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Committee on Women in the Arts Picks for November 2010
posted by CAA — November 10, 2010
Each month, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts selects the best in feminist art and scholarship. The following symposium, conference sessions, and exhibitions 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.
November 2010
Lynda Benglis, The Graces, 2003–5, cast polyurethane, lead, and stainless steel, dimensions from left to right: 103 x 26 x 26 in.; 113 x 21½ x 23 in.; 95 x 30 x 27 in. (artwork © Lynda Benglis, DACS, London/VAGA, New York)
Lynda Benglis
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
224 Benefit Street, Providence, RI 02903
October 1, 2010–January 9, 2011
Most people know Lynda Benglis from her infamous advertisement in the November 1974 Artforum, in which she stood completely nude holding a dildo at her crotch, but her career spans more than forty years. The traveling exhibition Lynda Benglis, now at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, presents the extraordinary creative output of an important but often overlooked artist, offering key and representative works: wax paintings and poured latex and polyurethane foam sculptures from the late 1960s; innovative videos, installations, and “knots” from the 1970s; metalized, pleated wall pieces of the next two decades; and twenty-first-century works such as The Graces, three monumental mixed-media sculptures. The exhibitionalso features documentary material underscoring the artist’s interest in performance and self-promotion through magazines and invitation cards.
“Difficult Dialogues II”
National Women’s Studies Association Conference
Sheraton Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver, CO 80202
November 10–14, 2010
Two sessions at this year’s National Women’s Studies Association Conference, both held on Friday, November 12, explore contemporary art and issues. Kryn Freehling-Burton of Oregon State University will moderate the morning panel, “Women and Public Art,” which offers presentations on Kara Walker and Lynda Benglis, and on “yarn bombing” and “knit graffiti” (8:00–9:15 AM). In the afternoon, four panelists will discuss “Rethinking Documentary and Experiment in Feminist Art from the 1970s,” moderated by Michael Eng of John Carroll University (5:10–6:25 PM). There, two papers cover Mary Kelly and Marina Abramović, with two more addressing broader themes.
Untitled portrait attributed to Jonas Holman, ca. 1830–35, oil on canvas, 28 x 24 in. American Folk Art Museum, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler. 1995.17.1 (artwork in the public domain)
“Fall Symposium: Focus on Women in Art”
American Folk Art Museum
45 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
November 13, 2010
This full-day symposium at the American Folk Art Museum, taking place 9:30 AM–5:00 PM, examines the changing roles of women in culture as seen through artworks of and by women. General topics for discussion include Renaissance women as art patrons and female artists in ancient Greece and Rome, along with specific focuses on American folk art by and about women, the artists Ruth Henshaw Bascom and Orra White Hitchcock, and American masterwork quilts. After the symposium, which is organized by Lee Kogana, the museum will present a theorem painting demonstration and a panel discussion.
Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740–1840
Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library
1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT 06105
October 5, 2010–March 26, 2011
Curated by Susan P. Schoelwer, Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740–1840 presents about seventy-five examples of rare, colorful, and imaginatively designed needlework by early American women and girls. Their shoes, purses, bedspreads, and fire screens depict farmsteads, family gatherings, furnished rooms, and flora. Resisting a strictly quaint presentation, the Connecticut Historical Society exhibition at the demonstrates that, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, “Young embroiderers … did not learn much at their mothers’ knees by the fireside, nor did they diligently copy designs that were fed to them.”
Chandler Family, canvas work with pastoral scene, 1758, wool and silk on linen, 15¾ x 22 7/8 in. Woodstock, Connecticut. Private Collection (artwork in the public domain)
With Needle and Brush: Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley
Florence Griswold Museum
96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371
October 2, 2010–January 30, 2011
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Connecticut River Valley produced an abundance of needlework artists—especially girls and young women in private academies. As the first exhibition to extensively examine the subject, With Needle and Brush contributes to the understanding of needlework traditions and provides insight into the nature of women’s schooling before widespread public education. Curated by Carol and Stephen Huber, the exhibition features about seventy works in embroidery and related mediums drawn extensively from private collections—many never before seen publicly.
Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220
November 13, 2010–January 24, 2011
The American photographer Sally Mann specializes in obsolete film and darkroom processes, and her recent work at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which includes abstracted self-portraits, pushes the limits of her medium to dig deeper into themes of mortality and vulnerability. Curated by John B. Ravenal, Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit consists primarily of new photographs, but the museum will also present several early series that have rarely been seen. On Saturday, November 13, Vince Aletti of the New Yorker, Melissa Harris of Aperture, and Brian Wallis from the International Center of Photography will join Mann to discuss her work and the current state of photography. The conversation will take place 10:00 AM–1:00 PM on the show’s opening day, preceded by a book signing and coffee at 9:30 AM.
Affiliated Society News for November 2010
posted by CAA — November 09, 2010
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Stephen T. Ayers, architect of the Capitol
On September 21, the 2010 Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections was presented to the Office of the Architect of the Capitol by Pamela Hatchfield, vice president of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works board, and Mervin Richard, board chair of Heritage Preservation. More than sixty guests, including Architect of the Capitol staff, Congressional staff, and other distinguished guests, witnessed the award presentation, which took place at the US Capitol Visitors Center.
