Annual Conference
History of Annual Meetings and Conferences
Rebecca Rushfield, an independent conservator based in New York and a member of CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts, compiled the following list of CAA meetings and conferences from 1911 to the present.
In her chapter in The Eye, the Hand, the Mind, “Uniting the Arts and the Academy,” Julia A. Sienkewicz writes that the Annual Conference “plays an ongoing role in reinforcing and redirecting the identity of the College Art Association. In many ways it is the heart of the organization. For young scholars, reference to the conference evokes anxious memories of job interviews or first presentations. For senior scholars, it means yearly reunions with friends, and a barrage of paper sessions, interviews, and meetings.”
CAA will periodically post PDFs of session information—names of speakers and sessions, titles of papers, and the like—from 1937 to 2005 in spring and summer 2012. When new research uncovers additional details, they will be added to the history. Annual Conference websites from 2006 to 2012 are still online.
For information and/or questions about older conferences, please contact Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs and archivist.
Dates and Locations
101st February 13–16, 2013, New York
100th February 22–25, 2012, Los Angeles, California
99th February 9–12, 2011, New York
98th February 10–13, 2010, Chicago, Illinois
97th February 25–28, 2009, Los Angeles, California
96th February 20–23, 2008, Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas
95th February 14–17, 2007, New York
94th February 22–25, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts
93rd February 16–19, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia
92nd February 18–21, 2004, Seattle, Washington
91st February 19–22, 2003, New York
90th February 20–23, 2002, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
89th February 28–March 3, 2001, Chicago, Illinois
88th February 23–26, 2000, New York
87th February 10–13, 1999, Los Angeles, California
86th February 25–28, 1998, Toronto, Ontario
85th February 12–15, 1997, New York
84th February 21–24, 1996, Boston, Massachusetts
83rd January 25–28, 1995, San Antonio, Texas
82nd February 16–19, 1994, New York
81st February 3–6, 1993, Seattle, Washington
80th February 12–15, 1992, Chicago, Illinois
79th February 20–23, 1991, Washington, DC
78th February 14–17, 1990, New York
77th February 15–18, 1989, San Francisco, California
76th February 10–13, 1988, Houston, Texas
75th February 11–14, 1987, Boston, Massachusetts
74th February 12–15, 1986, New York
73rd February 13–16, 1985, Los Angeles, California
72nd February 22–25, 1984, Toronto, Ontario
71st February 16–19, 1983, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
70th February 24–27, 1982, New York
69th February 25–28, 1981, San Francisco, California
68th January 30–February 2, 1980, New Orleans, Louisiana
67th January 31–February 3, 1979, Washington, DC
66th January 25–28, 1978, New York
65th February 1–5, 1977, Los Angeles, California
64th February 1–4, 1976, Chicago, Illinois
63rd January 22–25, 1975, Washington, DC
62nd January 23–26, 1974, Detroit, Michigan
61st January 24–27, 1973, New York
60th January 27–29, 1972, San Francisco, California
59th January 27–31, 1971, Chicago, Illinois
58th January 28–February 1, 1970, Washington, DC
57th January 30–February 1, 1969, Boston, Massachusetts
56th January 25–27, 1968, St. Louis, Missouri
55th January 26–28, 1967, Cleveland, Ohio
54th January 27–29, 1966, New York
53rd January 28–30, 1965, Los Angeles, California
52nd January 30–February 1, 1964, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
51st January 24–26, 1963, Baltimore, Maryland
50th September 13–14, 1961, New York
49th January 26–28, 1961, Minneapolis, Minnesota
48th January 28–30, 1960, New York
47th January 29–31, 1959, Cleveland, Ohio
46th January 30–February1, 1958, Washington, DC
45th January 24–27, 1957, Detroit, Michigan
44th January 25–29, 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
43rd January 27–29, 1955, New York
42nd January 28–30, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
41st January 29–31, 1953, Cleveland, Ohio
40th January 24–26, 1952, New York
39th January 29–31, 1951, Washington, DC
38th January 26–28, 1950, Chicago, Illinois
37th January 27–29, 1949, Baltimore, Maryland
36th January 29–31, 1948, Boston, Massachusetts
35th January 29–February 1, 1947, New York
34th January 5, 1946, New York (business meeting)
33rd February 17, 1945, New York (business meeting)
32nd January 29, 1944, New York (business meeting)
31st January 29–30, 1943, Baltimore, Maryland (meeting canceled; business meeting held on January 30 in New York)
30th January 23–24, 1942, New Haven, Connecticut
29th January 29–February 1, 1941, Chicago, Illinois
28th September 6–9, 1939, New York
27th December 2–4, 1938, Wellesley, Massachusetts
26th November 5–7, 1937, Chicago, Illinois
25th April 8–10, 1936, New York
24th May 22–25, 1935, Washington, DC
23rd March 28–31, 1934, New York
22nd June 15–17, 1933, Chicago, Illinois
21st March 30–April 2, 1932, New York
20th April 1–3, 1931, New York
19th December 26–28, 1929, Boston, Massachusetts
18th December 27–29, 1928, New York
17th No information available
16th December 27–30, 1926, Cambridge, Massachusetts
15th December 29–31, 1925, Ithaca, New York
14th December 29–31, 1924, Chicago, Illinois
13th December 27–29, 1923, Princeton, New Jersey
12th April 6–7, 1923, Boston, Massachusetts
11th April 13–15, 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10th March 24–26, 1921, Washington, DC
9th April 1–3, 1920, Cleveland, Ohio
8th May 12–14, 1919, New York
7th March 28–30, 1918, New York
6th April 5–7, 1917, Cincinnati, Ohio
5th April 20–22, 1916, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4th 1915, Buffalo, New York
3rd December 29–30, 1913, Chicago, Illinois
2nd December 1912, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1st 1911, Urbana, Illinois (as the College Art Section of the Western Drawing and Manual Training Association)
