5 breaking through to new ideas. The pertaining to the education of the artist Members print she has created with collaborating and the democratization of art history.1f Rutgers master printer/ Eileen Foti/ has All proceeds from the Schapiro six color runs. The colors are brilliant/ print will go toward matching the Offered highly saturated ones/ that create $140,000 chalienge grant that CAA striking optical contrasts. By cutting the received from the National Endowment fan out and hinging it to a soft gray for the Arts for the Professional Devel­ Schapiro background, the print takes on the opment Program. The first five fellow­ object quality of an actual fan. The ships were awarded this spring. Each Print patterns in the fan are related to jazz recipient is funded for two years, the images. Male artists like Stuart Davis last year of graduate study and the first have staked out jazz motifs on their year of professional life. In the second own/ and we forget that women as well year, all recipients will be placed in full­ as men are integral to jazz. It's hard to time jobs in museums or academic think of a woman artist who has institutions. The participating institu­ claimed jazz motifs for her own as tions are partners in the program. iriam Schapiro and the Schapiro has done in this image/ which CAA president Larry Silver points Rutgers Center for Innovative is an homage to Mary Lou Williams/ out: "CAA members lucky enough to M Printmaking have donated one of the earliest women jazz compos­ purchase one of the Schapiro prints will their time to create a fine art limited ers. We're looking forward to also be ensuring the future of the edition print for the benefit of the Schapiro's convocation address in fellowship program.1f "Since the edition College Art Association Professional which she win examine futurist issues is small-Dnly 100-and there are 13,000 Development Fellowship Program. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Titled In the Land of Go-bla-dee: Homage to Mary Lou Williams, the print is a six­ color lithograph printed on white Rives, cut out and hinged onto Folio Gray. The size is 22 x 30 inches. CAA individual members may purchase the print at the special price of $750 until November 30, after which the price will be $1,500 (see order form, p. 15). A postcard-size color reproduction of the print is available upon request from the CAA office. As Judith K. Brodsky, CAA vice president, chair of the CAA Capital Campaign, and director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking/ puts it/ "This is Schapiro year at CAA, not only because Schapiro has created the first of a series of CAA prints/ but also because Schapiro will be the convoca­ tion speaker at the New York confer­ ence in February." Brodsky continues: Miriam Schapiro, In the Land of Oo-bla-dee: "As usual/ Schapiro is involved in Homage to Mary Lou Williams, 1993, lithograph, 22" x 30" Roberts, curator of visual collections for ing campaign, "The Arts and Humani­ interesting events on specific dates that the Fine Arts Libraries of Harvard bontents Electronic From the Executive Director ties: There's Something in It for You" in you want to include in the National Arts University, has been reappointed for a the one hundred top media markets and Humanities Month celebration, Volume 18, Number 5 three-year term. Other members of the reaching 86 percent of the American please fax a brief description of the SeptemberiOctober1993 Bulletin Committee On Electronic Information public. The campaign will include event and the date to Robin Burnosky, are Marilyn Aronberg Lavin (chair), Advertising Council-sponsored public National Cultural Alliance, Washington, Judith Berg-Sabre, John Brett Buchanan, Members Offered Board service print and broadcast advertising D.C.; 202/371-1689. NCA is assembling John R. Clarke, James Cuno, Harrison disseminated nationally to the media, a preliminary list of possible opportuni­ 1 Schapiro Print Eiteljorg II, Marilyn Schmitt, and Susan Arts and featuring an 800 telephone number; ties throughout the nation for official Siegfried. callers will be sent a brochure pointing visits, as scheduling permits. Electronic Bulletin -Marilyn Aronberg Lavin and Susan them to arts and humanities events and We have an extraordinary and Board Siegfried Humanities 2 here are you? This is your resources in their state. In each state a unprecedented opportunity before us to electronic-mail person steering committee has been formed make our case before the nation. From the calling. By now you are the Month comprising the state arts agency, the Everything can be included; the point is Executive Director W to celebrate and promote the value of 3 only one who does not have a modem state humanities organization, the state installed in your pc or laptop; the only arts advocacy organization, the state­ the arts and humanities in all our lives, one, that is, not using e-mail. Modems Members Offered Schapiro Print wide assembly of local arts