CAA News Today
Representative Tim Huelskamp from Kansas Offers Amendment to Eliminate NEH Funding
posted by CAA — July 26, 2011
Jessica Jones Irons, executive director of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA), sent the following Humanities Action Alert by email on Monday, July 25, 2011. Founded in 1981, NHA is a nonprofit organization that works to advance national humanities policy in the areas of research, education, preservation, and public programs.
Rep. Tim Huelskamp from Kansas Offers Amendment to Eliminate NEH Funding
Dear Colleague:
This afternoon, the US House of Representatives began debating the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies spending bill (H.R. 2584). In last week’s action alert, I mentioned that amendments could be offered on the floor that would further reduce funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities beyond the $135 million in FY 2012 funding approved by the Appropriations Committee ($19.7 million, or 13 percent cut from the current year).
Just hours ago, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) offered an amendment to reduce funding in the Interior bill by $3 billion in various accounts, including $1.9 billion in EPA spending, as well as complete elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts (among other programs). The Huelskamp amendment failed by voice vote, but a recorded vote was requested, and is expected to take place tonight.
Even if the current measure fails, additional amendments to weaken funding for NEH may be offered during this week’s floor consideration of the FY12 Interior bill. If you have not already done so, please email your representative and ask him or her to:
- Oppose any amendments to eliminate or further cut NEH funding in the FY12 Interior bill (H.R. 2584)
- Speak on the floor in support of the humanities and the benefits that NEH provides your community
If you would prefer to call the office directly, you can do so through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121
Earlier today, the Congressional Humanities Caucus Cochairs, Reps. David Price (D-NC) and Tom Petri (R-WI), issued a Dear Colleague letter urging members to oppose the Huelskamp amendment. Reps. Price and Petri are still planning to lead a bipartisan “strike the last word” effort to protect NEH and provide members an opportunity to join their colleagues on the House floor to speak in support of the humanities. The timing of this effort is likely to coincide with the reading of the bill portion that references NEH funding (expected within the next 1–2 days).
Thank you for taking action. We will continue to post updates as new information becomes available.
Sincerely,
Jessica Jones Irons
Executive Director
National Humanities Alliance
Letter to House of Representatives Protesting Further NEA Budget Cuts
posted by CAA — July 25, 2011
The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors approved the addition of CAA’s name to a letter protesting the proposed budget cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts. Thomas L. Birch, legislative counsel for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, spearheaded the initiative and sent the missive to the US House of Representatives today.
Letter to US House of Representatives Protesting Further NEA Budget Cuts
July 25, 2011
US House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative,
As the FY12 Interior Appropriations bill comes to the floor for consideration by the full House, we write to urge you to prevent further cuts to funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The direct federal investment in the artistic capacity of our nation supports thousands of jobs, strengthens communities, improves lifelong learning, and boosts this country’s international competitive advantage.
Every US Congressional district benefits from an NEA grant, leveraging additional support from a diverse range of private sources to combine funding from government, business, foundation, and individual donors. The NEA awarded almost 2,400 grants in those districts in FY10. The NEA has provided strategic leadership and investment in the arts for more than forty years. Americans can now see professional productions and exhibitions of high quality in their own hometowns. Among the proudest accomplishments of the NEA is the growth of arts activity in areas of the nation that were previously underserved or not served at all, especially in rural and inner-city communities.
Nationally, there are 668,267 businesses in the United States involved in the creation or distribution of the arts that employ 2.9 million people including visual artists, performing artists, managers, marketers, technicians, teachers, designers, carpenters, and workers in a wide variety of trades and professions. By direct grants and through allocations to each state, NEA dollars are distributed widely to strengthen the arts infrastructure and ensure broad access to the arts for communities across the country.
The NEA funds school-based and community-based programs that help children and youth acquire knowledge and understanding of, and skills in, the arts. The NEA also supports educational programs for adults, collaborations between state arts agencies and state education agencies, and partnerships between arts institutions and educators.
We understand fully the shared sacrifice that we all must make in order to help get our nation’s fiscal house in order. But funding for the National Endowment for the Arts was already reduced by $12.5 million in FY11, and the FY12 Interior bill currently includes an additional $20 million in funding cuts. We urge you to prevent any further reduction to the investment in our nation’s arts and culture infrastructure when the Interior Appropriations bill is considered on the House floor.
