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Join the CAA Board of Directors!
posted by CAA — May 01, 2023
CAA seeks nominations of individuals passionate about shaping the future of the organization by serving on the Board of Directors for the 2024–2028 term. The board is responsible for all financial and policy matters related to CAA, promoting excellence in scholarship, and encouraging creativity and technical skills in design and art practice. CAA’s board is also charged with representing the membership regarding current issues affecting the visual arts and humanities.
Nominations and/or self-nominations must include the following:
- Résumé/CV
- Brief statement of interest (250 words maximum)
- Nominee’s name, affiliation, and e-mail address
- Name, affiliation, and e-mail address of nominator (if different from nominee)
Please send all information and/or any questions via e-mail to Maeghan Donohue, CAA Chief of Staff & Director of Strategic Planning, Diversity, and Governance, with the subject line: Board of Directors Nomination.
Deadline: July 10, 2023.
CAA 2023 Board of Directors Election: Vote Now!
posted by CAA — December 22, 2022
As a CAA member, voting is the best way to shape the future of your professional organization. Thank you for taking the time to vote!
The CAA Board of Directors is comprised of professionals in the visual arts who are elected annually by the membership to serve four-year terms (or, in the case of Emerging Professional Board members, two-year terms). The Board is charged with CAA’s long-term financial stability and strategic direction; it is also the Association’s governing body. The board sets policy regarding all aspects of CAA’s activities, including publishing, the Annual Conference, awards and fellowships, advocacy, and committee procedures. For more information, please read the CAA By-laws on Nominations, Elections, and Appointments.
MEET THE CANDIDATES
The 2022–23 Nominating Committee has selected the following candidates for election to the CAA Board of Directors. Click the names of the candidates below to read their bios/personal statements and CVs before casting your vote.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS CANDIDATES (FOUR-YEAR TERM, 2023–2027)
Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas (Denton, TX)
Associate Professor of Painting, Department of Art
Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS)
Associate Professor & Director of Art History
VCUarts Qatar (Doha, Qatar)
Curator of exhibition Lucio Fontana’s Ceramics,
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Milan, Italy)
Associate Professor of Art History & Head of Arts & Humanities Major
Yale-NUS College (Singapore)
Associate Professor in Visual Communication Design, Department of Art, Art History & Design
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
EMERGING PROFESSIONALS BOARD OF DIRECTORS CANDIDATES (TWO-YEAR TERM, 2023–2025)
PhD Candidate, David Driskell Fellow
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (Portland, ME)
Ph.D. Candidate, Art and Architectural History
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
CAA members must cast their votes online. The deadline for voting is 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, February 16, 2023.
The elected individuals will be announced at CAA’s Annual Business Meeting to be held from 1–2 p.m. ET on Friday, February 17, 2023.
Questions? Contact Maeghan Donohue, Chief of Staff and Manager, Strategic Planning, Diversity & Governance (mdonohue@collegeart.org).
Members’ Corner: Former CAA President Judith Brodsky Co-Curates Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards And A Circle of Black Artists
posted by CAA — July 25, 2022
African Sky, an oil painting by James Wilson Edwards, will be included in the Arts Council of Princeton’s Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists, an exhibition featuring the work of a diverse and vibrant regional arts community not acknowledged in contemporary American art history on view at the Arts Council of Princeton this October.
The Arts Council of Princeton will present a revolutionary exhibition in October 2022. Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists reveals how Black artist/teachers were integral and influential members in a predominantly white regional community in the last quarter of the 20th century. While there have been blockbuster exhibitions of a few contemporary Black artists during recent years of efforts by museums and galleries to become more diverse, this is one of the first exhibitions to explore the historical context from which these artists emerged.
Co-curators Judith K. Brodsky and Rhinold Ponder say “this has been a magnificent voyage of discovery about the lives and roles in art history of Black artists who have largely been forgotten or ignored as well as a reminder of the significance of Black collectors in preserving and promoting the history of Black artists and ensuring that they are eventually remembered for their contributions. We trust that our efforts here encourage others to restore Black artists and arts communities to their rightful places in American national and regional histories.” Brodsky is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers and previously served as a president of CAA. Ponder is an artist, activist, writer, lawyer, and founder of Art Against Racism.
