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Call For Nominations: CAA Grants + Awards Jurors
posted by CAA — May 14, 2026
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for individuals with relevant expertise to serve on juries for Awards, Fellowships, Publication Grants, and Travel Grants. Serving on a jury is one of the most meaningful volunteer opportunities at CAA, one that fulfills an essential role to contribute to and support the scholarly arts and your professional organization.
TERM + ELIGIBILITY
- Three-year terms begin July 2026 and conclude June 2029.
- A completed form is required for all nominations.
- All jury members must be current CAA members.
- Current CAA Committee and Editorial Board members are not eligible to apply.
Questions? Please contact Cali Buckley with the subject line “CAA Juror Nominations.”
Deadline: June 25, 2026
Apply for CAA Committee Service!
posted by CAA — May 13, 2026
Join one of CAA’s twelve Professional Committees, the Publications Committee, the Annual Conference Committee, or the Council of Readers as an at-large member! Each committee works from a charge established by the Board of Directors. For many CAA members, committee service fosters professional relationships, community, and facilitates impactful contributions to pressing issues in the visual arts and higher education.
Important Committee Service Information:
- Committee members serve a three-year term. Service for this cycle begins in February 2027 at the CAA 115th Annual Conference and concludes in February 2030 at the 118th Annual Conference.
- All applications are reviewed by current committee members as well as CAA leadership.
- Appointments will be announced by November 1, 2026. New members will be introduced to their committees during their respective business meetings at the CAA 115th Annual Conference in New York City (February 3–6, 2027).
- If appointed, applicants are expected to attend committee meetings, participate actively in the work of the committee, and contribute expertise to defining the current and future work of the committee.
- Appointees must be current CAA members before the start of their service but do not need to be CAA members to apply.
- All committee members volunteer their service without compensation.
Use the links below to learn more about each committee before filling out the application form:
CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE + COUNCIL OF READERS
The Annual Conference Committee and the Council of Readers play different but equally important roles in shaping the Annual Conference each year, ensuring the program reflects CAA’s goals: To make the conference an effective place for intellectual, aesthetic, and professional learning and exchange, to reflect the diverse interests of the membership, and to provide opportunities for participation that are fair, equal, and balanced.
Please Note: Unlike many committee service roles, the Council of Readers does not convene monthly; the bulk of their review work takes place each May/June. This is the perfect role for those who want to serve a three-year term but do not have the capacity to take on work year-round.
CAA PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES
CAA’s twelve Professional Committees represent the constituent interests of the organization by addressing standards, practices, and guidelines in the professions of our individual and institutional members.
- Committee on Design
- Committee on Diversity Practices
- Committee on Intellectual Property
- Committee on Research and Scholarship
- Committee on Women in the Arts
- Education Committee
- International Committee
- Museum Committee
- Professional Practices Committee
- Services to Artists Committee
- Services to Historians of Visual Arts Committee
- Student and Emerging Professionals Committee
CAA PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
The Publications Committee oversees CAA’s publishing activities and supervises the Editorial Boards of The Art Bulletin, Art Journal/Art Journal Open, and caa.reviews
Please Note: At-large members of the Publications Committee represent the voice of our membership, and perform the role of committee secretary, taking minutes at three Publications Committee meetings per year in February, spring (April or May), and fall (September or October).
If you are interested in serving on a CAA committee, please click the APPLY TO SERVE button below to fill out the application form and upload your CV and personal statement as a single PDF, describing your interest in the specific committee you have selected and any relevant experience (250 words maximum). If you are applying to more than one committee, please submit a separate personal statement tailored to each of the committees to which you are applying, noting why you’d like to serve on that specific committee.
Please contact info@collegeart.org with any questions, using the subject line “CAA Committee Service 2027–30”.
Deadline: July 25, 2026
Congratulations to CAA114 Travel Grantees!
posted by CAA — May 06, 2026
Each year, CAA awards travel and support grants for scholars to attend the Annual Conference, funded by foundations and individual donors. We were thrilled to have so many grantees join us in Chicago for the CAA 114th Annual Conference!
CAA Edwards Memorial Support Grantees
The CAA Edwards Memorial Support Grants, in memory of Archibald Cason Edwards Sr. and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards and made possible by Mary D. Edwards, supports emerging scholars and have received their PhD within the past two years or who are nearing the end of a doctoral program.
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Brittany Ellis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presentation: “The Sedimented Image: Transforming the ‘Lac Asphaltite’ into Historical Record and Photomechanical Print” Session: Elemental Infrastructures in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture |
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Kristie La, Harvard University Presentation: “Sculpture between Respectability and Transgression: Augusta Savage’s Bookends for Countee Cullen” Session: Queer Wanting |
Samuel H. Kress Foundation CAA Annual Conference Travel Fellows
Recognizing the value of the exchange of ideas and experience among art historians, the Kress Foundation offers travel grants for scholars presenting on European art before 1830.
