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Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — October 22, 2010
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
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October 2010
Abroad
Cynthia Greig. Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 13–December 11, 2010. Nature Morte: The Matter of Life and Death. Color photography.
Midwest
Annie Feldmeier Adams. Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 2010–January 31, 2011. Requiem. Four-channel sound installation.
Yueh-Mei Cheng. Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Spring Green, Wisconsin, July 25–September 25, 2010. Art Exhibition of Yueh-Mei Cheng. Painting.
Nicholas Hill, Miller Gallery, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, October 18–November 20, 2010. The Santiago and Valparaiso Projects: New Work by Nicholas Hill. Printmaking and collage.
Nicholas Hill, Crandall Art Gallery, Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, November 2–December 10, 2010. The Dresden Journals. Printmaking and painting.
Jonathan W. Hils. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, September 9, 2010–January 2, 2011. Intersection. Sculpture.
Vesna Jovanovic. Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, September 11–October 30, 2010. Vesna Jovanovic: Ceramic Sculpture and Drawings. Ceramics and drawing.
Patrick Luber. Moss-Thorns Art Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, October 22–November 19, 2010. A Beautiful Obsession. Sculpture.
Northeast
Cynthia Greig. Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts, November 2–27, 2010. Nature Morte. Color photography.
Roger Shimomura. Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, October 28–December 11, 2010. An American Knockoff. Painting.
South
Virginia Derryberry. Nashville International Airport, Nashville, Tennessee, September 14, 2010–March 6, 2011. Lauren Flying Solo. Oil on canvas.
Virginia Derryberry. Fine Arts Gallery, ValdostaState University, Valdosta, Georgia, September 20–October 8, 2010. Alchemical Narratives. Oil on canvas.
People in the News
posted by CAA — October 17, 2010
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
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October 2010
Academe
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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — October 17, 2010
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
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October 2010
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, has received a Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The $150,000 award supports the Access to American Photography initiative, which will allow the museum to digitize and catalogue nearly twenty-five thousand photographs from its collection.
The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York has received subsequent accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). The honor signifies that the museum has undergone a rigorous, lengthy process of self-examination and peer review, and has been subsequent approved by AAM’s Accreditation Commission.
Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Kennesaw, Georgia, has accepted a $2 million pledge to build an art museum that will house the school’s permanent collection. To receive a $1 million pledge from Bernard A. Zuckerman, a former carpet-industry executive, KSU must raise at least $1 million of its own in the next nine months.
The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore has announced several new academic programs that have just started or will launch soon: an MFA in community arts (2010); an MPS in the business of art and design (May 2011); an MFA in curatorial practice (fall 2011); an MFA in illustration practice (fall 2011); an MA in social design (in development, fall 2011); and an integrated double-major BFA in humanistic studies and studio discipline (fall 2011).
The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra has welcomed a $7 million gift from the Melbourne philanthropist Pauline Gandel and John Gandel AO. The donation will help develop the national art collection for future generations of Australians. Further, the newly named Gandel Hall will host openings, special events, public programs, and school and educational activities.
The New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana has received subsequent accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). This means that the institution has undergone a rigorous, lengthy process of self-examination and peer review, and was subsequent approved by AAM’s Accreditation Commission.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — October 15, 2010
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
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October 2010
Shimon Attie, an artist based in New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo have been awarded a three-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2011–14) for a study of the Kingdom of Sicily, 1130–1442. The project has two parts: a narrative text in print and a catalogue of sites and monuments using open-access technologies to provide a database of visual and textual material.
Josephine Halvorson, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Michelle Handelman, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, and assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Denise Iris, an artist based in New York and visiting assistant professor in film and media studies at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Susan Maxwell, associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh has received a 2010–11 Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship for her book, The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris: Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria, forthcoming from Ashgate.
Claudia Sohrens, an artist and visiting professor at the New School the Parsons School of Design and at Pratt Institute, both in New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her Aufheben project explores concepts of selecting, collecting, and hoarding in contemporary culture.
Mary Ting, a New York–based artist, has received a 2010 Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.
Penelope Umbrico, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also Deutsche Bank Fellow.
Angie Waller, an artist who works in video, books, web-based applications, and installation, has recently participated in the 2010 Art and Law Residency Program, offered by Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — October 15, 2010
Check out details on recent exhibitions organized by CAA members who are also curators.
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October 2010
Peter Barnet, Anne Betty Weinshenker, Gail Stavitsky, and M. Teresa Lapid Rodriguez. Will Barnet. George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, September 21–December 11, 2010.
