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People in the News
posted by CAA — April 07, 2017
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
The section is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2017
Academe
Ira Goldberg, executive director of the Art Students League in New York, has resigned from his post.
Cordula GreweCordula Grewe has accepted a position as associate professor with tenure in the Department of Art History at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will teach European art between 1700 and today.
Alex Kitnick has been given the title of Brant Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Arts at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Jonathan MorganJonathan Morgan has become an adjunct professor of art at Lone Star College in the Woodlands, Texas.
Sheila Rae Neal has been named adjunct instructor at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York.
Jennifer RisslerJennifer Rissler has been appointed dean and vice president of academic affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute in California.
Museums and Galleries
Esther Bell, previously curator in charge of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in California, has been named Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Senior Curator for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Makeda Best, formerly assistant professor in visual studies at the California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco, California, has been named Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Connie H. ChoiConnie H. Choi, formerly assistant curator of American art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, has been appointed associate curator of the permanent collection at the Studio Museum in Harlem, also in New York.
Joey Orr, formerly Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, has been appointed Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Curator for Research for the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
James Merle Thomas, professor of global contemporary art at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been appointed executive director of Vox Populi, also in Philadelphia.
Organizations and Publications
Conny BogaardConny Bogaard has been appointed executive director of the Western Kansas Community Foundation in Garden City, Kansas.
Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator emeritus for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, has been appointed director of the Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné, a project organized by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York.
How to Submit a Sharp Proposal for CAA 2018
posted by CAA — April 07, 2017
We are enjoying spring break as much as you are, but we also know that CAA has upcoming deadlines for proposing a session or paper for the 106th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, February 21–24, 2018.
In this video, Hunter O’Hanian, executive director of CAA, and Tiffany Dugan, director of programs, discuss what makes a great Conference proposal. We think your submission should contain clear writing, and your idea should be thoughtful. We want you to be accurate and complete when using the submission portal also.
The Annual Conference Committee, comprised of regional representatives, members of the Board, and CAA members at large, are in search of proposals that reflect the breadth and variety of our discipline and field, and demonstrate the expertise and curiosity of our membership also. Especially welcome are proposals from artists and on subjects in art before 1800.
The deadlines to propose a session or paper for the 2018 Annual Conference in Los Angeles are April 17 and April 24, 2017. Full details are available on the submissions website.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — April 06, 2017
Check out details on recent shows organized by CAA members who are also curators.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2017
Yoshio Ikezaki, The Earth Breathes–Mind Landscape no.12, 2008 (artwork © Yoshio Ikezaki)Jacki Apple. Yoshio Ikezaki: Elements 1991–2016. Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, March 16–May 28, 2017.
Elena Gritsenko, Landscape, 1976, oil on canvas. Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (photograph by Jack Abraham)Anna Rogulina. A Vibrant Field: Nature and Landscape in Soviet Nonconformist Art, 1970s–1980s. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 4–July 30, 2017.
Jane A. Sharp. “Thinking Pictures”: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 6–December 31, 2016.
Julie J. Thomson. Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College. Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina, January 20–May 20, 2017.
Invitation card for Social Fabric / Moral FiberMichaelann Tostanoski and Leila Daw. Social Fabric / Moral Fiber. Gallery West, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, February 14–March 30, 2017.
Edward Weston, Two Shells, 1927, gelatin-silver print, Norton Simon Museum, Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, PH.1953.609bGloria Williams. Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, April 7–September 25, 2017.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted by Christopher Howard — April 05, 2017
Each week CAA News summarizes eight articles, published around the web, that CAA members may find interesting and useful in their professional and creative lives.
Live Drawing Videos on Instagram Are Giving Users a Peek into the Creative Process
With the capability to create and share livestreams, sixty-second videos, and Stories, creatives have a new world of opportunity to demystify artmaking, to facilitate virtual studio visits, and to grow their followings. Moreover, artists can set themselves up for commissions and projects—and drawing is proving to be a ripe medium through which to accomplish this. (Read more from Artsy.)
The Exhilarating Return
Having recently returned from my own sabbatical, I wonder whether there are some downsides to the sabbatical’s luster—in particular, the larger view that it obscures. In our efforts to reverence sabbatical, we may fail to give proper due to its mighty counterpart, the return. This is a mistake. (Read more from Inside Higher Ed.)
The Community-College Side Hustle
“Side hustle” is a term I had never heard until a few months ago, and now suddenly I’m seeing it everywhere, most recently in an advertisement for Uber drivers. It refers to having a second source of income in addition to one’s main job. That’s a concept professors have embraced, probably ever since there have been professors. (Read more from Vitae.)
