Committees
Student Committee
Student and Emerging Professionals Committee
Description:
The Student and Emerging Professionals Committee represents students and emerging professionals within the larger CAA and academic framework. The committee is comprised of student and recent graduate members of CAA.
Recent Projects:
The Student and Emerging Professionals Committee has continued its commitment to peer-to-peer mentoring and is exploring ways of reaching out to colleagues and peers. In addition, our Philadelphia 2002 roundtable session entitled "Building a Career While Buying an Education" was also very successful.
2006 Student Survival Guide to the Annual Conference
2005 Conference Sessions:
Nota Bene: Spotlighting the Work of Emerging Scholars and Artists
Chairs: Jennifer Goodell, Getty Research Institute; Ben Schachter, Saint Vincent College
Moving Forward: Real World Teaching after the Assistantship
Chairs: Ellen E. Adams, Institute of Fine Art, New York University; Valerie Eggemeyer, Casper College
Committee Members:
Nicole de Armendi, Virginia Commonwealth University, Chair (2008)
Hilary Batzel, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2009)
Margarita Berg, University of Minnesota (2009)
Maria Ann Conelli, American Folk Art Museum (2010)
Mark Harris, University of Cincinnati (2011)
Daniel Larkin, Fordham Universitiy (2010)
Katherine Manthorne, City University of New York (2010)
Julia A. Sienkewicz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011)
Elizabeth Barber Wages, University of Oregon (2009)
Transcription of the 2002 Annual Conference Session--"Building a Career While Buying an Education"
Transcription of the 2001 Annual Conference Session--"What Do We Mean Art/History?"
This document includes the following sections: Structure, Mission, How CAA Can Benefit Students. Instructions on how to subscribe to the committee's listserv can be found at the bottom.
Established:
February 1998
Structure:
In accordance with the guidelines established for CAA Professional Interests, Practices, and Standards (PIPS) committees, the Student and Emerging Professionals Committee is made up of a minimum core of eight students or recently graduated CAA members selected by the President and Vice President for Committees of the Board from an open call for participation posted in the November issue of CAA News. BA, BFA, MA, MFA, and PhD candidates and recent graduates in art and art history will be represented. Members serve a three-year term and must be no more than five years beyond graduation from a degree program. A Board member will serve a three-year term as advisor in order to provide continuity and guidance for the long-range goals of the committee.
Mission:
The purpose of the Student and Emerging Professionals Committee is to serve better the varied needs and concerns of student and emerging professional members of CAA, and to encourage students and colleagues to join CAA. The committee will disseminate information and solicit participation from students and recent graduates from universities with BA, BFA, MA, MFA, and PhD programs in art and art history throughout the United States.
As a standing committee, the Student and Emerging Professionals Committee will have the opportunity to propose two sessions for the Annual Conference and hold its annual meeting at the same time. Other activities will include developing material for a page on the CAA website, organizing workshops at the Annual Conference, and addressing issues such as dissertation writing and MFA theses and/or theses exhibitions.
How CAA Can Benefit Students
Often, incoming MFA, MA, and PhD students are only aware of CAA as a career placement service; however, the numerous other services CAA offers can benefit students before they begin their search for full-time employment. CAA can provide visual artists and art historians access to a whole network of opportunities:
CAA's Annual Conference is the only national forum for visual arts and art history. Each year in a different location around the country, artists, art historians, curators, educators, and arts administrators convene to present current research, review trends, exchange ideas, and address issues within the profession.
At the Annual Conference various workshops prepare students to enter the job market. The Artist's Portfolio Review program offers artist members of CAA the opportunity to have slides or VHS-format videos of their work reviewed by professional curators/critics in private, twenty-minute consultations.
The Career Development Workshop program offers a unique opportunity to receive candid advice on how to conduct a thorough job search, present work, prepare for interviews, and write effective curriculum vitae's and cover letters. At the 1999 Annual Conference in Los Angeles, more than 300 candidates participated in these informative sessions.
The prestigious Professional Development Fellowship Program bridges the gap between graduate study and professional careers by providing financial assistance and career placement for outstanding students who have been marginalized in their field.
CAA publishes two distinguished quarterly journals, the Art Bulletin and Art Journal as well as CAA News, a bimonthly publication that includes listings of funding opportunities, one-person exhibitions, events, conferences, and meetings. CAA's Web site provides detailed information about the organization, including frequent updates on advocacy issues that affect our membership. The Web site also includes a link to CAA.Reviews, an online publication devoted to the peer review of new books and exhibitions relevant to the visual arts.
Members also have the opportunity to join CAA's diverse and increasingly active Professional Interest, Practices, and Standards committees. These committees address specific issues relevant to visual arts and art history such as professional practices, women in the arts, international concerns, and cultural diversity. The Student Committee aims to serve better the varied needs of student members of CAA.
Listserv:
The listserv was established by the committee as a forum for CAA student and emerging professional members to communicate with other student artists and art historians throughout the country. We created the list as a means of communicating information about fellowship opportunities, calls for papers, calls for submissions to exhibitions, advocacy updates, national and regional art events, student concerns, and conference information such as ride sharing or hosting a student in the conference city.
If you wish to participate in the CAA Student and Emerging Professionals Committee listserv, send an email message to STUDENTMEM-L-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@listserv.collegeart.org. Do not type anything in the subject line or message body. This is a 'special-action' address and will result in a subscription. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nicole de Armendi at ndearmendi@verizon.net.