NEWS NEWSLETTER OF THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION Volume 27, Number 6 NOVEMBER 2002 Roger Shimomura SHIMOMURA IS 2003 COMMITTEE ON WOMEN IN THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT ARTS NAMES AWARD RECIPIENTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE AA’s Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA) oger Shimomura, an artist whose will honor two outstanding women—visual paintings, prints, and theater artists Elizabeth Catlett Mora and June pieces address sociopolitical CWayne—at its 8th Annual Recognition Awards Rissues of Asian America and the winner Ceremony at the American Folk Art Museum during of CAA’s 2002 Artist Award for the 2003 CAA Annual Conference in New York, which Distinguished Body of Work, will give will take place on Friday, February 21, 2003, from 7:00 the Convocation address at CAA’s 91st to 8:30 A.M. Please join us in celebrating their amazing Annual Conference. His speech is enti- and continuing careers! tled “The 63 Stages of the Yellow Brick Elizabeth Catlett Mora, sculptor, printmaker, Road.” feminist, and social and political activist, has dedicated Free and open to the public, her life to creating artwork that reflects her beliefs and Convocation will be held on Wednes- PHOTO CREDIT: D.G. LEMEH “DORI” experiences as an African American woman. Recipient day, February 19, 2003, from 5:30 to of eight honorary doctorates and numerous artistic 7:00 P.M., in the East Ballroom at the Elizabeth Catlett Mora awards, Catlett’s distinguished career spans fifty years, Hilton New York. Shimomura’s keynote during which she has worked in bronze, clay, wood, address will be preceded by remarks stone, serigraphy, and lithography. Galvanized into from CAA President Michael Aurbach action by the civil rights, labor, and women’s move- and the annual Awards for Distinction ments, she fashioned such memorable sculptures as presentation. Homage to My Young Black Sisters (1968), The Black Immediately following Convocation Woman Speaks (1970), and Target (1970). Additionally, is a reception at the Whitney Museum Catlett created equally memorable prints such as of American Art (for ticketholders only). Sharecropper (1968) and Black is Beautiful (1970) that underscore the tensions and racial divisions in America. DICKINSON The richness of her visual repertoire still remains vital IN THIS ISSUE today. As an undergraduate at Howard University in From the Executive Director Washington, DC, Catlett studied under the artist Lois 2 Mailou Jones and the art historian and scholar James PHOTO CREDIT: ELEANOR Professional Practices Porter. She earned her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa 3 Committee Reexamines M.F.A. June Wayne in Iowa City, where she studied with Grant Wood. Later, Catlett honed her craft in Mexico with the artists A Conversation With Edward Jose L. Ruiz and Francisco Zuniga and in New York with Ossip Zadkine. Significant solo 5 Sullivan exhibitions have been held at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, both in New York, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, the Cleveland 2002 Conference Survey Museum of Art in Ohio, the New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana, and the Neuberger 8 Results Museum of Art in Purchase, NY. Her work has been included in groundbreaking group exhibitions such as To Conserve a Legacy; In the Spirit of Resistance: African-American Solo Exhibitions By Artist 15 Members CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 People in the News INSIDE: ANNUAL CONFERENCE UPDATE. See Page 9 16 FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CAA RECOGNIZES “GOLDEN JUBILEE” BRIDGING THE GENERATIONS MEMBERS his issue of These activities are not just for grad- nly one of the following CAA CAA News uate students and young professionals. In members, Theodore E. Klitzke, recognizes addition, about seventy-five artists, art actually joined CAA fifty years Tthe forty members historians, curators, and critics served as Oago, in 1952. But all forty have been indi- who joined the mentors for the Career Development vidual members for at least that long, College Art Workshops and Artists’ Portfolio Review qualifying for this annual “Golden PHOTO CREDIT: ANDREI RALKO Association fifty or sessions at the 2002 Annual Conference Jubilee” listing. We thank them for their Susan Ball, CAA more years ago, in Philadelphia (see page 10 to participate many contributions over five, six, and (in Executive Director including three who this year). This give-and-take between one case) seven decades. joined sixty or more individuals at different points in their The late sculptor George W. Rickey years ago. One of them, Lane Faison, careers is one way that CAA helps to would have been a fifty-three year mem- joined seventy-one years ago. Thank you bridge the generations. The Philadelphia ber; please see his obituary in the In all, and many happy returns! conference also saw the successful launch Memoriam