The Art of “No”
Early in my career, I struggled to say no. I was asked to serve on committee after committee, to evaluate fistfuls of manuscripts and grants, and to perform dozens of other tasks, large and small. I said yes, often because of genuine interest but other times out of a sense of guilt or obligation—and sometimes out of fear of reprisal if I refused. (Read more from the Chronicle of Higher Education.)
Penn Museum Shows Artifacts Curators Are Fighting to Save in Syria and Iraq
Many American museums have been closely monitoring the ongoing destruction of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq, but few have had boots on the ground. Curators and researchers at the Penn Museum have been on the frontlines of the battle to safeguard cultural heritage in conflict zones; they recently organized an exhibition illustrating how high the stakes are. (Read more from the Art Newspaper.)
A Hushed Departure at the Met Museum Reveals Entrenched Management Culture
The recent discovery of a looming $40 million deficit that forced the Metropolitan Museum of Art to cut staff, trim its exhibition schedule, and postpone a heralded $600 million expansion are signs that the system is showing cracks. Now, details about dysfunction in the digital-media department reveal additional consequences of the museum turning a blind eye to problems. (Read more from the New York Times.)
Paper Warping When Painting with Acrylics
When water is applied to paper, the fibers can soak up liquid and expand. This may create the infamous buckles and cockles that can be the bane—or joy—of those who paint with water media. (Read more from Just Paint.)
Was Banksy Caught on Camera at a Mall in Israel?
Several British tabloids ran stories last weekend showing footage captured with a mobile phone camera by an anonymous woman who claims to have caught the elusive Bristol-born artist in action, working on a show that’s slated to open to the public inside a mall in Herzlyia, Israel. (Read more from Artnet News.)
Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — April 04, 2017
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars—browse a list of recent titles below.
Books Published by CAA Members appears every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2017
Flora Brooke Anthony. Foreigners in Ancient Egypt: Theban Tomb Paintings from the Early Eighteenth Dynasty (1550–1372 BC) (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
Jacki Apple. Yoshio Ikezaki: Elements 1991–2016 (Pasadena, CA: Art Center College of Design, 2017).
Caroline Boyle-Turner. Paul Gauguin and the Marquesas: Paradise Found? (Pont-Aven, France: Éditions Vagamundo, 2016).
Shira Brisman. Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).
John Chaich and Todd Oldham. Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community (New York: AMMO Books, 2017).
Christine Filippone. Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America (New York: Routledge, 2017).
Leonard Folgarait. Painting 1909: Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Henri Bergson, Comics, Albert Einstein, and Anarchy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).
Elisabeth A. Fraser. Mediterranean Encounters: Artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017).
Francesca Granata, Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival, and the Grotesque Body (London: I. B. Tauris, 2017).
Ray Hernández-Durán. The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (New York: Routledge, 2016).
Namiko Kunimoto. The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Catha Paquette. At the Crossroads: Diego Rivera and His Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017).
Elizabeth Prettejohn and Peter Trippi, eds. Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity (New York: Prestel, 2016).
Sarahh E. M. Scher and Billie J. A. Follensbee, eds. Dressing the Part: Power Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017).
Jane A. Sharp, ed. Thinking Pictures: The Visual Field of Moscow Conceptualism (New Brunswick, NJ: Zimmerli Art Museum, 2016).
Tanya Sheehan, ed. Grove Art Guide to Photography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Victoria Surliuga. Ezio Gribaudo: The Man in the Middle of Modernism (New York: Glitterati, 2016).
Andrés Mario Zervigón. Photography and Germany (London: Reaktion Books, 2017).
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — April 03, 2017
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2017
Mid-Atlantic
Jaz Graf, Traces of Absence (violet), 2014, monotype, faux feather plumes, pencil, and thread on paper, 15 x 15 in. (artwork © Jaz Graf)Jaz Graf. Paul Robeson Galleries, Engelhard Hall, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, September 6, 2016–July 31, 2017, Articulations. Prints, handmade paper, and mixed-media drawings.
Midwest
Ken Gonzales-Day, The Lynching of “Spanish Charlie,” Santa Rosa, CA (Inverted), 2016, C-print (artwork © Ken Gonzales-Day)Ken Gonzales-Day. Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota, January 19–April 16, 2017. Ken Gonzales-Day: Shadowlands.
Northeast
Pat Adams. Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont, April 1–June 18, 2017. Gatherum of Quiddities: Paintings by Pat Adams. Painting.
Lucinda Bliss, Borders Over Pie: Passamaquoddy Bay, 2016, graphite pencil and watercolor on paper, 14 x 10 in. (artwork © Lucinda Bliss)Lucinda Bliss. Common Street Arts, Waterville, Maine, January 11–February 25, 2017. Tracking the Border: An Interrogation of Political, Natural, and Interior Borders.
