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CAA Welcomes New Staff Members and Thanks Summer Interns
posted by Christopher Howard — September 29, 2010
Over the summer of 2010, CAA made four new hires—two full-time and two part-time positions—and benefited from the help of several interns who worked across CAA departments. We warmly welcome the new staff members and thank the interns for their hard work.
New CAA Staff
Teresa Lopez has been CAA’s chief financial officer since June 2010. Before coming to the organization, she was controller at the Dia Art Foundation in New York and held the same position at David Zwirner and Zwirner and Wirth, two Manhattan-based art galleries. After studying engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, she took up accounting at Hunter College, City University of New York. A certified public accountant in the state of New York, Lopez has an interest in both art and art history. She succeeds Robert Wayne, who is now chief financial officer at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California.
As the new CAA office coordinator, Roberta Lawson helps route information, acts as liaison with vendors, and manages the general functioning of the office. She previously held positions at Art Crating and Crozier Fine Art, two top firms in New York’s art shipping and storage industry. Lawson has taught studio art at Rutgers University’s Newark campus and on the high school level, at Hunter College High School in New York. After completing a BFA at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she earned an MFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both programs were invaluable for her development as an artist, providing strong foundational and conceptual perspectives. A longtime figurative painter, Lawson is investigating the nude in an imaginative landscape in her current work, referencing myth while using color as a psychological force. She replaces Anitral Haendel, who is now pursuing an MFA at the California Institute of Arts in Valencia.
Cecilia Juan joined CAA’s Publications Department in July as data collection coordinator, where she is the primary contact for universities participating in the 2011 editions of the Directories of Graduate Programs in the Arts. A former intern at Exit Art and the New York Council for the Humanities, Juan is pursuing an MA in visual-arts administration at New York University, researching online fundraising strategies for alternative and community-based arts organizations. Before moving to New York last year, she spent two years traveling and teaching English in Japan and the Czech Republic. Juan has a BFA in photography and a BA in English from the University of Florida in Gainesville. Her position at CAA is a new one.
Elizabeth Donato is CAA’s new programs assistant, helping with various aspects of planning and preparing for upcoming annual conferences. Prior to joining the Programs Department, she was a research assistant for scholars and curators in New York; she also interned in curatorial departments at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. With a BA in art history from the University of Richmond in Virginia, Donato has begun work toward a PhD in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is focusing on modern and contemporary Latin American art, with an emphasis on art from the Southern Cone of South America and on socially engaged aesthetics. Donato succeeds Jeanne Jo, who is now in the doctoral program in media arts and practice at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
CAA Summer Interns
Grace Paik and Maureen Ragalie worked in the Membership, Marketing, and Development Department. Paik, a fall intern at Horton Gallery in New York, recently double-majored in art history and English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Ragalie is currently at New York University, earning an MA in museum studies. She is also interning at the New York Public Library and Independent Curators International.
Tom Carr, a junior at Rutgers, interned in the Publications Department. In addition to studying art history, he is an accomplished viola player who performs in his school’s orchestra.
Two recent high school graduates, Amanda Morton and Tyroo Tyler, worked in CAA’s Finance Department. They participated in the Summer Youth Employment Program in New York City’s Department of Youth and Community Development before heading to college this fall. Morton is enrolled at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and Tyler is attending Alfred State College, State University of New York College of Technology in Alfred.
CAA Introduces New Logo and Launches Redesigned Website
posted by Christopher Howard — September 28, 2010
For our one-hundredth birthday, CAA got a face-lift. And don’t we look great? You’ve probably seen our new look trickle out over the past month on CAA’s Facebook and Twitter pages, for example, and on organizational letterhead. The complete design transformation launched full throttle last Friday with a revamped homepage and changes made site-wide.
In planning the upcoming Centennial year, CAA board and staff desired to celebrate past achievements while focusing significantly on the future. The old CAA logo, used since the mid-1970s, had worn out. A fresh identity with a more creative character, we felt, would appropriately signify CAA’s leadership in our quickly changing, adaptive field.
LaPlaca Cohen, a marketing firm specializing in arts and culture, had recently assisted CAA during the 2010–15 strategic-planning process. Since that team already possessed a deep understanding of CAA’s mission, vision, history, and membership, it was only natural that they help conceptualize our new look. Tom Zetek, director of creative services and production at LaPlaca Cohen, says, “The dynamic stance of the logotype is meant to depict the progressive nature of CAA. The fluid, looping sketch element with the logo reflects the creative roots of the organization.”
