CAA News

In an effort to enhance member benefits, CAA recently joined Club Quarters, a group that offers reasonable room rates at full-service hotels for partnering organizations and companies. The Club Quarters system extends nationwide, with four participating hotels in New York, two in Chicago, and one each in Boston, Houston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. You also have a choice of three hotels in London.

CAA’s section on the Club Quarters website explains your benefits. Click “Your Member Rates” to download a PDF with the hotels’ names, addresses, and daily rates. The section also publishes detailed information regarding the amenities and services available to you and offers maps, travel directions, and area attractions.

Make your reservations online through Club Quarters. You may also write to memberservices@clubquarters.com, call 203-905-2100, or send a fax to 203-348-6401.

CAA hopes that you will find Club Quarters useful in your personal or professional life.

Image: A Club Quarters hotel in San Francisco

The year 2011 marks the College Art Association’s one-hundredth anniversary, a celebratory occasion for any organization but particularly so given CAA’s dynamic influence in shaping the study and practice of the visual arts over the past century. Without dedicated members like you, CAA would not be where it is today. Show your support with a donation to the 2011 Centennial Campaign.

The Centennial Campaign is an opportunity for you to help CAA support the field and give back to its members. Your contributions allow us to provide fellowships to MFA students, keep conference rates affordable, and subsidize the memberships of student, retired, and low-income members. Donations also help publish an information-packed website, which features calls for entries and papers and listings for grants and fellowships in the Opportunities section, as well as job classifieds in the Online Career Center. Additionally, your donations support advocacy at a time when art is, once again, under political attack.

Contributions at every level are appreciated and will be acknowledged publicly; they are also 100 percent tax deductible. Your generous gift will both sustain the organization now and guarantee its leadership role over the next one hundred years.

At its February 2011 meeting, the CAA Board of Directors approved applications from four organizations to become affiliated societies, which are groups of art professionals and other organizations whose goals are generally consonant with those of CAA, with a view toward facilitating intercommunication and mutual enrichment.

Art, Literature, and Music in Symbolism and Decadence

Established in 2010, Art, Literature, and Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD) focuses on European culture from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Working to demonstrate the philosophical connection between arts in different countries that were affected by Symbolist ideas, the organization facilitates the exchange of ideas among scholars through an annual newsletter and a conference held every four years at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois, or at other international locations.

Asian American Women Artists Association

The Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA), founded in 1989, is dedicated to the visibility and documentation of Asian American women in the arts. Through exhibitions, publications, and educational programs, the organization offers thought-provoking perspectives that challenge societal assumptions and promote dialogue. AAWAA activities include a resource portal; regular lectures in art, ethnic, and Asian American studies classes; thought-provoking exhibitions, panel discussions, literary readings, and workshops; and books and catalogues on Asian American women artists.

The Curator’s Network

A new organization established last year by Independent Curators International, the Curator’s Network brings together curators from around the world who want to share their work and exchange information with other professionals in the field. Among the sponsored activities are an online Curator’s Index; a forum for members to share information, called the Network Directory; and Dispatch, a bimonthly newsletter. More than one hundred curators have joined the network.

National Alliance of Artists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Founded in 2000, the National Alliance of Artists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (NAAHBCU) brings art and art education to the forefront of member institutions. It also provides comprehensive activities that offer opportunities for professional artists employed at member institutions. In addition, NAAHBCU highlights the artistic achievements of artists through exhibitions; provides scholarships for promising art majors; meets annually to confront issues that affect art departments at historically black colleges and universities; shares information on current technology, art history, and art trends; and disseminates employment opportunities.

CAA’s Directory of Affiliated Societies is currently accepting updates. If you are an officer or the official CAA contact for an organization, please send an updated text, in the same format as your current listing, to Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs, either as a Word attachment or pasted in the body of an email.

Last week, CAA sent an email blast to 2011 Annual Conference attendees, asking for feedback on all aspects of last month’s event. Please complete the survey, which has several fields for open-ended answers, by Friday, March 25, 2011.

The survey asks you to identify yourself (e.g., artist, art historian, or student) and your type of affiliation and then to rate your experiences with various conference events and services—from online registration and the conference hotels to session content and Career Services activities. If you attended the Book and Trade Fair or used your conference badge for free museum admission, let CAA know. The survey also asks your thoughts about the conference website and how CAA can better deliver conference information.