Sincerely,
American Architectural Foundation
American Federation of Musicians
American Music Center
Americans for the Arts
Association of Art Museum Directors
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Chamber Music America
Chorus America
College Art Association
Dance/USA
Fractured Atlas
League of American Orchestras
Literary Network
Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
National Alliance for Musical Theatre
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
National Council for the Traditional Arts
National Performance Network
OPERA America
Performing Arts Alliance
Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Theatre Communications Group
Committee on Women in the Arts Picks for July-August 2011
posted by CAA — July 10, 2011
Each month, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts selects the best in feminist art and scholarship. The following exhibitions and events should not be missed. Check the archive of CWA Picks at the bottom of the page, as several museum and gallery shows listed in previous months may still be on view or touring.
July–August 2011
Pablo Picasso, Woman with Bangs, 1902, oil on canvas, 24⅛ x 20¼ in. Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art. BMA 1950.268 (artwork © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York; photograph provided by the Jewish Museum)
Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
May 6–September 25, 2011
The Cone sisters of Baltimore, Claribel and Etta, were a beacon of taste through their collection of modern art. The Jewish Museum has extracted fifty works from a collection of approximately three thousand that blossomed from purchases of works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse—as early as 1905. After an introduction to the Parisian avant-garde by Gertrude and Leo Stein, the Cone Sisters accrued and displayed modernist treasures alongside an elegant collection of textiles and furniture from Africa, Asia, and Europe. The exhibition will gather these works, photographs, and archival material, allowing the public to ascertain their unrelenting appreciation of art objects.
Dara Birnbaum: Arabesque
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019
June 28–August 26, 2011
This summer, Marian Goodman Gallery will exhibit Dara Birnbaum’s new multichannel video piece Arabesque (2011) alongside a miniretrospective of early work such as the rarely seen Attack Piece, Mirroring, and Everything’s Gonna Be Alright. Arabesque, a meditation on the recurring “power struggle between male and female” that Birnbaum recognizes in her work, is inspired by the composer Clara Schumann’s work, life, and relationship with her much more famous husband, the composer Robert Schumann. This struggle arguably connects the work to her otherwise dissimilar video work from 1975–76, in which Birnbaum confronted gender inequality in the media, pop culture, and even her relationships with her male collaborators.
Cecil Beaton, Gertrude Stein, 1935, gelatin-silver print. Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s. CM3794 (photograph provided by the Contemporary Jewish Museum)
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
May 12–September 6, 2011
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is spearheading an exploration of Gertrude Stein’s colossal creative ambitions and the legacy of her involvement in the arts. The exhibition mingles personal and acquired artifacts among five “stories,” or subcategories, of her life. The first, “Picturing Gertrude,” documents the writer’s transformations in appearance and her interpersonal magnetism through portraits by Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, and other artists. “Domestic Stein” uncovers the intimate relationship between Stein and her life-long partner, Alice B. Toklas, while presenting details from their eccentric homes in Paris and the south of France. “The Art of Friendship” reveals Stein’s influence on a younger generation of queer artists and writers through her collaborations with dance and opera. “Celebrity Stein”concentrates on Stein’s lecture tour across the United States in 1934–35, documented extensively by the media, and also her experience during both World Wars. Last, “Legacies” spotlights the impact of her undisguised sexuality, brash experimentation, and charm on artists such as Andy Warhol and Glenn Ligon. The exhibition will travel to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, from October 14, 2011, to January 22, 2012. Check the website of the Contemporary Jewish Museum for a number of lectures, performances, and events pertaining to the exhibition.
Claude Cahun
Jeu de Paume
1 place de la Concorde, Paris, France
May 24–September 25, 2011
Claude Cahun, born Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob, was a vanguard French artist interested in bending the social perception of gender. Her androgynous photographic self-portraits from the 1920s not only fluctuated fluidly between male and female personae, they also presented innovative visual techniques like staging and montage. Although she was affiliated with the Surrealists in the 1930s, her theatrical emphasis on exposing predesigned assumptions about contemporary women inflamed their confrontations with reality. Despite this antagonism, Cahun’s photocollages and slew of writings—much of which is on display at Jeu de Paume—contributed to the momentum of the movement. Performance is inescapable in her photographs, which underscores her influence on photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin. This exhibition—the first large-scale presentation of her work in her native France in sixteen years—will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona during 2011–12.
