Careers
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. Visit the Centennial conference website in October 2010 for information on New York in 2011.
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.
Fellowships for Graduate Students
CAA awards Professional-Development Fellowships each year to MFA and PhD students in art, art history, and visual studies. The fellowship program for visual artists has been restored for 2010; fellowships for art historians may be reinstated in 2011.
Professional-Development Workshops
CAA offers Professional-Development Workshops to artists, art historians, and students at the Annual Conference and at locations across the United States throughout the year. Preliminary information about the next four National Professional-Development Workshops—to be held in fall 2010 in San Diego, California; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; and Birmingham, Alabama—have 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 2011 Centennial conference in New York will be posted in fall 2010.
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.