This exhibition focuses on five late 20th-century master artists who lived and worked within 25 miles of each other in the geographic region from Princeton, New Jersey to New Hope, Pennsylvania: James Wilson Edwards, Rex Goreleigh, Hughie Lee-Smith, Selma Hortense Burke, and Wendell T. Brooks. These Black artists represent a diverse and vibrant regional arts community largely unknown in contemporary American art history. Nearly all the works in this exhibition come from private collections, highlighting the importance of collectors of color in restoring Black and brown artists to American art history and how their collecting sheds light on the systemic racism of the American art world. Recent attention to diversity in museum collections has revealed that only 1.2% of the holdings are by African American artists.
Retrieving the Life and Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists will be on view in the Arts Council of Princeton’s Taplin Gallery from October 14 through December 3, 2022 and will include an opening reception, panel discussion, and more. Additional information can be found on the Art Council of Princeton’s website.
Join our Board of Directors
posted by CAA — June 09, 2022
CAA seeks nominations for individuals passionate about shaping the future of the organization by serving on the Board of Directors for the 2023-2027 term. The board is responsible for all financial and policy matters related to CAA, promoting excellence in scholarship, and encouraging creativity and technical skills in design and art practice. CAA’s board is also charged with representing the membership regarding current issues affecting the visual arts and the humanities.
Candidates must be current CAA members. Nominations and self-nominations should include a short statement of interest, a résumé, and the following information: the nominee’s name, affiliation, email address, and telephone number, as well as the name, affiliation, and email address of the nominator if different from the nominee. Please send all information and/or any questions via e-mail to Maeghan Donohue, Manager, Strategic Planning, Diversity, and Governance. Deadline: July 8, 2022.
CAA’s 109th Annual Business Meeting Minutes
posted by CAA — February 11, 2022
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION
109TH ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 2:00 P.M. EST
MINUTES
- Call to Order/Opening Remarks
- President Elizabeth Schlatter called the meeting to order at 2:02 p.m. EST. She thanked the staff for their enormous efforts. She then acknowledged the diverse people linked to the land on which she works and lives, particularly those who have been displaced from that land.
- Executive Director’s Report
- Meme Omogbai offered a reflection on the importance of this conference. It is amazing we were able to offer the extensive content we did during a pandemic, specifically:
- 365 sessions, over 1100 individual presentations in addition to a book and trade fair. Intersectionality between the visual arts, climate change, eco-feminism, and many other topics.
- The virtual format of the conference has offered a new level of access. Content is available across the world and for a month after the conference.
- The conference will serve as an important turning point in the history of CAA toward achieving the four pillars of its Strategic Repositioning:
- Long term sustainability of the organization through attention to meeting the needs of all segments of our constituency and maximizing the value of membership
- Social Entrepreneurship and e-commerce
- Technological infrastructure towards a digital transformation to ensure effective and efficient operations and delivery of content
- Robust development activities
- Meme Omogbai offered a reflection on the importance of this conference. It is amazing we were able to offer the extensive content we did during a pandemic, specifically:
- Approval of the minutes from the February 2020 annual meeting.
- Approval of Minutes of 108th Annual Business Meeting, held in two parts, February 12, and February 14, 2020
- Jaqueline Francis moved; Laura Anderson Barbata seconded. The minutes were approved unanimously.
- Financial report
- CFO Bob Tofolo reported on the following items:
- The association posted a breakeven operating budget for FY20.
- The association continues to operate under a break-even budget for FY21. This includes $3.3M in current expenses against equivalent revenue.
- A PPP loan of $372,000 was awarded to CAA. That loan was subsequently forgiven last December.
- The endowment market value on June 30, 2020 was $9.825M vs prior year of $9.6M
- Member count for this year vs. last: As of June 30, 2020, there were 6,699 (7,773, -14%) individual members. There were 443 (464) organizational members and an additional 586 (617, -5%) subscribers to The Art Bulletin and/or Art Journal through our co-publisher Taylor and Francis. These numbers are not exactly comparative as prior year memberships reflect exaggerated increases due to discounts that are absent this year.
- 3938 registered attendees at the conference as of this morning. It is expected to be over 4000 by tomorrow.
- Question (posed by a member in attendance): how did numbers compare to the last NYC conference? 2019 attendance was over 5000, but the numbers from this year’s count include registrations for Free and Open sessions which we would not have tracked in prior years so some additional work needs to be done so that we can compare apples to apples.
