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Report from the October 2011 Board of Directors Meeting
posted by Linda Downs — Dec 19, 2011
The fall meeting of the CAA Board of Directors took place on Sunday, October 23, 2011, in New York. Twenty-two board members were joined by eight staff members and one guest.
Anne Collins Goodyear was elected by the board as president-elect. Her term of office begins in May 2012 and will conclude at the end of April 2014. Goodyear is associate curator of prints and drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. She has served on the CAA board since 2006 as vice president for external affairs and vice president for publications and is currently vice president for Annual Conference. As vice president for publications, Goodyear headed a task force that reviewed all editorial safeguards and procedures for CAA’s three journals. She is an art historian who has contributed to the field through major exhibitions, including Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture in 2009. She is only the second art museum curator to lead CAA in thirty years (the first being Joshua C. Taylor, director of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, in 1981). Before stepping into the presidency, Goodyear will lead a task force on the Annual Conference to explore future web-based extensions.
The Professional Practices Committee, chaired by Charles Wright of Western Illinois University, worked with subcommittees over the past several years and updated five existing but outdated standards and added one new document to CAA’s Standards and Guidelines. Maria Ann Conelli, vice president for committees, presented these standards to the board for approval. The board adopted these standards and commended the subcommittees and the Professional Practices Committee for their outstanding work in providing the field with this critical information. The new standards reflect and correspond to the guidelines of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and regional accreditation commissions where applicable.
Beauvais Lyons of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, chaired the task force to update Professional Practices for Artists, first published in 1977. Extensive changes were made in sections pertaining to the code of ethics, copyright, safe use of materials and equipment, and exhibition and sales. The task-force members were: Charles Wright, Western Illinois University, Chair of the Professional Practices Committee; Brian Bishop, Framingham State University; Margaret Lazzari, University of Southern California; and James Hopfensperger, Western Michigan University.
Judith Thorpe of the University of Connecticut chaired the task force to update Standards for the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts Degrees in Studio Art. A section on multidisciplinary curricula was added, and extensive changes were made to sections on the BFA and studio curriculum and on faculty and staff. The task force comprised: Denise Mullen, Oregon College of Art and Crafts and CAA board; Sergio Soave, Ohio State University; Frederick Cartwright, University of Saint Francis; and Cora Lynn Deibler, University of Connecticut.
Susan Waller of the University of Missouri, Saint Louis and John Klein of Washington University in Saint Louis made up the task force that revised Peer Review in CAA Publications from 2004. The task force consulted the current editors-in-chief and editors-designate of The Art Bulletin and Art Journal as well as members of the Publications Committee that oversees the editorial boards of CAA’s three journals. The standards included a definition of peer review and addressed works submitted to the journals by artists.
Jim Hopfensperger of Western Michigan University chaired the task force on Standards for the Retention and Tenure of Art and Design Faculty, whose members were: Carolyn Cardenas, Utah State University; Dana Clancy, Boston University; Andrea Eis, Oakland University; Amy Hauft, Virginia Commonwealth University; Janet Hethorn, University of Delaware; Robert Hower, University of Texas at Arlington; Patricia Olynyk, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Sergio Soave, Ohio State University; Adrian Tio, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; and Star Varner, Southwestern University. The revised standards recommend transparency in matters of renewal, retention, promotion, and tenure; specified contact hours; and added the categories of collaborative artworks, situated artworks, online work, commissions, consultations, and/or curatorial work to documentation to be considered for retention and promotion review.
A new document, Standards for the Associate of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art, was developed to recognize that 50 percent of all college students in the United States attend institutions offering two-year degree programs. Bertha Gutman, Delaware County Community College, chaired the task force, whose members were: Carmina L. Cianciulli, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; Sandra Esslinger, Mt. San Antonio College; Martina Hesser, Mesa College; David Koffman, Georgia Perimeter College; and Christina McNearney, Pima Community College.
CAA’s deputy director, Michael Fahlund, announced that CAA had received 168 applications for the Professional-Development Fellowship in Visual Art and 19 for the Professional- Development in Art History. The juries will meet in December to select three visual-art fellows and two art-history fellows with awards of $5,000 each. The awardees will be honored at the Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
Patricia McDonnell, vice president for external affairs, presented the first of three reports on membership development to the board. She thanked Nia Page, director of membership, development and marketing, for the work that she and her staff carried out to identify all national and international sources of future CAA members. The board has requested a plan to increase membership revenue over the next three years, and this comprehensive first-phase report was reviewed and accepted by the board. It was also announced that two new full-time staff members have been hired: Hannah O’Reilly Malyn, development associate, and Nancy Nguyen, institutional membership assistant.
The board approved new guidelines for board liaisons to the Professional Interests, Practices, and Standards Committees. The new guidelines include acting in an advisory (without vote) capacity by attending their assigned committee meetings and reporting back to the vice president of committees, thereby bringing issues of critical importance to the vice president and the board and back to the committees from the board.