Guerrilla Girls, Erase Discrimination, 1999, ink on rubber, 1⅛ x 2½ x ¼ in. each. Collection of the Akron Museum of Art (artwork © Guerrilla Girls; photograph provided by the National Museum of Women in the Arts)
The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW, Washington DC 20005
June 17–October 17, 2011
Since 1985 the legendary, gorilla-masked feminist collective the Guerrilla Girls have, in their own words, been “fighting discrimination with facts, humor, and fake fur.” The National Museum of Women in the Arts is celebrating more than twenty-five years of the group’s “guerrilla tactics” in fighting sexism and racism in the art world with the exhibition The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back. The show includes examples and documentation of the anonymous collective’s posters, stickers, billboards, books, and performances, which combine snarky satire with disturbing statistics to demonstrate the institutional exclusion of women and artists of color from both art history and contemporary art exhibitions.
Modern Women: Single Channel
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
January 23–August 8, 2011
Alexandra Schwartz, curator of contemporary art at the Montclair Art Museum, gathered this group of single-channel videos by eleven female artists from the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. Spanning from the 1960s to the late 1990s, the international selection offers the technical experiments of artists such as Pipilotti Rist and Kristin Lucas as well as conceptually groundbreaking precedents set by Joan Jonas and VALIE EXPORT. As a whole, the exhibition challenges the limitations of narrative, documentation, and popular culture. Although gender and sexuality are imminant concepts in the work, Modern Women: Single Channel emphasizes how the female gaze has evolved over the last forty years in the singular medium of video.
Ruth Gruber, Children playing chess aboard the Henry Gibbins, 1944 (artwork © Ruth Gruber; photograph provided by the International Center of Photography)
Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036
May 20–August 28, 2011
The Brooklyn-born Ruth Gruber is a famed photojournalist who began her career in the Soviet Arctic and Siberian Gulag in 1935. She continued to conquer unchartered territory in Alaska, capturing some of the first color images of the terrain and its natives in the early 1940s. Gruber activated her humanitarian inklings during World War II, documenting the migration of one thousand Jewish refugees to the United States from Europe in 1944 and later recording the difficulties of Jewish emigration into Palestine. The exhibition will include never-before-seen color photographs and vintage prints as well as contemporary prints from original negatives taken from Gruber’s personal archives.
Affiliated Society News for July 2011
posted by CAA — July 09, 2011
American Council for Southern Asian Art
The fifteenth biennial symposium of the American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) will take place at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis from September 22 to 25, 2011. The engaging event will feature speakers presenting a wide range of papers on historical and contemporary art from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan region. Please direct any questions about the symposium to Rick Asher at the University of Minnesota. You may download a PDF of the full program, registration, and related information.
Art Historians of Southern California
Three years ago, Sandra Esslinger, PhD, and Cristina Hernandez, MA, two Mt. San Antonio College professors and members of the Art Historians of Southern California (AHSC), attempted to charter a resolution that would require only an MA to teach art history in California Community Colleges. They were rejected and turned to CAA for support, but there was no mention of community colleges in CAA’s Standards and Guidelines. Esslinger chaired a CAA task force that, among other things, amended the Standards of Retention and Tenure of Art Historians to include language for community colleges. The change justified resubmitting the resolution to the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. Two professors from Napa Valley Community College, Erik Shearer, MFA, and Amanda Badgett, PhD, joined the campaign, and AHSC reinforced the effort with relentless member support. The proposed revision was fortified by over seventy letters and passed unanimously by the academic senators.
Arts Council of the African Studies Association
The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) recently concluded the fifteenth triennial symposium on African art, entitled “Africa and Its Diasporas in the Marketplace: Cultural Resources and the Global Economy,” held March 23–26, 2011, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). With the assistance of a generous grant from the Getty Foundation, ACASA brought fifteen colleagues from Africa to participate as presenters in addition to nineteen graduate students and four additional colleagues from the continent supported by ACASA’s own funds. Corinne Kratz from Emory University gave the keynote speech, entitled “Recurring Wodaabe: Proliferating Images of Pastoralists, Gender, and Performance.” Forty-six panels covered past and modern nodes of art-historical inquiry, photography, modes of exhibiting and funding, and contemporary art establishments in Africa. The number of panels has doubled since the original incarnation of the symposium in 1986, highlighting an evolving interest in the field.
ACASA has named new officers to its board: Steven Nelson of UCLA is president; Jean M. Borgatti of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, is past president; and Lisa Binder from the Museum for African Art in New York is president elect and vice president. Continuing as secretary and treasurer is Carol Magee of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the independent scholar Joyce Youmans will remain the newsletter editor. The board also welcomed several new members: Shannen Hill, University of Maryland, College Park; Kinsey Katchka, independent curator; and John Peffer, Ramapo College.
