Board Candidates
2008 CAA Board of Directors Election
Faya Causey, National Gallery of Art
Statement: CAA’s efforts to address the regional, national, and international issues that affect academic institutions, museums, and professionals in the arts deserve increased support. As a Board member, I would continue to advocate for opportunities for both emerging professionals and established art historians, artists, and other practitioners. As a museum administrator and educator, as a former faculty member at an art school and a state university, and as a specialist in ancient art, I would offer the constituency a broad range of experience and outlook. A CAA member for twenty-two years and a sponsoring member for the last decade, I have regularly participated in Annual Conferences and have actively supported the association’s programs for art, museums, education, cultural diversity, and professional development.
Biography: Faya Causey is head of academic programs in the Division of Education at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she has worked since 1995. She oversees and develops the museum’s internship and fellowship programs and its public programs—including lectures, symposia, conferences, and study days—that are presented by guest artists, conservators, collectors, art historians, and curators. Her field of specialization is ancient art, with a special interest in pre-Roman Italian art and archaeology; she has published on Greek, Etruscan, Italic, and Roman art, and on amber generally. Her most significant study, the Catalogue of the Ancient Carved Amber in the J. Paul Getty Museum, is forthcoming. Causey also lectures and writes on modern and contemporary subjects, most recently on Jasper Johns and Sigmar Polke.
After earning her BA at the University of California, Riverside, and her MA and PhD in art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Causey was an instructor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and associate professor at California State University, Long Beach. She is a member of the American Association of Museums and the American Institute of Archaeology.