Careers
CAA Career Services
CAA’s philosophy is to create a lifetime context for thinking about a career, because a healthy working life is multifaceted and complex and involves more than one strategy to accomplish one’s goals. CAA presents programs and services for members at all stages in their careers.
Online Career Center
The Online Career Center is the largest database of employment listings in the art and academic worlds. Job seekers may search listings and post their CV, and employers may submit classified advertisements and browse information about potential candidates. Other features allow schools and institutions to set up interviews at the CAA conference and elsewhere.
Conference Interviews
At the Annual Conference, CAA dedicates a large hall for job interviews, information dissemination, and more. Schools, museums, and institutions may purchase booths and tables in an Interview Hall.
Opportunities
CAA’s Opportunities collects and publishes calls for entries and papers, conference notices, fellowship and grant opportunities, and more. New listings are posted daily; you may also submit your own opportunities.
Fellowships for Graduate Students
The Professional Development Fellowship Program awards fellowships each year to MFA and PhD students in art, art history, and visual studies. The fellowship program has been temporarily suspended for 2009.
Professional-Development Workshops
CAA offers professional-development workshops to artists, art historians, and students at the Annual Conference and at locations throughout the United States. Information about the next two workshops, taking place in November 2009 in Pittsburgh and Detroit, has been posted.
Mentoring at the Annual Conference
CAA members can receive advice on their job-search strategies, portfolio presentation, and more during the popular Annual Conference mentoring programs. Information about the Artists’ Portfolio Review and Career Development Mentoring at the 2010 conference in Chicago has been posted.
Standards and Guidelines
CAA publishes Standards and Guidelines for the field on such issues as conventions for résumés and CVs, tenure guidelines for artists and scholars, and proper etiquette for interviewers.
Publishing Grants
Grants for book manuscripts in art history and visual studies are awarded each year by CAA to publishers.
Although the Millard Meiss Publication Fund has been temporarily suspended, CAA still accepts submissions to the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant.