Jessica Winegar’s Creative Reckonings won the 2011 Arnold Rubin Book Award for a single-authored book
In 2011, ACASA honored two leaders in the field: Rowland Abiodun, John C. Newton Professor of the History of Art and Black Studies at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Doran Ross, curator emeritus at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. The organization also presented a handful of book awards and honorable mentions. The Arnold Rubin Book Award for a single-authored book was given to Jessica Winegar for Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture In Contemporary Egypt (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), with an honorable mention going to Steven Nelson for From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture in and out of Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). The Arnold Rubin Award for books with multiple authors was bestowed on Henry John Drewal’s edited volume, Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008); the honorable mention went to Inscribing Meaning (Milan: 5Continents Press, 2007) by Christine Mullen Kreamer, Polly Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, and Allyson Purpura. The Roy Sieber Outstanding Dissertation Award was given to Alexander Bortolot for “A Language for Change: Creativity and Power in Mozambican Makonde Masked Performance, circa 1900–2004” (Columbia University, 2007), with an honorable mention for Nichole Bridges’s “Contact, Commentary, and Kongo Memory: Perspectives on Loango Coast Souvenir Ivories, ca. 1840–1910” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009).
Association of Art Historians
The Association of Art Historians (AAH), based in the United Kingdom, has named Alison Yarrington as its new chair, to serve a three-year term. An expert in sculpture, Yarrington is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Hull in England and governor of the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She has long been involved with AAH and is committed to its mission of promoting the professional practice and the public understanding of art history.
Association of Historians of American Art
The Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) will sponsor two sessions at CAA’s 2012 Annual Conference in Los Angeles. Wendy Katz from the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln will chair the shorter, professional session, “Ideology, Industry, and Instinct: The Art of Labor,” and Erica Schneider of Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts, will lead the longer, scholarly session, “American Symbolism.”
The next AHAA symposium, chaired by David Dearinger and Melissa Renn, will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 12–13, 2012. Please visit the AHAA website later this summer for more details on the event.
Historians of British Art
The Historians of British Art (HBA) have welcomed new board members: Dianne Sachko Macleod, University of California, Davis; Morna O’Neill, Wake Forest University; and Emily Talbot, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The organization has also chosen its new officers: Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, is president; Colette Crossman of the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, is first vice president; Craig Hanson of Calvin College is second vice president; and Jongwoo Kim from the University of Louisville, a new board member, is treasurer and membership chair.
International Association of Art Critics
Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for the New Yorker, will deliver the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) fifth annual Distinguished Critic Lecture in the Tishman Auditorium at the New School in New York on Thursday, November 17, 2011, 6:30–8:00 PM. The topic of his talk is “The Critic as Artist, in 2011: Is updating Oscar Wilde possible? It seems worth a try.” An American art critic, a celebrated poet, and an educator, Schjeldahl has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1998. Before that he wrote on art for Village Voice from 1980 to 1998, as well as for the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. The author of four books, including The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), he received CAA’s Frank Jewett Mather Award in 1980 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1995.
Presented by AICA with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Distinguished Critic Lecture at the New School addresses current issues in the world of art criticism. General admission for the Schjeldahl talk is $8; free for all students, AICA members, and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with a valid ID.
Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology
The San Francisco–based Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) has appointed Jeffrey N. Babcock as interim executive director. A current member and former chairman of Leonardo/ISAST’s governing board, Babcock has more than thirty years of experience as a senior nonprofit arts and academic executive, consultant, event and media producer, and entrepreneur. He has been actively involved in creative technologies throughout his career, collaborating with arts technology engineers and artists to produce and present complex projects.
Paul Thomas, associate professor in the College of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, will moderate a Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) education workshop in collaboration with the Australian Forum at ISEA2011 Istanbu. Called “Transdisciplinary Visual Arts, Science, and Technology Renewal Post–New Media Assimilation” and sponsored by the National Institute for Experimental Arts, the workshop will address issues encountered while developing transdisciplinary art–science research, teaching, and meshing curricula from diverse fields.
Submissions are now being accepted for ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness. This symposium will consist of a conference, to be held September 19–24, 2012, with events exploring the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art, technology, and nature. Deadline: October 1, 2011.
