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I am honored to be nominated to serve as the Emerging Professional Director. I am a lecturer at Ursinus College and PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. Currently, I am the chair of the CAA Student and Emerging Professionals Committee, which I have served on since 2020. As my term ends this year, I am excited about the potential of continuing my service to CAA as well as my advocacy for students and emerging professionals.

Throughout my time as a member of SEPC, I have been involved in many initiatives that helped expand the scope of the committee, the successes of which depended on the support and dedication of the Board. As CAA is beginning to move towards a model of year-round and evergreen content, I would look forward to using my presence on the board as an active proponent for the projects that SEPC is currently in the process of generating. These will greatly benefit the committee’s constituency, which is among the most precarious of CAA’s audience. I care deeply about CAA’s growth and success and believe that increasing accessibility beyond the conference is at the center of this. My time on the committee has given me great insight into the needs of and demands from students and emerging professionals, and I know that I will be able to use this background as well as my own experience to help make CAA a more robustly inclusive institution that is the incubator for the next generation of artists and scholars.

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Thank you for considering my application for the College Art Association Board of Directors. I believe that my extensive experience both inside and outside the classroom would greatly benefit the board. Following my graduation from graduate school, I spent three years working at U.S. Art Company, where I gained valuable experience in crating, installation, and operations. Despite this, I decided to transition into teaching and left to adjunct teach in a variety of universities and colleges for seven years. This experience eventually led to my appointment as a lecturer and Coordinator of Foundations at Northern Arizona University, where I served for ten years before my position was converted into a tenure position in New Media Arts.

Despite my role as a New Media professor, I believe in a comprehensive approach to studio education that incorporates both traditional methods and innovative technologies. Moreover, I am deeply passionate about advocating for arts education and have a unique ability to bridge the arts with science, history, engineering, and other fields due to my own background and artistic practice.

As we face challenging times for studio arts, design, and art history, all of which are fighting for survival, I am eager to leverage my perspective and diverse roles within academia to inspire and contribute to a strong defense of the opportunities we create for our students and society as a whole. I am also looking to grow and learn from this opportunity to better serve my university, faculty, and students.

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I would like to nominate myself, Nozomi Naoi to serve on the Board of Directors for CAA. I have always felt strongly about advocating for the arts in a global environment. I believe my professional experience in building a new college in Singapore and serving as Head of Studies of the Arts and Humanities major during its closure by 2025 makes me a strong candidate.

I built the arts curriculum and was part of setting up a new college in Singapore—a college that was co-founded by an American institution (Yale University) and the National University of Singapore (NUS)—and now I am managing its closure as the Head of Studies. This has given me a unique experience in creating an environment that truly envisions an international perspective from the start that is not just as a corrective measure and handling its continuation as I transition to NUS.

I believe my personal background as a Japanese national growing up in Tokyo through an international school system and receiving my BA from Carleton College and MA and PhD from Harvard University truly positions me as a strong candidate to bridge the national and international presence and advocacy of CAA. In addition, my research area of Japanese art history that straddles spheres of media studies, design history, commercial art, and studies of the Asian diaspora; my work with curatorial practice and museum exhibitions; and my experience going through the tenure process during the pandemic allows me to advocate for a diverse group of members in CAA.

My location in Singapore also brings a much-needed bridge between the North American core that CAA has well supported and the intellectual and arts community of the North/South East Asia and Oceania regions. I was elected as a board member candidate in the previous call and although I was not successful, many colleagues have reached out to me expressing their support and excitement for a candidate working on and in this region. This is why I have decided to nominate myself again.

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I am honored to be nominated as a member for the CAA Board. CAA has been my home in academia and pivotal in my professional development. For me this is the best time to be member of CAA: we are witnessing unprecedented change in the arts, education, museums and scholarship and above all this is an important opportunity to serve our membership. Active with CAA for twenty years, I have served as conference presenter, professional development mentor and member of CAA’s International Committee and Museum Committee. I am committed to CAA’s mission to advance the highest standards of instruction, knowledge, and practice in the visual arts, to foster intellectual engagement, and to advance skills that enrich individuals and society.

I bring to CAA three-decades of experience as an artist, university educator and scholar. Speaking to CAA’s strategic plan, I seek to support the Board to embrace our diverse membership in the arts, art history, education, museums and scholarship. I also seek to support diversity, our members’ professional journeys and address and support equitable compensation and fair labor practices, as well as navigating changes brought through new technologies.

As a Board member I bring experience as an artist, arts and education advocate, and experience serving global organizations – and will support our Board in identifying solutions for CAA’s future.

As an artist and scholar I will use my creative skills to advocate for the needs of creative practitioners especially in enhancing their careers through professional development. I trained in fine art and theory in London and Tokyo and specialized in cross-cultural collaboration in the arts during my PhD in the UK and post-doctorate in Brazil. I am professor of record from Modern and Contemporary Art History at Renmin University and have lectured on art and entrepreneurship at universities in Asia and Europe. I served on the curatorial team that created the inaugural Taipei Biennial in 1998 and am now initiating an art biennial focused on diversity and inclusivity. Sponsored by the US Department of State, I created models for cross-cultural educational exchange in Mongolia and have led Fulbright research projects in Mongolia (2014), China (2017), India (2022) and Sri Lanka (2022).