Paul Jaskot of DePaul University chaired the Task Force on the Use of Human and Animal Subjects in Art and presented its recommendations to the board. Members of the task force included Wayne Enstice, University of Cincinnati; Michael Golec, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Ellen Levy, independent artist; Marlena Novak, independent artist; Bernard Rollin, University of Colorado; and Kristine Stiles, Duke University. The task force researched and presented existing guidelines for the use of animals and humans in experiments and performance; sampled existing practices in the art world; prepared and sent a survey to members regarding attitudes about the use of animals in art; and compiled a short bibliography of ethical and artistic debate on these subjects. The task force produced a set of principles and questions that artists and other professionals in the visual arts can consult when using animals and human subjects in art. The task force suggested that another task force be established to develop formal guidelines on the use of animals in art and to develop a page on the CAA website for related resources in the future. The board accepted the recommendations of the task force, commended Paul and the task-force members for their work on this difficult subject, and decided to postpone the formation of another task force, since five new task forces were being presented at the meeting and needed prioritization by the executive director.
A resolution to establish a Task Force on the Annual Conference was presented to the board by Goodyear. The task force, approved by the board, will address electronic extensions of the conference in order to reach a larger, international membership. The vice president announced that the 2013 Annual Conference Committee has reviewed the 279 session proposals that were submitted and selected 111 for the New York conference. In addition to the 111 peer-reviewed sessions there will be 23 affiliated-society sessions, 3 committee sessions, 20 contemporary issues/studio art sessions, 8 educational and professional practices sessions, 53 historical studies sessions, and 4 Open Forms sessions.
Goodyear also announced that 150 people have applied for the Getty Foundation International Travel Grant Program. The jury will meet in November to select twenty awardees, who will receive a free CAA membership for a year, free registration, and free travel and hotel to the 2012 conference in Los Angeles. The program is intended to acclimate art historians or artists teaching art history in developing college art departments to become acquainted with the session proposal submission process, to assist them in networking with colleagues, and to address common professional issues. The project is supported by a grant from the Getty Foundation. The CAA project manager is Janet Landay.
A resolution was presented by a board member, Jean Miller of the University of North Texas, and approved by the board to establish a Task Force on Design. This group will conduct research on design programs in order to attract more designers to CAA membership. A resolution was presented by another board member, Judith Thorpe, to increase participation in CAA by its affiliated societies. The resolutions were approved with the proviso that the formation of the task forces be delayed until Downs determines when the staff support will be available to assist the task forces.
The Executive Committee approved affiliated-society status for the Diasporic Asian Art Network (DAAN).
The annual audit was presented by EisnerAmper, Accountants and Advisors. There were no recommendations, and the chief financial officer, Teresa López, was commended for her work. Copies of the audit will be made available at the Annual Members’ Business Meeting, taking place on Friday, February 24, 2012, at the CAA Annual Conference in Los Angeles; it can also be obtained directly from López. The treasurer, John Hyland Jr., presented a balanced budget. CAA’s investment manager, Domenic Colasecco from Boston Trust, presented a thorough report on the investment portfolio.
At the request of the board, Downs presented a comprehensive report on funding sources at CAA including membership (representing 42 percent of all revenue); earned revenue including grants (45 percent); private contributions (.5 percent); and investment drawdown (9.4 percent). The board will set a specific date to discuss ideas on increasing private contributions to CAA funds.
Downs commended the CAA staff for a successful move to the new office at 50 Broadway and especially thanked Fahlund, who coordinated the move; López, who managed the move’s financial aspects; and Michael Goodman, director of information technology, who oversaw the installation of the new phone system and all the office computers, copiers, and machines, and also helped make necessary changes to the website. The move will assist in a budget reduction because of a five-year lease reduction rebate provided by the City of New York through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Open House
Open House at the CAA office, from left: Minerva Navarrete, Michael Fahlund, and Sydelle Zemering
As part of the meetings taking place that weekend for the three journals’ editorial boards, the Annual Conference Committee, and the full Board of Directors, the CAA staff organized an Open House for members at the organization’s new office on Saturday, October 22, 2011. Close to fifty members visited the office and met board and staff members. Two delightful visitors were Minerva Navarrete and Sydelle Zemering, former CAA staff members who regaled us with stories of their experiences at CAA during the 1950s, when the office was in a Madison Avenue townhouse. One board member, Roger Crum of the University of Dayton, introduced several members to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and the World Trade Center construction site from the vantage point of the twentieth floor of the Club Quarters, World Trade Center hotel. (CAA belongs to the Club Quarters network in major cities around the world, and members receive discounts on room reservations.) This particular Club Quarters is on the southern edge of the World Trade Center site and has extraordinary views of the construction of the towers and the memorial’s fountains. Crum made a presentation on the concept of memorializing September 11 and the skyscraper engineering and safeguards going into the seven towers. After the Open House, several members also visited Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park, just a few blocks north. CAA’s new neighborhood is very lively, with many tourists, commemorators, construction crews, and demonstrators.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — Dec 15, 2011
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
Grants, Awards, and Honors is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
December 2011
Colin Bailey (photograph by Michael Bodycomb)Colin B. Bailey, deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of the Frick Collection in New York, has received the insignia of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.