CAA’s Centennial Celebration, which begins at the 2011 Annual Conference in New York and ends one year later at the Los Angeles meeting, presents you with a unique opportunity to help refine our purpose and core values, and to influence and activate everything we do. For many, CAA represents a professional community; for others, it’s a wellspring of opportunity. We’d like to know what CAA means to you. Please send your comments on CAA’s identity to centennial@collegeart.org.
Coalition on the Academic Workforce Survey on Working Conditions for Contingent Faculty
posted by Christopher Howard — September 27, 2010
Earlier this year, the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) published an issue brief estimating 72.5 percent of all faculty members at American colleges and universities are contingent, that is, they do not have tenure or are not on the tenure track. Since no comprehensive national data exist for pay scales, benefits, working conditions, and involvement in departmental decision-making—let alone specifics on academic-based artists and art historians, and for university museum researchers—this figure cannot be verified.
For this reason, CAW has developed a Survey of Contingent Faculty Members and Instructors, which will examine compensation and working conditions, among other issues, at the institutional and course levels. The goal of the survey, which is live from September 27 to November 30, 2010, is to gather accurate information so that CAW may advocate more effectively at the local and national level.
As an active CAW member, CAA supports workforce equity through its Standards and Guidelines, advocacy efforts, and data compilation, and it urges all contingent faculty, instructors, and researchers to complete this survey and to alert others to do the same.
Open to full- and part-time teachers, graduate students (remunerated as teaching assistants or employed in other roles), researchers, and postdoctoral fellows, the survey is an excellent opportunity for CAW to count contingent faculty properly and record their working conditions. Survey results will be shared with you once they are compiled. This information will also contribute to a national database that will assist future advocacy work.
CAA specifically requested that the survey include distinct categories for artists, art historians, and related researchers, so that the visual arts will be fully represented. On an individual level, the conclusions drawn may help determine your working conditions in relation to national trends. Results will also inform specific CAA Contingent Faculty Standards and Guidelines, as well as future advocacy by CAA on your behalf.
Take the Survey of Contingent Faculty Members and Instructors now. If you have questions about it or about CAW, please contact Linda Downs, CAA executive director.
Read reactions to the survey in Inside Higher Ed.
Coalition on the Academic Workforce Survey on Working Conditions for Contingent Faculty
posted by Christopher Howard — September 27, 2010
Earlier this year, the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) published an issue brief estimating 72.5 percent of all faculty members at American colleges and universities are contingent, that is, they do not have tenure or are not on the tenure track. Since no comprehensive national data exist for pay scales, benefits, working conditions, and involvement in departmental decision-making—let alone specifics on academic-based artists and art historians, and for university museum researchers—this figure cannot be verified.
For this reason, CAW has developed a Survey of Contingent Faculty Members and Instructors, which will examine compensation and working conditions, among other issues, at the institutional and course levels. The goal of the survey, which is live from September 27 to November 30, 2010, is to gather accurate information so that CAW may advocate more effectively at the local and national level.
As an active CAW member, CAA supports workforce equity through its Standards and Guidelines, advocacy efforts, and data compilation, and it urges all contingent faculty, instructors, and researchers to complete this survey and to alert others to do the same.
Open to full- and part-time teachers, graduate students (remunerated as teaching assistants or employed in other roles), researchers, and postdoctoral fellows, the survey is an excellent opportunity for CAW to count contingent faculty properly and record their working conditions. Survey results will be shared with you once they are compiled. This information will also contribute to a national database that will assist future advocacy work.
CAA specifically requested that the survey include distinct categories for artists, art historians, and related researchers, so that the visual arts will be fully represented. On an individual level, the conclusions drawn may help determine your working conditions in relation to national trends. Results will also inform specific CAA Contingent Faculty Standards and Guidelines, as well as future advocacy by CAA on your behalf.
Take the Survey of Contingent Faculty Members and Instructors now. If you have questions about it or about CAW, please contact Linda Downs, CAA executive director.
Read reactions to the survey in Inside Higher Ed.
Exhibit Your Work in ARTexchange at the 2011 Annual Conference in New York
posted by Christopher Howard — September 13, 2010
CAA’s Services to Artists Committee invites artist members to participate in ARTexchange, an open forum for sharing work at the 2011 Annual Conference in New York. To be held on Friday evening, February 11, at the Hilton New York, ARTexchange is free and open to the public; a cash bar will be available.
