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Associate Editor for Digital Publications
posted by CAA — December 08, 2017
Please note: This position has been filled. Thank you.
College Art Association
50 Broadway, Fl 21
New York, NY 10004
Date posted: December 6, 2017
Position Title: Associate Editor for Digital Publications
Supervisor: Director of Programs and Publications
Full-time, salaried with benefits
Founded in 1911, the College Art Association (CAA) is the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promoting the field through intellectual engagement, advocacy, programs, and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners. Each year, CAA offers an Annual Conference, publishes two scholarly journals and offers a variety of other programs. Visit CollegeArt.org for a complete description of programs and offerings.
CAA has more than 9,000 members worldwide. The majority of members are curators, art historians, scholars, visual artists, and designers.
Responsibilities:
The Associate Editor for Digital Publications reports to the Director of Programs and Publications. The Associate Editor serves principally as production manager and copyeditor for Art Journal Open, assists in production of caa.reviews, and provides support for other digital publication projects.
The Associate Editor works closely and collaboratively with colleagues in all departments within CAA as well as with representatives from the Board of Directors, editorial boards, and Publications Committee, to establish priorities and to ensure the highest standards of publishing. The Associate Editor acts as the liaison for CAA publications to the association’s communications and marketing department; skills in social media and copywriting are essential.
Art Journal Open
- Responsibilities include, but are not limited to serving as production manager working closely with the Web Editor to produce essays and artists’ projects for the website.
- Creates and maintains production schedules, including deadlines for submissions, editing, proofreading, and publishing.
- Communicates regularly with the Director of Programs and Publications, Editorial Director, and Web Editor about the progress of web projects and texts.
- Reviews text, image, video, and other files submitted for publication; checks permissions submitted by authors; and obtains replacement files when necessary
- Copyedits, fact-checks, and proofreads manuscripts; manages editorial process for contributors
- Designs and implements layouts for all projects published
- Prepares manuscripts and images for upload
- Uploads and publishes all content
- Manages and maintains functionality and administrative aspects of the site including contracts, permissions, and payments
Programs and Publications Department
- Assists with maintenance of reviews website
- Works on multimedia projects for reviews using the Scalar platform
- Works with Publications and Programs Editor to upload and publish content on reviews on a weekly basis
- Works collaboratively with CAA’s communications, marketing, and membership department to promote content published across all CAA’s publications, including preparing marketing copy and strategizing; works with CAA’s Media and Content Manager on preparing content for social media
- Collaborates with Grants and Special Programs Manager on grant programs and applications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in an art related field
- A minimum of 2 years experience in editorial production; a background or interest in contemporary art editing is a plus
- Working knowledge and experience with WordPress or working with another CMS system to publish online. Familiarity with PHP development is a plus
- Experience with HTML/CSS, Photoshop, Vimeo, and social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
- Strong English-language and copyediting skills (Chicago Manual of Style)
- Excellent communication, organizational, and time-management skills
- Excellent attention to detail and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to understand production scheduled, meet deadlines and quality expectations
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively as a member of a team
- Flexibility, creativity, and initiative
- Pleasant demeanor
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel
- Ability to work resourcefully and adapt to changing needs within the department
Interested individuals should submit a cover letter and resume to Tiffany Dugan, Director of Programs and Publications, via email (with “Associate Editor for Digital Publications” and applicant’s last name in subject line) at TDugan@collegeart.org. No telephone inquiries will be accepted. Applications accepted until position is filled. Please include the names and contact information for three references who can speak to your qualifications and ability to perform the tasks requested.
The College Art Association is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression, or political affiliation.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted by CAA — December 06, 2017
Pieter de Hooch, Woman Weighing Coins (c. 1664), oil on canvas (image courtesy of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, property of Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein), included in Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting.
Each week CAA News summarizes articles, published around the web, that CAA members may find interesting and useful in their professional and creative lives.
