CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for two individuals to serve on the juries for CAA’s Professional-Development Fellowships for a three-year term, 2012–15. CAA’s fellowship program supports promising artists and art historians who are enrolled in MFA and PhD programs nationwide, assisting them during the transition between graduate studies and professional careers with unrestricted $5,000 grants.
Needed now are one person for the Professional-Development Fellowships in Art History Jury, and one person for the Professional-Development Fellowships in Visual Arts Jury. Both juries have four voting members each. Candidates must possess senior-level expertise appropriate to the jury’s work; they may be artists, art historians, critics, curators, or other professionals in the visual arts; institutional affiliation is not required.
Jurors review all submissions in October and November prior to a one-day meeting, held at the CAA office in New York in early December or early January, to discuss the merits of the applications and portfolios. Fellowship recipients are named by mid-January. All jurors volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
Jurors must be current CAA members and should not be serving on another CAA editorial board or committee. CAA’s president and vice president for committees appoint jury members for service. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please send a statement (no more than 150 words) describing your interest in and qualifications for appointment, an abbreviated CV (no more than two pages), and your contact information by email to Michael Fahlund, CAA deputy director; submissions must be sent as Microsoft Word attachments. Deadline: June 8, 2012.
