Affiliated Societies
Listings A through F
Founded: 1911
Membership: 22,000
Annual dues: $295 professional, 210 associate, $110 fulltime educator; $75 student.
Purpose: AIGA, the professional association for design, is the premier place for design—to discover it, discuss it, understand it, appreciate it, be inspired by it. AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. AIGA stimulates thinking about design through journals, conferences, competitions and exhibitions; demonstrates the value of design to business, the public and government officials; and empowers the success of designers at each stage of their careers by providing invaluable educational and social resources. Founded in 1914, AIGA remains the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design. AIGA now represents more than 22,000 design professionals, educators and students through national activities and local programs developed by more than 60 chapters and 240 student groups. AIGA is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) educational institution.
Info: Executive director: Richard Grefé, AIGA, 164 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010; 212 807 1990; grefe@aiga.org.
American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA)
Founded: 1966
Membership: 265
Annual dues: $40 regular; $15 student and unemployed; $50
institutional; $60 contributing; $100 sustaining
Purpose: To promote the understanding of the arts of all the countries
of Southern Asia (including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and
Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan region. ACSAA publishes
an annual bulletin and holds a major symposium every two years.
President: Susan Bean, Peabody Essex Museum (susan_bean@pem.org)
Vice-President: Stephen Markel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (SMarkel@lacma.org)
Treasurer: Deborah Hutton, The College of New Jersey (dhutton@tcnj.edu)
BOARD:
Tamara Sears, Yale University (tamar.sears@yale.edu)
Janice Leoshko, University of Texas, Austin (jleoshko@mail.utexas.edu)
Molly Emma Aitken, Independent scholar (mollyemma@gmail.com)
Secretary: Julie Romain, South and Southeast Asian Art Department,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
90036, USA, tel: 323 857-6279, JulieR@lacma.org.
Founded: 1958
Membership: 3,500
Annual dues:$57 student and retiree; Associate membership $127/year; Institutional Membership $197/year
Purpose:To advance the practice and promote the importance of preservation of cultural property through publications, research, and the exchange of knowledge, as well as by establishing and upholding professional standards. AIC holds an annual conference and publishes a bimonthly newsletter, a scholarly journal, an annual membership directory, and other publications.
Info:Info: Executive Director: Eryl P. Wentworth, 1156 15th Street NW, Ste. 320, Washington, DC 20036; 202-452-9545; fax: 202-452-9328; info@aic-faic.org
Founded: 1992
Council membership U.S. and Canada: 17 councils, representing 6,000 artists.
Annual council dues: $100; subscriptions: $39 regular, $32 council members, $19 students, $56 institutions
Purpose: To advance and promote print, paper, and book arts by publishing critical literature, organizing exhibitions, collecting resource information, and encouraging professional practices. The Alliance publishes the journal Contemporary Impressions twice a year, with one commissioned print for subscribers; publishes the Guide to Print Workshops; sponsors traveling exhibitions; provides competition information, technical articles, online exhibitions and gallery, directory of print study rooms, and much more on the website. The American Print Alliance September 11 Memorial Portfolio of hundreds of original prints and other works on paper will travel for several years before being donated to a museum. A series of Soap Box Prints series are also available including an environmental portfolio and one about prints, politics, and democracy.
Info: Director: Carol Pulin, 302 Larkspur Turn, Peachtree City, GA 30269; director@printalliance.org
Founded: 1942
Membership: 750 individual members
Annual dues: $70 regular membership; $35 student membership; $56 Emeritus/retired membership. (Additional charges for overseas memberships to cover postage and mailing.)
Purpose: The American Society for Aesthetics is an association for aesthetics, criticism, and the theory of the arts. The purpose of the society is to promote study, research, discussion, and publication in aesthetics. The Society publishes the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Info: Dabney Townsend, Secretary/Treasurer, American Society for Aesthetics, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419; Telephone: 912-961-3189; FAX: 912-961-1395; asa@mail.armstrong.edu
Founded: 1969
Membership: 2,600
Annual dues: $50-75 individual, $30 student, $50 retired, $150 institutional
Purpose: To encourage and advance studies and research in the history of eighteenth-century culture in its broadest sense. ASECS holds an annual conference; publishes a quarterly news circular, a quarterly journal, an annual volume of essays, and a biannual teaching pamphlet; cosponsors joint fellowships with major research libraries; provides travel research fellowships; and offers a number of awards to recognize outstanding scholarship in the field.
