CAA News

Published since 1976, CAA News presents information on CAA’s activities, programs, and conference; updates on legal issues; articles on the arts and academia; interviews with artists, scholars, and curators; member achievements; calls for entries, papers, and participation; and much more.

About 14,000 individual and 2,000 institutional members receive CAA News, which comes out six times a year (January, March, May, July, September, and November) as a PDF; it can be downloaded, read onscreen, and printed.

For more information, write to Christopher Howard, CAA News editor. For e-mail address changes, contact Member Services.

Recent News

CAA at Arts Advocacy Day
Delegates representing CAA participated in this year's Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, held March 31–April 1, 2008.

New Annual Conference Rotation
Starting in 2009, CAA will rotate among three cities—Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York—for the location of its Annual Conference.

Fellowship Program Jurors Needed
CAA seeks jurors for the visual-art and art-history juries of the Professional Development Fellowship Program.

New Officers for the Board of Directors
The CAA Board of Directors has filled four vice-president positions and elected a new secretary.

May CAA News Published
Download the just-published May 2008 issue of CAA News.

February Board Meeting Report
The CAA Board of Directors reports on its February meeting.

2008 Nominating Committee Members
CAA announces new members of its Nomination Committee

Conference Press and Blog Roundup
CAA provides you with a roundup of press and blog posts on the 2008 Annual Conference.

Field Editor Sought for Books on Professional Practices
caa.reviews seeks an artist to commission reviews of books on professional practices, techniques, theory, and more.

New Sessions for 2009 Conference
Three sessions have been added to the 2009 Call for Participation for the Los Angeles conference.

CAA Seeks Award Nominations
Nominations of artists, scholars, curators, critics, and other arts professionals are sought for CAA's twelve Awards for Distinction.

New CAA Award for Distinguished Feminist
CAA has established a new annual Award for Distinction: the Distinguished Feminist Award.

March CAA News Published
The March 2008 issue of CAA News has just been posted to the CAA website.

New Committee Members
CAA has appointed new members to join its Professional Interests, Practices, and Standards Committees.

New CAA Board Members
CAA members have elected Faya Causey, Jay Coogan, Randall C. Griffin, and Judith Thorpe to serve on the Board of Directors.

2009 Call for Participation
The call for papers and presentations for the 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles has been published.

Directories of Graduate Programs
CAA has begun to collect information from schools and programs for the Directories of Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts.

Curatorial Proposals Sought
CAA invites curators to submit proposals for an exhibition whose opening coincides with the 2010 Annual Conference in Chicago.

Publication-Grant Winners Announced
The recipients of the fall Millard Meiss Publication Grants and the annual Wyeth Publication Grant have been named.

Paul Jaskot Is CAA President-Elect
Paul B. Jaskot, associate professor of art history at DePaul University, has been elected CAA president for a two-year term.

2008 Awards For Distinction Winners
CAA has announced the recipients of its 2008 Awards for Distinction, to be presented at the Annual Conference in Dallas–Fort Worth.