Academics and Artists Weigh In on Controversial City Monuments
Over 120 academics and artists have urged Mayor Bill de Blasio to remove five public monuments and markers they say celebrate racism. (New York Times)
The High Life of Vermeer and his Contemporaries
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his take on the genre. (Hyperallergic)
Seven of the Met’s Tiniest Masterpieces
From a 19th-century necklace of miniature portraits to an ancient Egyptian scarab, here are seven of the Met’s tiniest works of art. (Artsy)
Teenagers in Maryland Create a Pop-Up Museum to Explain Their Lives and Struggles
The Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers (MoCAT) is scheduled to open today. (Washington Post)
A Whale’s Tale: Longest Painting in North America Restored
A museum has restored the longest painting in North America so it can share the story of American whaling. (Associated Press)
UK Museums’ Right to Charge Image Fees is Called into Question
A campaign for institutions to free up photographs of out-of-copyright works is backed by legal experts. (The Art Newspaper)
Meet the 2018 Travel Grant Recipients
posted by CAA — December 05, 2017
CAA offers Annual Conference Travel Grants to graduate students in art history and studio art and to international artists and scholars. Meet this year’s recipients below.
CAA TRAVEL GRANT IN MEMORY OF ARCHIBALD CASON EDWARDS, SENIOR, AND SARAH STANLEY GORDON EDWARDS
Established by Mary D. Edwards with the help of others, the CAA Travel Grant in Memory of Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards supports women who are emerging scholars at either an advanced stage of pursuing a doctoral degree or who have received their PhD within the two years prior to the submission of the application.
Ashley Dimmig, University of Michigan
Woven Spaces: Building with Textile in Islamic Architecture
“Into the Fold: Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Fabric (and) Architecture”
Sandra Gomez Todó, University of Iowa
Unruly Women in Early Modern Art and Material Culture
“‘But ev’ry Woman is at Heart a Rake:’ Sartorial Agency and the Disruptive Female Masquerader in Lady Elizabeth Chudleigh’s Iphigenia”
Tania Vanessa Alvarez Portugal
De-centering the “Global Renaissance.” Encounters with Asia and the Pacific Rim
“A Mexican Tarot? A 1583 Deck of Mexican Playing Cards”
Emilie Anne-Yvonne Luse, Duke University
Avant-Gardes and Varieties of Fascism
“A Modern Pax Romana: Christian Universalism, Fascism and the Neo-Humanist Aesthetic of Waldemar George”
CAA GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS
CAA awards Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants to advanced PhD and MFA graduate students as partial reimbursement of travel expenses to the Annual Conference.
Mensah Bey
Allison Renée Dunavant
Ezgi Isbilen
Steven Lemke
Kimberly Lyle
Kelly McClinton
Maja M. Michaliszyn
Hollis Moore
CAA INTERNATIONAL MEMBER CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS
CAA awards the International Member Conference Travel Grant to artists and scholars from outside the United States as partial reimbursement of travel expenses to the Annual Conference.
Pamela Gerrish Nunn
Erin McClenathan
Friederike Schäfer
SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION CAA CONFERENCE TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS
Recognizing the value of first-hand exchanges of ideas and experience among art historians, the Kress Foundation is offering support for international scholars participating as speakers at the 2018 CAA Annual Conference. The scholarly focus of the papers must be European art before 1830. Kress recipients will be announced in January 2018.
CAA-GETTY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
Every year since 2012, the CAA-Getty International Program has brought between fifteen and twenty art historians, museum curators, and artists who teach art history to attend CAA’s Annual Conference. This program is funded on an annual basis by the Getty Foundation. Click here to meet the CAA-Getty International Program participants.
Sophia Brueckner and Byron Rich
posted by CAA — December 04, 2017
The weekly CAA Conversations Podcast continues the vibrant discussions initiated at our Annual Conference. Listen in each week as educators explore arts and pedagogy, tackling everything from the day-to-day grind to the big, universal questions of the field.
This week, Sophia Brueckner, assistant professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, and Byron Rich, assistant professor of Art at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, discuss science fiction as inspiration for design and innovation.