- CFO Bob Tofolo reported on the following items:
- New Business
- The following question was posed by a member in attendance: Considering technical issues that have emerged this year, will CAA be evaluating Confex and considering whether they are the best vendor to use moving forward? Elizabeth indicated that the organization would be evaluating all aspects of the conference, including the platform. Meme added that in the midst of this digital transformation, there will be a consolidation of different systems that will address some of the issues that emerged. She encouraged people to fill out the conference surveys that are being administered.
- Results of Election of New Directors
- Elizabeth announced the newly elected CAA Board Members:
- Roland Betancourt
- Lara Evans
- Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
- Kelly Walters
- Kelvin Parnell Jr. (Emerging Professional)
- Elizabeth announced the newly elected CAA Board Members:
- Adjournment
- The meeting was adjourned at 2:25 p.m. EST.
Respectfully submitted by Colin Blakely, Secretary.
CAA’s 110th Annual Business Meeting Agenda
posted by CAA — February 11, 2022
CAA Annual Business Meeting Agenda
Friday, February 18, 2022
1 p.m. CT
The 110th Annual Business Meeting of the members of the College Art Association will be called to order at 1 p.m. CT on Friday, February 18 at the 2022 Annual Conference. Access to this meeting is included in paid registration and can also be accessed by registering for ”No-cost registration”. Once you have registered, please log into the online conference schedule to attend the meeting.
CAA President, N. Elizabeth Schlatter will preside.
- Welcome + Call to Order – N. Elizabeth Schlatter, CAA President
- Executive Director’s Report – Meme Omogbai, CAA Executive Director + CEO
- Approval of Minutes of 109th Annual Business Meeting [ACTION ITEM]
- Financial Report – Georgia Harrell, CAA Treasurer + Robert Tofolo, CAA Head of Operations
- Old/New Business
- Board Member Election Results – N. Elizabeth Schlatter, CAA President
- Adjourn
Proxies
If you are unable to attend the Annual Business Meeting, kindly complete a proxy online to appoint the individuals named thereon to (i) vote, as directed by you, for directors, and, at their discretion, on such other matters as may properly come before the Annual Business Meeting; and (ii) vote on any and all adjournments thereof. A proxy, with your vote for directors, must be received no later than 5 p.m. CT Thursday, February 17th, 2022.
Next Meeting – 2023
The 111th Annual Business Meeting of the College Art Association will be held in New York in 2023, precise date to be announced.
Vote for CAA’s 2022 Board of Directors!
posted by CAA — December 06, 2021
As a CAA member, voting is one of the best ways to shape the future of your professional organization. Thank you for taking the time to vote! Scroll down to meet this year’s candidates and submit your online voting form.
2021 CAA Board of Directors candidates, from left to right, top to bottom: Ashanté Kindle, Adity Saxena, Tiffany Lin, Alex Bostic, Gregory Gilbert, Karen J. Leader, Nazar Kozak, and Victoria McCraven.
2022 CAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION
The CAA Board of Directors is comprised of professionals in the visual arts who are elected annually by the membership to serve four-year terms (or, in the case of the Emerging Professional Board members, two-year terms). The Board is charged with CAA’s long-term financial stability and strategic direction; it is also the Association’s governing body. The board sets policy regarding all aspects of CAA’s activities, including publishing, the Annual Conference, awards and fellowships, advocacy, and committee procedures. For more information, please read the CAA By-laws on Nominations, Elections, and Appointments.
MEET THE CANDIDATES
The 2021–22 Nominating Committee has selected the following candidates for election to the CAA Board of Directors. Click the names of the candidates below to read their statements and resumes before casting your vote.
BOARD OF DIRECTOR CANDIDATES (FOUR-YEAR TERM, 2022-2026)
Associate Professor of Painting, Department of Art
Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS)
Director of Art History Program
Knox College (Galesburg, IL)
Senior Research Scholar, Department of Art History, Ethnology Institute
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Associate Professor of Art History
Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Design
University of Nevada (Las Vegas)
Dean, School of Arts & Design
Woxsen University (India)
EMERGING PROFESSIONALS BOARD OF DIRECTOR CANDIDATES (TWO-YEAR TERM, 2022-2024)
MFA Candidate in Art
University of Connecticut (Storrs)
Programs Manager, NXTHVN
CAA members must cast their votes for board members online using the link below; no paper ballots will be mailed. The deadline for voting is 6 p.m. EST on February 17, 2022.