Caetlynn BoothCaetlynn Booth, a recent graduate in painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts Graduate Program in Visual Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has received a Fulbright scholarship to Berlin, Germany, for academic year 2011–12. She will conduct research for a project titled “The Work of Adam Elsheimer and the Spiritual Power of Painting.”
Andrea Bowers has received a grant from Art Matters to support a video project documenting DREAM-activist youth in California fighting the deportation of undocumented students.
Robert Gero has received a grant from Art Matters to support travel to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia for research and interviews with the Roma.
Hope Ginsburg has received a grant from Art Matters to support travel her ongoing social artwork project, called Sponge. The artist will travel to the reef atolls off the coast of Belize to study the sea sponges that grow there.
Sheila Pepe has received a grant from Art Matters to support the international iterations of Common Sense, an ongoing installation and participatory performance involving a large-scale crocheted drawing.
Margaret SamuMargaret Samu, adjunct assistant professor in the Art History Department of Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University, has received a Swann Foundation Fellowship for Caricature and Cartoon at the Library of Congress. The fellowship will enable her to study late-nineteenth-century Russian caricatures about art from the library’s strong holdings of satirical publications. She will use this material for a chapter of her book manuscript entitled Russian Venus.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — Dec 15, 2011
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
Check out details on recent shows organized by CAA members who are also curators.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
December 2011
Michael Behle. The Other Picture. Gallery FAB, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, Missouri, October 24–November 30, 2011.
Reni Gower. Papercuts. Space 301, Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, Alabama, October 14–December 17, 2011.
Reni Gower. Papercuts. Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, January 12–February 3, 2012.
William Hogarth, plate 2 of The Harlot’s Progress, 1732 (printed 1744), etching and engraving, image: 8 7/16 x 6⅛, sheet: 17⅛ x 22 1/16 in. (artwork in the public domain)Rena Hoisington. Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, October 30, 2011–March 25, 2012.
An electron micrograph of basalt moon lava by Kurt Hollocher of the Union College Department of Geology, displayed as a Duratrans print on an LED light boxAdrienne Klein. Mineral. Castrucci Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New York, May 21–December 31, 2011.
Mel Bochner, If the Color Changes…, 2003, monoprint with engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper, 2¾ x 3¾ in. Collection of Sally and Wynn Kramarsky (artwork © Mel Bochner; photograph by Laura Mitchell)N. Elizabeth Schlatter. Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists. University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia, August 17–October 16, 2011.
Fernand Toussaint, Grand Magasins de nouveautes, 1895, lithographic promotional fan, 12 x 7⅞ in. Robert L. Hoskins and Erwin A. Raible Collection of Fin de Siècle French Prints, a gift to Grand Valley State University from Elaine Rutowski ShayClaire L. Kovacs. Posters, Fans, and Songbooks: 19th-Century Prints by Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries. Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan, September 16–October 30, 2011.
Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Rob Strati, and Ann Tarantino. Gifting Abstraction. SoHo20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, October 4–29, 2011.
Lili White. Another Experiment by Women Film Festival. Millennium Film Workshop, New York, November 5, 2011.
Finalists for the 2012 Morey and Barr Awards
posted by Christopher Howard — Dec 02, 2011
CAA is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award. The winners of both prizes, along with the recipients of ten other Awards for Distinction, will be announced in January and presented during a special ceremony in Los Angeles, in conjunction with the 100th Annual Conference and Centennial Celebration.
The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award honors an especially distinguished book in the history of art, published in any language between September 1, 2010, and August 31, 2011. The four finalists are:
- Michael W. Cole, Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)
- Rebecca Messbarger, The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010)
- Alexander Nagel, The Controversy of Renaissance Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011)
- Nina Rowe, The Jew, The Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
The Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for museum scholarship is presented to the author(s) of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published between September 1, 2010, and August 31, 2011, under the auspices of a museum, library, or collection. The three finalists are:
- Maryan W. Ainsworth, ed., Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance; The Complete Works (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2010)
- Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010)
- Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman, Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250–1500(Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010)
The Barr jury has also shortlisted two catalogues for the second Barr Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, or Collections. The titles are:
- Roy Flukinger, The Gernsheim Collection (Austin: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas Press, 2010)
- James T. Tice and James G. Harper, Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour (Eugene: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 2010)
The presentation of the 2012 Awards for Distinction will take place on Thursday afternoon, February 23, 12:30–2:00 PM, in West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center. The event is free and open to the public. For more information about CAA’s Awards for Distinction, please contact Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs, at 212-392-4405.