The space on, above, and beneath a six-foot-long table is available for each artist’s exhibition of prints, paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and small installations; performance, sound, and spoken word are also welcome. Previous ARTexchange participants have found that this parameter sparked creative displays, and the committee looks forward to surprises and inspiring solutions at the upcoming conference. Please note that artwork cannot be hung on walls, and it is not possible to run power cords from laptops or other electronic devices to outlets—bring fully charged batteries.
To participate in the New York event, please write to the ARTexchange coordinators with the subject line “CAA ARTexchange.” Include your member number and a brief description of what you plan to present. If you are presenting performance or sound art, spoken word, or technology-based work, including laptop presentations, please outline your plans. Artists will receive an email confirmation. Because ARTexchange is a popular venue and participation is based on available space, early applicants are given preference.
Participants are responsible for their work; CAA is not liable for losses or damages. Sales of work are not permitted. Deadline: December 17, 2010.
Image: Diane Fox, an artist, designer, and lecturer at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville (left), shows her work to a fellow ARTexchange artist (photograph by Bradley Marks)
September Obituaries in the Arts
posted by Christopher Howard — September 10, 2010
CAA recognizes the lives and achievements of the following artists, scholars, photographers, museum directors, and other important figures in the visual arts. Of particular interest is a thoughtful text on the art historian and entrepreneur Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft, written especially for CAA by his wife, Renate Wiedenhoeft.
- Günter Behnisch, a German architect best known for creating the 1972 Olympic park in Munich, and whose last project was the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, died on July 12, 2010. He was 88
- Robert F. Boyle, a film production designer who worked with Alfred Hitchcock on North by Northwest and The Birds, died on August 1, 2010. He was 100
- Corinne Day, a British fashion photographer who is credited with discovering Kate Moss, and whose work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Modern, died on August 27, 2010. She was 48
- Corneille, a Dutch expressionist painter who helped establish Cobra as a major postwar European art movement, died on September 5, 2010. He was 88
- Charles Fahlen, a California-born sculptor who taught at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia from 1967 to 2000, died on July 28, 2010. He was 70
- F. W. Bill Kent, a professor emeritus at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, who specialized in Renaissance Florence and was an authority on Lorenzo de’ Medici, died on August 30, 2010
- Satoshi Kon, an anime filmmaker and comic-book artist whose work transcended popular culture, died on August 24, 2010. He was 46
- Herman Leonard, a photographer who documented jazz singers and musicians—from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis—in New York and Paris clubs in the 1940s and 1950s, died on August 14, 2010. He was 87
- Doug MacWithey, an artist based in Dallas, Texas, who worked in drawing, collage, and sculpture, died on August 26, 2010, at the age of 58
- Christoph Schlingensief, a film and stage director, actor, and artist who was chosen to represent Germany in the next Venice Biennale, died on August 21, 2010, at the age of 49
- Shirley Thomson, former director of the National Gallery of Canada and of the Canada Council for the Arts, died on August 10, 2010, at the age of 80
- Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft, an art historian whose documentary photographs formed the basis of Saskia, a provider of images for the teaching of art history, died on August 14, 2010, at age 73. Read a special obituary on him by Renate Wiedenhoeft
Read all past obituaries in the arts on the CAA website.
CAA News Becomes a Weekly Email
posted by Christopher Howard — September 02, 2010
This month, CAA News transforms from a bimonthly PDF download into a weekly email. The new format is an excellent way of getting compelling CAA information more quickly; it also offers news essential to your life and career as an artist or scholar. If CAA has your email address, you will automatically receive CAA News every Wednesday, beginning September 8.
Each email newsletter begins with short timely notices about CAA programs and publications, grant and fellowship opportunities, conference updates, advocacy work, and more. Links to the CAA website allow you to read the full articles, and social-networking buttons let you easily share these links with friends and colleagues.
Keeping you up to date with the larger art and academic worlds, CAA News features selected headlines from national and international newspapers and magazines on topics that matter to you: publishing and teaching, contemporary art and its practice, new art-historical research, and copyright and intellectual property, to name a few.
In addition, CAA News brings you something different each week: fresh listings from Opportunities, links to recently published reviews in caa.reviews, news from our many affiliated societies, and monthly listings of Member News, which present a record of your solo exhibitions, books published, fellowships received, and more (starting September 8). As we get closer to the 2011 Annual Conference and Centennial Kickoff, immediate updates on special events and member-discount rates will arrive in your inbox.