Membership fees cover less than half of CAA’s operating costs; thus voluntary contributions from members significantly help to make possible the wide range of programs and services that the organization offers. In a new website section called Acknowledgments, CAA recognizes the distinguished contributors for each of the following:

• The Centennial Campaign celebrates CAA’s one hundredth anniversary, a celebratory landmark for any organization but particularly so given the organization’s dynamic influence in shaping the study and practice of the visual arts
• The Annual Campaign helps CAA maintain affordable membership dues and Annual Conference fees, implement its myriad programs and publications, and serve the international community of professionals in the visual arts
• The Donors Circle of Patron, Sponsoring, and Sustaining Members includes individuals who contribute to CAA above and beyond their regular dues
• Life Members are individuals who make one-time payments of $5,000 and remain active CAA members for life
• The Art Bulletin Publication Fund supports the production of CAA’s preeminent scholarly journal covering all areas and periods of art history
• The Art Journal Publication Fund supports the production of CAA’s cutting-edge quarterly of contemporary art and ideas
• The caa.reviews Publication Fund supports the production of CAA’s online journal devoted to critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies
• The Annual Conference Travel Grants help cover expenses for graduate students in art history and studio art, and for international artists and scholars, who attend the CAA Annual Conference

CAA offers additional ways to contribute to the organization. Through Planned Giving, you can include CAA in your will. You can also purchase Benefit Prints by the artists Willie Cole and Buzz Spector or a collection of Art Journal Artists’ Projects by Barbara Bloom, Clifton Meador, Mary Lum, and William Pope.L. For general inquiries on CAA’s campaigns and funds, please contact Sara Hines, CAA development and marketing manager, at 212-691-1051, ext. 216.

 

The VIP Art Fair, the first-ever international contemporary art fair that takes place exclusively online, offers CAA members a complimentary VIP Pass for access to the event.

The fair, which starts tomorrow and continues through January 30, 2011, features hundreds of works of art for sale by 139 galleries from thirty countries. Galleries have constructed “booths,” set up to resemble those in a traditional brick-and-mortar fair, that are presented in an easy-to-navigate digital platform. The roster includes the fair’s founding members—among them James Cohan, David Zwirner, Hauser and Wirth, Gagosian, Sadie Coles, and White Cube—and other blue-chip dealers. Smaller galleries that represent emerging and midcareer artists, such as Winkleman, Johann König, and Lisa Cooley, have also been invited to participate. Some galleries will focus on the work of one artist.

The VIP Art Fair’s organizers invite visitors to contribute to the experience. Curators, critics, professors, artists, and other interested individuals can create virtual tours, both public and private, which they can then share with other fair attendees. Similar to making a playlist in iTunes, the tours allow participants to highlight their favorite works and provide a path with which to navigate the fair—essentially curating an exhibition of the art on sale during the event.

With the special VIP Pass, CAA members receive these benefits:

• Integrated chat and messaging system for live interaction with galleries
• Eligibility to view galleries’ private rooms
• Price ranges for each artwork
• Ability to search for artworks within certain price ranges

The VIP pass contains a unique code (U98B7DE) that you must enter when signing up. After completing the registration form, you will receive a confirmation notice sent to your email address. This communication includes a link that you must click in order to activate your VIP Art Fair account.

CAA invites you to help shape the future of the organization by serving on the 2011 Nominating Committee. Each year, this committee nominates and interviews potential candidates for the CAA Board of Directors and selects the final slate for the membership’s vote. The candidates for the 2011–15 election have been announced, and voting begins on Wednesday, December 15.

The current Nominating Committee will choose the new members of its own committee at its business meeting, to be held at the 2011 Annual Conference in New York in February. Once selected, all committee members must propose a minimum of five and a maximum of ten people for the board in the spring. Service on the committee also involves conducting telephone interviews with candidates during the summer and meeting by conference call in September to select the final board slate. Finally, all Nominating Committee members attend the following business meeting, at the Los Angeles conference in 2012, to select that year’s committee.

Nominations and self-nominations should include a brief statement of interest and a two-page CV. Please send all materials to: Maria Ann Conelli, Vice President for Committees, c/o CAA Executive Assistant, CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001. Materials may also be sent as Microsoft Word attachments to Vanessa Jalet. Deadline: December 30, 2010.

CAA warmly thanks the many contributions of the following dedicated members who joined CAA in 1960 or earlier. This year, the annually published list welcomes nine new members. Seven are distinguished scholars whose teaching and publications have shaped the history of art over the last fifty years. The other two are celebrated artists with deep roots in the Great Plains: Dan Howard, a painter and longtime professor and department chair at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln; and Edward Navone, a draftsman and painter who taught for many years at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.