December 2011 Issue of The Art Bulletin
posted by Christopher Howard — Nov 22, 2011
The December 2011 issue of The Art Bulletin, the leading publication of international art-historical scholarship, features essays on the portraiture of nuns in colonial Mexico, the sociological context of Katsushika Hokusai’s famous print Under the Wave off Kanagawa, and Federico Zuccari’s painting The Encounter of Christ and Veronica on the Way to Calvary.
The December issue publishes four essays on diverse topics. For “Inventing the Exegetical Stained-Glass Window,” Conrad Rudolph studies the reintroduction of allegory in an art program established by Abbot Suger in the twelfth century for St-Denis in France, finding that it culminated in the construction of a new elite art for the literate layperson. In “Ancient Prototypes Reinstated,” Livia Stoenescu demonstrates the self-conscious medievialism in Zuccari’s painting The Encounter of Christ and Veronica on the Way to Calvary (1594) and the artist’s intention of inscribing its narrative within a Christocentric image. In “Clad in Flowers: Indigenous Arts and Knowledge in Colonial Mexican Convents,” James M. Córdova examines the flowery trappings depicted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century portraits of nuns in New Spain. For her essay, Christine M. E. Guth explores the sociocultural context of Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (ca. 1830–33) to reveal it as a site for Japan’s shifting geopolitical circumstances between the 1790s and the 1860s.
In the Reviews section, two writers consider three books on the history of Asian art. Douglas Osto explores Buddhist visual culture through Andy Rotman’s Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism and Cynthea J. Bogel’s With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vison, and Melanie Trede evaluates Alicia Volk’s In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art. Bissera V. Pentcheva considers acoustics and architecture in Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti’s Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics, while Étienne P. H. Jollet reviews Frank Fehrenbach’s study of Roman Baroque fountains, Compendia Mundi: Gianlorenzo Berninis “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi” (1648–51) und Nicola Salvis “Fontana di Trevi” (1732–62). Gregory Batchen offers a take on national histories of photography through two recent books: Maria Golia’s Photography and Egypt and Karen Strassler’s Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java.
Please see the full table of contents for December to learn more. CAA sends The Art Bulletin to all institutional members and to those individuals who choose to receive the journal as a benefit of their membership.
The next issue of The Art Bulletin, to be published in March 2012, will include essays on the Zen monk painter Sesshū Tōyō, the art of Henri Fuseli, the “biography” of a statute sculpted in or near the Lagoon region of Ivory Coast. The issue also inaugurates a new feature, “Regarding Art and Art History,” comprising field notes on the topic of anthropomorphism by various authors and a critical essay on the interview format, followed by a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philip Ursprung.
Committee on Women in the Arts Picks for November 2011
posted by CAA — Nov 10, 2011
Each month, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts selects the best in feminist art and scholarship. The following exhibitions and events should not be missed. Check the archive of CWA Picks at the bottom of the page, as several museum and gallery shows listed in previous months may still be on view or touring.
November 2011
Patti Smith, Walt Whitman’s Tomb, Camden, NJ, 2007, unique Polaroid, 4¼ x 3¼ in. (artwork © Patti Smith; photograph provided by the artist, Robert Miller Gallery, and the Wadsworth Atheneum)
Patti Smith: Camera Solo
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103
October 21, 2011–February 19, 2012
With seventy photographs, one multimedia installation, and a video, Patti Smith: Camera Solo is the largest presentation of this artist, poet, and performer’s visual work in the United States in nearly ten years. The exhibition highlights the connection between Smith’s photography and her interest in poetry and literature. Actual objects that appear in the many black-and-white Polaroids will also be on view.
Patti Smith: 9.11 Babelogue
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
Hunter College, City University of New York, East 68th Street at Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10065
September 8–December 3, 2011
Mounted in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center, Patti Smith: 9.11 Babelogue comprises twenty-six works on paper created between 2001 and 2002 as a response to the tragic event in New York. Organized by Michelle Yun, curator of the Hunter College Art Galleries, the exhibition is the first presentation of the entire series.
Second Annual Feminist Art History Conference
Katzen Arts Center
American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016
November 4–6, 2011
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the Art History Program in the Department of Art at American University has organized the second annual Feminist Art History Conference. Speakers in twelve sessions will deliver fifty-one papers that span a broad range of topics and time periods, from the medieval era to contemporary art. The presentations will also demonstrate the ways in which feminist research and interpretation have spread across the spectrum of art-historical analysis and scholarship. In her keynote address, Mary D. Sheriff, a distinguished professor of art history at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century French art and culture, will speak on “The Future of Feminist Art History: Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Going?” The conference is free and open to the public; online registration (by October 28) is recommended.
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, New York, 1979–80, chromogenic print, 3⅜ x 3½ in. (photograph © George and Betty Woodman)
Francesca Woodman
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
November 5, 2011–February 20, 2012
This survey of works by the photographer Francesca Woodman, known for her black-and-white self-portraits from the late 1970s, is the first in more than two decades and comes thirty years after her death at age twenty-two. Organized by Corey Keller, associate curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition includes prints, artist’s books, and videos.