To keep CAA News out of your spam folder, you may need to set your email preferences to allow messages from caanews@collegeart.org. If you wish to change your email for the newsletter, or to unsubscribe from it, you can do so at http://multibriefs.com/briefs/caa/index.php. To give your email address to CAA, log into your CAA account and update your Contact Info.
Comments, questions, or suggestions? Write to Christopher Howard, CAA managing editor.
CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts Presents Its September Picks
posted by Christopher Howard — September 02, 2010
Each month, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts produces a curated list, called CWA Picks, of recommended exhibitions and events related to feminist art and scholarship from North America and around the world.
The CWA Picks for September 2010 include “Heritage and Hope,” an international symposium on women in higher education, with a focus on the global, to be held at Bryn Mawr College from September 23 to 25. Four special exhibitions on view this month—featuring women Pop artists, the photographer Catherine Opie, female artists from the Hudson River School, and women’s contributions to Fluxus—round out the selections for this month.
Check out past CWA Picks archived at the bottom of the page, as exhibitions highlighted in previous months are often still on view.
September 2010 Issue of The Art Bulletin Published
posted by Christopher Howard — August 30, 2010
The September 2010 issue of The Art Bulletin, the leading publication of international art-historical scholarship, has just been published. It will be mailed to all individual CAA members who elect to receive the journal, and to all institutional members.
The issue interweaves three essays that focus on art and visual culture in Europe with three texts exploring works from the Americas. On the Continent, Molly Swetnam-Burland looks at issues of reuse, display, and cross-cultural appropriation through the history of the obelisk in the Piazza Montecitorio in Rome. For his essay “Material Futures,” Richard Taws views Philibert-Louis Debucourt’s print Almanach national (1790) as articulating relations between the materiality expressed in the image and changing conceptions of time in the French Revolution. In his contribution, Darius A. Spieth investigates the “politics of nostalgia” in modern Italian culture through the reception history of Giandomenico Tiepolo’s fresco Il Mondo Nuovo (1791).
Across the Atlantic, “Circles of Creation” is Amara L. Solari’s exploration of how the Maya in early colonial Yucatán invented their own cartographic tradition that allowed for the preservation of community identity during the chaos of colonization. In “Rioting Refigured,” Ross Barrett examines the way in which George Henry Hall’s painting A Dead Rabbit (1858) reframes a mid-nineteenth-century rioter in New York City as an ideal nude, both tempering and exacerbating connotations of violence. Moving into the twentieth century, Ken Allen argues that Ed Ruscha’s experimentations with size and scale in his images of 1960s Los Angeles gave viewers a new experiential understanding of the city.
The reviews section presents four books on diverse topics. Timon Screech evaluates Melissa McCormick’s study of an early member of the Tosa School in Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan, and Charles Dempsey examines Stuart Lingo’s book on Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting. Erika Naginski’s Sculpture and Enlightenment, which looks at how historical forces and philosophical debated affected public funerary monuments in eighteenth-century France, is reviewed by Satish Padiyar. Finally, Karen Beckman considers Flesh of My Flesh, the latest book by the film theorist and art historian Kaja Silverman.
Please read the full table of contents for more details. The final Art Bulletin for 2010 will be published in December.
Presentations Sought for 2011 Conference Session on Health and Safety in the Artist’s Studio
posted by Christopher Howard — August 27, 2010
Over the last decade, artists and educators have become acutely aware of the environmental and health repercussions of their studio endeavors. How have the serious consequences for personal health and the environment, as well as the legal and ethical responsibilities of institutions of higher education, shaped individual studio practice and the teaching of visual art? This session will examine the wide-ranging responses of artists working today and offer practical solutions for artists to safely create work without sacrificing their vision. We invite proposals for twenty-minute presentations about individual experiences, personal or institutional, dealing with these pressing matters.
This session will be part of ARTspace at the 2011 CAA Annual Conference in New York. Initiated in 2001, ARTspace has grown into one of the most vital and exciting aspects of the annual meeting, with programming is designed by artists for artists that is free and open to the public. Working in tandem with its affiliated programs, the Media Lounge and ARTexchange, ARTspace promotes dialogue about visual-arts practice, its relation to critical discourse, professional-development programming, and opportunities for the creative exchange of ideas.
Interested parties should submit a one-hundred-word abstract and a fifty-word autobiography in a single Word document to session cochairs Brian Bishop and Mark Gottsegen. Deadline: October 1, 2010.