I served as Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in India and my research has made me aware of the potential for organizations to enhance their international focus and reach. I have also led events in France, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. As a Columbia University research scholar, I am examining the future of education in a rapidly evolving arts and technology landscape, particularly the impacts of AI on the roles, rules and structures of our professions.

I seek to advocate for our members: CAA is our home in academia. At our CAA conferences, I have had the opportunity to listen and better understand our members’ goals and career challenges. Some have shared how career advancement at times feels like musical chairs. It is important is that we foster inclusive professional communities that can support members to advocate for themselves in their careers at all stages. This has been a key inspiration for my own training as a coach and mentor serving artists and educators. I have initiated coaching pilots at Yale Center for British Art, California State University, University of Melbourne, and recently initiated India’s first mentoring program to serve Naga tribal communities.

I am passionate about teaching: As a university educator, I am now developing combined practice/ theory classes for universities that focus on project-based learning. I am trained in advanced curriculum design in art education and recently served the Future of Education Board for the Thought Leadership Institute. Fostering connection is essential for educators in all stages of their careers and as a Board member I seek to enhance our CAA offerings both in and outside of our conferences with workshops and networking opportunities. Supporting CAA’s Committees, Juries and Editorial Boards: Active in CAA’s International and Museum Committees, I am experienced working with diverse interest groups and can assist in CAA Fundraising and public events to expand CAA’s reach. I lead an Artistic Research Working Group. where we are exploring the futures of research in art education. For the past seven years, I also serve on the Editorial Board for ProjectAnywhere, a journal at University of Melbourne, Australia. Supporting solutions for our strategic and financial direction and expanding CAA’s global reach. I trained in organizational strategy at Boston University (M.Sc. Management) and California State University. (MBA) and have advised global organizations including 3M, Du Pont, General Electric, Dow, and Bayer on their marketing, financial and strategic goals. These experiences uniquely enable me to support the Board to expand CAA’s reach and membership, build sponsorship and support collaboration with other organizations. In New York, I serve on the board for a children’s charity and the Editorial Board for ProjectAnywhere at University of Melbourne and the New School in New York and served as a New York Chair of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.

Most importantly: I am grateful to serve CAA and our membership.

• Supporting our Board to identify solutions for our strategic direction.

• Multimedia artist, university educator and consultant serving global organizations since 1989.

• Committed to fostering diverse environments that are equitable and inclusive.

• Advocate for our members in their careers including equitable compensation and fair labor practices and navigating technology changes.

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I am passionate about the field of Art History and CAA has always been an integral component to my professional markers for success. I have been a part of CAA since I was an undergraduate Art History major and continue to be an engaged member who holds an Associate faculty position. I have participated in many aspects of the conference from volunteer room monitor, to presenter and chair of sessions, and now as the Chair of the Annual Conference Committee. My interest in working with CAA is to support diversity and inclusion, as well as accessibility. As ACC
Chair I have been privy to the inner workings of the organization and have come to learn about the potential impactful role of the Executive Board Members. I am motivated to shift from the ACC to the Executive Board where I hope to bring my three years of putting the conference
together at the submission level into conversation with the rest of the organization’s inner workings. I am eager to engage in broader aspects of CAA and to offer support in building financial stability and strategic planning, as well as policy development. In particular, I am keen
to seek ways to intersect with CAA committees and membership with the hope to grow and develop them both. I believe my personal professional experiences as a curator, scholar, teaching faculty, art administrator, project manager and in funds development offer transferable skills that will benefits my work as part of the CAA Executive Board.

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I respectfully and enthusiastically submit my candidacy for the 2024–2028 College Art Association (CAA) Board of Directors term. As an artist and educator who embraces flexibility and lifelong learning, I am motivated by the organization’s mission for advocacy, intellectual engagement, and diversity. In addition, through my artistic and educational practices, I seek to support collaboration and communication while pursuing constructive outcomes. My art practice examines social contexts of gender and sexuality. It explores conceptual frames that reflect my LGBTQ+ identity. As such, I am invested ardently in the many human facets of social justice, especially as these issues relate to equity and inclusion in art and art education. I earned three master’s degrees from accomplished institutions – educational experiences that reflect programmatic diversity in studio art, business, and journalism. My professional experience includes comprehensive responsibility for financial and policy maters both in academia and the technology industry. In addition, as an artist and educator, I have invested significantly in my art practice, leveraging these activities in collaboration with my students. Since 2021, I have served CAA to evaluate conference session proposals as a member of the Council of Readers. During this time, I worked with the organization’s staff to ensure continued scholastic and creative excellence for presentations. As well, I have presented and chaired sessions at past CAA conferences. I believe that as an Assistant Professor of Art at the Kentucky College of Art + Design (KyCAD), I would represent CAA members’ goals and interests effectively.

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