Committees
Committee on Women in the Arts
Description
The Committee on Women in the Arts promotes the scholarly study and recognition of the contributions by women to the visual arts; advocates feminist scholarship and activism in art; develops partnerships with organizations with compatible missions; monitors the status of women in the visual-arts professions; and researches and provides historic and current resources on feminist issues.
Recent Projects
The Committee on Women in the Arts is currently researching useful published studies, both on paper and online, on the status of women in the arts; working with CAA to analyze the status of women in through CAA questionnaires and database; and collaborating with CAA affiliated societies such as ArtTable, the Feminist Art Project, and the Women’s Caucus for Art (whose memberships often overlap membership). The commitee is also collaborating with other CAA committees—Diversity Practices, Education, and Student and Emerging Professionals—for the CAA Centennial celebration in 2011, while also pursuing ideas of its own, such as holding an exhibition or symposium in New York that will trace the history of women in the garment industry (which will commemorate the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire). Research for funding sources for women in the arts is also an ongoing project.
Annual Recognition Awards
From 1996 to 2008, the Committee on Women in the Arts held an Annual Recognition Awards Ceremony at the CAA Annual Conference. At its October 2007 meeting, the CAA Board of Directors voted to establish a twelfth Award for Distinction, the Distinguished Feminist Award, which honors a person who, through his or her art, scholarship, or advocacy, has advanced the cause of equality for women in the arts. The Distinguished Feminist Award replaces the committee’s Annual Recognition Award.
Survey on the Status of Women and People of Color in Art-History Faculty
The Survey on the Status of Women and People of Color in Art-History Faculty was prepared by the Committee on Women in the Arts, chaired by Kathleen MacQueen and Marjorie Och, April 1996–April 1998.
2009 Annual Conference
The following committee-sponsored sessions took place at the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
Pan-Feminism: The Dispersal of a Critical Attitude
Thursday, February 26, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Sheldon Museum of Art
Pan-Feminism: A Riposte in Radical Democratic Terms
Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Sheldon Museum of Art
(En)Gendering Violence at Abu Ghraib
Jennifer Kosakowski, University of California, Irvine
The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men
Catherine Lord, University of California, Irvine
A Feminist Inheritance? Robert Gober’s Questions of Ambivalence and Subjectivity
Marisa White, Kean University
Feminist Curatorial Intervention Now
Thursday, February 26, 12:30–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Midori Yoshimoto, New Jersey City University; Tracy Fitzpatrick, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
The Women of Metal Project: Innovation, Connection, and Education
Susan Messer and Teresa Faris, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Women beyond Borders
Anette G. Kubitza, California State University, Channel Islands
The Offering Table: Women Artists and Activists from Korea
L. Inson Choy, independent curator, Menlo Park, California
After Wack!
Cornelia Butler, Musuem of Modern Art
Discussant: Jacki Apple, Arts Center College of Design
Committee Members
Diane Burko, Philadelphia Community College, chair (2011)
Maria Elena Buszek, Kansas City Art Institute (2012)
Tracy Fitzpatrick, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York (2010)
Frima Fox Hofrichter, Pratt Institutue (2011)
Liz Roth, Oklahoma State University (2010)
Rebecca Rushfield, independent conservator, New York (2012)
Andrea Rusnock, Indiana University, South Bend (2012)
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Tufts University, CAA board
Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Sheldon Museum of Art (2010)
Kathleen Wentrack, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York (2012)
Barbara A. Wolanin, United States Capitol (2011)
