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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. |
caa.reviews Seeks Editorial Board Members
posted by CAA — April 30, 2026
caa.reviews seeks two individuals to join the Editorial Board for four‑year terms, July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2030.
CAA encourages applications from candidates with a strong record of scholarship who are committed to the imaginative development of caa.reviews. An online journal, caa.reviews is devoted to the peer review of recent books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art history, visual studies, and the arts.
The Editorial Board advises the Editor‑in‑Chief and Field Editors for the journal and helps them to identify books and exhibitions for review and to solicit reviewers, articles, and other content for the journal. The Editorial Board guides the journal’s editorial program and may propose new initiatives for it. Members stay abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and academic conferences, symposia, and other events in their fields.
The caa.reviews Editorial Board meets three times per year, twice virtually in the spring and fall via Microsoft Teams and once on‑site at the CAA Annual Conference in February. Members also attend the annual meeting of the caa.reviews Council of Field Editors at the Annual Conference. Editorial Board members pay their travel and lodging expenses to attend the meeting at the conference. Members of all Editorial Boards volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not be serving on the Editorial Board of a competing journal or another CAA Editorial Board or committee. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a letter of nomination; self‑nominations are also welcome. Please email a letter of nomination or interest that includes qualifications for appointment, the nominee’s CV, and contact information as a single PDF to Eugenia Bell, CAA Editorial Director. Please include the subject line caa.reviews Editorial Board.
Deadline: June 1, 2026
ART JOURNAL/AJO Seeks Editorial Board Members
posted by CAA — April 30, 2026
Art Journal/Art Journal Open seeks two individuals to join the Editorial Board for four‑year terms, July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2030.
Candidates may be artists, art historians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals; institutional affiliation is not required. Art Journal, published quarterly by CAA, is devoted to twentieth‑ and twenty‑first‑century art and visual culture. AJO is an online forum for the visual arts that presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, scholarly essays, and other forms of original content. Committed to fostering new intellectual exchanges in the fields of modern and contemporary art, AJO prioritizes material that makes meaningful use of the web and publishes on a rolling basis.
The Editorial Board advises the Art Journal and AJO Editors‑in‑Chief and assists them in identifying authors, articles, artists’ projects, and other content for the journal; performs peer review and recommends peer reviewers; guides the journals’ editorial programs and may propose new initiatives for them; promotes and advocates for both journals; and may support fundraising efforts on their behalf. Members also assist the Editors‑in‑Chief to keep abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and other academic conferences, symposia, exhibitions, and events.
The Art Journal/AJO Editorial Board meets three times per year, twice virtually in the spring and fall via Microsoft Teams and once on‑site at the CAA Annual Conference in February. Editorial Board members pay their travel and lodging expenses to attend the meeting at the conference. Members of all Editorial Boards volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not be serving on the Editorial Board of a competing journal or another CAA Editorial Board or committee. Members may not publish their own work in the journals during the term of service. CAA encourages applications from colleagues who will contribute to the diversity of perspectives on the Art Journal/AJO Editorial Board and who will engage actively with conversations about the discipline’s engagements with differences of culture, religion, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, and access.
Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a letter of nomination; self‑nominations are also welcome. Please email a letter of nomination or interest that includes qualifications for appointment, the nominee’s CV, and contact information as a single PDF to Eugenia Bell, CAA Editorial Director. Please include the subject line Art Journal Editorial Board.
Deadline: June 1, 2026
Join the CAA Board of Directors
posted by CAA — April 06, 2026
Now accepting Board of Directors nominations for the 2027–31 term! CAA seeks individuals passionate about shaping the future of the organization and the field. The Board is responsible for financial and policy matters related to CAA in collaboration with the Executive Director & CEO, as well as promoting excellence in scholarship, curation, design, and art practice. CAA’s Board is also charged with representing CAA and advocating for the membership regarding current issues affecting the visual arts and humanities.
Nominations and self-nominations must include the following:
- Nominee name, affiliation, and email address
- Nominator name, affiliation, and email address (if different from nominee)
- Nominee résumé/CV
- Nominee statement of interest (250 words maximum)
Please send nominations and questions via email to Maeghan Donohue, CAA Chief of Staff & Senior Director, Engagement Strategy with the subject line: Board of Directors Nomination.
Deadline: July 10, 2026
Call For Applications: CAA-Getty International Program 2027
posted by CAA — March 20, 2026
Thanks to generous support from Getty, the program—now in its sixteenth year—enables scholars from around the world to travel to New York to participate in the CAA 115th Annual Conference, February 3–6, 2027. The program features a preconference colloquium on international issues in art history, followed by a week of sessions, workshops, events, museum visits, and professional development opportunities.
To date, the program has gathered 189 scholars from sixty-three countries and continues to have significant global impact on the field. These annual convenings have yielded collaboration, community, and lasting connections while also serving to diversify CAA membership, increase international presence at CAA conferences, and foster greater cross-cultural discourse around international art scholarship and practice.
We also invite program alumni to apply to return and support first-time participants, take part in program events, and present at the Annual Conference.
The individuals selected for the 2027 program will receive a one-year CAA membership, have their conference registration fee, travel expenses, and accommodation costs covered, and will receive per diems for meals and incidentals.
International art historians, curators, and other visual arts professionals are encouraged to apply!
Visit our CAA-Getty page for eligibility and application requirements. All interested Getty applicants, whether new scholars or alumni, will need to submit a general conference application (individual presentation proposal) and indicate their interest in participating in the CAA-Getty International Program.
Deadline: April 25
This program is made possible with support from Getty.