In accepting the award, Stephen T. Ayers, current architect of the Capitol, recognized the essential work of his staff and the invaluable support of the Congress. He closed his remarks by stating that “Every brick, every floor tile, every element of the US Capitol is saturated with over two hundred years of our nation’s art and history. As stewards of this remarkable facility, we will continue to protect and preserve so that we may, like our ancestors before us, pass this cultural legacy onto our children and their children for generations to come.” Following the presentation, Barbara Wolanin, curator of the Capitol, led a special tour that highlighted current and recent projects.
American Society of Hispanic Art Historical Studies
Robin Adèle Greeley’s Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War won ASHAH’s Eleanor Tufts Award in 2008
The American Society of Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS) invites nominations for its annual Eleanor Tufts Award for a distinguished book in English on the history of art and architecture in Iberia. ASHAHS established the award in 1992 to honor Professor Tufts’ contributions to the study of Spanish art history. A PDF of the submission guidelines is available on the website. Deadline: December 15, 2010.
ASHAHS also invites its student members to apply for the Photographs Grant for those preparing an MA thesis or a doctoral dissertation on topics in the history of Spanish or Portuguese art and architecture, according to the procedure listed in the Fall 2010 newsletter.
Arts Council of the African Studies Association
The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) seeks nominations and self-nominations for its board of directors. People interested in serving must be current ACASA members and should contact Jean Borgatti or Karen Milbourne for more information.
The fifteenth ACASA triennial symposium on African art, entitled “Africa and Its Diasporas in the Market Place: Cultural Resources and the Global Economy,” will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, from March 23 to 26, 2011. The core theme will examine the current state of Africa’s cultural resources and the influence—for good or ill—of market forces both inside and outside the continent. For more information on submitting a paper or proposal, please visit the ACASA website.
Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History
The Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History (ATSAH) has announced a call for papers for a conference on “Artistic Manifestations of Architecture,” to be held on December 11, 2010, at the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, Massachusetts. For further information, please contact Liana Cheney.
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) and the Mid-America College Art Association, another CAA affiliated society, will present a joint conference, called ON STREAM, at the Ball Park Hilton in St. Louis, Missouri. Taking place March 30–April 2, 2011, the conference will explore how artists and teachers develop and foster creativity in the second decade of the third millennium. For more details, visit the FATE website or contact Jeff Boshart, conference coordinator.
Historians of British Art
The Historians of British Art (HBA) Travel Award is designated for an HBA graduate-student member who will present a paper on British visual culture at an academic conference in 2011. To be announced in December 2010, the $200 award is intended to offset travel costs during the next calendar year. To apply, please send a letter of request, a copy of the acceptance letter from the conference session’s organizer, an abstract of your paper, a budget of estimated expenses (noting what items may be covered by other resources), and a CV to Pamela Fletcher, HBA prize committee chair. Deadline: December 1, 2010.
HBA also invites applications for its 2011 publication grant, which awards up to $500 to offset the publication costs of, or to support additional research for, a journal article or book manuscript in the field of British visual culture that has been accepted by a publisher. Applicants must be current HBA members. To apply, send a five-hundred-word project description, the name of the journal or press, a projected publication date, a budget, and a CV to Renate Dohmen, HBA prize committee chair. Deadline: January 31, 2011.
National Council of Arts Administrators
The annual conference of the National Council of Arts Administrators (NCAA) will be held November 17–20, 2010. Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, the conference will focus on “Passages, Portals, and Potholes: How to Maintain Excellence with Diminishing Resources.” Every year the NCAA conference offers great venues, terrific opportunities for networking and dialogue, and new directions for creative leadership, education, and practice. Considering limp economic progress and the looming “cliff” that is the end of stimulus funding, this year’s conference should prove useful to all aspiring and current arts administrators. For more information, please write to Carolyn Henne.
Private Art Dealers Association
The Private Art Dealers Association (PADA) has awarded the seventeenth annual PADA Award to the Hispanic Society of America, located in New York. The award was presented at the annual PADA dinner on November 8, 2010. Master Drawings Association received the award in 2009, and the Frick Art Reference Library was recognized in 2008.
Radical Art Caucus
The Radical Art Caucus (RAC) is gearing up to celebrate its tenth birthday at the upcoming CAA Annual Conference in New York. Benj Gerdes and Nate Harrison are cochairing the 2½-hour session, “Video Art as Mass Medium,” and Travis Nygard is organizing the 1½-hour panel, “Environmental Sustainability in Art History, Theory, and Practice.” Plan now to join us for a birthday toast on Friday, February 11, 5:30–7:00 PM; see the Conference Program for the exact location in the Hilton New York. Find RAC on Facebook or contact Joanna Gardner-Huggett, RAC secretary, if you have additional questions or news to share.
Society for Photographic Education
The Society for Photographic Education (SPE) forty-eighth national conference, called “Science, Poetry, and the Photographic Image,” will examine the confluence of the ideologies of scientists and poets in the context of photography. To be held March 10–13, 2011, at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel in Georgia, the conference will feature presentations from artists, educators, historians, and curators, as well as one-on-one portfolio critiques and informal portfolio sharing, a print raffle and silent auction, and film screenings, exhibitions, tours, and receptions. Speakers include Abelardo Morell, Catherine Wagner, Carolyn Guertin, and Justine Cooper. Student volunteers receive discounted admission.