Info: Executive Director: Byron R. Wells, ASECS, P.O. Box 7867, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109; 336/727-4694; fax: 336/727-4697; asecs@wfu.edu
American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS)
Founded: 1975
Membership: 150
Annual dues:$36.50 individual; $46.50 sponsor/institution; $26.50 student/retired.
Purpose: To promote the study of the visual cultures of Spain, Portugal, and their territories through meetings, a newsletter, and scholarly means. ASHAHS presents an annual Eleanor Tufts Award for an outstanding English-language publication and an annual photography grant to a graduate student writing a dissertation on an aspect of Spanish or Portuguese art.
Info: President: Dr. Sofia Sanabrais, Department of Latin American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90036. Email: sofia.sanabrais@gmail.com.
Founded: 2003
Membership: 25
Annual Dues: $15 regular, $5 for graduate students
Purpose: this non-profit, national society promotes the sharing of technological applications for the teaching of art history; fosters discussion and exploration of skill-based and student-centered approaches to learning and seeks to advance broader understanding and evaluation of existing and emerging technologies for art history.
Info: President: Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Visual Arts, P. O. Box 305100, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203; T - (940) 565-3529, kwallace@unt.edu
Art Historians of Southern California (AHSC)
Founded: 1959
Membership: 385
Annual dues: $10
Lifetime dues: $10
Purpose:AHSC offers a forum for discussing new ideas in art history, museum studies and studio practice. The AHSC presents an annual conference, semi-annual workshops, supports emerging scholars and announces developments in our discipline through its website.
Info: Nina Berson, president, therizuli@ca.rr.com; Paul Zelevansky, vice president, pzelevansky@roadrunner.com; Rachel Pinto, treasurer, eaurae@gmail.com; Deana Hight, secretary, eaurae@gmail.com; Melissa VandeBurgt, web mistress, melissa.vandeburgt@csuci.edu
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
Founded: 1972
Membership: 1,050
Annual dues: $85 individual; $45 student/retired/unemployed; $145 institutional/business affiliate
Purpose: The mission of ARLIS/NA is to foster excellence in art and design librarianship and image management. We achieve this mission through our many activities, such as:
- Meeting, networking, and sharing ideas in person at our Annual Conferences.
- Publishing substantive articles of a practical as well as scholarly nature through our many publications, such as Art Documentation, Occasional Papers, and Online Publications.
- Providing a forum for professional communication, via our listserv and web site.
- Reaching out to future art librarians through numerous scholarship awards.
- Recognizing excellence in the field through awards for research, service, and publication.
Info: Executive Director: Elizabeth Clarke, #200, 6 Crowfoot Circle NW Calgary, AB Canada T3G 2T3; Ph: (800) 817-0621; Fax: (403) 541-0915; email info@arlisna.org. ARLIS/NA Liaison to CAA: Laura Graveline, Dartmouth College, laura.k.graveline@dartmouth.edu.
Founded: 1982
Membership: 800+
Annual dues:: $65 individual (annual income above $50,000); $50 (annual income between $25,000 and $50,000); $25 (students and those with annual income below $25,000); $100 institutional. Membership runs January 1–December 31
Purpose: To promote scholarship, communication, and collaboration among scholars, artists, museum specialists, and others interested in African and African diaspora arts. ACASA’s business meeting is held at the ASA annual conference; ACASA holds a triannual conference in varying locations; ad hoc meetings are held at the CAA Annual Conference. Members receive the ACASA newsletter three times a year.
Info: President: Sylvester Ogbechie, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, ogbechie@arthistory.ucsb.edu; Secretary-Treasurer: Alice Burmeister, Winthrop University, 140 McLaurin Hall, Rock Hill, SC 29733, burmeistera@winthrop.edu; Newsletter Editor: Susan Cooksey, Harn Museum of Art, P.O. Box 112700, Gainesville, FL 32611-2700, secook@ufl.edu.
Founded: 1981
Individual Membership: 1,800
Purpose: ArtTable, Inc. is the leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts. Founded in 1981, ArtTable has as its purpose to increase the effectiveness, visibility, number, and diversity of women in this field. Through programs and publications, the organization is dedicated to supporting women in the arts at all stages of their careers; to documenting outstanding achievements by women past and present; to increasing opportunities for women in the future, and in so doing, to help enrich the nation’s cultural life.
Info: Dena Muller, 116 John St., Ste. 822, New York, NY 10038; 212-343-1735.