Jonathan Brown, Lisa A. Banner, and Susan Grace Galassi. The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya. Frick Collection, New York, October 5, 2010–January 9, 2011.
Christine Carr and Amy G. Moorefield. The Fleeting Glimpse: Selections in Modern and Contemporary Photography from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, September 16–December 4, 2010.
Susan Earle. Site Specifics. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, August 28, 2010–January 16, 2011.
Molly S. Hutton. Beyond Realism: The Works of Kent Bellows 1970–2005. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, September 25, 2010–January 16, 2011.
Thomas Kren. Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, August 24–November 7, 2010, and November 9, 2010–February 6, 2011.
David E. Little. Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, 2000–2010. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 16, 2010–January 2, 2010.
Fernando Marías and María Cruz de Carlos Varona. El Greco: Los Apóstoles, santos y “locos de Dios.” Museo de Guadalajara, Palacio del Infantado, Guadalajara, Spain, September 16–November 14, 2010.
Anthony Montoya and James Krippner. Paul Strand in Mexico. Aperture Foundation, New York, September 9–November 13, 2010.
Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman. Imagining the Past in France, 1250–1500. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, November 16, 2010–February 6, 2011.
Micheline Nilsen. Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World. Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana, September 5–October 31, 2010.
John Romanski. 402 Years Later. Nashawannuck Gallery, Easthampton, Massachusetts, October 9–November 9, 2010.
Katy Siegel. Americanana. Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, September 16–December 4, 2010.
Kristina Van Dyke. Objects of Devotion. Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, August 13–October 31, 2010.
Julia M. White and Andreas Marks. Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, August 25–December 12, 2010.
Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — October 15, 2010
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars. Browse a list of recent titles below.
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October 2010
Julia Ballerini. The Stillness of Hajj Ishmael: Maxime Du Camp’s 1850 Photographic Encounters (New York and Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Publishers, 2010).
Anne Burkus-Chasson. Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010).
Carol G. Duncan. A Matter of Class: John Cotton Dana, Progressive Reform, and the Newark Museum (Pittsburgh, PA: Gutenberg Periscope Publishing, 2010).
Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass. The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010).
Andreas Marks. Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers, and Masterworks, 1680–1900 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 2010).
Andreas Marks and Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, eds. Dreams and Diversions: Essays on Japanese Woodblock Prints from the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Art, 2010).
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — September 18, 2010
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
September 2010
Abroad
Deborah Garwood. Fundación Antonio Pérez, Cuenca, Spain, August 6–September 30, 2010. Portrait of a Landscape: Imagery of Evans Pond, 1997–2009. Gelatin-silver and chromogenic prints.
Vivian Tsao. National Museum of History, Taipei City, Taiwan, October 2–November 8, 2009. Paintings by Vivian Tsao. Oil on linen and pastel.
Mid-Atlantic
Beauvais Lyons. Jefferson Garden, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 10–12 and 16–18. The Association of Creative Zoology. Lithography and taxidermy.
Midwest
Roger Shimomura. Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 21–November 24, 2010. Yellow Terror: The Collections and Paintings of Roger Shimomura. Painting and objects.
Linda Stein. Luce Gallery, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, September 5–October 3, 2010. The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein. Sculpture.
Linda Stein. P.E.O. Foundation Art Gallery, Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri, October 15–November 20, 2010. The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein. Sculpture.
Northeast
Robert Knight. Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Massachusetts, June 3–July 17, 2010. Sleepless. Photography, audio, and video.
Robert Knight. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, September 12–November 7, 2010. Sleepless. Photography, audio, and video.
Richard Minsky. Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, August 2–November 29, 2010. Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky. Book art.
Mimi Oritsky. A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, September 8–October 3, 2010. Paintings and Works on Paper. Oil on canvas and graphite and gouache on paper.
Michael Rich. Old Spouter Gallery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 13–25, 2010. The Sea and Tulips: New Paintings by Michael Rich. Oil on panel and canvas.
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Marianne Weil. Kouros Gallery, New York, September 9–October 2, 2010. Ad Fundum: New Bronze Work. Bronze sculpture.
South
BiLan Liao. Clemens Fine Arts Center, West Kentucky Community and Technical College, Paducah, Kentucky, August 27–September 24, 2009. A Window into Chinese History: Look Back at Chinese History through Five Generations of the Family of BiLan Liao. Oil on canvas.
Lisa Tubach. ArtGallery, Norfolk, Virginia, November 20, 2010–January 15, 2011. A Slow Walk through Secrets. Oil on canvas, graphite and gouache on paper, and video.
