Standards and Guidelines
About CAA Standards and Guidelines
Since its founding in 1911, CAA has regularly issued Standards and Guidelines—professional practices for the fields of art and art history—which are developed by CAA’s committees and special task forces and presented to the Board of Directors for approval. CAA encourages all members, institutional and individual, to read, understand, and use these documents. Published formally since 1973, the Standards and Guidelines are divided into four categories.
Career and Workplace
- Artist Résumé (1999)
- Curriculum Vitae for Visual Artists (1999)
- Curriculum Vitae for Art Historians (2003)
- Curriculum Vitae for Museum Professionals (2000)
- Etiquette for CAA Interviewers (2006)
- Guidelines for Part-Time Professional Employment (2004)
- Slide Labeling (1999)
- Standards for Professional Placement (1992)
- Works in New Media: Recommendations for the Formatting, Handling, and Screening of Works (2000)
Ethics
Legal Issues
- Copyrights and Permissions in Scholarly and Educational Publishing (under review)
- Guidelines Adopted by CAA Regarding the Hiring by Museums of Guest Curators, Exhibitors/Artists, and Catalogue Essayists as Outside Contractors (2002)
- A Guide to the New York Print and Photograph Law (1982)
- Printmakers Contracts (1978)
- Promotion of Distance Education Through Digital Technologies: Comments of the College Art Association (1999)
- Public Art Works (1987)
- A Quick Guide to Artists’ Rights under the New Copyright Law (1977)
- Resolution Concerning the Acquisition of Cultural Properties Originating in Foreign Countries (1973)
- Resolution Concerning the Sale and Exchange of Works of Art by Museums (1991)
- Standards for Sculptural Reproduction and Preventive Measures to Combat Unethical Casting in Bronze (1974)
Best Practices for Arts Professionals
Professional Practices for Artists
Professional Practices for Art Historians
- CAA Standards for Peer Review (2003)
- CAA Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians (2009)
- CAA Statement on the Importance of Documenting the Historical Context of Objects and Sites (2004)
- A Code of Ethics for Art Historians and Guidelines for the Professional Practice of Art History (1995)
- Authentications and Attributions (2009)
- Guidelines for Curatorial-Studies Programs (2009)
Professional Practices for Academic Art Administrators
Professional Practices for Museum Professionals
- Information about Museum Ethics and Professional Practices (2005)
- Professional Practices for Art Museum Curators (2007)
Professional Practices for Visual-Arts Faculty
- Guidelines for Faculty Teaching in New-Media Arts (2007)
- MFA Standards (2008)
- Standards for Retention and Tenure of Visual-Arts Faculty (2004)
- Standards for the BA and BFA Degrees in Studio Art (1979)
Professional Practices for Visual-Resource Professionals
Developing and Updating
Contact
Please direct all queries regarding CAA Standards and Guidelines to Linda Downs, CAA executive director, at 212-691-1051, ext. 207.