Mid America College Art Association
Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, will host the next conference of the Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA) from October 3 to 6, 2011. The call for papers will be posted soon to the organization’s website.
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) will hold its next symposium, titled “Shared Journeys II,” at West Virginia University in Morgantown from October 14 to 16, 2011. The event will explore achievements in Chinese ceramics and its influence in the West by examining legacies and tensions of craftsmanship, pedagogy, philosophy, and social currents. Representatives from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute and contemporary artists versed in overglaze and underglaze painting, slab construction, hand building, and wheel throwing will join American presenters for demonstrations and lectures. Visit the NCECA website for information on programming, travel, and lodging—and also to register.
New Media Caucus
The New Media Caucus (NMC) has produced the first print-on-demand version of its scholarly journal, Media-N, available via Lulu. The theme of the issue, from Fall 2010, is “Dynamic Coupling.” NMC applauds the persistence and determination of those who made this significant moment possible, among them the designer Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, the associate editor Juliet Davis, and the editor-in-chief Pat Badani. In addition, the organization gives a sincere thanks to Jessica Westbrook and Adam Trowbridge, editors of the original online version of the issue, and also three contributors and reviewers: Rachel Clarke, Jim Jeffers, and James Khazar. A portion of the funds from each Media-N purchase will contribute to the organization’s exploration of digital media for conceptual and artistic purposes. MNC plans to continue its dual publication model—online and print-on-demand—in the future.
Public Art Dialogue
The eponymous journal of Public Art Dialogue, published twice a year by Taylor and Francis, debuted in the spring of 2011 with a themed issue on “Reinterpreting the Canon.” Public Art Dialogue is one of multiple benefits included with a paid membership in the organization. Other member benefits include the opportunity to participate in the annual Public Art Portfolio Review, coordinated by Renee Piechocki, in which experienced public-art administrators, artists, consultants, and curators offer feedback on the work of graduate students, emerging artists, and established artists. Read about the inaugural portfolio review, which took place in February 2011 at the CAA Annual Conference.
Society for Photographic Education
The website of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) now features galleries in which members can upload up to six distinct portfolios with up to thirty images each. Anyone can view public portfolios, and SPE members can interactively browse and comment on work from the entire SPE community.
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Suzanne G. Cusick’s Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court received a 2010 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) formally announced the 2010 winners of its annual awards, along with the honorable mentions, at its October 2010 meeting. The names of the seven categories, the recipients, and their books and projects follow.
The winner of the Book Award is Suzanne G. Cusick’s Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), and the honorable mention goes to Dena Goodman for Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009). Daniella Kostroun and Lisa Vollendorf took the Collaborative Project Award for Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600–1800) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009). Julie Campbell and Anne R. Larsen received an honorable mention for Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009).
The Josephine A. Roberts Scholarly Edition Award was bestowed upon Sarah E. Owens, the editor and translator of Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns (Toronto: Iter and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009). Lynne Tatlock’s similar work as editor and translator, published as Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), written in the seventeenth century by Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, received an honorable mention. Elizabeth I and Her Age: Authoritative Texts, Commentary, and Criticism (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), edited by Donald Stump and Susan M. Felch, won the Translation or Teaching Edition Award.
The Essay or Article Award went to Dana Wessell Lightfoot for “The Projects of Marriage: Spousal Choice, Dowries, and Domestic Service in Early Fifteenth-Century Valencia,” published in Viator in 2009. Crystal B. Lake received an honorable mention for “Redecorating the Ruin: Women and Antiquarianism in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall,” published in English Literary History (or ELH) in 2009.
The Graduate Student Conference Paper Award was shared by Michelle DiMeo and Brian Oberlander. DiMeo presented “Lady Katherine Ranelagh or Lady Margaret Orrery? Reattributing Authorship for ‘The Boyle Family Receipt Book’” at the Modern Language Association’s 2009 annual conference, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Oberlander spoke on “Susanne as Symbol in the Sixteenth-Century French Chanson” at a meeting of the American Musicological Society’s Midwest chapter in Berea, Ohio, in the same year.
An audio CD from Candace Smith and her ensemble Cappella Artemisia called Soror Mea, Sponsa Mea, Arte e Musica nei Conventi Femminili in Italia tra Cinque e Seicento (Poligrafo, 2009), which accompanied the publication of proceedings from a 2005 conference, received the Arts and Media Award.