The elected individuals will be announced at CAA’s Annual Business Meeting to be held from 1–2 p.m. (Central) on Friday, February 18, 2022.
Questions? Contact Maeghan Donohue, Manager, Strategic Planning, Diversity & Governance, at mdonohue@collegeart.org.
Vote for CAA’s 2021 Board of Directors
posted by Allison Walters — December 03, 2020
As a CAA member, voting is one of the best ways to shape the future of your professional organization. Thank you for taking the time to vote! Scroll down to meet this year’s candidates and submit your online voting form.
2021 CAA Board of Directors candidates, from left to right, top to bottom: Roland Betancourt, Patricia Childers, Alberto De Salvatierra, Lara Evans, Charles Kanwischer, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Kelvin Parnell, and Kelly Walters.
2021 CAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION
The CAA Board of Directors is comprised of professionals in the visual arts who are elected annually by the membership to serve four-year terms (or, in the case of the Emerging Professional Board members, two-year terms). The Board is charged with CAA’s long-term financial stability and strategic direction; it is also the Association’s governing body. The board sets policy regarding all aspects of CAA’s activities, including publishing, the Annual Conference, awards and fellowships, advocacy, and committee procedures. For more information, please read the CAA By-laws on Nominations, Elections, and Appointments.
MEET THE CANDIDATES
The 2020–21 Nominating Committee has selected the following candidates for election to the CAA Board of Directors. Click the names of the candidates below to read their statements and resumes before casting your vote.
BOARD OF DIRECTOR CANDIDATES (FOUR-YEAR TERM, 2021-2025)
Roland Betancourt, Professor of Art History, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
Alberto De Salvatierra, Assistant Professor of Urbanism and Data in Architecture + Director of the Center for Civilization, University of Calgary School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lara Evans, Interim Director, Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Charles Kanwischer, Director, School of Art, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Associate Professor, Studio Art, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Kelly Walters, Associate Director, BFA Communication Design Program, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY
Emerging Professionals BOARD OF DIRECTOR CANDIDATES (TWO-YEAR TERM, 2021-2023)
Patricia Childers, Adjunct Faculty, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY), Communication Design Department, New York, NY
Kelvin Parnell, Ph.D. Candidate, Art and Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
CAA members must cast their votes for board members online using the link below; no paper ballots will be mailed. The deadline for voting is 6:00 p.m. EST on February 11, 2021.
The elected individuals will be announced at CAA’s Annual Business Meeting to be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, February 12, 2021.
Questions? Contact Vanessa Jalet, executive liaison, at (212) 392-4434 or vjalet@collegeart.org
CAA Names Appointed Directors to the Board of Directors
posted by CAA — April 30, 2020
CAA has named John Davis, Katy Rogers, and Kenneth Wissoker to our Board of Directors as appointed directors, each for a four-year term. “CAA’s appointed directors bring experience and perspectives that complement the strength and vision of the elected members of CAA’s board. The extent of scholarship, leadership, and professional accomplishment of the three new appointed directors will be invaluable to CAA as we begin strategizing as to how the organization can best serve our members and the art community at large in light of the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 crisis,” said N. Elizabeth Schlatter, President of CAA. “We are exceedingly grateful for the service and dedication of these appointed directors as well as that of all of our board members who volunteer so much time and commitment to our field.”
John Davis
John Davis is a historian of the art and architecture of the United States. For twenty-five years, he served on the faculty of Smith College, where he taught in the art history and American studies programs, chaired the Art Department, and served as Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Development. In 2017, he joined the Smithsonian Institution as Provost and Under Secretary of Museums, Education, and Research, with responsibility for nineteen museums, nine research institutes, twenty-two libraries, fellowships and internships, and the National Zoo. He is currently serving as the Interim Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York City. He has been a visiting professor in Japan, Belgium, and France and is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. His most recent publication is Art of the United States, 1750-2000: Primary Sources (2020), coauthored with Michael Leja.
Katy Rogers
Katy Rogers is vice president and secretary of the Dedalus Foundation, where she also serves as the Programs Director and Director of the Robert Motherwell catalogue raisonné project. A graduate of the University of Colorado, she received her MA in Art History from Hunter College. She is also an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) where she was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow. She is the co-author of the catalogue raisonné of Motherwell’s paintings and collages (Yale University Press 2012), and of Robert Motherwell: 100 Years (Skira 2015). She is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of Motherwell’s drawings to be published by Yale University Press in fall 2022. Since 2013, she has been the President of the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association where she co-organized the 2015 conference “The Catalogue Raisonné and its Construction” and the 2018 conference “The Afterlife of Sculptures: Posthumous Casts in Scholarship, the Market, and the Law.”
