CONFERENCE PROGRAM ONLINE NEWS he Online Conference Program, which contains session and meeting listings for the 2005 TCAA Annual Conference in Atlanta, was launched in October on CAA’s website. It will enable you to sample NEWSLETTER OF THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION Volume 29, Number 6 November 2004 the approximately 150 program ses- sions in detail, and to search by key- word and browse by conference day. Visit www.collegeart.org/conference. ATLANTA SIZZLES! The Preliminary Conference Infor- mation booklet was mailed to all CAA AA’s 93rd Annual Conference takes members in October. It contains infor- place February 16–19, 2005, in mation about registration, hotels, trav- Atlanta. Here are some highlights. el, receptions, and other special events C for the Atlanta conference. Conference Museum Events registration is now available online; you must be a paid 2005 member to The High Museum of Art will present a take advantage of Early Bird registra- remarkable retrospective exhibition of the tion: $135 for individual members and art of Romare Bearden. Conference atten- $85 for student members. Deadline for dees will have a chance to see this show Early Bird registration: December 15, during the CAA gala reception, the confer- 2004; deadline for Advanced registra- ence’s social kickoff event on Wednesday tion: January 12, 2005. evening, February 16, before the confer- ence proper begins. The High Museum will also host a related session on Bearden’s art on Saturday, February 19. SHOW YOUR ART This year’s members’ exhibition, What Business Are You In? at the Atlanta AT THE ATLANTA Contemporary Art Center, will include works by Alex Bag, Adrian Piper, Carey CONFERENCE Young, and others. The exhibition explores the complex and contradictory relationship Romare Beardon, Backyard, 1967. Collage of various papers Arts Exchange between artists and institutions. with graphite on fiberboard. 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40" x 30"). Marian B. Javit. Copyright © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by CAA artist members are invited to par- VAGA, New York, New York Sessions ticipate in “Arts Exchange,” an open portfolio session taking place Friday, The conference program reflects a stimulating mixture of subjects. From 150 sessions, two February 18, 7:00–9:00 PM, at the themes emerge, creating threads and linkages across the program. One concerns the inter- Hilton Hotel, Galleria Hall. Six-foot actions of politics and art, explored across a broad geographic and historical spectrum. A tables have been reserved for artists to session on Thursday, February 17, chaired by Coco Fusco, explores the impact recent leg- show prints, drawings, and/or photo- islation, including the USA Patriot Act, on the entire arts field. Among the speakers will graphs, work on battery-powered lap- be Robert O’Neill from the Association of American University Professors, George tops, or anything else that will fit on Weber of the ACLU’s Georgia office, and Larry Siems, director of PEN American Center’s Core Freedoms Program. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 This critical topic, affecting freedom of expression in the arts, will also be addressed in a practical workshop sponsored by CAA’s Services to Artists Committee on Friday, February 18, with presentations by artists and curators who have been directly affected by recent legislation. Representatives of the Department of Homeland Security and other govern- IN THIS ISSUE ment agencies have also been invited. Papers at that session will place the Patriot Act in the historical context of earlier government efforts to pressure dissenting artists and schol- CAA Board of Directors ars; Nato Thompson of Mass MoCA will describe events surrounding the recent prosecu- 3 Candidates Announced tion of the artist Steve Kurtz; and the committee will collect testimony from conference attendees of ways in which the Act has affected our lives and work. The Arts in Atlanta Geopolitics pervades our thoughts in an election year. Other session topics include 4 Art/War/Empire, chaired by Martha Rosler; Art in the Service of Politics; Cold War Annual Conference Update Histories; The U.S. as Divine Empire; Artists and the Left; and Dread Scott’s 13 Visualizing Patriotism. Oleg Grabar hosts Islamic Art and the Rest of the World, exploring the interaction between Islamic and European cultures in the early modern Advocacy Update: Report 15 from Iraq CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ATLANTA SIZZLES! a scholar of Renaissance art, who will dis- title of your work, a short description of it, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 cuss art history, art historians, museums, total duration of the work, and format. and the NEH. Our Distinguished Participants must be CAA members and period; Icons of Interestedness: Flag Art Scholar’s Session features the influential must be present at the screening. looks at the use of a nation’s flag in mod- classicist Richard Brilliant. Artists’ Deadline: January 10, 2005. ern