Sherrie Levine: Mayhem
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021
November 10, 2011–January 29, 2012
Sherrie Levine has been the subject of much critical discourse for the past thirty years. This exhibition, developed as a project by the artist, includes works ranging from her well-known 1981 photograph, After Walker Evans: 1-22, to recently created objects, such as Crystal Skull: 1-12, from 2010. Levine and the curators—Johanna Burton, Elisabeth Sussman, and Carrie Springer—will juxtapose old and new works in order to provoke fresh associations and responses.
Anne Collins Goodyear Is CAA President Elect
posted by Christopher Howard — Nov 08, 2011
Anne Collins Goodyear, associate curator of prints and drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, has been elected president of the CAA Board of Directors for a two-year term, beginning May 2012. A member of the board since 2006, Goodyear has served as vice president for external affairs (2007–9), vice president for publications (2009–11) and vice president for Annual Conference (2011–12). She succeeds Barbara Nesin of the Art Institute of Atlanta, who has led the board since May 2010.
Goodyear writes, “CAA sets a standard for professional excellence and best practices that is not only enjoyed by our membership, but which resonates far beyond. In an era of increasing financial constraints and expanding channels for outreach, the association must continue to aspire to balancing nimbleness with the reflection that goes along with responsible judgment. These are challenges I would enjoy addressing in tandem with CAA staff, fellow board members, and the membership at large.”
Goodyear began work at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, in 2001 and was promoted from assistant to associate curator in 2009. Her recent exhibitions include Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, organized with James W. McManus (2009), and Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century, collaborating with Wendy Wick Reaves (2009). Both exhibitions were accompanied by scholarly catalogues of the same title. Goodyear has also helped organize six installations for the museum’s ongoing Portraiture Now series, initiated in 2006. Additionally, she has taught a graduate seminar in American art at George Washington University since 2008.
Goodyear earned her MA and PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, after receiving a BA in the history of art and architecture and French civilization at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She has published essays in the scholarly journals American Art and Leonardo and contributed chapters to several exhibition catalogues and edited volumes, including Unexpected Reflections (2010), The Political Economy of Art: Creating the Modern Nation of Culture (2008), Cold War Modern: Art and Design in a Divided World (2008), and Photography Theory (2007).
Within CAA, Goodyear served on the Museum Committee, chaired the Education Committee, and participated on the Task Force on Practical Publications, the Task Force on Editorial Safeguards, the Strategic Plan Steering Committee, and the Centennial Task Force, among other groups. Equally active outside the organization, she has chaired the Washington, DC, chapter of ArtTable since 2010 and currently leads the Smithsonian Network Review Committee, which oversees programming for the institution’s documentaries and other videos. As chair of the Smithsonian’s Material Culture Forum, she facilitated interdisciplinary programing for scholars in the nation’s capital.
Goodyear continues, “I have been a member of CAA since my years as a graduate student. During that time, I had the opportunity to see firsthand John Clarke’s clear passion for and enjoyment of his service on the CAA board and his role as president. Dr. Clarke’s enthusiasm for CAA touched each of the students with whom he worked. I would ultimately seek to bring a similar level of engagement and commitment to the role of president, and would seek to inspire future leaders to become further engaged with the organization to render it as adaptive and responsive as possible to the diverse emerging needs of emerging and established professionals in the visual arts.”
The CAA board chooses its next president from among the elected directors in the fall of the current president’s final year of service, providing a period in which the next president can learn the responsibilities of the office and prepare for his or her term. For more information on CAA and the Board of Directors, please contact Vanessa Jalet, CAA executive assistant.
A full report on the October board meeting is forthcoming later this month.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — Oct 15, 2011
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
Grants, Awards, and Honors is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
October 2011
Michael Beitz, an artist based in Attica, New York, has received a 2011 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the crafts and sculpture category.
Sinclair BellSinclair Bell, assistant professor of art history in the School of Art at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, has been awarded a research fellowship from the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) and the Archaeological Institute of America. He will conduct research in Berlin this fall.
Rachel Federman of New York University has received a $1,500 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Seth Alexander Feman of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has earned a $1,500 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Aglaya Glebova of the University of California, Berkeley, has won the Dedalus Foundation’s 2011 Dissertation Fellowship Award, given annually to a PhD candidate at an American university who is working on a dissertation related to modern art and modernism. The $20,000 award will help support Glebova’s work on her dissertation, “Wilderness and Construction: Three Case Studies of Russian Landscape Representation,” which investigates representations of Russia’s Northern wilderness from the mid-nineteenth century to present.
Wendy Ann Grossman of the University of Maryland in University Park has received a $1,500 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Sonali Gulati, a faculty member teaching photography and film in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has been awarded the Mary Lyon Award from her alma mater, Mount Holyoke College. The award honors a young alumna (no more than fifteen years after graduation) who demonstrates promise or sustained achievement in her life, profession, or community.