Visual Resources Association
The Visual Resources Association (VRA) presented the winners of the organization’s highest honors at a Convocation ceremony on March 25, 2011, at the VRA and Art Libraries Society of North America’s second joint conference, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Eileen Fry received the Distinguished Service Award for her contributions to visual resources and image management. Comments from Fry’s nominators and a discussion of her engagement with research, service, and innovation over her thirty-five year career can be found online. In addition, VRA presented the Nancy DeLaurier Award for distinguished achievement to Renate Wiedenhoeft. Spearheading Saskia and Scholars Resource, Wiedenhoeft has provided high-quality images for teaching art history for over forty-five years. Her acceptance remarks can also be found online. Relatedly, VRA has published images from and information about the awards presentation as well as conference presentations.
NEH and NEA Face Significantly Reduced Federal Budgets
posted by CAA — July 08, 2011
On July 8, 2011, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, which allocates funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), passed a bill with steep cuts for both federal agencies for fiscal year 2012. Approved by an 8–5 vote, the plan will provide the NEA and NEH with only $135.2 million apiece—a $20 million cut from their current levels and $11 million less than President Barack Obama’s initial request.
The full House Appropriations Committee (click to see names and states), scheduled to consider the bill early next week, is expected to adopt similar funding cuts. If your representative sits on this committee, CAA urges you to ask him or her to oppose these and any cuts to the NEA and NEH. Call the House switchboard at 202-225-3121; an operator can transfer you to the office of your representative.
For more information about advocacy for museums, or to get the names of your representatives in Congress, please visit Speak Up for Museums, a project of the American Association of Museums.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — June 22, 2011
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
June 2011
Abroad
Kent Christensen, Three Graces, 2011, oil on linen, diptych, 58 x 36 in. (artwork © Kent Christensen)Kent Christensen. Eleven Fine Art, London, England, April 1–May 14, 2011. Sensory Overload. Oil on linen and panel.
Cora Cohen, R 77, 2011, acrylic, Flashe, and tape on roentgenograph, 15⅝ x 11¾ in. (artwork © Cora Cohen)Cora Cohen. Field Institute Hombroich, Raketenstation Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany, June 7–26, 2011. Cora Cohen – Altered X Rays. Installation of paintings on exposed x-ray film.
Nicole Pietrantoni, If you take a picture it will last longer, 2011, site-specific installation, white flour and hand-cut stencil, 4 x 28 ft. (artwork © Nicole Pietrantoni)Nicole Pietrantoni. Icelandic Printmakers’ Association (Íslensk Grafík), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 14–29, 2011. Know Your Place. Mixed media.
Mid-Atlantic
Pat Adams, Coming From II, 2005, oil, acrylic, and isobutyl methacrylate with sand on paper on wood, 14⅝ x 22 in. (artwork © Pat Adams)Pat Adams. National Association of Women Artists, New York, June 7–29, 2011. Pat Adams. Painting and mixed media.
Virginia Maksymowicz, Station I, 2005, Hydrocal FGR 95, 24 x 24 x 6 in. (artwork © Virginia Maksymowicz; photograph by the artist)Virginia Maksymowicz. Memorial Hall, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC, March 9–April 25, 2011. The Stations of the Cross. Sculptural relief.
Midwest
Les Barta, Scotty’s Palette, 2008, computer photoconstruction (artwork © Les Barta)Les Barta. Galesburg Civic Art Center Gallery, Galesburg, Illinois, May 20–June 18, 2011. Les Barta. Photoconstruction.
Northeast
Susan Bee, Autumn Fantasy, 2011, oil on linen, 18 x 14 in. Collection of Leslee Smoke (artwork © Susan Bee)Susan Bee. A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, May 25–June 19, 2011. Recalculating: New Paintings. Oil on linen.
Monica Bock, Home Sick (artwork © Monica Bock)Monica Bock. SoHo20 Gallery, New York, May 31–June 25, 2011. Home Sick. Sculpture.
Elisabeth Condon, I’d Like to Try This Perfect Life, 2011, acrylic on linen, 44½ x 72 in. (artwork © Elisabeth Condon)Elisabeth Condon. Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, April 13–May 15, 2011. Climb the Black Mountain. Acrylic and oil on linen.
Jen P. Harris, Pacific, 2009, oil on linen, 60 x 80 in. (artwork © Jen P. Harris; photograph by Susan Alzner)Jen P. Harris. Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, June 9–30, 2011. American Kiss. Painting and work on paper.