Jeff Whipple. 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, June 4–July 31, 2010. The Ambivalent Genesis of Being. Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and video.
People in the News
posted by CAA — September 17, 2010
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the the instructions on main Member News page.
September 2010
Academe
Cameron Cartiere has been appointed dean of graduate studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia.
W. Mick Charney, professor of architectural history at Kansas State University in Manhattan, has been appointed coordinator of the university’s Faculty Exchange for Teaching Excellence for 2010–12.
Gregg Horowitz, formerly associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, will chair the Social Science and Cultural Studies Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Julia Morrisroe has been promoted to associate professor and granted tenure in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Denise Mullen, an artist and academic art administrator, has been appointed president of the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland.
David Raskin has been promoted to professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois.
Michael Yonan has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Steven Zucker, formerly dean of graduate studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, has been named chair of the History of Art and Design Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Museums
Brooke Davis Anderson has been named deputy director for curatorial planning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.
Lynette Roth, currently Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Modern Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri, has been named Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, part of the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She will begin her new position on January 3, 2011.
Elizabeth Smith, formerly chief curator and deputy director of programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, has been appointed executive director of curatorial affairs at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
Organizations
Deborah Marrow has been chosen as interim replacement director and chief executive officer of board of directors of the J. Paul Getty Foundation in Los Angeles, California, following the unexpected death of James E. Wood.
Jonathan Nelson, coordinator of the Art History Department at Syracuse University in Florence, has been appointed to the three-year position of assistant director for programs at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti, also in Florence.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — September 15, 2010
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
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September 2010
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has extended its name. The institution will be known now as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The new name does not signify a shift in mission of the museum but rather clarifies what it has been offering since the mid-1960s.
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, has begun a three-year collaboration with Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, that will allow for the sharing of resources to further the integration of the arts into Brenau’s educational curriculum. During this pilot initiative, Brenau will have the opportunity to draw on the High’s exhibitions, collections, programs, and staff expertise.
Hunter College, City University of New York, has announced a partnership between the Art Department and the Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) to support the teaching and development of Latin American art at the school. The initiative establishes the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professorship in Latin American Art and provides Hunter students with access to CPPC resources, which range from curatorial scholarship and archival material to artworks from the collection that will be made available to the Hunter College Art Galleries for study, exhibition, and publication.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana has received $200,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts through its Mayors’ Institute of City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative. This program supports creative place-making projects that contribute to the livability of communities and help transform sites into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California has received a second $75,000 donation from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to help build a sustainable film program at the museum. The first donation came a year ago, which supported screenings through summer 2010.
Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore has received a two-year, $200,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation’s College/Arts Initiative to expand the reach of the college’s Community Arts Partnerships (CAP) program and to determine a tangible, quantifiable link between community arts activity and the seemingly intangible outcomes of hope, well being, and engagement. The grant will fund four to six new community partnerships for CAP, which link art students interested in community engagement with low-income communities, serving an additional 100 to 175 inner-city residents. The College/Arts Initiative grant also will provide seed funding for the school’s partnership with the Gallup Student Poll on data collection and analysis, seeking to generate findings that will support the work of community arts practitioners.
Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois have received a $1 million gift from the LeRoy Neiman Foundation to support Ox-Bow’s school of art and artists’ residency program, which is currently celebrating its one hundredth anniversary as an internationally renowned haven for visual artists, writers, and scholars. The LeRoy Neiman Scholarship Fund at Ox-Bow will provide student scholarships and support Ox-Bow’s Fellowship Program, which provides studio space and funding for twelve to fourteen students from art schools across the country to spend their summer at Ox-Bow.
The University of California, Los Angeles, has received a $1 million gift from the Resnick Family Foundation to provide need-based support for undergraduate and graduate students in the School of the Arts and Architecture. The funds were contributed to the Bruin Scholars Initiative, which since January 2009 has bolstered predictable, ongoing funding earmarked for student support amid increasing fees and a diminished economy affecting family incomes.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — September 15, 2010
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
September 2010
Julia Whitney Barnes, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2010 Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Workshop Fellowship from the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts in New York. The workshop, which took place in July 2010, was a unique opportunity for artists to learn how to compete successfully for public mural commissions.
Rachel Epp Buller has received a Fulbright Scholar Grant for 2010–11. The Fulbright, along with a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Düsseldorf, will fund research for a book on the German artist Alice Lex.