Matthew Jesse Jackson has won the Dedalus Foundation’s tenth annual Robert Motherwell Book Award for his The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). The award, which carries a $20,000 prize, honors an outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts. The Experimental Group documents the life and work of the Russian artist Ilya Kabakov and, through him, the milieu of the Moscow Conceptualists: the “unofficial artists” who worked without state sanction in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
Sue Johnson, Birds without Feathers, 2010, watercolor and pencil on paper, 30 x 22 in. (artwork © Sue Johnson)Sue Johnson, professor of art at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland in Saint Mary’s City, has been awarded a residency at the Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre in Marnay-sur-Seine, France. Her residency also includes a grant from the Tenot Fondation. In addition, Johnson was selected as a visiting artist by the American Academy in Rome for June 2011. In 2010–11 she has been a visiting scholar in residence at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Oxford, England.
Holger A. Klein, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University in New York, has been honored with the fiftieth annual Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching, which honors a Columbia professor for commitment to undergraduate instruction and for humanity, devotion to truth, and inspiring leadership. The recipient of the award is selected by the student members of the Academic Awards Subcommittee of the Columbia College Student Council, with administrative support and guidance from the Academic Affairs staff of the college.
JC Lenochan, an artist based in Orange, New Jersey, has received a $6,000 grant from the 2011–12 Franklin Furnace Fund for Decolonizing the Mind, an installation and performance with public interaction that addresses how pedagogy relates to issues of sex, race, and class stratification. For the gallery-based work, Lenochan will hang chalkboards with text and images opposite blank chalkboards for the public’s response. Simultaneously, four high school students will pile of old school desks in the middle of the space and also play sound and audio from Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s book, Decolonizing the Mind.
Margaret Lindauer, an art historian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has been recently honored twice, receiving a VCUarts Faculty Achievement Award for 2010–11 and a VCUarts Faculty Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching.
Christina Lindholm, associate dean of undergraduate studies in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has earned a 2011 Spirit of Martha Award, which recognizes University of Missouri women who have distinguished themselves in their chosen profession and exemplify the spirit of leadership, particularly in the furtherance of women.
China Marks, an artist based in Long Island City, New York, has been named a Gregory Millard Fellow by the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has also received a 2011 grant in the category for printmaking, drawing, and book arts.
Saloni Mathur, associate professor in the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, has received a $44,000 residential grant from the Getty Foundation. As a Getty Scholar, she will work on “Divided Objects: Indian Partition and the Politics of Display.”
Jennifer Ann McComas of Indiana University in Bloomington has accepted a $1,500 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Kristine Nielsen of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has received a $661 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Kristina Berrill Paulsen of Ohio State University in Columbus has received a $1,000 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Scott William Perkins of the Bard Graduate Center in New York has received a $1,500 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Corey Piper, curatorial assistant for the Mellon Collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, has received a 2011–12 John H. Daniels Fellowship from the National Sporting Library and Museum. She will work on “The Cast and Characters of the British Sporting Ring,” a scholarly essay for the catalogue of an upcoming exhibition, Catching Sight: The World of the British Sporting Print, at her museum.
Anne J. Regan, an artist who earned her MFA last year at the University of Houston in Texas, has become a resident artist at the Lawndale at Center in Houston. The residency comes with nine months of studio space, $1,500 for materials, and a $500 per month stipend; it will also culminate in an exhibition with two other resident artists in May 2012.
Barbara Smith, an artist based in Rosendale, New York, has received a 2011 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the crafts and sculpture category.
Jaune Quick-to-See SmithJaune Quick-to-See Smith, a highly acclaimed American Indian artist based in New Mexico, has been honored with a 2011 Visionary Woman Award by Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for her outstanding contributions to the arts. Elaborating on her heritage and worldview, Smith’s richly layered juxtapositions of text and image in large-scale prints and canvases address today’s tribal politics, human rights, and environmental issues with a sophisticated combination of humor and wit.
Juana Valdes, an artist based in New York, has received a 2011 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the crafts and sculpture category.
James Alan Van Dyke of the University of Missouri in Columbia has accepted a $1,500 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
P. Gregory WardenP. Gregory Warden, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and associate dean for academic affairs in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, has received a $200,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities to work with the Community College Humanities Organization on a 2012 NEH Summer Institute, called “The Legacy of Ancient Italy: The Etruscan and Early Roman City.” As project director, Warden will lead a group of community college teachers in Italy in June of next year.
Corina Alexandra Weidinger of the University of Delaware in Newark has earned a $1,500 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Deborah Wing-Sproul, an interdisciplinary artist and a faculty member at Maine College of Art in Portland, has been named a Maine Arts Commission Media and Performing Arts Fellow for 2011. The recognition comes with a $13,000 grant award.
Brian Scott Winkenweder of Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, has received a $1,000 library research grant from the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles.
Sandy Winters, an artist based in New York, has received a 2011 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the printmaking, drawing, and book arts category.