Elizabeth Keithline, Two Figures, wire, 96 x 72 x 24 in. (artwork © Elizabeth Keithline)Elizabeth Keithline. Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts, May 4–June 5, 2011. Smarter/Faster/Higher. Wire sculpture.
Joan Marie Kelly, Zones of Contact, oil on canvas, 188 x 115 cm (artwork © Joan Marie Kelly)Joan Marie Kelly. Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, July 12–30, 2011. Zones of Contact: The Public Art of Joan Marie Kelly. Oil on canvas.
Annie Shaver-Crandell, Colby at Her Ease: Homage to Olympia, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 24 in. (artwork © Annie Shaver-Crandell)Annie Shaver-Crandell. Paula Barr Chelsea, New York, May 5–14, 2011. Speaking Likenesses: Portraits of Cats and Dogs. Acrylic on canvas.
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Curtis Bartone, Lode, 2011, charcoal on paper, 40 x 30 in. (artwork © Curtis Bartone)Curtis Bartone. Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, Georgia, February 4–June 26, 2011. Domain: Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs by Curtis Bartone. Charcoal on paper, lithography, etching, and aquatint.
Dennis Joyce, The Steakeater, 2009, ceramic, wood, and steak knives, 16 x 10 x 10 in. (artwork © Dennis Joyce; photograph by the artist) Dennis Joyce. B.I.G. (Barrier Island Group) Arts, Sanibel, Florida, April 2–30, 2011. Expressive, Energetic, Explorative Exhibit. Sculpture and painting.
Vesna Pavlović. Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, June 24–September 11, 2011. Vesna Pavlović: Projected Histories. Photography.
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Sarah Hurwitz, invitation card for Hurwitz Meat Market (artwork © Sarah Hurwitz)Sarah Hurwitz. Eye Lounge, Phoenix, Arizona, May 20–June 11, 2011. Hurwitz Meat Market. Installation.
People in the News
posted by CAA — June 17, 2011
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
The section is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
June 2011
Academe
Michaël J. Amy has been promoted to professor of the history of art in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
Mary D. GarrardMary D. Garrard, professor emerita of American University in Washington, DC, was the William Fleming Distinguished Visiting Professor at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, in April 2011.
Beauvais LyonsBeauvais Lyons, James R. Cox Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has been appointed a Chancellor Professor at his school. The honor comes with a $20,000 research stipend.
Museums and Galleries
Amy Brandt, formerly assistant curator at American Federation of Arts in New York, has been named McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.
Cosmin Costinas will join Para/Site, a contemporary art space in Hong Kong, China, as executive director and curator in September 2011. He was previously curator at Basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Olivier Meslay, curator of European and American art at the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, has been appointed interim director of his institution, following the resignation of Bonnie Pitman.
Joel Smith, curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey, has been named Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, a newly endowed position.
John R. Stomberg, currently deputy director and chief curator of the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has been chosen to lead the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in South Hadley, Massachusetts, as director. He begins the new job on August 1, 2011.
Michael Taylor, curator of modern art and department head of modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, has become director of the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Organizations and Publications
Heath Fox, assistant dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego, since 2006, has been appointed deputy director of operations at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, California.
Anne HelmreichAnne Helmreich, formerly director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and associate professor of art history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed senior program officer at the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles, California.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — June 17, 2011
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
Institutional News is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
June 2011
The Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, based in New York and Washington, DC, has received a $3 million grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art to support another five years of the archives’ digitization project and to fund a new position that will create and oversee related online scholarly and educational outreach initiatives. This second grant brings the Terra’s total gift to the archives to $6.6 million over a ten-year period.
The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the exhibition Jon Brooks: Bringing Art and Nature to Children and Families. A comprehensive selection of educational and community outreach activities will accompany the retrospective exhibition of works by Brooks, a New Hampshire artist who is a leading member of the American studio furniture movement.
The Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Contemporary Museum, both in Hawai‘i, have announced that the two institutions will merge, effective July 1, 2011. Under the agreement, the latter museum will gift its collection and assets to the former one.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania has been approved for reaccreditation by the Accreditation Commission of the Association of American Museums, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC.
Rutgers University’s Visual Arts Department has received a $3.4 million gift from Marlene A. and David A. Tepper to endow a faculty chair position at the Mason Gross School of the Arts and to fund scholarships in the painting program.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond has received reaccreditation from the Accreditation Commission of the American Association of Museum, based in Washington, DC.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has been reaccredited by the Accreditation Commission of the Washington, DC–based Association of American Museums.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — June 15, 2011
Grants, Awards, and Honors
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
Grants, Awards, and Honors is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
June 2011
Elizabeth BolmanElizabeth Bolman, associate professor of art history in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has received a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in fine-arts research. She will study magnificence and asceticism in Upper Egypt via the Red Monastery Church.