Founded: 2001
Individual Membership: 870
Institutional Membership: 200
Criteria: Membership in the AAMC is automatically open to all curators (curatorial assistant through senior or chief curator) with direct responsibility for works of art at any of the museums represented in the Association of Art Museum Directors. Curators with similar responsibilities at non-AAMD institutions may apply for membership to the AAMC Membership Committee.
Purpose: Curators have a primary responsibility for the acquisition, care, display, and interpretation of works of art. The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) was founded in 2001 to support the role of curators in shaping the mission of art museums in North America. The goals of the AAMC are to:
- Serve as an advocacy group for the curatorial profession
- Articulate the standards for the profession
- Promote research and scholarship through an annual meeting and educational programs on selected themes held at venues throughout North America
- Exchange information through a website and monthly newsletter
- Facilitate online discussions addressing a wide variety of relevant topics
- Recognize distinguished achievement in the field through annual awards
- Facilitate the exchange of information about traveling exhibitions
- Provide a collegial forum for discussion about museum issues in North America
- Accomplish these goals in cooperation with museum directors, trustees and other staff
Founded: 1999
Membership: 100
Annual Dues: none
Purpose: To promote the study of race in art and visual culture from a critical and historical perspective. ACRAH supports scholarship in “Critical Race Art History” by providing forums for intellectual discourse, networking, mentorship, and professional development within this emergent field. We embrace intellectual and institutional partnerships with groups pursuing scholarship in related fields of art history and disciplines such as American studies, race and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, Diaspora studies, and modernist studies. ACRAH publishes the quarterly electronic newsletter, The Grapevine and a membership directory. Future plans include a website and a peer-reviewed journal.
Info: Co-Directors, Jacqueline Francis and Camara Holloway. Membership: email camara.holloway+acrah@gmail.com to receive enrollment form. Mailing Address: ACRAH c/o Camara Holloway, 450 W. 147th Street, Apt. 34, New York, NY 10031.
Association for Latin American Art (ALAA)
Founded: 1979
Membership:280
Annual dues:$25 general; $15 student, retired, and non-U.S. address; $50 institutional; $100 individual sustaining; $500 institutional sustaining.
Purpose: ALAA is an international scholarly and professional organization that encourages the discussion, teaching, research, and exhibition of Latin American art. Annual dues entitle members to newsletters and member
directory.
Info: President: Khristaan Villela, PO Box 23872, Santa Fe, NM 87505; email:mailto:kvillela@yahoo.com ; Vice President: Margaret Jackson, 424 Santa Teresa St., Stanford, CA 94305; email: 4maranja@gmail.comSecretary Treasurer: Sara Morasch Taylor, Research Associate, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, 2000B S. Club Dr., Landover, MD 20785; email: phone: 202 842 6897; sm-taylor@nga.gov
Membership: Sara Morasch Taylor
Founded: 1991
Membership: 70
Annual dues: $20
Purpose: To promote the study and publication of art-historical primary sources and to facilitate communication among scholars working with art literature. ATSAH publishes a biannual newsletter with information as well as critical reviews about ongoing scholarship, publications, and conferences. It also organizes conference sessions at the Society of Textual Scholarship meeting at City University of New York, International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, Renaissance Society of America, Southeastern College Art Conference, and the CAA Annual Conference.
Info: President: Liana de Girolami Cheney, 112 Charles St., Beacon Hill, Boston, MA 02114; 978/934-3495; fax: 617/557-2962; lianacheney@earthlink.net
Founded: 1994
Membership: 80
Annual dues: $20
Purpose: To advance and set standards for the profession of art editor; to provide a forum for the exchange of information among art editors and others involved in art-related publications; to provide authors with information about editing and publication procedures; to exchange information about editing positions available, both freelance and institutional. AAE meets annually at the CAA Annual Conference and sponsors a session on publishing. Directory of members includes areas of expertise.
Info: President: Phil Freshman, 3912 Natchez Ave. S., St. Louis Park, MN, 55416.
Founded: 1974
Membership: 1,200+
Annual Dues: £45 individual; £20 student/unwaged; £150 institution (4 transferable memberships, Bulletin only)
Purpose: AAH represents the interests of art and design historians in all aspects of the discipline including art, design, architecture, film, media and photography, cultural studies and conservation. Members are active in museums and galleries, publishing, teaching, research and environmental work. Among the benefits offered to members are an annual conference, a journal (Art History), a quarterly magazine (The Art Book), a newsletter (Bulletin), published three times a year, and symposia on a great variety of subjects and periods. There are also professional interest groups with their own program of activities; these include: universities and colleges, art galleries and museums, independent art historians, schools and students. Membership is open to art and design historians and to all those interested in the advancement of the study of art history. Special subscription rates are available for students and the unwaged.