Southeastern College Arts Conference
The Southeastern College Arts Conference (SECAC) will hold its sixty-seventh annual meeting November 9–12, 2011, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia. The conference headquarters will be the DeSoto Hilton Hotel, located in the heart of historic Savannah. Featuring extensive panels and sessions for the exchange of ideas and concerns relevant to the practice and study of art, the conference will include the annual awards luncheon and the fourteenth annual members’ exhibition, as well as offer a rich array of tours, workshops, and evening events. Dan Cameron, founding director of Prospect New Orleans, will present a plenary address and jury the SECAC members’ exhibition, to be held at one of SCAD’s premier venues. The call for sessions and panels deadline is January 1, 2011. For more information, contact secac@secollegeart.org or secac2011@scad.edu. All are welcome to SECAC membership.
Women’s Caucus for Art
Sylvia Sleigh, one of six recipients of the WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) has announced the 2011 recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Awards: Beverly Buchanan, Diane Burko, Ofelia Garcia, Joan Marter, Carolee Schneemann, and Sylvia Sleigh. In addition, Maria Torres has been named recipient of the 2011 President’s Art and Activism Award. The awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 12, 2011, during the annual WCA and CAA conferences in New York. Free and open to the public, the ceremony will take place from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the Beekman/Sutton rooms at the Hilton New York, followed by a ticketed gala from 8:00 to 10:00 PM at the nearby American Folk Art Museum. Called LIVE SPACE, the gala will include a walk-around gourmet dinner with three food stations and an open bar, as well as the opportunity to meet the award recipients, network with attendees, and tour the museum. Ticket prices for LIVE SPACE are $75 for WCA members and $135 for nonmembers (Prices will increase after January 12). CAA members receive a special price of $120. All tickets include reserved seating at the awards presentation. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit the WCA website.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — October 22, 2010
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
October 2010
Abroad
Cynthia Greig, Nature Morte no. 4 (Still Life Inside and Out), 2009, chromogenic development print, 24 x 32 in. (artwork © Cynthia Greig)Cynthia Greig. Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 13–December 11, 2010. Nature Morte: The Matter of Life and Death. Color photography.
Midwest
Annie Feldmeier Adams, Requiem, 2010, four-channel sound installation in the Fern Room of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Conservatory (artwork © Annie Feldmeier Adams)Annie Feldmeier Adams. Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 2010–January 31, 2011. Requiem. Four-channel sound installation.
Yueh-Mei Cheng, Wind Horse 1223, 2009, acrylic and watercolor on handmade paper, 26 x 26 in. (artwork © Yueh-Mei Cheng)Yueh-Mei Cheng. Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Spring Green, Wisconsin, July 25–September 25, 2010. Art Exhibition of Yueh-Mei Cheng. Painting.
Invitation card for Nicholas Hill’s exhibition at Miller GalleryNicholas Hill, Miller Gallery, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, October 18–November 20, 2010. The Santiago and Valparaiso Projects: New Work by Nicholas Hill. Printmaking and collage.
Nicholas Hill, Raskolnikoff Night, 2009, carborundum aquatint and encaustic print, 14 x 12 in. (artwork © Nicholas Hill)Nicholas Hill, Crandall Art Gallery, Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, November 2–December 10, 2010. The Dresden Journals. Printmaking and painting.
Jonathan W. Hils, Passenger, 2010, welded steel, fencing, and plastic play balls, 15 x 5 x 4 ft. (artwork © Jonathan W. Hils)Jonathan W. Hils. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, September 9, 2010–January 2, 2011. Intersection. Sculpture.
Vesna Jovanovic, Cordiform Permutation, 2008, watercolor and colored pencil, 60 x 40 in. (artwork © Vesna Jovanovic)Vesna Jovanovic. Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, September 11–October 30, 2010. Vesna Jovanovic: Ceramic Sculpture and Drawings. Ceramics and drawing.
Patrick Luber, Benign Tumors, 2010, wood, beverage cans, brass nails, safety glass, and laser-cut steel, 30 x 24 x 5½ in. (artwork © Patrick Luber)Patrick Luber. Moss-Thorns Art Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, October 22–November 19, 2010. A Beautiful Obsession. Sculpture.
Northeast
Cythia Greig, Nature Morte 12 (Vanitas), chromogenic development print, 20 x 24 in., 2010 (artwork © Cynthia Greig)Cynthia Greig. Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts, November 2–27, 2010. Nature Morte. Color photography.
Roger Shimomura, American vs. Japanese, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 54 in. (artwork © Roger Shimomura)Roger Shimomura. Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, October 28–December 11, 2010. An American Knockoff. Painting.
South
Virginia Derryberry, Lauren Flying Solo, 2010, oil on six canvases, total size: 96 x 168 in. (artwork © Virginia Derryberry)Virginia Derryberry. Nashville International Airport, Nashville, Tennessee, September 14, 2010–March 6, 2011. Lauren Flying Solo. Oil on canvas.
Virginia Derryberry, detail of The Alchemical Wedding, 2010, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in. (artwork © Virginia Derryberry)Virginia Derryberry. Fine Arts Gallery, ValdostaState University, Valdosta, Georgia, September 20–October 8, 2010. Alchemical Narratives. Oil on canvas.
People in the News
posted by CAA — October 17, 2010
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the the instructions on main Member News page.
October 2010
Academe
John P. Bowles John P. Bowles, associate professor of African American art in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, has earned tenure.
