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The Art Journal/Art Journal Open Editorial Board invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief of AJO for the term of July 1, 2026–June 30, 2029 (with service as incoming editor designate, July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026). Candidates may be artists, art historians, critics, curators, educators, or other professionals within the membership served by CAA; institutional affiliation is not required. 

AJO is an online forum for the visual arts that presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, scholarly essays, and other content from across the cultural field. The independently edited journal publishes original material by artists, scholars, teachers, archivists, curators, critics, and other cultural producers and commentators, with a commitment to foster new intellectual exchanges about contemporary art and culture. AJO is committed to broad representation and the inclusion of a wide range of approaches, methods, and subfields of modern and contemporary art history and art practice. Published on a continual, rolling basis, AJO is an open access journal that reaches a wide, global audience.

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for commissioning all content for AJO. The editor solicits or commissions projects, texts, and time-based content by artists and other authors, and determines the appropriate scope and format of each project. Working in consultation with the Art Journal Editor-in-Chief, reviews editor, and Editorial Board, the editor determines which pieces should undergo peer review and subsequent revision before acceptance. The editor also works with authors and the CAA staff editor on the development and preparation of materials for publication. The Editorial Board expects that a significant portion of the journal will be geared toward work or concerns of artists, and that the Editor-in-Chief will endeavor to give voice to underrepresented perspectives. Qualifications for the position include a broad knowledge of current art, the ability to work closely with artists in a wide variety of practices, and experience in developing written and other content for arts platforms. The position includes membership on the Editorial Board and, after the orientation period, an annual honorarium. 

The Editor-in-Chief attends virtual Art Journal/AJO Editorial Board meetings and Publications Committee meetings via Microsoft Teams in the spring and fall plus two meetings onsite at the CAA Annual Conference in February each year, and submits an annual report to the CAA VP for Publications. 

Candidates must be current CAA members in good standing and should not serve concurrently on the editorial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. The Editor-in-Chief may not publish their own work on AJO or in Art Journal during the term of service. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Interested applicants—both self-nominated or nominated by someone else—should submit a CV and a cover letter as a single PDF document to Eugenia Bell, CAA Editorial Director.  

Deadline: April 18