CAA News Today

Happy New Year! Affiliated Society News shares the new and exciting things CAA’s affiliated organizations are working on including activities, awards, publications, conferences, and exhibitions. See January’s news below.

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Community College Professors of Art and Art History

Women’s Caucus for Art

Thursday, February 13, 12:30pm: book presentation and discussion of Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity, with editors Rachel Epp Buller and Charles Reeve and contributor Niku Kashef

Thursday, February 13, 6:00pm: WCA/CAA panel on Amplifying Inclusion: Intersectional Feminism in Contemporary Curatorial Practice, with presenters Tanya Augsburg, Priscilla Otani, Karen Gutfreund, and Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, with discussant Maria Buszek.

CAA members are also invited to attend WCA exhibitions in Chicago. The Young Women’s Caucus organized Intersectional History at WomanMade Gallery and the National WCA exhibition, Collectively Shifting, is hosted by The Bridgeport Art Center.

New Media Caucus

The New Media Caucus is happy to welcome the following continuing and new board members following a successful 2019-2020 Election Cycle.

Chair of Communication Committee

KT Duffy
Assistant Professor of Art, Northeastern Illinois University

Board Members

Farhad Bayram
Assistant Professor, Indiana State University

Victoria Bradbury
Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina – Asheville

Meredith Drum
Assistant Professor, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech

Zach Duer
Assistant Professor, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech

Sue Huang
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

Chelsea Thompo
Visiting Professor, Grand Valley State University

The New Media Caucus (NMC) is a 501c3 dedicated to supporting artists and scholars engaged in new media art. More information about the NMC and our mission can be found at newmediacaucus.org.

Society for the History of Collecting

We are looking forward to our debut sessions at CAA in February and will be using our inaugural business meeting to host a conversation about opportunities for research and funding in the field (the Friday lunchtime slot).

We are also excited to announce that the Americas chapter is expanding with Sophia McCabe spearheading a West Coast initiative.

In NY our upcoming events include a curatorial walk-through with Inés Katzenstein of Sur moderno at MoMA (January 8) and a collaboration with Master Drawings New York on Saturday, January 25. Talking Drawings—a conversation amongst four women collectors of works on paper will be moderated by Dr Jennifer Tonkovich of The Morgan Library & Museum. More information can be found here.

Society of Architectural Historians

Are you planning to attend the College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago? If so, please join SAH’s conversation about two of our most exciting current initiatives, SAH Archipedia and the SAH Data Project, at the SAH Business Meeting on Wednesday, February 12, 12:30–1:30 pm. Pauline Saliga, SAH Executive Director, will discuss the recent launch of SAH Archipedia. This growing, open-access, mobile-friendly online resource will soon provide new opportunities to publish interpretive research about the history of the built environment. Sarah M. Dreller, SAH Postdoctoral Researcher in the Humanities, will answer questions about the purpose, scope, and timeline of the SAH Data Project, a Mellon-funded study that is assessing the status of the field of architectural history in higher education. The project will launch a key component of the data-gathering effort, online surveys for students, faculty, and program chairs/administrators, right before the CAA Annual Conference.

Early Registration is open for the SAH 2020 Annual International Conference in Seattle, Washington, April 29–May 3. Nearly 700 SAH members from around the world are expected to convene at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel to present new research on the history of the built environment, network, and participate in roundtables, seminars, workshops, tours and more. Early registration closes March 3, 2020.

SAH will offer a total of 36 paper sessions at its 2021 Annual International Conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada. The Society invites individuals and those representing SAH chapters and partner organizations to submit a session proposal for the Montréal conference. Since the principal purpose of the SAH annual conference is to inform attendees of the general state of research in architectural history and related disciplines, session proposals covering every time period and all aspects of the built environment, including landscape and urban history, are encouraged. The submission deadline is January 14, 2020.

Visual Resources Association

The Visual Resources Association (VRA) has planned two events for the 2020 Chicago conference and we welcome CAA conference attendees to join us for a full session and open business meeting turned interactive forum.  

Both events take place on Wednesday, February 12th, starting with a VRA Business Meeting scheduled midday (free and open to the public), which we have turned into a discussion forum opening with a presentation entitled “From Archive to Classroom: The Use of Omeka and Companion Tools in the Curation of Digital Stories and Exhibits” involving Matt Taylor, Director of the Media and Design Studio, and Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History, as well as their students from Northwestern University. It will be followed by what will surely be an engaging discussion about online exhibitions and other current trends in the field of visual resources.  

