD candidate at Z-Node, an interdis- 2007), edited by Margaret Conrads, as the in the United States, United Kingdom, ciplinary program for artists involved in sci- winner of the Midwest Art History Society Japan, Australia, Lithuania, China, Italy, ence and technology. She will join the cur- Award for Outstanding Catalogue for 2007. Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, rent chair, Andrea Polli of Integrated Media MAHS’s thirty-sixth annual conference Latvia, Sweden, and Finland, among others. Arts at Hunter College, City University of will convene April 2–4, 2009, in Kansas Readers can also find articles on key top- New York, and cochairs Nina Czegledy City, Missouri. The event is cohosted by ics by art critics, landscape architects, and of the University of Toronto, Concordia the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the sculpture-park professionals, and interviews University of Missouri, Kansas City. Other with Isamu Noguchi, Martin Friedman, and participating institutions are the Kansas Alfio Bonanno. City Art Institute, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the H&R Block Artspace, Italian Art Society the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, The Italian Art Society (IAS) is pleased to Kansas, and the Nerman Museum of announce a competition for two grants Contemporary Art at Johnson County of $500 each to support travel to both the Community College. CAA Annual Conference in Los Angeles in February 2009 and the International National Art Education Association Congress for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo In June, forty-seven art and design master in May 2009. This competition is open to educators, administrators, and emerging PhD students or recent PhD recipients pre- educators from across the nation met at senting on the art or architecture of ancient the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to contemporary Italy at these conferences. for ThinkTank3, an intensive forum link- Please send your CV, paper abstract and ing educational theory to studio practice. session details, preliminary budget and The theme for the five-day symposium was other funding sources, and contact data for “Foundations Teaching in the Twenty-First your academic advisor as a single Word or Century.” Higher-education members of 17 CAA NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008
the National Art Education Association another, as well as a bulletin board where art and visual culture and associate profes- (NAEA) who participated included Mary announcements and ongoing discussions sor at the University of Connecticut; and Stewart, Florida State University; Richard can be found. Members of the caucus and Ruth Weisberg, an artist and dean of fine Siegesmund, University of Georgia; John nonmembers who wish to become involved arts at the University of Southern California. Baldacchino, Teachers College; Marybeth are encouraged to join. The awards ceremony will be held at the Koos, Elgin College; Brooke Hunter- The caucus also eagerly awaits the 2009 Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles on Lombardi, Columbus College of Art and CAA Annual onference, where Jenni Sorkin Saturday, February 28, 2009, in conjunc- Design, and Sheri Klein, University of will be leading a panel entitled “Queering tion with the CAA Annual Conference. This Wisconsin, Stout. Craft.” This panel will add to the increasing ceremony, which is free and open to the ThinkTank was divided into two parts. interest in the intersections and variations public, will be the thirtieth anniversary of
In Stage 1, four workgroups responded to of queerness and craft within the field of the awards. As in past years, the awards CURRENTS themes of “Constructing Meaning: From Idea visual and material culture. ceremony will include an accompanying to Image to Object”; “Contextual and Critical catalogue, outlining the awardees’ accom- Connections: The Role of History/Theory Women’s Caucus for Art plishments in greater detail. Please check in Education of Studio Artists”; “Beyond The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) has www.nationalwca.org for more details about Computers: New Technologies and Teacher selected five recipients for this year’s the ceremony (free), the awards dinner (tick- Training”; and “Developing Concepts/ Lifetime Achievement Awards: Maren ets are $90 before December 1, 2008, and Ex -panding Creativity: Finding Common Hassinger, director of the Rinehart School $105 after), and other planned events. Ground between Art and Design Education.” of Graduate Sculpture at the Maryland Stage 2 was a practical training session for Institute College of Art; Ester Hernandez, fifteen exemplary junior faculty from across a San Francisco–based artist who was a the nation. Melody Milbrandt from Georgia pioneer in the Chicana/Chicano civil rights State University served on the ThinkTank art movement; Joyce Kozloff, a political and committee that awarded the fellowships feminist artist who was a founding member that allowed these emerging educators to of the Pattern and Decoration movement participate. of the 1970s; Margo Machida, a renowned A board of directors to guide ThinkTank’s authority on contemporary Asian American further development was formed with Stewart serving as president and Siegesmund as vice president and treasurer elect. Board members from NAEA include Baldacchino, Hunter-Lombardi, and Renee Sandell from George Mason University. More information and resources devel- opment through ThinkTank can be found at http://thinktankarts.typepad.com. ThinkTank4 will be held at the University of Georgia, June 5–10, 2009, with the theme “Divergence, Convergence, Emergence: Expanding Cross-Disciplinary Creativity.” &EB ¯ À 2EGISTER NOW Details for fellowship applications to ThinkTank4 can be found at the web- 3AVANNAH #OLLEGE OF !RT AND $ESIGN 3AVANNAH 'A site. Deadline for fellowship submissions: December 30, 2008. 4OPIC AREAS INCLUDE $E½NING -EASURING AND $EVELOPING #REATIVITY Private Art Dealers Association )NSTITUTION 0ROGRAM AND #LASSROOM !SSESSMENT The Private Art Dealers Association (PADA) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2ETHINKING !SSESSMENT AS 2E¾ECTIVE #RITIQUE AND A fifteenth annual PADA Award (2008): the 0RACTICE IN THE 3CHOLARSHIP OF 4EACHING AND ,EARNING Frick Art Research Library. The award will be presented at the PADA annual dinner on &OR