Info: Matt Lodder, Senior Administrator, AAH 70 Cowcross St, London, EC1M 6EJ. Tel. +44(0) 20 7490 3211 or E-mail admin@aah.org.uk; www.aah.org.uk.
Association of College and University Museums and Galleries (ACUMG)
Founded: 1980
Membership: 300
Annual dues: $30 individual; $10 student; $75 institution; $100 corporate.
Purpose: ACUMG addresses the issues that are relevant and unique to college and university museums and galleries of all disciplines including art, history, natural history, and science. Issues include governance, ethics, education and exhibitions, management, strategic planning, support, collections, and professional programs. The purpose of ACUMG shall be to promote the welfare of museums and galleries associated with institutions of higher education as well as the welfare of the professional staffs of those museums and galleries. ACUMG holds an annual issue-oriented, one-day conference in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums. It offers members a forum to share information through published articles and has an online discussion group.
Info: President: David Alan Robertson, Director, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, IL 60208. Vice President: Brent Tharp, Director, Georgia Southern University Museum, PO Box 8061, Statesboro, GA 30460. Treasurer: Michiko Okaya, Williams Center Gallery Director/Art Collections, Lafayette College, Hamilton and High Sts., Easton, PA 18042. Secretary: Barbara Rothermel, Director; Daura Gallery/Museum Studies Program, Lynchburg College, 1501 Lakeside Dr., Lynchburg, VA 24501-3199.
Membership Inquiries: Julia Csikesz, Membership Coordinator, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, IL 60208.
Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA)
Founded: 1979
Membership: 400
Annual dues: $20
Purpose: To promote scholarship in the history of American art. AHAA provides a forum for presenting and advancing new approaches to the subject, for examining problems that confront the field, and for identifying scholarly needs and opportunities to its members. AHAA is particularly interested in strengthening ties among museum curators, museum educators, and college professors. It holds an annual meeting, hosts sessions at the CAA Annual Conference, publishes a semiannual newsletter, and cosponsors symposia. Please visit the AHAA website for more information.
Info: Chair: Kimberly Orcutt, Associate Curator of American Art, New-York Historical Society, KimberlyOrcutt@aol.com
co-chair: Theresa Leininger-Miller, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, theresa.leininger@uc.edu
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA)
Founded: 1994
Membership: 500+.
Annual dues: $35; $20 students/retired; $200 benefactors; $100 patrons; $50 supporting.
Purpose:Purpose: To foster communication and collaboration among historians of nineteenth-century art of all nations through such activities as a newsletter and research colloquia. AHNCA organizes two sessions and holds its business meetings at the CAA Annual Conference. It publishes an annual directory of members. Its peer-reviewed journal is published at www.19thc-artworldwide.org.
Info: President: Elizabeth Mansfield; Secretary: Ting Chang; Treasurer: Yvonne Weisberg; Newsletter Editor: Laurie Dahlberg; Membership Coordinator: Janet Whitmore; Program Chair: Patricia Mainardi; Webmaster: Amelia Kahl Avdic. Business office: AHNCA, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, 1211-B Art/Sociology Bldg., College Park, MD 20742-1335
Contact:Ting Chang, School of Art, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, tingchang@cmu.edu
Membership queries to: Janet Whitmore, Membership Coordinator
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, 5614 N. Wayne Avenue, #1, Chicago, IL 60660,
janetwhitmore@earthlink.net
Incorporated: 1988
Membership: 19 (full); 1 (affiliate)
Purpose: To promote scholarship by institutes of advanced research in art history and related disciplines; to exchange administrative, scholarly, and research information; and to encourage cooperation in the development and funding of joint programs.
Info: Chair: Inge Reist, The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library, reist@frick.org; Vice-Chair: Marcie Karp, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, marcie.karp@metmuseum.org; Secretary: Jessica Todd Smith, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, jsmith@huntington.org; Treasurer: Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Research Center, lynes@okeeffemuseum.org
Founded: in Australia in 1981 as the National Conference of Heads of Art and Design Schools (NCHADS) Name changed to ACUADS in 1994 to reflect the location of art and design schools in the National Unified System of Australian Universities
Membership: 30 Heads of Art and Design Schools.