Eduardo de Jesus Douglas, associate professor of colonial and modern Latin American art in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, has been granted tenure.
Janet Marcavage Janet Marcavage, associate professor of art in the Art Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, has been awarded tenure.
Clarence Morgan has been named 2010–11 Dorothy Liskey Wampler Eminent Professor in the School of Art and Art History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Linda Williams, associate professor of art history in the Art Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, has been granted tenure.
Museums and Galleries
Margaretta FrederickMargaretta Frederick, curator of the Samuel and Mary F. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, has been appointed chief curator at the museum.
Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, a past president of the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, has been appointed curator of northwest art at the Portland Art Museum.
Kent LydeckerKent Lydecker, who led the Education Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for eighteen years, has been appointed director of the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. He succeeds John Schloder, who retired in July after more than nine years.
Alexandra Schwartz, formerly coordinator of the Modern Women’s Project at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been appointed curator of art at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey.
Daniel WalkerDaniel Walker has become the Pritzker Chair and Curator of Asian Art and Chair and the Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois.
Organizations and Publications
Anne BarlowAnne Barlow, executive director of Art in General in New York, has been appointed curator of the fifth Bucharest International Biennale for Contemporary Art, taking place in Romania in 2012.
William Carroll, an artist, curator, and gallerist, has been chosen director of the EFA Studio Program at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York. He succeeds Francine Affourtit, who continues at the foundation as director of program development.
Chandra L. ReedyChandra L. Reedy, professor of historic preservation, art history, and Asian studies at the University of Delaware in Newark, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Studies in Conservation, the journal of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — October 17, 2010
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
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October 2010
Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Hawes, Two women posed with a chair, ca. 1850, daguerreotype, whole plate. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. P1999.13 (artwork in the public domain)The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, has received a Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The $150,000 award supports the Access to American Photography initiative, which will allow the museum to digitize and catalogue nearly twenty-five thousand photographs from its collection.
Hedwig Beaker, Beaker with Lions, late twelfth century, blown (perhaps in mold) and wheel-cut, place of manufacture uncertain. Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass, 67.1.11 (photograph provided by the Corning Museum of Glass)The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York has received subsequent accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). The honor signifies that the museum has undergone a rigorous, lengthy process of self-examination and peer review, and has been subsequent approved by AAM’s Accreditation Commission.
Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Kennesaw, Georgia, has accepted a $2 million pledge to build an art museum that will house the school’s permanent collection. To receive a $1 million pledge from Bernard A. Zuckerman, a former carpet-industry executive, KSU must raise at least $1 million of its own in the next nine months.
An illustration class at the Maryland Institute College of Art (photograph provided by the Maryland Institute College of Art)The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore has announced several new academic programs that have just started or will launch soon: an MFA in community arts (2010); an MPS in the business of art and design (May 2011); an MFA in curatorial practice (fall 2011); an MFA in illustration practice (fall 2011); an MA in social design (in development, fall 2011); and an integrated double-major BFA in humanistic studies and studio discipline (fall 2011).
Nathdvara, Rajasthan, India, Lotus groves of the Yamuna, nineteeth century, pigments on cotton (pichhavai), 167.5 x 174 cm. National Gallery of Australia, NGA 2009.121 (artwork in the public domain)The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra has welcomed a $7 million gift from the Melbourne philanthropist Pauline Gandel and John Gandel AO. The donation will help develop the national art collection for future generations of Australians. Further, the newly named Gandel Hall will host openings, special events, public programs, and school and educational activities.
Claude Lorrain, Ideal View of Tivoli, 1644, oil on canvas, 117 x 147 cm. New Orleans Museum of Art (artwork in the public domain)The New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana has received subsequent accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM). This means that the institution has undergone a rigorous, lengthy process of self-examination and peer review, and was subsequent approved by AAM’s Accreditation Commission.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — October 15, 2010
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
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October 2010
Shimon Attie, untitled video still from Sightings: The Ecology of an Art Museum, 2008, three-channel immersive video installation with stereo sound (artwork © Shimon Attie)Shimon Attie, an artist based in New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
The Cloister at Monreale (photograph by Caroline Bruzelius)Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo have been awarded a three-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2011–14) for a study of the Kingdom of Sicily, 1130–1442. The project has two parts: a narrative text in print and a catalogue of sites and monuments using open-access technologies to provide a database of visual and textual material.
Josephine Halvorson, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Michelle Handelman, still from Dorian, a cinematic perfume, 2009, four-channel video, 63:00 min. (artwork © Michelle Handelman)Michelle Handelman, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, and assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Denise Iris, still from Minimentals, 2010, video (artwork © Denise Iris)Denise Iris, an artist based in New York and visiting assistant professor in film and media studies at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Friedrich Sustris, The Union of Florence and Fiesole, ca. 1565, pen and brown ink, brownish gray wash, over faint traces of black chalk. Morgan Library and Museum, New York. Purchased as the gift of Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen, the Cremer Foundation, Gordon Getty, and Mrs. Carl Stern; 1982.8 (artwork in the public domain)Susan Maxwell, associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh has received a 2010–11 Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship for her book, The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris: Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria, forthcoming from Ashgate.