New in caa.reviews
posted by CAA — December 01, 2017
Jessen Kelly discusses Jan Gossart and Invention of Nederlandish Antiquity by Marisa Anne Bass. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jordan A. Fenton reviews The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo by Cécile Fromont. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Vivek Gupta writes on Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India by Heidi Pauwels. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jane Tynan writes about The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora by Carol Tulloch. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Katherine Doniak discusses Terry Fox edited by Arnold Dreyblatt and Angela Lammert. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Allison Leigh reviews The Russian Canvas by Rosalind P. Blakesly. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
SooJin Lee writes about Yayoi Kusama by Midori Yamamura. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Medias Res by Nick Herman on Art Journal Open
posted by CAA — November 30, 2017
Art Journal Open presents Medias Res by Los Angeles–based artist Nick Herman, with an introduction by Art Journal Open’s Former Web Editor, Gloria Sutton.
Medias Res is the second of two projects that Herman has created for Art Journal Open, and features Herman’s exploration of his artworks and texts related to his interests in static, rastering, layering, and other transmission processes. These interests have led Herman to create two new works to be viewed on Art Journal Open: Comm 1 (2017), which takes the shape of a unique and experimental pop-up GIF experience, and MERROR ERROR TERRIOR (2017), a downloadable image.
“Static or noise as a record of transmission becomes its own reward, reflecting its innate complexity and, in the process, some greater truth about its origin.” Herman writes, “To me, the GIF does something similar, capturing the unpredictable rhythms and constituent raster of their source.”
Visit Art Journal Open to explore Media Res.
Nick Herman, Comm 1, 2017, GIF file (artwork © Nick Herman)
Candidates for CAA’s 2018 Board of Directors Election
posted by CAA — November 30, 2017
The CAA Board of Directors comprises professionals in the visual arts who are elected annually by the membership to serve four-year terms. Please read the CAA By-laws on Nominations, Elections, and Appointments for more information on the process.
As of January 3, 2018, voting is open! Scroll down to meet the candidates and cast your vote.
The deadline for voting is 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Thursday, February 22, 2018.
Meet the Candidates
The 2017–18 Nominating Committee has selected a slate of six candidates for election to the CAA Board of Directors for the 2018–22 term. Click the names of the candidates below to read their statements and resumes before casting your vote. The candidates are:
- Laura Anderson Barbata
- Audrey G. Bennett
- Dahlia Elsayed
- Alice Ming Wai Jim
- Richard Lubben
- Walter Meyer
About the Board
The Board of Directors is charged with CAA’s long-term financial stability and strategic direction; it is also the Association’s governing body. The board sets policy regarding all aspects of CAA’s activities, including publishing, the Annual Conference, awards and fellowships, advocacy, and committee procedures.
HOW TO VOTE
CAA members may vote for up to four (4) candidates, including one write-in candidate (who must be a CAA member). The four candidates receiving the most votes will be elected to the board. CAA members may cast their votes and submit their proxies online beginning in early January 2018; no paper ballots will be mailed. Please have your CAA user/member ID# and password handy when you are ready to vote.
Please fill out the form below to cast your vote. (Use the scroll bar on the right side of the form to scroll down, make your choices, and submit.)
Create your own user feedback survey
The results of the 2018 Board of Directors election will be announced at CAA’s Annual Business Meeting from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 23, at the 2018 Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
Questions? Contact Vanessa Jalet, executive liaison, at (212) 392-4434 or vjalet@collegeart.org
Richard Lubben
posted by CAA — November 30, 2017
STATEMENT
I believe the current and future direction of CAA should focus, in part, on how to remain relevant and supportive to our membership. This includes strengthening our online presence, and developing innovative programs to better support the participation and recruitment of international institutions and members. This direction also aligns with CAA’s commitment to diversity, and broadens the discussion and perspective on scholarship, pedagogy, curriculum and creative practice.
With a background in studio arts, and administrative experience as a community college Arts Dean, I would also advocate for more dialogue around some of the issues and challenges that might be specific to studio artists, community college faculty, and 2-year college administration. The CAA Board does not currently include a member representing community colleges; however, there are thousands of 2-year college individual members, and many more potential members associated with the nearly 1500 community colleges across the United States.