In the afternoon, a formal session has been organized entitled, “Hands-On to Eyes-On: From Material Collections to Digital Exhibitions“ chaired by Bridget Madden, Associate Director of the Visual Resources Center, in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. A distinguished panel of artists, art historians, librarians, museum and information professionals will discuss the hands-on use of materials and museum collections to allow students to apply their knowledge in real-life contexts (full slate below). The presenters will discuss: the use of a materials collection in teaching art history survey courses to studio art and design students; fashion and textile resources transitioning from physical to digital collections for enhanced access; and a two-term curatorial practice course sequenced to design and install a museum exhibition. In all cases, the collections used in teaching are prioritized and sustained, not treated as occasional visits or demonstrations. The role of professional staff supporting these collections and facilitating their use by faculty and students is integral. It will be shown how effective these collaborations can be, including how they can lead to more engaging, active learning experiences in the classroom. The session will take place at 4pm at the Hilton Chicago in the Wilford C room as follows: 

1) “Materials in Context: Experiential Learning in Art History” at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with Allan T. Kohl, Librarian in charge of Visual Resources and Library Instruction, presenting a collection curator’s perspective, partnered with Jessica M. Dandona, Associate Professor of Art History, providing a faculty perspective. 

2) “Materiality Made Visible” will be presented by Melanie E. Emerson, Dean of the Library + Special Collections, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

3) “Exhibition in Practice” at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, will be presented with Leslie Wilson, Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts, providing  “A Perspective from the Classroom” and Berit Ness, Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives, talking about “Execution in the Museum.”   

The Visual Resources Association is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments (http://vraweb.org/).  

For additional information, please contact Maureen Burns, VRA CAA Affiliate Society Representative at moaburns@gmail.com. 

Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE)

There is a date change to the original announcement of the FATE Biennial Conference.

18th Biennial Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference will be hosted by University of North Carolina Charlotte. Mark your calendars for April 15-17, 2021 and make plans to be there! 

FATE

UNCC

American Society of Appraisers

·         February 3, 2020 | Fundamentals of Jewelry Appraisal | Tucson, AZ

·         February 5, 2020 | Introduction to the Chinese Art Market, Challenges and Opportunities | Webinar

·         March 2, 2020 | Fundamentals of Jewelry Appraisal | Carlsbad, CA

·         March 16-17, 2020 | Appraising Fine Arts Overview | Chicago, IL

·         March 20, 2020 | Personal Property Appraisal Report Writing Update | Reston, VA

·         May 14-15, 2020 | Fair Market Value: Appraising Personal Property for Non-Cash Charitable Contributions and Estates | Reston, VA

·         May 30-June 14, 2020 | 9th Annual Summer Appraisal Camp | Purchase, NY

·         October 29, 2020 | The Decorative Art and Mechanics of Antique Clocks | Webinar

Historians of Netherlandish Art

CAA CONFERENCE CHICAGO, February 12-15^th, 2020:

HNA RECEPTION: Friday, February 14^th, between 5:30 and 7 pm. Private Dining Room 4,  located on the third floor of the Hilton

HNA SESSION:

Thursday February 13^th, 10:30-12:00 pm

Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-5: 10

Landscape through a Sociopolitical Lens: Representing the Environment in the Early Modern Netherlandish World

Historians of Netherlandish Art

Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Harvard Art Museums and Sarah Walsh Mallory, Harvard University

SESSION run by HNA members:

Thursday, February 13^th, 6:00-7;30 PM

Hilton Chicago –  3^rd Floor – Wilford C

Re-Assessing the Northern European Male Nude

Martha Hollander, Hofstra University and Lisa Rosenthal, University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORIANS OF NETHERLANDISH ART:

JHNA has just published a special guest-edited issue on the art of Gerard de Lairesse (Winter 2020, vol. 12:1). The editors include Eric Jan Sluijter (University of Amsterdam Emeritus); Elmer Kolfin (University of Amsterdam); Jasper Hillegers (Salomon Lilian Gallery, Amsterdam); and Marrigje Rikken (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem).

JHNA has received a grant from the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH) to support the development of a hot spot feature for images in the article by Melanie Gifford on Rubens’s Fall of Phaeton, National Gallery of Art, Washington, which appeared in the Summer 2019 issue (vol. 11:2).  Watch for this digital feature in Gifford’s essay in 2020 as well as in other essays to come.