Claudia Sohrens, Aufheben #005 (Box of Lighters), 2009, archival pigment print, 16 x 21 in. (artwork © Claudia Sohrens)Claudia Sohrens, an artist and visiting professor at the New School the Parsons School of Design and at Pratt Institute, both in New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her Aufheben project explores concepts of selecting, collecting, and hoarding in contemporary culture.
Mary Ting, shoes from Witch Whore Widow, 2009, paper and cotton, 4 x 3 x 7 in. each. The installation was shown in 2009 at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn, New York (artwork © Mary Ting)Mary Ting, a New York–based artist, has received a 2010 Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.
Penelope Umbrico, Broken Sets / eBay, 2010, nine c-prints, 30 x 40 in. each (artwork © Penelope Umbrico)Penelope Umbrico, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, has received a 2010 Artists’ Fellowship in photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also Deutsche Bank Fellow.
Angie Waller, Originality: Cases and Materials Volvelle, 2010, letterpress and die cut print, edition of 100, 9¾ in. diameter (artwork © Angie Waller)Angie Waller, an artist who works in video, books, web-based applications, and installation, has recently participated in the 2010 Art and Law Residency Program, offered by Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — October 15, 2010
Check out details on recent exhibitions organized by CAA members who are also curators.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
October 2010
Will Barnet, Waiting, 1973–74, watercolor and graphite on paper, 17½ x 17 3/8 in. (artwork © Will Barnet; photograph provided by Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY, Stephen Stinehour Edition)Peter Barnet, Anne Betty Weinshenker, Gail Stavitsky, and M. Teresa Lapid Rodriguez. Will Barnet. George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, September 21–December 11, 2010.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Regozijo (Mirth), (Album D. 4), ca. 1816–20, brush and ink and wash and chalk, 9 3/8 x 5 13/16 inches (artwork in the public domain; image provided by the Frick Collection and the Hispanic Society of America, New York)Jonathan Brown, Lisa A. Banner, and Susan Grace Galassi. The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya. Frick Collection, New York, October 5, 2010–January 9, 2011.
Lee Friedlander, Shadow—New York City, 1968, silver print, 6¼ x 9½ in. Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, John Barton Payne Fund, 74.6.8/15 (artwork © Lee Friedlander; photograph provided by Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum)Christine Carr and Amy G. Moorefield. The Fleeting Glimpse: Selections in Modern and Contemporary Photography from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, September 16–December 4, 2010.
Susan Earle. Site Specifics. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, August 28, 2010–January 16, 2011.
Kent Bellows, Self-Portrait: August, 1995 (Target), 1995, acrylic and oil on panel, 29 x 19½ in. Private Collection (artwork © Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts)Molly S. Hutton. Beyond Realism: The Works of Kent Bellows 1970–2005. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, September 25, 2010–January 16, 2011.
Joris Hoefnagel, Guide for Constructing the Letters k and l, about 1591–96, watercolors, gold and silver paint, and ink on parchment, leaf: 6 9/16 x 4 7/8 in. (16.6 x 12.4 cm). Accession No. 86.MV.527.144v. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 20, fol. 144v (artwork in the public domain; photograph provided by the J. Paul Getty Museum)Thomas Kren. Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, August 24–November 7, 2010, and November 9, 2010–February 6, 2011.
Alec Soth, Fondation Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, Moujik IV, Paris, 2007, pigmented ink print (artwork © Alec Soth and provided by Weinstein Gallery and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts)David E. Little. Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, 2000–2010. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 16, 2010–January 2, 2010.
Installation view of El Greco: Los Apóstoles, santos y “locos de Dios” at the Museo de Guadalajara (photograph by David Blázquez)Fernando Marías and María Cruz de Carlos Varona. El Greco: Los Apóstoles, santos y “locos de Dios.” Museo de Guadalajara, Palacio del Infantado, Guadalajara, Spain, September 16–November 14, 2010.
Paul Strand, Church gateway, Hidalgo, 1933, handpulled gravure print, 16¼ x 12½ in. in. (artwork © Paul Strand; photograph provided by the Aperture Foundation)Anthony Montoya and James Krippner. Paul Strand in Mexico. Aperture Foundation, New York, September 9–November 13, 2010.
The Trial of the Duke of Alençon, Jean Fouquet, Tours, about 1459–60. From Concerning the Fates of Illustrious Men and Women (Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes; original text in Latin); Giovanni Boccaccio, author; Laurent de Premierfait, translator. The Bayerische staatsbibliothek, Munich. Ms. Cod. Gall. 6, fol. 2v (artwork in the public domain)Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman. Imagining the Past in France, 1250–1500. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, November 16, 2010–February 6, 2011.
Charles Marville, Reconstruction of the Column on the Place Vendôme, 1875, albumen silver print, 14 x 9¾ in. Janos Scholz Collection of 19th-Century European Photographs. 1984.012.038 (artwork in the public domain)Micheline Nilsen. Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World. Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana, September 5–October 31, 2010.
John Romanski, Requiem, 2010, birch tree on acrylic painted birch board, 11 x 14 in. (artwork © John Romanski)John Romanski. 402 Years Later. Nashawannuck Gallery, Easthampton, Massachusetts, October 9–November 9, 2010.
Installation view of Americanana. From left, works by Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, James Turrell, Robert Gober, Greely Myatt, and Josephine Halvorson (photograph by John Bentham and provided by the Hunter College Art Galleries)Katy Siegel. Americanana. Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, September 16–December 4, 2010.