agencies, and all the time, Be creative. Participate and 4 Legal Update cost less than $100 now; better ones cost CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 other leaders in the cultural community. encourage your colleagues to partici­ a little more, but you don't need more (In some instances, this is the first time pate. With your participation we can ctober has been declared Annual Conference Update than 2400 baud. Start by opening your CAA members," CAA executive director these agencies have participated in a change the environment for the arts and National Arts and Humani­ humanities. Our goal is to eliminate the 5 CAA in the News computer account at the university. Buy Susan Ball urges CAA members "to act joint project!) Each state's campaign will your modem and ask your computer fast." O ties Month by numerous be different, tailored to specific issues disparity the NCA poll revealed governors, mayors, and members of center staff to help you install it, and The fan shape of the image is an and concerns; all will be designed to between the intellectual recognition of Congress, in recognition of the central learn your university mail system. icon associated with Schapiro. She has boost the public's awareness of local the value of the arts and humanities and CAANews role of the arts and humanities through­ 6 The first Directory of Database Users, used the fan Over and over again cultural communities. The campaign the personal applicability of that out the nation. The White House has prepared by the CAA Committee on throughout her career. Her Barcelona Fan and Arts and Humanities Month will observation, so that when NCA mea­ provided support and guidance to the Electronic Information, lists members of has just been acquired by the Metropoli­ help create a highly visible and positive sures public perception of the arts and National Cultural Alliance in planning Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members CAA who make use of database tan Museum of Art in New York and is environment for local cultural activities humanities twenty-four months into the 8 activities for the month, and we are structures for some aspect of their work. currently on display in the Met's Lila in October and throughout the year; advertising campaign, a significant hopeful for the active involvement of People in the News Included are art historians, artists, Acheson Wallace Wing. provide a focus on the arts and humani­ change in attitude will be observed. President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary museum professionals, and visual Schapiro is one of the key artists ties through the media for the general In closing, let me cite a statement 10 Grants, Awards, & Honors Rodharn Clinton, Vice President Al resources personnel who responded to a who developed the ideas of the public; encourage the active involve­ that is relevant to this campaign today, Gore, and Tipper Gore, in activities questionnaire sent out in 1991. In women's movement in art of the 1970s. ment of arts and humanities organiza­ written in 1929 in CAA's journal during the month-long bash in Washing­ addition to names and addresses of She worked in an abstract, formalist tions across the country; and provide an Parnassus by distinguished art historian Conferences & Symposia ton and around the country, scheduling 12 people listed, their areas of interest in mode in the 1960s, but in the early 1970s opportunity for elected officials at the Charles Rufus Morey: "The value, then, official visits nationwide to celebrate arts databases is included when that carne to feel that the painting she was federal, state, and local levels to declare of art history ... is that it provides a and humanities. This celebration will information is available. The 16-page doing no longer had meaning for her in their support of the arts and humanities. swift and sure approach to the history of also kick off the arts and humanities 13 Opportunities brochure is available from the CAA the context of the gender discourse that Like its predecessor, National Arts the human point of view.... Art is a media campaign of the National office for $2.50 prepaid (nonmembers was emerging. At first she invested her Week, National Arts and Humanities function of civilization, nothing less, Cultural Alliance (NCA), the goal of Information Wanted $3.00). If you are interested in being abstract forms with new meanings that Month is designed to spark creative and the history of it thus understood is which is to broaden understanding, Classified Ads included in the next edition of the referred to her thoughts about women, public relations by colleges, universities, the hi~tory of civilization itself" ("Value 15 increase support and heightened Directory of Database Users, please and subsequently she moved to figura­ museums, arts agencies, and other arts of Art as an Academic Subject," awareness, and expand direct participa­ contact the Committee on Electronic tion and to pattern and decoration.