Datebook Miscellany May 26 Recycle slides: organizer of the Archive Deadline for submission of material for Project exhibition at CAA's 1996 annual July / August CAA News conference in Boston is making a giant "slide sheet" that will hang at the June 9 conference hotel. Needs thousands of Deadline for submission of material for slides with images of art. Enlist the help CAA Careers of your local slide library! Jonathan Weinberg, History of Art Dept., Yale July 28 University, 56 High St., PO Box 208272, Deadline for submission of material for New Haven, CT 06520; 212/564-8286. September/October CAA News Directory Update: CAA is in the process 5 September 1 of revising its 1992 edition of M.F.A. Deadline for receipt by conference Programs in the Visual Arts. Question­ coordinator of session proposals for naires requesting updated information 1997 annual conference, New Yark (see were sent earlier this year to the schools pages 4 and 15) listed in the first edition. We urge NEH, IMS, and CPB) and for Arts in would be willing to sign the Senate department chairs and graduate Advocacy Education. Members should also send version of the bill. If the bill passes, February 21-24, 1996 program directors to make certain in the advocacy postcards included in many programs will suffer budget cuts, CAA annual conference, Boston questionnaires are completed and the March/ April 1995 CAA News. including the National Endowment for returned. If you need another copy of Day It is especially important for the Arts (NEA), the National Endow­ the questionnaire, please call Lynda advocates to make themselves heard at ment for the Hwnanities (NEH), Emery, 207/853-6134. this juncture since Congress is currently Corporation for Public Broadcasting making the decisions on whether or not (CPB), the Goals 2000: Educate America to support federal funding for cultrne. Act, and telecommunications. Under the In March the House passed a $17.4 Senate version, the NEA and NEH n March 13, 1995, CAA billion recision package and on April 6, would each lose $5 million, and the CPB president Judith K. Brodsky, 1995, the Senate unanimously approved would lose $47 million in FY 96 and $94 CAA executive director Susan a $16 billion recision package that cuts million in FY 97. The Goals 2000: O this year's spending (FY 1995). By the Educate America Act was cut $7.6 Ball, CAA Professional Development Fellow Leda Ramos, and assistant to the end of April, the House and Senate will million by the Senate and $174 million executive director Melissa Kahn have met to decide upon a final package by the House. Although the Senate to present to President Bill Clinton. The version does not cut funding for s traveled to Washlngton, D.C., to represent the College Art Association at president has already indicated that he telecommunications, the House reduces Advocacy Day, organized by the CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 May/June 1995 American Council for the Arts and co­ College Art Association sponsored by over fifty organizations, 275 Seventh Avenue induding CAA. The four held a press New York, New York 10001 conference to advocate the reauthoriza­ tion of the NEA, NEH, and IMS and to protest the proposed recision of Board of Directors multiyear matching grants to the arts Judith K. Brodsky, Presidelll and humanities. Representative Jerrold Leslie King-Hammond, Vice-President Nadler (8th district, N.Y.) was a Jo1m R. Clarke, Secretary featured speaker at CAA's press John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer conference. Brodsky, Ball, Ramos, and Barbara Hoffman, Esq.} Counsel Kahn also spent the day meeting with Susan Ball, Executive Director legislators, imploring the senators and Diane Burko Nancy Macko representatives to support federal Bradford R. Collins Victor Margolin funding for the arts. They also attended Whitney Davis Clarence Morgan the America for the NEA rally, spon­ Vishakha Desai Beatrice Rehl sored by Representative Nadler, carry­ Jonathan Fineberg Jock Reynolds ing banners proclaiming CAA's strong Shifra Goldman Rita J. Robillard support for saving the NEA and NEH. Susan L. Huntington Moira Roth Given the current political situa­ Michl Itami Node Sato ./ 'tion, it is critical for all CAA members to Irving Lavin Lowery Stokes Sims advocate for the retention of direct Joe Lewis Judith E. Stein federal funding for the arts. CAA urges Margo Machida Nancy J. Troy its members to call their representatives CAA executive director Susan Ball (far left). professional Deborah Willis development fellow leda Ramos (third from right). and and senators and voice their support for CAA president Judith K. Brodsky (second from right). direct federal funding for culture (NEA, advocate for the arts and humanities. • that focused on strategies for Bailey. Below are excerpts from my Without the security of tenure, with (!!Jontents Annual multicultural action and a multicultural From the Executive Director testimony: greater mobility required to stay curriculum to serve art and art history "The College Art Association