Annual dues: $AUS 700
Purpose: to play a proactive role in shaping quality education for artists, crafts practitioners and designers. ACUADS addresses issues affecting the education and training of professional artists, crafts people and designers, and is concerned with the status of the visual arts industry in the wider economic, social and cultural development of Australia. It is the peak art body that represents the concerns and interests of the tertiary art sector to government and policy-making bodies. The Executive is an elected body that meets several times a year. ACUADS Annual Conference and AGM is held in Sept/Oct each year. Members and interested parties receive an electronic monthly newsletter.
Info: Chair: Ted Snell, Head, School of Art, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845; t.snell@curtin.edu.au Secretary; Jody Fitzhardinge; j.fitzhardinge@curtin.edu.au
Founded: 1993
Membership: 177
Annual dues: $20
Purpose:A forum for discussing the catalogue raisonné; sessions at the CAA Annual Conference address authenticity, opinion, research, and other scholarly issues; also funding, legal, publishing, technological, and similar practical concerns. CRSA sponsors a listserv for news and member discussions.
Info: President: Nancy Mowll Mathews, Williams College Museum of Art, 15 Lawrence Hall Dr., Ste.2, Williamstown, MA 02167. nmathews@williams.edu; Editor, CRSA Forum: Eileen Costello, ecostello@mail.utexas.edu; Director of Programming: Steven Manford; CRSA Listserv Moderator: Heidi Hornik, Heidi_Hornik@baylor.edu; Webmaster: Carl Schmitz, webmaster@catalogueraisonne.org
Coalition of Women in the Arts Organizations (CWAO)
Founded: 1977
Membership: 55
Annual dues: No annual dues.
Purpose:A national art society dedicated to the achievement of equality for all women in the arts. CWAO organizes grass-roots lobbying with state legislatures, presentations, lectures, and shows; lectures at conferences, including the CAA Annual Conference. It publishes CWAO NEWS on its website.
Info: President: Kyra Belán, P.O. Box 6735, Hollywood, FL 33081; drkbelan@earthlink.net
Founded: 1995
Membership: 25
Annual dues: $20
Purpose: To provide a forum for community-college professors to exchange ideas, formulate curricula, further define the community college’s role in the education of art professionals, and develop sessions for the CAA Annual Conference that are of specific interest in the community-college environment. CAA has expressed a desire to develop outreach to community colleges, faculty, and students alike, and CCPAAH is working to be the conduit through which this can become a coordinated effort. CCPAAH undertakes exhibition development, exchange of student and faculty works of art, curriculum development, facilities surveys, and publishes a newsletter. Its annual meeting is held in conjunction with the CAA Annual Conference.
Correspondence: Thomas Morrissey, Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln, RI 02865. tmorrissey@ccri.edu
Founded: 1983
Membership: 430
Annual dues: $60
Purpose: To nurture and encourage the study of design history, criticism, and theory. DSF holds an annual meeting in conjunction with the CAA Annual Conference and distributes information about exhibitions, publications, conferences, and employment opportunities via its electronic mailing list. The DSF also publishes Design and Culture, a peer-reviewed journal, three times a year.
Info: Elizabeth E. Guffey, President, Art History, Purchase College, State University of New York, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase, NY 10577-1400, 914-251-6597, fax: 914-251-6559, elizabeth.guffey@purchase.edu
Founded: 2005
Membership: 1035
Annual dues: No annual dues
Purpose: The European Architectural History Network supports research and education by providing a public forum for the dissemination of knowledge about the histories of architecture. Based in Europe, it serves architectural historians and scholars in allied fields without restriction on their areas of study. The EAHN publishes a quarterly electronic newsletter and sponsors a biannual international conference.
Info: office@eahn.org office@eahn.org, EAHN c/o RMIT, Technische Universiteit Delft, P.O. Box 5043, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
Founded: 1977
Membership: 400-600
Annual dues: $50 for 2 years; $100 institutional. Graduate student membership dues are $20.00 (biennial). A photocopy of their current validated university ID must be submitted in order to receive this special rate.
Purpose: A national organization to promote excellence in the development and teaching of college-level foundation courses in both studio art and art history, FATE aims to foster discussion, analysis, strategies, goals, and understanding in the visual-arts core curriculum. FATE’s newsletter, journal (FATE in Review), and regional/national conferences provide a platform for exchange and publication.
Info: Steven Bleicher at stbleicher@aol.com CAA Representative, Department of Visual Arts, Coastal Carolina University, PO Box 261954, Conway, South Caolina 29528-6054; or bleicher@coastal.edu. President: Scott Betz, Associate Professor of Art, Department of Fine Art, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, 336-750-2281, betzs@wssu.edu. Membership Coordinator: Diane Highland, Eastern Illinois University, dehighland@eiu.edu