1960: Shirley N. Blum; David C. Driskell; Mojmir S. Frinta; Dan F. Howard; W. Eugene Kleinbauer; Ruth Mellinkoff; Edward W. Navone; Linda Nochlin; and J. J. Pollitt.

1959: Adele M. Ernstrom; Geraldine Fowle; Edith M. Hoffman; Carol H. Krinsky; James F. O’Gorman; Charles S. Rhyne; and Ann K. Warren.

1958: William D. Badgett; Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.; Damie Stillman; Eric Van Schaack; and Clare Vincent.

1957: Marcel M. Franciscono; Bruce Glaser; William C. Loerke; Susan R. McKillop; John F. Omelia; and Frances P. Taft.

1956: Svetlana L. Alpers; Norman W. Canedy; John Goelet; Joel Isaacson; John M. Schnorrenberg; and Jack J. Spector.

1955: Carroll W. Brentano; Lola B. Gellman; Oleg Grabar; Irving Lavin; Marilyn A. Lavin; Suzanne Lewis; Leo Steinberg; and Cornelius C. Vermeule.

1954: Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst; Patricia C. Loud; Thomas McCormick; Alfred K. Moir; Jessie J. Poesch; Jules D. Prown; Jane E. Rosenthal; Irving Sandler; Lucy Freeman Sandler; and Harold E. Spencer.

1953: Dorathea K. Beard; Margaret McCormick; Seymour Slive; John W. Straus; and Jack Wasserman.

1951: Wen C. Fong; J. Richard Judson; and Carl N. Schmalz, Jr.

1950: Jane Dillenberger; Alan M. Fern; and Marilyn J. Stokstad.

1949: Dario A. Covi; Norman B. Gulamerian; and Ann-Sofi Lindsten.

1948: William S. Dale; Clarke H. Garnsey; and Peter H. Selz.

1947: Dericksen M. Brinkerhoff; David G. Carter; Ellen P. Conant; Ilene H. Forsyth; and J. Edward Kidder, Jr.

1946: Mario Valente.

1945: James Ackerman; Paul B. Arnold; and Rosalie B. Green.

1940: Creighton Gilbert.

CAA members are eligible to participate in the Liberty Mutual Quote for Hope campaign. If you get an insurance quote on automobile, home, or renters insurance by November 30, Liberty Mutual will donate $5 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fight breast cancer and save lives. Visit the above website or call 888-652-2145 for additional information and to get a quote. Please have your current policy and driver’s license on hand.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest breast-cancer organization with the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to fighting the disease. Liberty Mutual is a CAA membership-benefit partner.

No purchase of a policy is necessary. This offer is not available to residents of Iowa, Massachusetts, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Utah. CAA members may get one quote per policy type (i.e., auto, home, or renters). A discount is available where state laws and regulations allow, and discounts may vary by state. To the extent permitted by law, applicants are individually underwritten; not all applicants may qualify. A consumer report from a consumer-reporting agency and/or a motor-vehicle report on all drivers listed on your policy may be obtained where state laws and regulations allow. Coverage is underwritten and provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and affiliates, 175 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

For nearly one hundred years, CAA has served the professional interests of its members, as well as the larger art and academic communities. None of this would be possible without the generous support of members past and present.

As a dedicated CAA member, you have an opportunity to renew your membership before a modest dues increase on January 1, 2011. If you renew before the new year begins, CAA will extend your membership one year from your existing expiration date. Increases range from $5 to $20 for five of the six membership levels below $200; contributions for the Donors Circle have also advanced. Rates for students remain unchanged.

Membership connects you to CAA’s vital community of artists, art historians, and other professionals in the visual arts. You also receive these exclusive benefits:

• Subscription to The Art Bulletin and/or Art Journal
• Access to the Online Career Center, where you can search employment listings, apply for jobs online, post your CV, and request email alerts
• Fellowships for graduate students, publishing grants for book manuscripts, and professional-development workshops for artists, scholars, and educators
• Special rates for CAA’s 99th Annual Conference and Centennial Kickoff in New York, February 9–12, 2011
• Access to CAA’s journals through JSTOR, to caa.reviews, and to the Online Member Directory
• Special discounts on an array of lifestyle and travel services through CAA’s Membership Partners

Visit the Individual Members section to read about these benefits and more. You can renew or upgrade online by following these steps:

• Log into your CAA account with your User ID and password
• Go to the Membership page
• Click the renew link; to upgrade your membership, click the change link

Please contact Member Services at 212-691-1051, ext. 12, with any questions or comments.