Michele Brody, an artist based in New York, has been awarded a summer residency at Quimby Colony in Portland, Maine, where she will focus on her Drawing Roots series.
Carissa Carman, an MFA student in fibers at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, has received a $2,000 Textile Society of America Travel Grant to attend and participate in the International Symposium and Exhibition on Natural Dyes, which took place April 24–30, 2011, in La Rochelle, France.
Mary D. Garrard, professor emerita of American University in Washington, DC, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
Charles Goldman, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has been award a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in fine arts.
Michelle Handelman, still from Dorian, 2009, 4-channel HD video, 63 min. (artwork © Michelle Handelman)Michelle Handelman has been awarded a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in film and video. She will spend the fellowship period working on her new project, Irma Vep, the last breath, a three-channel video installation based on the life of the actress and film director Musidora, and the silent-film character she was best known for, Irma Vep, from Les Vampires (1915, directed by Louis Feuillade).
Jen P. HarrisJen P. Harris, a New York–based artist, has been awarded a $2,500 grant from the Astraea Visual Arts Fund, which promotes the work of contemporary lesbian visual artists.
Anne D. Hedeman, professor of art and medieval studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has received a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in medieval history.
Corin Hewitt, an artist and assistant professor of sculpture and extended media at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has been awarded a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in fine arts.
Alison Luchs has been tapped by the Italian Art Society to deliver the 2011 Italian Art Society–Kress Foundation Lecture in Florence, Italy, taking place on June 8, 2011.
Billie Grace Lynn has received the 2011 West Grand Prize. A $25,000 award will assist her project, called Mad Cow Motorcycle, in which she will develop a biodiesel motorcycle to raise awareness for greenhouses gases coming from commercial cattle farms.
Richard Minsky (photograph by Richard Grosbard)Richard Minsky has received the 2011 Worldwide Books Award for Publications for The Art of American Book Covers, 1875–1930 (New York: George Braziller, 2010). The Art Libraries Society of North America awarded him a certificate and a $1,000 prize for his book at its recent annual conference, held jointly with the Visual Resources Association.
Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, has received a 2011 Icon Award in the Arts from the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Jennifer Ellen Robertson, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has received a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in East Asian studies.
Allison Smith, a sculptor based in Oakland, California, has been awarded a $50,000 USA Fellowship for artistic excellence from United States Artists.
Susan Webster, Jane Williams Mahoney Professor of Art History and American Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has received a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in fine-arts research. She will study European architecture and Andean masters in colonial Quito, Ecuador.
Bradley WesterBradley Wester, an artist based in New York, has been awarded two residencies. From September to November 2011, he will be a resident artist at AIR Antwerpen in Belgium. In February 2012, he will take part in the Hermitage Artist Retreat, based in Englewood, Florida, and comprised of writers, painters, composers, playwrights, poets, choreographers, performance artists, sculptors, and other artists whose work defies categorization. (He was also a resident there in March 2011).
Kristina Wilson, associate professor of art history at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has received the twenty-third Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, awarded by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, for her book, The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925–1934 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — June 15, 2011
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
Check out details on recent shows organized by CAA members who are also curators.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
June 2011
John Chaich. Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words. La MaMa La Galleria, New York, June 2–July 3, 2011.
George Platt Lynes, Gertrude Stein, Bilignin, 1931, toned gelatin-silver print. Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Collection, Gift of Adelyn D. Breeskin, BMA 1985.3 (artwork © Estate of George Platt Lynes)Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer. Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, May 12–September 6, 2011.
Promotional image for Patterns of ConsumptionHeather Gibson. Patterns of Consumption. Atrium Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2–15, 2011.
Elizabeth Keithline. A Tool Is a Mirror. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, May 4–June 5, 2011.
Promotional image for TheodoliteJohn Silvis and Brett Dickinson. Theodolite. New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, April 6–21, 2011.
Robert Storr and Francesca Pietropaolo. North by New York: New Nordic Art. Third Floor Galleries, Scandinavia House, Nordic Center in America, American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, April 14–August 19, 2011.
Virginia-Lee Webb. Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, May 6–August 28, 2011.