Kristina Van Dyke. Objects of Devotion. Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, August 13–October 31, 2010.
Tani Buncho, View of Matsushima, 1826, ink and colors on silk, 32 2/5 x 45 1/5 in. Clark Family Collection (artwork in the public domain; photograph provided by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)Julia M. White and Andreas Marks. Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, August 25–December 12, 2010.
Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — October 15, 2010
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars. Browse a list of recent titles below.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
October 2010
Julia Ballerini. The Stillness of Hajj Ishmael: Maxime Du Camp’s 1850 Photographic Encounters (New York and Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Publishers, 2010).
Anne Burkus-Chasson. Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010).
Carol G. Duncan. A Matter of Class: John Cotton Dana, Progressive Reform, and the Newark Museum (Pittsburgh, PA: Gutenberg Periscope Publishing, 2010).
Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass. The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010).
Andreas Marks. Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers, and Masterworks, 1680–1900 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 2010).
Andreas Marks and Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, eds. Dreams and Diversions: Essays on Japanese Woodblock Prints from the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Art, 2010).
Committee on Women in the Arts Picks for October 2010
posted by CAA — October 10, 2010
Each month, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts selects the best in feminist art and scholarship. The following exhibitions, panel discussion, and academic conference 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.
October 2010
Lee Krasner, Self-Portrait, ca. 1930, oil on linen, 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. The Jewish Museum, New York. Purchase: Esther Leah Ritz Bequest; B. Gerald Cantor, Lady Kathleen Epstein, and Louis E. and Rosalyn M. Shecter Gifts, by exchange; Fine Arts Acquisitions Committee Fund; and Miriam Handler Fund, 2008-32 (photograph © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York)
Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism
Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10129
September 12, 2010–January 30, 2011
In Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, such established twentieth-century figures as Louise Nevelson, Eva Hesse, Leon Golub, and Audrey Flack take the stage with more recent practitioners, among them Amy Sillman, Nicole Eisenman, and Dana Schutz. Curated by Daniel Belasco and drawn primarily from the Jewish Museum’s permanent collection, the show presents works from twenty-seven American artists that demonstrate the undeniable influence of feminism on painting from the last fifty years. Relatedly, Anna-Sophia Zingarelli’s essay “A Dynamic Presence: Women Artists at The Jewish Museum, New York, 1947–2010” provides an overview of research into the exhibition history of women at the Jewish Museum since 1947, and an online index catalogues these findings. And don’t miss upcoming talks by Belasco (October 18) and two of the included artists, Deborah Kass (October 25) and Robert Kushner (November 1).
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s
Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College, State University of New York, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577
September 11–December 19, 2010
Faith Ringgold is best known for starting the African American story quilt revival in the late 1970s, sometimes at the expense of her earlier, more politically charged art. American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s offers another look at her important output from the previous decade. Curated by Thom Collins and Tracy Fitzpatrick with Purchase College students, the exhibition includes Ringgold’s landmark American People paintings (1963–67), which she describes as “super realism,” and her Black Light (1967–71) series, originally shown at Spectrum Gallery in New York. Along with related murals and political posters, American People, Black Light gives a fuller picture of Ringgold’s powerful artistic explorations of race, gender, and class during one of America’s most tumultuous decades.
Loïs Mailou Jones, Ubi Girl from Tai Region, 1972, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 43¾ in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Hayden Collection—Charles Hayden Fund (artwork © Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël Trust; photograph provided by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005
October 9, 2010–January 9, 2011
The African American artist and teacher Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998) spent seventy-five years producing a diverse body of work in painting, drawing, and textile design. Organized by Carla M. Hanzal of the Mint Museum of Art, Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color gathers more than seventy works for a touring show with a current stop in Washington, DC, the city in which she lived and worked. A professor at Howard University for nearly fifty years, Jones had David Driskell, Elizabeth Catlett, and Robert Freeman as students, and she contributed to several Corcoran Gallery of Art biennials and had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. To read more about the artist, download a companion guide to A Life in Vibrant Color, which includes her biography, images of work, and more.
Books without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005
September 10, 2010–January 16, 2011
The first solo exhibition in the United States of the artist Elisabetta Gut, born in Rome in 1934, presents twenty-two mixed-media works from 1979 to 2000, with a particular focus on the 1980s. Using humble materials such as thread, sheet music, dried seeds, wood, wire, and wax, Gut creates sculptural collages—or collaged sculptures—inspired by dreams, memories, and her love of music and poetry. Krystyna Wasserman, curator of book arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, explains, “Her visual poetry is accessible, and her books do not require reading and the time consumed by reading. Their messages are compressed and universal, expressing love for nature or another person, fascination with music, or a sense of loss.”