and contemporary art. Interviews includes a dialogue with the “SoftScience” is a collection of single- If politics is not to your taste, we have a sculptor and printmaker Willie Cole. And channel videos touring this year; it is also rich panoply of traditional art and art-his- among other sessions, events, exhibitions, programmed by Mayeri. A fuller descrip- tory sessions as well. Our first conference tours, receptions, and meetings, you will tion of the theme can be found at in the South in almost twenty-five years is find ample scholarship and creative explo- www.soft-science.org. n graced by sessions with a strong local fla- rations of every aspect of art and art histo- vor. The blend of topics reflecting the New ry, from ancient to postmodern, from East and Old South befits the conference’s loca- to West, and beyond. n tion in a city steeped in history, from the Civil War to the Civil Rights struggle. RENEW YOUR CAA Sessions include Self-Taught in the Old SHOW YOUR ART MEMBERSHIP and New South, which asks why the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 South has produced more outsider artists hank you for making CAA your than any other U.S. region; Art professional organization. CAA Collections at Historically Black the table. A cash bar will also be available. maintains a calendar-year member- Universities and Colleges, chaired by The general public will be able to attend Tship; your current membership expires David Driskell and Julie McGee, tracing this session free of charge. December 31, 2004. To maintain access to the pivotal roles in the teaching, collecting, All reservations for tables will be filled our online services and printed materials preserving, and historicizing of African on a first-come, first-served basis. Send for 2005, please renew your membership and African American art; and Visual your request via e-mail to Beauvais Lyons, as soon as possible. To renew online, enter Culture in the Struggle for Civil Rights, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, at your user ID (found on your membership looking at how visual images—not neces- [email protected] with the subject heading card or mailing address label) and pass- sarily art—have transformed race relations “CAA Arts Exchange.” Indicate your CAA word to log onto our Member Portal at in the South. Seeing Slavery broadens the membership number and if you are show- www.collegeart.org. Renewal forms have scope of the discourse to examine at the ing a laptop-only presentation. Confirm- also been mailed. depiction of slaves and slavery worldwide; ation reply e-mails will be sent. To take advantage of the low Early Bird Collecting in the South, Representing The final cut-off date for reservations is registration rate for the Atlanta conference, the Old South from Within and February 1, 2005, though we expect to fill you must be a paid 2005 member. Receipt Without, and Samuel Mockerbee and all slots quickly. All participants will be deadline for Early Bird registration is the Rural Studio round out this cluster of responsible for their work. CAA is not December 15, 2004. Don’t miss out on topical sessions. This year’s closing night liable for any losses or damages. Sale of these savings! Enjoy the many services reception on Saturday evening, February work is not permitted. and benefits of CAA membership: 19, will be cohosted by two historically black institutions, Spelman College Open Screen and SoftScience l The Art Bulletin: The leading English- Museum of Art and Clark Atlanta language publication for art historians; University Galleries, where the exhibition Also on Friday, February 18, 6:00–8:30 PM, l Art Journal: Our cutting-edge quarterly Anima of the African Diaspora: The ARTspace and the New Media Caucus will of contemporary art and ideas; Feminine Presence will be on view. host a dual screening, featuring “Open The keynote speaker at Convocation is Screen,” a selection of projects by CAA 2005-2006 Bruce Cole, chairman of the National members working in new media, and SAINSBURY INSTITUTE Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and “SoftScience,” a compilation of video RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS curiosities made by artists and scientists. The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and “Open Screen” is an opportunity for all Cultures invites applications for its annual fellowships awards CAA artists working in new media to Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Research Fellowships (2 available) Volume 29, Number 6 For scholars who either hold a PhD from a North American CAA News is published six times per year by the show their work. Works for the “Open university, or who are currently affiliated with a North American College Art Association, 275 Seventh Avenue, Screen” session will be selected by Rachel academic institution or museum. 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001; Mayeri, organizer of the event and assis- Handa Research Fellowship (1 available) For scholars whose principal language of scholarly output is Japanese.