Dear Volunteers (Tra Bouscaren and John Schlesinger). AC Institute, New York, March 7–31, 2017. Dear Volunteers. Neon, Styrofoam, painted photographs cast in resin, lab clamps, rebar, and interactive video.
2017 TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION GRANT WINNERS
posted by CAA — April 03, 2017
CAA is pleased to announce the 2017 recipients of the Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant. This program, which provides financial support for the publication of book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art, is made possible by a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. For this grant, “American art” is defined as art (circa 1500–1980) of what is now the geographic United States.
“This year’s publication grant recipients demonstrate once again how this program serves the mission of advancing and internationalizing scholarship on American art,” says Francesca Rose, Program Director for Publications at the Terra Foundation for American Art. “Whether by funding translations or supporting original research in languages other than English and publications by early-career U.S. scholars, the 2017 publication grants allow for the dissemination of important scholarship to the global Americanist community. In addition, providing for travel to the CAA Annual Conference facilitates participation by non-U.S. authors in U.S. professional networks.”
The six Terra Foundation grantees for 2017 are:
- Philippe Artières, Attica, USA, 1971, Le Point du Jour
- Emily Burns, Transnational Frontiers: The Visual Culture of the American West in the French Imagination, 1867–1914, University of Oklahoma Press
- Sophie Cras, The Artist as Economist: Art and Capitalism in the 1960s, Yale University Press
- Kenji Kajiya, Formless Modernism: Color Field Painting and 20th-Century American Culture, University of Tokyo Press
- Kate Lemay, Triumph of the Dead: The American War Cemeteries in France, University of Alabama Press
- ShiPu Wang, The Other American Moderns, Pennsylvania State University Press
Two non-US authors of top-ranked books have also been awarded travel funds and complimentary registration for CAA’s 2018 Annual Conference in Los Angeles; they also received one-year CAA memberships.
The two author awardees for 2017 are:
- Sophie Cras
- Kenji Kajiya
“The Terra Foundation award is unique in that it supports publishers in the United States and abroad and also provides funds for authors of award-winning books to attend the CAA Annual Conference,” says Betty Leigh Hutcheson, Director of Publications at CAA. “Scholars outside the United States who receive travel grants can expand their networks, gain exposure to new ideas, meet publishers at the Book and Trade Fair, and apply to present papers at the conference. The success of the Terra Foundation program is grounded in the high quality of manuscripts CAA receives each year and our ability to financially support these projects. CAA has played a vital role in this process for the past three years, which is particularly gratifying as we see awarded projects reach completion.”
About CAA
The College Art Association is the world’s largest professional association for artists, art historians, designers, arts professionals, and arts organizations. CAA serves as an advocate and a resource for individuals and institutions nationally and internationally by offering forums to discuss the latest developments in the visual arts and art history through its Annual Conference, publications, exhibitions, website, and other programs, services, and events. CAA focuses on a wide range of advocacy issues, including education in the arts, freedom of expression, intellectual-property rights, cultural heritage and preservation, workforce topics in universities and museums, and access to networked information technologies. Representing its members’ professional needs since 1911, CAA is committed to the highest professional and ethical standards of scholarship, creativity, criticism, and teaching.
About the Terra Foundation for American Art
Established in 1978, the Terra Foundation for American Art is dedicated to fostering the exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States. With financial resources of more than $350 million, an exceptional collection of American art from the colonial period to 1945, and an expansive grant program, it is one of the leading foundations focused on American art, supporting exhibitions, academic programs, and research worldwide.
We’ve Got Your Back, We Want You Back
posted by CAA — April 01, 2017
Dear Friends,
We want to get as many former members to rejoin in the month of April as we can. We’ve heard you, through surveys and our Annual Conference, through emails and phone calls. We know that the economy of higher education is changing. We know it can be hard to find a department position or a museum gig or publish your groundbreaking work. Rejoining the largest professional organization supporting art historians and visual artists is one step you can make to help you thrive in the field. Our impact as an organization and as a profession depends on our membership.
Rejoin during the month of April and we will take 25% off your CAA membership (offer excludes Life Membership level). That means you will be able to attend our next Annual Conference in Los Angeles in February 2018 for a reduced rate. You will receive our publications (Art Journal or The Art Bulletin) delivered to your home. You will have access to the online career center, with over 430 jobs and opportunities listed. You will get discounts on car rentals, health insurance, magazine subscriptions, and more.
But most importantly, you will be a member of the professional organization setting the lead on issues of fair hiring practices, academic freedoms, publishing standards, and connecting visual arts professionals across subjects, practice, and geography regions.
Offer valid from April 1-April 30, 2017 to individuals whose membership has lapsed in the past five years. Log in to your CAA account to view the discount code. Code will be visible after log in from April 1-April 30, 2017.