Congrats to CAA 2025/2026 Professional Development Fellows
posted by CAA — May 06, 2026
Congratulations to our 2025/2026 Professional Development fellows, Ali Derafshi, University of California, Santa Barbara (for Art History) and Dan Hernandez, University of Las Vegas (for Visual Art)!
Honorable Mentions: Lauren Bock, The University of Texas at Austin (Art History); Clara Pérez Medina, Berkeley University; Nora Lambert, University of Chicago (Art History); and Sopheak Sam, Cornell University (Visual Art).
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Ali Derafshi is an architect and architectural historian whose research bridges architectural and reception theory with immigration, exile, and diaspora studies. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an MArch from McGill University, an MA in Landscape Architecture, and a BA in Architecture from Iran. His dissertation, “From Persomania to Persophobia: ‘Persian Architecture’ and Its Reception in Twentieth-Century California,” examines how shifting societal attitudes—ranging from admiration to rejection of Persian material culture in the United States before and after the 1979 Hostage Crisis—have shaped the perception, creation, and reception of what has been understood as Persian architecture in California throughout the twentieth century. He is currently revising his dissertation into a book manuscript. In addition to his research, he has recently joined the Division of Facilities and Construction at the Los Angeles County Office of Education. |
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Dan Hernandez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hernandez considers the different social and environmental forces that shape our self-perception through drawings, sculptures, and performances that layer references to pop culture and childhood. He is set to graduate this spring with an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Hernandez’s artistic journey has taken him to various galleries and museums across Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Illinois, and California. Recently, he completed a residency with Meow Wolf, which included an installation at Omega Mart in Las Vegas and a collaborative project for UNLV’s Artwalk. Additionally, he partnered with McDonald’s to create a sculpture for the Midtown Maryland Parkway District Public Art Project, positioned in front of the new McDonald’s in Las Vegas. In addition to his visual art, Hernandez is the creator of the SOCIAL COMA zine and co-runs the art collaborative LovervilleUSA with his wife. His wood sculptures have made subtle appearances within urban settings across the Northwest. |
HONORABLE MENTIONS
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Lauren Bock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds BA degrees in Textile Production and Classics along with MA degrees in Classical Archaeology and Ancient Art History. Her research centers on the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean with a special focus on the history of textile production. Her dissertation, “Threads of Power: An Exploration of Textile Production Motifs in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond”, examines the intersection between power and textile production and the relationship between textile technologies and gender. |
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Clara Pérez Medina is a scholar, documentary filmmaker, and photographer whose work examines how visual artifacts operate not only as representations but as spatial instruments that organize urban life, regulate access to resources, and shape racialized imaginaries of futurity. Through a case study of Oakland and Berkeley, California—spanning key turning points in the racial-spatial character of both cities from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries—their research investigates how photography, architecture, urban design and film function as spatial technologies, racial-aesthetic projects, that organize belonging, race, property, and futurity in U.S. cities. Their collaborative short films have been featured in numerous film festivals, galleries, and museum exhibitions, showcasing the work of local Black and Latinx cultural workers and activists preserving their radical pasts to protect their collective futures; their work has been supported by several foundations. Their art practice and scholarly work shows how images and aesthetics—whether journalistic, architectural, or participatory—operate spatially to organize urban life and possibility within and beyond racial capitalism. |
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Nora Lambert is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, where she specializes in late medieval and early modern Italy. Her research interests include cross-cultural interaction in the Mediterranean basin, and the gendered nature of making, viewing, and acquiring artworks. Her dissertation, “Picturing Mobility: Late Medieval and Renaissance Naples at the Threshold of the Mediterranean,” explores the wide circulation and transcontinental nature of Neapolitan commissions and collections. From 2021–2022, she was a Fulbright Fellow affiliated with the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples. She was the 2022–2024 Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and remains there as 2025–2026 predoctoral fellow in the Department Michalsky. |
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Sopheak Sam is an interdisciplinary artist whose sensuous and spatial interventions distill postwar intimacies, often drawn from their experience as a Cambodian refugee. Working across installation, video, sculpture, painting, and textiles, Sam’s expansive practice traces the afterlives and afterimages of refugeehood to grapple with fragmentary memories, histories, and spaces. Sam holds an MFA in Art from Cornell University and a BFA in Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. They are a recipient of a 2025 Boston Artadia Award and a 2022–2023 U.S. Fulbright Scholarship for research on the Thai-Cambodian border. Sam’s work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally, including solo presentations at Kalm Village (Chiang Mai, Thailand) and Distillery Gallery (Boston, MA), as well as group exhibitions at Factory (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), the Minnesota Museum of American Art (St. Paul, MN), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and the Ely Center for Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT), among others. Sam’s studio practice is based between Lowell and Boston, Massachusetts, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. |