Committees
Committee on Diversity Practices
Description
The Committee on Diversity Practices supports the development of global perspectives on art and visual culture. The committee promotes artistic, curatorial, scholarly, and institutional practices that deepen appreciation of political and cultural heterogeneity as educational and professional values. To that end, the committee assesses and evaluates the development and implementation of curricular innovation, new research methods, curatorial and pedagogical strategies, and hiring practices that contribute to the realization of these goals.
Recent Projects
In May 2005, the Board of Directors approved the request of the Committee on Cultural Diversity to change the name of the committee to the Committee on Diversity Practices and alter its mission to best expresses what the committee believes to be most relevant with regard to diversity in the arts. The Committee on Diversity Practices continues to be committed to organizing conference sessions that address issues concerning race and ethnicity. The committee has, in the past, developed a Cultural Diversity Bibliography. The committee has been working on reviewing new textbooks, videotapes, CD-ROMs, and so on for the bibliography list.
Committee Members
Barbara Nesin, Spelman College, Chair (2009)
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Rhode Island School of Design (2010)
Mary Ann Calo, Colgate University (2009)
Romi Crawford, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008)
Jacqueline Francis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2010)
Christopher Olszewski, Jackson State University (2010)
Carl Parrish, Savannah College or Art and Design (2011)
Chitra Ramanathan, Indianapolis Art Center (2010)
Romita Ray, Syracuse University (2010)
Charlene Teters, Institute of American Indian Art (2008)
Toward a Bibliography for a Culturally Inclusive Art History
The bibliography is divided into the following categories: General; Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexual Politics; African American Studies/Art History; Asian American Studies/Art History; Latin America and Latino Studies/Art History; and Native American Studies/Art History. It is an updated version (June 28, 1995) of the bibliography distributed and resources on diversity issues at the CAA Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
The American Association of Museums also has information and resources on diversity issues.
Our deepest thanks go to Annika Marie for her meticulous research and inputting on this project. The San Antonio panel, "Toward a Culturally Inclusive Art Community and Art History," moderated by Michi Itami and Moira Roth with three panelists (Sutapa Biswas, Theresa Harlan, Lucy R. Lippard), was cosponsored by CAA′s Committee on Cultural Diversity and Education Committee.
As part of the planning of the panel, we asked members of the Committee on Cultural Diversity and the session panelists to contribute some ten items each to the following bibliography. This bibliography should be read not as complete or exhaustive, but rather as a beginning study with the personal viewpoints of the people concerned.
The following people contributed bibliographical suggestions, and we have indicated their names after each citation: Sutapa Biswas, Lynette Bosch, William Charland, Kenneth Sean Golden, Theresa Harlan, Michi Itami, Mame Jackson, Arturo Lindsay, Lucy R. Lippard, Nancy Macko, Moira Roth, W. Jackson Rushing, and Victor Alejandro Sorell.