Marjorie Strider, Green Triptych, 1963, acrylic paint and laminated pine on masonite panels, 72 x 105 in. Collection of Michael T Chutko (artwork © Marjorie Strider; photograph by Randal Bye)
“So Different, So Appealing: Women and the Pop Art Movement”
Brooklyn Museum
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, Third Floor, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238
October 30, 2010, 2:00–4:00 PM
The cleverly titled “So Different, So Appealing: Women and the Pop Art Movement” is a panel discussion to be held in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, which lands this month at the Brooklyn Museum (see September’s CWA Picks). Moderated by Catherine Morris, curator of the museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the discussion will feature artists from the show as well as the original cocurators, Sid Sachs and Kalliopi Minioudaki of University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Feminist Art History Conference 2010
Katzen Arts Center
American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016
November 5–6, 2010
It’s been nearly ten years since the last major academic gathering dedicated to feminist research in the discipline, and the first annual Feminist Art History Conference picks up where the Barnard College Feminist Art History Conference—a crucial forum for scholars in the 1990s—left off. Titled “Continuing the Legacy: Honoring the Work of Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard,” the event also celebrates over four decades of work by two pioneering feminist art historians who are both professors at American University. Forty speakers in ten sessions will explore topics ranging from antiquity to contemporary art, and Anna Chave will deliver the keynote address, evocatively called “High Tide: Deploying Fluids in Women’s Art Practice.” The conference is free and open to the public, but advance registration by 5:00 PM on Friday, October 22, is recommended. Download the conference program for a peek at all the events.
Affiliated Society News for October 2010
posted by CAA — October 09, 2010
American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies
The American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS) has partnered with ARTES, a group based in the United Kingdom and Ireland dedicated to Iberian and Latin American art, to produce an annual issue of Hispanic Research Journal on the visual arts. To be released in December 2010, the issue will feature studies on Spanish and Latin American topics by Hilary Macartney, Jesusa Vega, Mercedes Cerón, and Rosemarie Mulcahy, plus a tribute to Nigel Glendinning by Marjorie Trusted.
Arts Council of the African Studies Association
The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) is currently seeking three new board members. If interested, please contact Karen Milbourne. Current issues of the new ACASA newsletter will now only be available to members; past issues are archived online. Please visit the website for more information on the upcoming 2011 triennial conference in Los Angeles.
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries
The University of Houston will host the 2011 AAMG annual conference. Clockwise from top left: the Blaffer Art Museum, the Moores Opera House, and the Roy G. Cullen Building (photographs provided by the University of Houston)
The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) will hold its next annual conference, “Who’s Muse? Challenges to the Curatorial Profession in Academic Museums,” on May 21, 2011, at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum in Texas. Curatorial practices in academic museums and galleries are sometimes highly experimental. Faculty members from a wide variety of fields and with limited curatorial experience periodically recommend and help lead exhibition projects. The organization of exhibitions likewise engages both graduate and undergraduate students, museum-education professionals, librarians, and even area school classes in project leadership roles. Exhibitions thus generated offer unorthodox approaches to curatorial planning and execution. Appropriate to our scholarly mission, they can stretch disciplinary boundaries, cross-fertilize disciplinary methodologies, and generate wholly new paradigms for knowledge. Our academic museums and galleries thus become vital centers of original research, interdisciplinary dialogue, and participatory learning. While this democratic and laboratory approach to curatorial practice contributes in significant ways to the groundbreaking research and all-important teaching missions of our universities and colleges, it can also challenge conventional standards of the curatorial profession. Through the presentation of outstanding case studies and lively roundtable discussions, the 2011 conference will explore the pros and cons of the broad curatorial approaches found in academic museums and galleries. This year, AAMG will include a late-morning, lunch-period session, called HOT TOPICS, on current issues in academic museums and galleries. Submit your ideas for this session with your conference registration, vote, and select a HOT TOPICS table for lunchtime conversation.
Association of Historians of American Art
The Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) is offering a travel grant to cover CAA Annual Conference expenses up to $500 for an ABD student of historical art of the United States who will travel to the 2011 meeting in New York to participate in the program. The successful recipient must be enrolled in a graduate program and an AHAA member. Deadline: February 1, 2011.
AHAA is seeking to sponsor a 1½-hour professional session at the CAA Annual Conference in Los Angeles in 2012. Submission guidelines for session proposals are located online. Deadline: March 1, 2011.
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Starting in September 2010, the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) will send its membership directory electronically as a searchable PDF. Members who do not have email will continue to receive a hardcopy by mail.
At the CAA Annual Conference in New York in 2011, AHNCA members are invited to a free, private visit to the New York Public Library Prints and Photographs Study Room on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM. Curators Stephen Pinson and David Christie will introduce members to highlights and rarely exhibited holdings in the library’s extensive collection of prints and photographs. There is no cost for AHNCA members, but space is limited. Please contact Elizabeth Mansfield before January 15, 2011, to reserve your place.
Historians of Islamic Art Association
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) will hold its second biennial symposium on the theme of “Objects, Collections and Cultures” at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC. Taking place October 21–23, 2010, the program features an opening address by Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler; thematic sessions with formal presentations; seminar-style workshops on art objects in the museums’ collections; and a roundtable discussion on the arts of the object in Islamic art history today. The complete program and registration information are available online.
International Sculpture Center
The International Sculpture Center (ISC) is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York on October 22, 2010. The evening’s festivities will include a cocktail reception, entertainment, and an art sale featuring works by Fletcher Benton, Chakaia Booker, Mark di Suvero, John Clement, Carole Feuerman, John Henry, Jun Kaneko, Donald Lipski, Jesús Moroles, Manuel Neri, Tom Otterness, Albert Paley, Joel Perlman, Judy Pfaff, Kenneth Snelson, Stretch, James Surls, Boaz Vaadia, and Mia Westerlund, among others to be announced. Also taking place are a raffle—with top prize being a one-week vacation in Saint Martin—and a Chinese auction with fabulous prizes. Honorary hosts for the evening include di Suvero, Snelson, and Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz. Space is limited. Tickets are $350 per person, and tables are available for $3,000 and $5,000. Cocktails start at 6:00 PM with dinner at 7:30 PM. For questions or more information, please write to events@sculpture.org.
