CAA News Today

Academe

David Cloutier, a painter who earned his MFA in 2005 at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, has returned to his school to teach in the foundations program.

Olivia Robinson

Olivia Robinson, a multimedia fiber artist who has lectured, taught, and exhibited across the United States, has joined the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore to teach fiber art.

Gerry Snyder (photograph by Jeanne Arnold)

Gerry Snyder, a painter and chair of the Art Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design in New Mexico, has been named vice president for academic affairs at his institution.

Jonathan Thomas

Jonathan Thomas, a printmaker and lecturer in print media at the University of Miami in Florida since 2004, has begun teaching printmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Museums and Galleries

Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell (photograph by Greg Hines)

Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell has been named the Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator of Drawings, Prints, and Photographs at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

Eric Segal

Eric Segal, formerly assistant professor of art history at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has been appointed curator of academic programs at the school’s Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, a newly created position.

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Elizabeth Wyckoff, assistant director for curatorial affairs and education at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, will assume the role of curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri on December 1, 2010.

Organizations and Publications

Patricia Cronin, an artist and associate professor of art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, has been appointed to the board of directors of Civitella Ranieri Foundation, a residency fellowship program for artists, composers, and writers in Umbertide, Italy.

Madeleine C. Viljoen

Madeleine C. Viljoen has become curator of prints at the New York Public Library. She was previously director and chief curator of the La Salle University Art Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Academe

John P. Bowles

John P. Bowles, associate professor of African American art in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, has earned tenure.

Eduardo de Jesus Douglas, associate professor of colonial and modern Latin American art in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, has been granted tenure.

Janet Marcavage

Janet Marcavage, associate professor of art in the Art Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, has been awarded tenure.

Clarence Morgan has been named 2010–11 Dorothy Liskey Wampler Eminent Professor in the School of Art and Art History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Linda Williams, associate professor of art history in the Art Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, has been granted tenure.

Museums and Galleries

Margaretta Frederick

Margaretta Frederick, curator of the Samuel and Mary F. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, has been appointed chief curator at the museum.

Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, a past president of the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, has been appointed curator of northwest art at the Portland Art Museum.

Kent Lydecker

Kent Lydecker, who led the Education Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for eighteen years, has been appointed director of the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. He succeeds John Schloder, who retired in July after more than nine years.

Alexandra Schwartz, formerly coordinator of the Modern Women’s Project at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been appointed curator of art at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey.

Daniel Walker

Daniel Walker has become the Pritzker Chair and Curator of Asian Art and Chair and the Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois.

Organizations and Publications

Anne Barlow

Anne Barlow, executive director of Art in General in New York, has been appointed curator of the fifth Bucharest International Biennale for Contemporary Art, taking place in Romania in 2012.

William Carroll, an artist, curator, and gallerist, has been chosen director of the EFA Studio Program at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York. He succeeds Francine Affourtit, who continues at the foundation as director of program development.

Chandra L. Reedy

Chandra L. Reedy, professor of historic preservation, art history, and Asian studies at the University of Delaware in Newark, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Studies in Conservation, the journal of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.