Reva Wolf, professor of art history at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has received a 2010–11 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes consistently superior teaching and sound scholarship.
Karla Wozniak, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2011 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the category for printmaking, drawing, and book arts.
Committee on Women in the Arts Picks for October 2011
posted by CAA — Oct 10, 2011
Each month, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts selects the best in feminist art and scholarship. The following exhibitions and events should not be missed. Check the archive of CWA Picks at the bottom of the page, as several museum and gallery shows listed in previous months may still be on view or touring.
October 2011
Wendy Stayman, Chairs, 2007, Swiss pear, macassor ebony, bent laminated plywood, and chrome-tanned calfskin (photograph by David Stansbury and provided by the artist and the Fuller Craft Museum)
Furniture Divas: Recent Work by Contemporary Makers
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301
February 19–October 30, 2011
This exhibition celebrates the contributions of fifteen women—Vivian Beer, Polly Cassel, Gail Fredell, Jenna Goldberg, Barbara Holmes, Kristina Madsen, Sarah Martin, Wendy Maruyama, Judy Kensley McKie, Alison McLennan, Sylvie Rosenthal, Rosanne Somerson, Wendy Stayman, Leah Woods, and Yoko Zeltserman-Miyaji—to studio furniture and provides a snapshot of contemporary developments in the field.
Call and Response: From Artemisia to Frida
Koehnline Museum of Art
Oakton Community College, 1600 East Golf Road, Des Plaines, IL 60016
October 6–28, 2011
This annual juried exhibition of works by artists who identify themselves as women is sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program of Oakton Community College and the Koehnline Museum of Art. The artists in Call and Response have created works that honor, critique, or expand on the techniques and/or content of a groundbreaking female artist.
Charline von Heyl
Institute of Contemporary Art
University of Pennsylvania, 118 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
September 7, 2011–February 19, 2012
This exhibition is a survey of a decade of productivity by Charline von Heyl, a German-born, New York–based painter of vibrant, enigmatic works. Organized by Jenelle Porter, senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the presentation includes collage-based works on paper and eighteen paintings.
Real Time
Douglass Library Galleries
Rutgers University, 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
September 1–December 9, 2011
The Brainstormers art collective was formed in 2005 by a group of women who chose to use public performance, exhibitions, publications, the internet, and video as a means of forcing a discussion about gender inequities in the contemporary New York art world. For Real Time, the group invited artists from across the country to anonymously share intimate details of their daily lives through whatever format they preferred.
Cecil Beaton, Gertrude Stein, 1935, gelatin-silver print. Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s. CM3794 (photograph provided by the Contemporary Jewish Museum)
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Eighth and F Streets NW, Washington, DC 20001
October 14, 2011–January 22, 2012
With more than fifty artifacts from Gertrude Stein’s life and one hundred works by artists from Europe and the United States, the exhibition focuses on her life and work as an artist, collector, and style maker. The exhibition was previously mounted at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California, and was a CWA Pick in July–August 2011.
Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels
Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College, State University of New York, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577
September 25–December 18, 2011
As the recipient of the 2011 Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize, the Brooklyn-based artist Dana Schutz was awarded an early career survey and monographic catalogue at the Neuberger Museum of Art. The show includes thirty paintings and twelve drawings created since 2001.
Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building
Ben Maltz Gallery
Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045
October 1, 2011–January 28, 2012
As part of the sweeping Pacific Standard Time, a series of exhibitions and events that surveys the history of art in southern California since the end of World War II, Doin’ It in Public focuses on the contributions of feminist artists who came from the women’s liberation movement to found the Woman’s Building, which in the 1970s and 1980s was the center of feminist art and activism in southern California. Otis College of Art and Design is also sponsoring a symposium, “Still Doin’ It: Fanning the Flames of the Woman’s Building,” on October 15–16, which will bring together participants from the Woman’s Building and emerging feminists to instigate dialogue concerning its history and influence.
A Different Temporality: Aspects of Feminist Art Practice in Australia, 1975–1985
Monash University Museum of Art
Monash University, Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Building F, Ground Floor, Caulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia
October 13–December 17, 2011
This exhibition, curated by Kyra McFarlane, revisits the recent history of Australian feminism to focus on dominant modes of creative practice among a generation of feminist artists. Presented in association with the Melbourne Festival, A Different Temporality is organized around the principle of feminist “forms and ideas which continue to resonate in the present.”
Harmony Hammond: Against Seamlessness
Dwight Hackett Projects
2879 All Trades Road, Santa Fe, NM 87507
October 15–November 26, 2011
The legendary artist Harmony Hammond shows her latest work, a series of monumental abstract paintings that explore in new ways what many consider her signature, sculptural sensuality. An accompanying catalogue with essays by Tirza True Latimer and Julia Bryan-Wilson addresses the artist’s relationship with Minimalism, abstraction, feminism, craft, and process.