As a CAA Board member I would also offer my experience and passion for advocacy. One current challenge many colleges and universities are experiencing is how to effectively communicate and defend the value of art programs and curriculum in times of budget shortages, and changes in some state-level general education requirements. These types of challenges are especially relevant to many of our community college members, as well as colleges and universities struggling with declining enrollment.
Walter Meyer
posted by CAA — November 30, 2017
STATEMENT
As a full-time art historian at a 2 year community college, much of my time and talents have been about increasing enrollments in art history and our transfer population to the University of California and Cal State system. At SMC, we are 3 full time faculty and 20+ adjuncts with over 40 sections of art history taught each semester. While college-wide enrollments are flat or declining, Art History continues to grow and has doubled in size in just the last four years.
Leading art history at Santa Monica College has put my efforts directly in line with one of the missions of the California Community College System: to close equity and achievement gaps with under-represented higher-ed populations. Closing these gaps is not a challenge unique to California Community Colleges and as the College Art Association moves into the 21st century it can play a vital role in making art and art history programs at the forefront of meeting this important task. I believe that having a representative from a community college is an important step for CAA to take and I am honored to be nominated to serve our disciplines and the membership.
My other interests reside in pedagogy and technology. At Santa Monica College, I am currently: the co-chair of the Technology Planning Committee; incoming chair of the Distance Education Committee and have previously chaired or served on the Sabbaticals Committee, the Information Services Committee, and the Curriculum Committee. My service to the community includes being the President of the Art Historians of Southern California, an Arts Commissioner and the former chair of the Public Art Committee for the city of Santa Monica and former board member for the Craft and Folk Art Museum of Los Angeles and the Santa Monica Arts Foundation.
Just in the state of California there are 2.1 million community college students across 113 colleges (there are over 1200 across the country serving over 7 million students). I believe in the mission of the community college system and in the ability of community colleges to help art and art history programs close the equity gap with under-represented populations on college campuses and I would like to be an effective advocate as a CAA board member for them and their students.
Alice Ming Wai Jim
posted by CAA — November 30, 2017
STATEMENT
I am currently Associate Professor in Contemporary Art and Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am a founding co-editor, with Alexandra Chang, of the international scholarly journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA). Informed by a hemispheric transnational approach, ADVA is the first academic journal to focus on the scholarship of intersections between visual culture studies and the study of Asian diaspora in the Americas and the myriad ways in which these topics and communities connect with Asia writ large. The journal’s coverage spans the continent (North North America, Canada, US, Latin America, and Mexico) as well as the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean.
As an art historian, curator and cultural organizer in the fields of diasporic and global art histories, media arts, and curatorial studies, I bring to College Art Association over twenty years of academic and professional experience working in multiple sectors in education, the arts, and culture. Focusing primarily on Asian Canadian and African Canadian artists, I have curated exhibitions of over fifty artists of color and Indigenous artists and organized major
scholarly events within academic settings and for the broader arts community in Canada and internationally. I have also been involved in a leadership capacity in several formal partnerships involving international networking and community building initiatives, with a strong commitment to research and social justice.
As the only art historian at Concordia University and in Canada who specializes in contemporary Asian and Asian Canadian art, I am acutely aware of the profound value of the annual CAA conference as a vital means to connect international scholars and practitioners, at all stages of careers and from culturally-diverse communities, on a regular
basis. I have been a member of CAA since 1999; a representative member of the CAA Affiliated Society, the Diasporic Asian Art Network, since 2009; and a research member of the NYU Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) since 2014.
As a board member, I would contribute to conversations on how CAA could work towards increasing the visibility of members from diverse cultural communities and provide support and incentives for new returning members. I would also participate in discussions on how CAA could strengthen international connections and exchanges and expand
critical capacities for art historical scholarship and critical visual culture studies on and by ethnic minority, mixed race, and Indigenous peoples across the Americas and internationally. Finally, I am also interested in ways to foster interdisciplinary, cross-cultural knowledge inquiry and co-production through innovative tools and techniques of digital art history.
Montreal, November 21, 2017