John Casey, a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has received the Dedalus Foundation’s 2010 Dissertation Fellowship Award for his study, “Picturing Architectural Theory: The Architectural Photobook in Germany, 1910–1945.” The $20,000 fellowship is awarded annually to a PhD candidate at an American university who is working on a dissertation related to modern art and modernism.
Jackie Gendel, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Space Program for 2010–11, which provides free studios in New York for the creation of new works of art.
Jennifer A. Greenhill has received a subvention from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art to help support the publication of her book, Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age, forthcoming from the University of California Press. The book investigates the strategies artists devised to simultaneously conform to and humorously undermine “serious” artistic culture during the late nineteenth century.
Kira Lynn Harris has won a grant from Art Matters, a nonprofit foundation based in New York, for travel to France and Spain to complete a series of large-scale drawings and photographs of the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier, Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Família in Barcelona, and George Wyman’s Bradbury Building in Los Angeles. Art Matters supports artists based in the United States whose work focuses on communications and collaborations across national borders.
Sol Kjøk, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2010 Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Workshop Fellowship from the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts in New York. The workshop, which took place in July 2010, was a unique opportunity for artists to learn how to compete successfully for public mural commissions.
Lucy Raven has received funding from Art Matters, a nonprofit foundation based in New York, for research in Chennai, Kerala, and Mumbai, India, for a video project exploring the international outsourcing of three-dimensional animation and visual effects for the creation of American landscapes in Hollywood movies. Art Matters supports artists based in the United States whose work focuses on communications and collaborations across national borders.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellows Program allows recent PhDs in the humanities to take up two-year positions at universities and colleges across the United States, where their particular research and teaching expertise augment departmental offerings. CAA member Christopher R. Lakey, a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, won the fellowship for his dissertation, “Relief in Perspective: Italian Medieval Sculpture and the Rise of Optical Aesthetics.” He has been appointed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, for 2010–12.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowships for Recent Doctoral Recipients provide a year’s support for scholars to advance their research following completion of the doctorate. CAA members Richard Patrick Anderson of Columbia University in New York won for “Toward a Socialist Architecture, 1928–1953”; and Meghan C. Doherty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, won for “Carving Knowledge: Printed Images, Accuracy, and the Early Royal Society of London.”
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program awards Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which provide support for young scholars to finish their dissertations; the fellowships are the first part of a program offering funding to scholars at the early stages of their careers. Among the recipients are two CAA members: Ellery Elisabeth Foutch of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for “Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse of Peale’s Butterflies, Heade’s Hummingbirds, Blaschka’s Flowers, and Sandow’s Body”; and Maile S. Hutterer of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University for “Broken Outlines and Structural Exhibitionism: The Flying Buttress as Aesthetic Choice in Medieval France.”
The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art are awarded to graduate students in any stage of PhD dissertation research or writing for scholarship on a topic in the history of the visual arts of the United States. Although the topic may be historically and/or theoretically grounded, attention to the art object and/or image should be foremost. CAA member recipients are: Matthew K. Bailey of Washington University in St. Louis, Missoufor “Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in Modern American Painting, 1880–1930”; Amanda Douberley of the University of Texas at Austin, for “The Corporate Model: Sculpture, Architecture, and the American City, 1946–1975”; Jason Goldman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, for “Open Secrets: Publicity, Privacy, and Histories of American Art, 1958–69”; Anna C. Katz of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, for “Hybrid Species: Lee Bontecou’s Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1958–1971”; Rebecca E. Keegan of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, for “Black Artists, the Problem of Authenticity, and ‘Africa’ in the Twentieth Century”; Edward M. Puchner of Indiana University in Bloomington, for “‘speaking His mind in my mind’: Racialized Theology, Divine Inspiration, and African American Art”; and Katherine Elizabeth Roeder of the University of Delaware in Newark, for “‘Cultivating Dreamfulness’: Fantasy, Longing, and Commodity Culture in the Work of Winsor McCay, 1904–1914.”
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced its 2010 Curatorial Fellowships for Travel and Research. CAA member recipients are: Heather Campbell Coyle of the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, for conducting research on an exhibition and publication of the work of Scott Heiser, a fashion photographer from the 1980s whose idiosyncratic body of work has been forgotten since his death in 1993 ($11,000); Kristina Van Dyke of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, working with Bisi Silva, to organize an exhibition on contemporary African art with a focus on how technology shapes notions and facilitates expressions of love in Africa ($38,400); and Jonathan Katz of the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington, working with Rock Hushka, to prepare for an exhibition that explores twenty-five years of art made in response to AIDS ($40,000).