Recent Deaths in the Arts
posted by Christopher Howard — Oct 04, 2011
In its semimonthly roundup of obituaries, CAA recognizes the lives and achievements of the following artists, scholars, filmmakers, curators, and other men and women whose work has had a significant impact on the visual arts. Of special note are two texts written for CAA: Amalia Nelson-Croner writes about her mother, Karin Christine Nelson; and Janis Bergman-Carton pays tribute to Karl Kilinski II, her colleague at Southern Methodist University.
- Jordan Belson, a Californian experimental filmmaker who created groundbreaking work in nonobjective cinema, died on September 6, 2011. He was 85
- Bernhard Blume, a German artist who worked in photography with his wife Anna, passed away on September 1, 2011. He was 73
- Nicolas Djandji, an artist born in Egypt who graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art and worked for the Dia Foundation in New York, died on September 2, 2011. He was 24 years old
- John Dobbs, an award-winning New York–based painter who taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the New School for Social Research, and John Jay College, passed away on August 9, 2011. He was 80
- Paul Gardère, a Haitian artist who emigrated to the United States in 1959, died on September 2, 2011. Born in 1944, the artist had been showing at Skoto Gallery in New York
- Hugh Gumpel, a New York artist who taught for many years at the National Academy School and at Purchase College, State University of New York, passed away on May 2, 2011, at the age of 85
- Richard Hamilton, an influential British artist who inspired Pop art and whose diverse oeuvre comprises works in painting, found objects, collage, printmaking, graphic design, typography, and digital images, died on September 13, 2011. He was 89
- Michael Hart, a computer engineer who founded Project Gutenberg, which has digitized more than 36,000 books in 60 languages, died on September 6, 2011. He was 64 years old
- Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, a prominent Iraqi sculptor who emerged in the 1960s and who was instrumental in the recovery of looted artworks from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, died on September 12, 2011. He was 82
- John Hoover, an Alaskan artist who drew on indigenous traditions, died on September 3, 2011, at the age of 91. The Anchorage Museum held a retrospective of his work in 2002
- Budd Hopkins, an Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor who became obsessed with unidentified flying objects and alien abductions, left this earth for a higher plane on August 21, 2011. He was 80 years old
- Jeanette Ingberman, a curator who cofounded and led Exit Art, an important nonprofit art space in New York, died on August 24, 2011. She was 59 years old
- Harry Jackson, an artist who traded his Abstract Expressionist style for realist depictions of the American West, passed away on April 25, 2011. He was 87
- Beverly Whitney Kean, a Hollywood film star who wrote several books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian art and art patrons, died on July 9, 2011. She was 89 years old
- Karl Kilinski II, a specialist in Greek vase painting and a longtime professor of art history at Southern Methodist University, died on January 6, 2011, at age 64. His colleague Janis Bergman-Carton has written a special text on him
- Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, a Polish artist who lived, worked, and showed his work in the northeastern United States for thirty years, died under mysterious circumstances in May 2011. He was 59
- George Kuchar, an experimental filmmaker who had taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1971, died on September 6, 2011, at the age of 69. Among his best-known films are Sins of the Fleshapoids, Hold Me While I’m Naked, and Thundercrack!
- Stephen Mueller, a New York–based Color Field painter whose mystical work drew on the art of India, Persia, and Mexico, died on September 16, 2011, at the age of 63
- Vann Nath, a Cambodian painter who survived the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge in Security Prison 21, known as S21, died on September 5, 2011. He was 65 years old
- Karin Christine Nelson, a Bay Area author, administrator, and curator who specialized in textiles, passed away on June 22, 2011, at the age of 64. Her daughter Amalia Nelson-Croner has contributed an obituary that is published in the CAA website
- Anne Odom, a curator and historian of imperial Russian art who worked for more than thirty years at Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens in Washington, DC, died on August 25, 2011. She was 75 years old
- Margaret Olley, an Australian painter and a generous patron of the arts, died on July 26, 2011. She was 88 years old
- Efrén Ordoñez, a Mexican artist who worked in painting, sculpture, and stained glass, passed away on August 21, 2011. He was 84
- Damian Priour, a Texan sculptor who created public monuments, died on September 14, 2011, at the age of 61. He was also known for his community involvement in Austin
- Phillip Renaud, a Chicagoan artist and teacher who illustrated articles for Playboy in the 1960s, died on June 27, 2011. He was 77 years old
- Susan Shatter, a painter who specialized in watercolor and a regular colonist at Yaddo, died in July 2011. Born in 1953, she had served as secretary and president of the National Academy in New York
- Keith W. Tantlinger, an engineer who invented the modern cargo container, an object that has become increasingly popular with artists and designers, died on August 27, 2011. He was 92
- June Wayne, an accomplished artist who founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, which drew artists from around the world, passed away on August 23, 2011. She was 93 years old
Read all past obituaries in the arts in CAA News, which include special texts written for CAA. Please send links to published obituaries to Christopher Howard, CAA managing editor, for the November listing.