Committees
Museum Committee
Description
The Museum Committee represents the interests of public and private institutions in the visual-arts sector, in order to exercise influence and share efforts on issues of mutual importance.
Current Projects
The Museum Committee’s current projects include:
- Ongoing discussion with CAA’s executive director, president, vice president for committees, and director of programs about adding a Museum Award for Lifetime Achievement to CAA’s Awards for Distinction. The committee expects to present a resolution to the CAA Board of Directors in 2009
- Recrafting the committee’s mission statement and submitting it to the CAA board for approval
2009 Annual Conference
The following committee-sponsored session took place at the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
Historicizing the Present: Scholarship in Contemporary Art
Wednesday, February 25, 12:30–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Brooke Davis Anderson, American Folk Art Museum; Sally S. Block, Association of Art Museum Curators
Donald Preziosi, University of California, Los Angeles
Stephanie Barron, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Cynthia Burlingham, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
Committee Members
Jay A. Clarke, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, chair (2011)
Brooke D. Anderson, American Folk Art Museum (2011)
Virginia Brilliant, Ringling Museum of Art (2012)
Maria Saffiotti Dale, Chazen Museum of Art (2012)
Anne Collins Goodyear, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, CAA board
Holly Harrison, Dallas Museum of Art (2012)
Dorothy M. Kosinski, Phillips Collection (2010)
Karol Ann Lawson, Sweet Briar College (2012)
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Tufts University, CAA board
Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary (2010)