Member Spotlight: Meet New Art Journal Reviews Editor Richard Hylton
posted by CAA — March 17, 2026
Richard Hylton
Art Journal is pleased to announce its new reviews editor, Richard Hylton. CAA News is happy to introduce him here and has asked him a few questions to help members, readers, and future contributors get to know him a little better. Welcome, Richard!
Tell us about your current academic position and your research interests.
My trajectory into academia is somewhat unconventional, coming from an art school background and then spending many years facilitating and curating exhibitions. I was awarded my PhD from Goldsmiths, in London, in 2018; did postdoc work at the University of Pittsburgh (2019–21); then spent four years teaching at SOAS, London (2021–25). In July 2025, I was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. So, in a roundabout way I’m returning to the US. At Tyler, I contribute to teaching undergraduate and graduate programs, focusing on African diasporic practice which complements the department’s globally orientated syllabi. Currently, I’m aligning teaching fairly closely to areas of my own research, including transatlantic slavery and contemporary art and histories of African American art in the international arena.
Another area of my research concerns the interplay of historical recovery between academia and the museum. This is evident in my recently published book Donald Rodney: Art, Race and the Body Politic (Bloomsbury, 2025) which begins with an examination of the artist’s “posthumous career,” in order to delineate between his lifetime and belated appreciation. How does temporality inform constructions of legacy in art? I’m also interested how contemporary art functions within the ethnographic museum. Beyond the substantial body of critical work rightly being advanced around cultural restitution and plundered artifacts, I am specifically interested in the cultural, social, and economic forces at play when contemporary art practice is thrown into the ethnographic mix. I’m eager to explore how this museological, highly endowed, and often racialized context may or may not inflect the production, collection and reading of contemporary art.
What do you hope to accomplish as Art Journal’s new Reviews Editor? What makes a strong review and who are reviews for?
As Reviews Editor, I certainly hope to continue the good work of my predecessor Balbir Singh. Over the past few years, a key facet of my own work has been to review books and exhibitions. I think it is such a productive and collegial part of being a writer and researcher, to take time away from one’s own research and to engage with the work of other scholars.
The role of Reviews Editor will also enable me to expand my own knowledge and to operate beyond my immediate comfort zones. Bringing attention to scholarly material, be it books or exhibitions, within and beyond the United States, is my goal. I want to commission both book and exhibition reviews to reflect the interplay between academia and museums. I also hope to engage a breadth of scholars, from graduate students and professors to curators and archivists. A good review offers the reader insight integral to which must be critical perspective on any given book or exhibition. How does said book or exhibition fit within and expand the field.
How does your research and public scholarship dovetail with your view of the Reviews section of the journal?
As previously mentioned, the politics of historical recovery in art is an active area of my research. From which positions do acts of historical recovery originate and on whose behalf are they expressed. Such considerations may inform my role as Reviews Editor. The post-2020 world seems to be an important era in which substantial publications and exhibitions, as well as academia, are seeking not only to pluralize art history but also many of art history’s central tenets based on economics, race, gender, etc.
And finally, what are you reading/viewing outside your academic purview these days? What is inspiring you?
My current and future teaching currently demands much of my reading time. But I see this as a good opportunity and excuse to revisit material, relearn, or learn afresh for the classroom and my research. I recently read and reviewed Rebecca Zorach’s Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America’s Racial Enterprise (2024) and Eunsong Kim’s The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (2025). In different ways, these two books are bold and insightful acts of historical revisionism and contemporary critique. Other books I’m attempting to read are Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (2020) by Sudhir Hazareesingh; We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memories of Faith Ringgold (1995); and Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness by Cynthia Earl Kerman and Richard Eldridge (1987).
Although I am moderately familiar with aspects of Philadelphia’s (art) history—Quakers and slavery, abolitionism, MOVE, Andrea Fraser’s Museum Highlights, Henry Ossawa Tanner, etc.—living here brings a different dimension and perspective to this knowledge. Even the “Sound of Philadelphia,” which, though not an audible presence in the city, was such a part of my growing up in London, offers opportunities for reflection today.
caa.reviews Seeks Librarian Editorial Board Member
posted by CAA — March 17, 2026
caa.reviews seeks a new editorial board member to fill the post of Librarian, an ex officio position, for a four-year term, July 1, 2026–June 30, 2030.
CAA encourages applications from candidates with a strong record of professional service in the realm of art information who are committed to the imaginative development of caa.reviews. An online journal, caa.reviews is devoted to the peer review of recent books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art history, visual studies, and the arts.
The editorial board advises the editor-in-chief and field editors for the journal and helps them to identify books and exhibitions for review and to solicit reviewers, articles, and other content for the journal. The editorial board guides the journal’s editorial program and may propose new initiatives for it. Members stay abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and academic conferences, symposia, and other events in their fields. The Librarian member is expected to advise on issues regarding institutional access to the journal’s content as well as advances in scholarly publishing.
The caa.reviews editorial board meets three times per year, twice in the spring and fall and once at the CAA Annual Conference in February. Members also attend the annual business meeting of the caa.reviews Council of Field Editors at the Annual Conference. Members pay their travel and lodging expenses to attend the meeting at the conference. Meetings in the spring and fall are currently held remotely. Members of all editorial boards volunteer their services to CAA without compensation.
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not currently serve on the editorial board of a competing journal or another CAA editorial board or committee. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Please email a statement describing your interest in and qualifications for appointment, a CV, and your contact information as a single PDF to Eugenia Bell, CAA Editorial Director, with the subject line caa.reviews Librarian.
Deadline: April 15, 2026