itself, employed, with decreased benefits on teachers and members of the art and its individual and institutional campus, and with an increased empha­ Volume 20, Number 3 Conference community. At the 1995 session a members, have benefited greatly from sis on part-time employment, the May/June 1995 bibliography on cultural diversity NEA Visual Arts and Museum Pro­ obstacles to making art are increased. In (compiled from suggestions by commit­ grams. The association has received this climate, the NEA grants to indi­ Update tee members) was distributed, and plans grants in the past from NEA's Visual vidual artists become even more 1 Advocacy Day were discussed for setting up a newslet­ Arts Program, Forums category (travel valuable and sought after. I want to ter, etc. In Boston we will focus on Testimonial and honoraria), to support artists issue a special plea on behalf of CAA's working models of cultural diversity in speaking at the CAA annual conference. 7,000 individual artist members to maintain funding for individual artists. Annual Conference Update action. Potential participants are invited Currently we have an NEA challenge 2 to submit descriptions of successful grant for the CAA Professional Develop­ "Second, we have also noted a trend programs already in existence and to ment Fellowship Program. CANs toward increased requests for funds for 1996 Call for Participation: illuminate the methods and procedures n March I was invited to make a members, both artists and art historians, conference travel grants. CAA provides 3 From the Executive Director Additions and Corrections that made them effective. presentation before an NEA Mu­ also benefit from NEA funding. Of the travel grant opportunities for speakers For guidelines for submitting proposals, The following will be a one-and­ Iseum Program/Visual Arts Program 110 grants awarded by the NEA to and session chairs on the conference 1997 Annual Conference: see the Call for Participation mailed to one-half hour session presented between Planning Advisory Panel. The advisory individual visual artists in 1993-94, program~all based on need. Each year panel, which met for three days, heard we have more applicants who report Call for Session Proposals all members in February. The submission program sessions under the auspices of thirty, or nearly 30 percent, were 4 deadline (receipt, not postmark) for these the Education Committee: testimony from representatives of the awarded to members of CAA. Over 10 that their university or museum used to sessions is June 26, 1995. "Alternative Low-Residency private and government funding percent of CAA's art historian members provide travel funds to conferences for Legal Update The following sessions have been Graduate Art Programs." Chair: Roy G. communities and from twenty arts are employed by museums, primarily as speakers, but has had to cut this 6 added to the program: Levin, Director, MFA in Visual Art, organizations representing the interests curators, and many others work from perquisite. Furthermore, as the partici­ CAANews II Arts of Reconstruction: Past and Vermont College, Montpelier, VT 05602. of museums, education, individual time-to-time as guest curators on exhibi­ pation of unaffiliated artists and scholars artists, and those who support first Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members Present." Chair: Bettina Bergmann, The aim of this session is to bring tions at museums, often funded by NEA. grows, the demand for travel assistance 8 Mount Holyoke College, Art Depart­ attention to, compare, and explore the amendment rights. According to "I would like to focus on three major also grows. In the interest of supporting ment, South Hadley, MA 01075. This positive and negative aspects of such Jennifer Dowley, director, Museum trends that relate directly to NEA scholarly and artistic exchange, CAA has session evaluates reconstruction as a programs. Among issues that might be Program/Visual Arts Program, "the funding opportunities. First, despite the increased its contribution to the travel 10 People in the News historical way of seeing a past and as a addressed are: (1) the advantages and Planning Advisory Panel will assist our growth of membership from other fields, fund and has sought outside funding. In potential of the present. It can include disadvantages of such programs~ (2) the staff and the National Coundl on the the majority of CAA's members, artists the past, NEA funds were valuable in Grants, Awards, & Honors the completion, enhancement, or re­ problem of fewer contact hours in low­ Arts in the review and analysis of the and art historians alike, are employed in helping make possible the participation 11 Conferences & Symposia creation of a lost or fragmentary single residency programs and the concomitant needs of the entire spectrum of the higher education, where employment of artists who otherwise would not have object or building, pictorial cycle or issue of "quality control"; (3) the issue off ]Visual arts field and their visitors and trends have been well documented.