Ken Wissoker
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press, acquiring books across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. He joined the Press as an Acquisitions Editor in 1991; became Editor-in-Chief in 1997; was named Editorial Director in 2005; and assumed his current position in 2020. In addition to his duties at the Press, he serves as Director of Intellectual Publics at The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City. He has published more than a thousand books which have won over one hundred and fifty prizes. He has written on publishing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Scholarly Kitchen, and Cinema Journal, and writes a column for the Japanese cultural studies journal “5.” He speaks regularly on publishing at universities in the United States and around the world.
About CAA Appointed Directors
Appointed directors bring a variety of views and skills that contribute to CAA’s growth and stability as a professional support organization. In February 2010, CAA members approved an amendment to Article VII, Section IV of the organizational By-laws to establish a new category of appointed director. Learn more.
CAA Announces Isimeme Omogbai as Executive Director and CEO
posted by CAA — March 30, 2020
Isimeme Omogbai.
CAA is pleased to announce Isimeme (Meme) Omogbai as its next executive director in an executive search process guided by Arts Consulting Group. Omogbai succeeds David Raizman, who has served as CAA’s interim executive director since July 2019. Omogbai begins at CAA on March 30, 2020.
“It is a pleasure to welcome Meme Omogbai to CAA as Executive Director,” says Jim Hopfensperger, President of CAA. “The Search Committee conveyed its confidence that Meme will apply her unique administrative experiences, striking energy, and clear vision to the important work ahead at this key moment in the Association’s history.”
As executive director, Omogbai is an employee of the CAA Board of Directors and serves as the Association’s chief executive officer. In this role, she will work with board members, committees, and task forces to develop the Association’s strategic plans. Omogbai’s experience in resource management and the museum world will greatly benefit the membership and the larger visual arts, design, education, and cultural communities with whom CAA works. Omogbai will oversee a wide variety of initiatives, including the CAA Annual Conference, an advocacy program, member services activities, the career center, fellowships, grants and opportunities offered by CAA, and the publications program, which includes The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Art Journal Open, and caa.reviews.
“I am joining CAA at an unprecedented period in world history as people across the globe are trying to understand what COVID-19 means for their families, communities and organizations. As I embark on this new role, I want to emphasize that maintaining the health, well-being, and safety of our staff, membership, and stakeholders is and will always be a top priority,” says Omogbai. “We have seen examples of the indomitable human spirit overcome adversity. Art inspired by challenging experiences is a common thread for many of the world’s most distinguished creative minds. Now more than ever there is a need to provide access to robust edifying visual arts experiences that are inclusive of diverse practices and practitioners for every adult and child, professional and student, nationality and race across the globe. Together we can achieve these objectives. With CAA as the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promoting these arts and their understanding, we will have the opportunity to perform an invaluable service to humanity.”
Before joining CAA, Omogbai served as a member and past Board Chair of the New Jersey Historic Trust, one of four landmark entities dedicated to preservation of the state’s historic and cultural heritage and Montclair State University’s Advisory Board. Named one of 25 Influential Black Women in Business by The Network Journal, Omogbai arrives with over 25 years of diversified experience in corporate, government, higher education, and museum sectors.
As the first American of African descent to chair the American Alliance of Museums, Omogbai led an initiative to rebrand the AAM as a global, inclusive alliance. While COO and Trustee, she spearheaded a major transformation in operating performance at the Newark Museum and achieved four consecutive years of 4-star ratings for superior management. During her time as Deputy Assistant Chancellor of New Jersey’s Department of Higher Education, Omogbai received Legislative acknowledgement and was recognized with the New Jersey Meritorious Service Award for her work on college affordability initiatives for New Jersey families.
Omogbai received her MBA in Finance & Management Consultancy from Rutgers University and holds a CPA. She did post-graduate work at Harvard University’s Executive Management Program and has earned the designation of Chartered Global Management Accountant. She studied global museum executive leadership at the J. Paul Getty Trust Museum Leadership Institute, where she also served on the faculty.