section of People in the News My own CAA membership dates of Professional Development Roundtables on page 17. back only to 1972, when I was encour- for beginning and midcareer profession- aged to join as a graduate student at the als, each dealing with a specific issue. Fifty-year member: Theodore E. Klitzke; University of California, Riverside, by These roundtables will be repeated at next 51 Years: Mary K. Donaldson, John D. two professors: Dericksen Brinkerhoff (a year’s conference in New York. Hoag, J. Richard Judson, Frank T. member since 1947, the year I was born) CAA members at any stage of their Kacmarcik, Olga Raggio, Carl N. and the late Richard Carrott. “This is your careers can become participants in Annual Schmalz, Jr.; 52 Years: Jane Dillenberger, profession,” they said, “and this is your Conference sessions, contributors to The Alan M. Fern, Sadayoshi Omoto; professional organization.” When I Art Bulletin and Art Journal, and mem- 53 Years: Dario A. Covi, Sol Alfred entered the Ph.D. program at Yale bers of the nine Professional Interests, Davidson, Francis H. Dowley, Norman B. University, I found the faculty equally Practices, and Standards Committees, and Gulamerian, Robert H. Rosenblum; supportive of membership in CAA. can serve the Board of Directors. Visual 54 Years: Rudolf Arnheim, Christiane C. One of the challenges faced by the artists can also enter their work in the Collins, William S. Dale, Clarke H. office staff and Board of Directors is how annual Members’ Exhibition and, once Garnsey, Peter H. Selz; 55 Years: to keep CAA, the professional organiza- funding is secured, in future Contem- Dericksen M. Brinkerhoff, David R. tion for a wide-ranging field—in fact, porary Art Program exhibitions. Listings Coffin, Ellen P. Conant, Lorenz Eitner, several wide-ranging fields—responsive of solo exhibitions and books by mem- Beatrice Farwell, Ilene H. Forsyth, to members’ needs during each phase of bers are being expanded in CAA News J. Edward Kidder, Jr., Mary Meixner, Ruth their professional lives. Can CAA mem- and on our website, www.collegeart.org. Philbrick; 56 Years: Mario Valente; bership be as rewarding to midcareer and The Distinguished Scholar’s Session 57 Years: James S. Ackerman, Ethel R. established artists and scholars as it is to at the Annual Conference, underwritten Cutler, Rosalie B. Green, Phyllis Williams students and recent graduates? by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and Lehmann; 58 Years: Howard S. Merritt, Professional development has long several of the Awards for Distinction are Marianne L. Teuber; 59 Years: George B. been a priority for CAA, which publishes examples of CAA honoring artists and Tatum; 60 Years: Charles D. Cuttler; CAA Careers, offers extensive career scholars who have made contributions 62 Years: Craig H. Smyth; 71 Years: S. L. services at the Annual Conference, and over several decades. In the coming Faison, Jr. administers the Professional Development years, we hope that our members of long Fellowship Program (please see page 6 standing—some of whom serve on the for this year’s information). At the start of Art Bulletin and Art Journal Editorial Volume 27, Number 6 this month, we took some of our career Boards and on the eleven awards commit- CAA News is published six times per year by the College Art Association, 275 Seventh Avenue, 18th Floor, New services on the road, cosponsoring with tees—will increase their participation. York, NY 10001; www.collegeart.org the Getty Research Institute a They are truly CAA’s institutional memo- Editor-in-Chief Susan Ball Professional Development Workshop and ry, the link between the “names” of the Managing Editor Christopher Howard Seminar at the J. Paul Getty Center in past and those who will shape the future Graphic Designer Tom Brydelsky Los Angeles. Another workshop of this of our fields. Material for inclusion should be sent via email to Christopher Howard at [email protected]. type is being planned for fall 2003. Look —Susan Ball, CAA Executive Director Photographs and slides may be submitted to the above street and email addresses for consideration. They cannot for more information about this important be returned. All advertising and submission guidelines can session in future issues of CAA News. be found at www.collegeart.org/caa/news/index.html Printed on recycled paper © 2002 College Art Association 2 CAA NEWS NOVEMBER 2002 of Illinois, University of Iowa, University associate and full professors felt that they PROFESSIONAL of North Carolina, University of Oregon, had been treated unfairly because of the University of Texas at Austin, University M.F.A. degree. PRACTICES of Washington, University of Wisconsin, John Sullivan of Arkansas Tech COMMITTEE Florida State University, Texas Tech, and University in Russellville reported at the Northern Illinois University. She conclud- 2002 conference in Philadelphia that 1,794 REEXAMINES M.F.A. ed that the Ph.D. and M.F.A. are not M.F.A. degrees were earned in 1995.