Japan Art History Forum
The Japan Art History Forum (JAHF) has awarded its the eight annual Chino Kaori Memorial Book Prize, which honors excellence in graduate-student scholarship in Japanese art history, to Christina Striker, a student in the PhD Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Striker’s winning essay is titled “Creating an Origin, Preserving a Past: Arnold Genthe’s 1908 Ainu Photography.”
Pacific Arts Association
The Pacific Arts Association (PAA) will present its affiliated-society session at the CAA Annual Conference in February 2011. Called “Documenting Oceania after the Twentieth Century,” the session focuses on how artists and scholars document Pacific identities in the first decade of the twenty-first century through expressive forms such as social documentary film, the internet, the museum, and poetry. The panel redefines the form and purpose of the “documentary” as a point of reference for current and future scholarship about Oceanic art. Chaired by Bernida Anne Webb-Binder, PhD candidate in the history of art and visual studies at Cornell University, the session includes presentations from: Ursula-Ann Aneriueta Siataga, MA candidate in social documentation, University of California, Santa Cruz; Julie Risser, director and curator at the American Museum of Asmat Art, University of St. Thomas; Luseane Nina Kinahoi Tonga, PhD candidate in art history, University of Auckland; and Craig Santos Perez, PhD candidate in comparative ethnic studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Radical Art Caucus
The Radical Art Caucus (RAC) is gearing up to celebrate its tenth birthday at the upcoming CAA Annual Conference in New York. Benj Gerdes and Nate Harrison are cochairing the 2½-hour session, “Video Art as Mass Medium,” and Travis Nygard is organizing the 1½-hour panel, “Environmental Sustainability in Art History, Theory, and Practice.” Plan now to join us for a birthday toast on Friday, February 11, 5:30–7:00 PM; see the Conference Program for location in the Hilton New York. Contact Joanna Gardner-Huggett, RAC secretary, if you have additional questions or news to share.
Society for Photographic Education
Student members of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) can apply online for scholarships to offset the cost of attending the 2011 national conference in Atlanta, Georgia, to be held March 10–13, 2011. Ten SPE Student Awards and the SPE Award for Innovations in Imaging in Honor of Jeannie Pearce feature a $500 travel stipend to attend the conference, one-year SPE memberships, and complimentary 2011 national conference passes. The Freestyle Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in Black and White Photography offers a $5,000 cash prize, a one-year membership to SPE, and complimentary 2011 national conference pass. Download the form for complete rules and regulations. Direct questions to membership@spenational.org. Deadline: November 1, 2010.
Society of North American Goldsmiths
The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and Hoover and Strong have joined to create the Harmony Jewelry Design Competition, named after Harmony Metals, the environmentally sustainable metals from Hoover and Strong. Professional jewelry makers and students will compete in separate categories. The top-winning piece will be manufactured and distributed nationally by Hoover and Strong, with profits from sales benefiting the Nature Conservancy. Student winners will receive scholarships, and winners will receive a national award and have their names publicized nationwide; they will also be a part of a remarkable shift to environmentally sustainable materials in the industry. Visit the SNAG website or call 541-345-5689 for more information. Deadline: January 15, 2011.
The 2011 SNAG conference takes place May 26–29, 2011, in Seattle, Washington. Hosted by the Seattle Metals Guild and sponsored by Rio Grande, the exciting program of twelve speakers, exhibitions, and special events will address the theme of “FLUX.” Internationally recognized participants include: the keynote speaker Glenn Adamson; Valeria Vallarta Siemelink, cofounder of Otro Diseño Foundation for Cultural Cooperation and Development; the artist and sculptor John Grade; and Damian Skinner, an art historian, curator, and editor. Rising stars in the field—David Clemons, Masako Onodera, Miel-Margarita Paredes, Sarah Troper, and Stacey Lee Webber—will give talks on their work. Registration opens in mid-January 2011, and student and educator registration grants and discounts are available. For more information, please write to conference@snagmetalsmith.org.
SNAG seeks submissions of work for exhibitions held in conjunction with the Seattle conference. The Art Jewelry Forum will produce an exhibition onsite at the SNAG 2011 conference hotel in Seattle, curated by Susan Cummins and Mike Holmes. Additional exhibitions include Dual at Traver Gallery in Seattle and Co:Operation Tableware, an exhibition featuring work by pairs of artists who cooperatively create a set of tableware (functional or nonfunctional).
Southeastern College Art Conference
From November 9 to 12, 2011, the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) will hold its sixty-seventh annual meeting, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia. The conference headquarters will be the DeSoto Hilton Hotel, located in the heart of historic Savannah. Featuring extensive panels and sessions for the exchange of ideas and concerns relevant to the practice and study of art, the conference will include the annual awards luncheon and the fourteenth annual members’ exhibition, as well as a rich array of tours, workshops, and evening events. The curator Dan Cameron will jury the SECAC members’ exhibition, to be held at one of SCAD’s premier venues, and present the plenary address. For more information, contact secac@secollegeart.org or secac2011@scad.edu.