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Notice of the CAA 114th Annual Business Meeting
posted by CAA — December 10, 2025
CAA Annual Business Meeting
Friday, February 20, 2026
1 p.m. CT
The 114th Annual Business Meeting of the members of the College Art Association will be called to order at 1 p.m. CT on Friday, February 20, 2026, at the Hilton Chicago. Access to this meeting is included in paid registration and no-cost registration. Once registered, please log into the online conference schedule to view more details about this meeting. CAA President, Dr. Denise Baxter, will preside.
AGENDA
- Welcome + Call to Order – Denise Baxter, CAA President
- Executive Director Report – Meme Omogbai, CAA Executive Director + CEO
- Approval of 113th Annual Business Meeting Minutes [ACTION ITEM]
- Old/New Business
- Board Member Election Results – Denise Baxter, CAA President
- Adjourn
BOARD VOTING
The Board of Directors slate has been announced as of December 11, 2025, along with an online voting form. Please submit your voting form for the 2026 election no later than 5 p.m. CT on Thursday, February 19th, 2026.
Next Meeting – 2027
The 115th Annual Business Meeting of the College Art Association will be held on February 5, 2027, at the New York Hilton Midtown.
CAA113 Annual Business Meeting Minutes
posted by CAA — December 10, 2025
CAA113 Annual Business Meeting
February 14, 2025 | 12:00 p.m. ET
New York Hilton Midtown
- Welcome + Call to Order – Denise Baxter, CAA Board President
- Denise Baxter called the meeting to order at 12:05 p.m. ET.
- The agenda was introduced, with emphasis on brevity to allow time for a special guest presentation on the state of the field following the Annual Business Meeting.
- Executive Director Report – Meme Omogbai, CAA Executive Director + CEO
- Financial Report
- CAA’s annual audit was conducted by the firm EisnerAmper for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.
- Net assets increased by over $80,000 compared to the prior year.
- Operating revenue was $3.4 million, and expenses were approximately the same amount.
- An unrealized investment loss was due to market conditions.
- CAA continues to operate within budget and maintains fiscal prudence.
- Audit reports are publicly available via Guidestar and NYS Charities Bureau.
- Membership Update
- CAA Individual members totaled approximately 4000 in the year ending June 30, 2024, and 268 Institutional members.
- There were 437 institutional journal subscribers.
- CAA’s co-publisher of our field-leading journals The Art Bulletin and Art Journal remains Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
- Strategic Repositioning Progress
- We have continued implementation of the strategic plan to modernize and future-proof CAA.
- CAA is prioritizing investment in technological infrastructure to support global presence and responsiveness.
- We have expanded our hybrid offerings and piloted professional development webinars.
- CAA received the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency, a designation which supports CAA’s ongoing fundraising efforts and affirms organizational accountability.
- Conference Update
- The CAA113 attendance target was 2500 and this was exceeded by 1000 with just over 3500 attendees.
- Staff, especially the very small conference team, was recognized for exceptional effort in achieving this milestone.
- All staff members present were asked to stand to be acknowledged.
- Financial Report
- Approval of 112th Annual Business Meeting Minutes [ACTION ITEM]
- Jennifer Rissler moved to approve minutes from the CAA 112th Annual Business meeting; Greg Gilbert seconded the motion.
- The minutes were approved unanimously by those present.
- Old/New Business
- Laura Anderson Barbata (noted for forging a climate crisis partnership), Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (noted for service on the Annual Conference Committee), Kelly Walters (noted for tote bag design), and Roland Betancourt (noted for contributions to discipline-specific initiatives) were thanked for their service and contributions as Board members and encouraged after they rotate off the Board in May to remain engaged with CAA.
- Past CAA President James Hopfensperger honored Morgan T. Payne for nearly 50 years of continuous membership and engaged participation at CAA, especially attendance at Annual Business Meetings. His contributions have also included committee service, authorship of standards and guidelines for the field, and advocacy.
- Board Election Results – Denise Baxter, CAA Board President
- The 2025 Board of Directors slate was announced on December 11, 2024, along with an online voting form. Voting closed on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET.
- The following individuals will join the Board of Directors in May 2025 (4-year term): Jelena Bogdanović, Jennifer Field, Leslie D. Joynes, Carolyn Jean Martin, and Emily Pugh.
- Congratulations to Aaron Samuel Mulenga who will also join the Board as a CAA Emerging Professional Director (2-year term).
- All who were not elected were encouraged to run again next year. Some of the most productive Board members in CAA history ran several times before they were elected, including some past CAA presidents.
- The CAA Nominating Committee was thanked for their contributions to this election cycle.
- Adjourn
- The CAA 114th Annual Conference will be held February 18–21, 2026 at the Hilton Chicago. The date of the Annual Business Meeting will be February 20, 2026.
- The CAA 113th Annual Business Meeting adjourned at 12:24 p.m. ET.
Announcing the 2026 Morey Book Award and Barr Awards Shortlists
posted by CAA — November 13, 2025
Finalists for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Awards have been selected. The winners, alongside recipients of other Awards for Distinction, will be presented on Wednesday, February 18, during Convocation at the CAA 114th Annual Conference in Chicago. Congratulations to all of the finalists!
Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Shortlist
Named in honor of one of the founding members of CAA and first teachers of art history in the United States, the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award was established in 1953 to recognize an especially distinguished English-language book in the history of art.
Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France by Richard Taws (MIT Press, 2025)
The Empire’s New Cloth: Cross-Cultural Textiles at the Qing Court by Mei Mei Rado (Yale University Press, 2025)
Relics of War: The History of a Photograph by Jennifer Raab (Princeton University Press, 2024)
The Monument of Tomorrow: Creative Conservation and the Spanish War by Miguel Caballero (Penn State University Press, 2025)
The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique by Amanda Cachia (Temple University Press, 2024)
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award Shortlist
Named for the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art and a scholar of early-twentieth-century painting, the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award is presented to the author or authors of an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published in English by a museum, library, or collection.
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, edited by Dalila Scruggs (National Gallery of Art and The Brooklyn Museum/The University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World, edited by Alexandra Libby, Brooks Rich, and Stacey Sell The (National Gallery of Art/ Princeton University Press, 2025)
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, edited by Janet Bishop and Cara Manes (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Yale University Press, 2025)
Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, edited by Waleria Dorogova and Laura Microulis (Bard Graduate Center/Yale University Press, 2024)
The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, edited by Karen Lemmey, Tobias Wofford, and Grace Yasumura (Smithsonian American Art Museum/Princeton University Press, 2024)
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions Shortlist
Established in 2009, the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions is presented to the author(s) of catalogues produced by an institution with an operating budget of less than $10 million.
Art and Artifact: Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising, edited by Leesa Kelly and Howard Oransky (Katherine E. Nash Gallery in association with Memorialize the Movement, Minneapolis/The University of Minnesota Press, 2024)
Constructed Geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha, edited by Jean-Louis Cohen and Vanessa Grossman (Casa da Arquitectura–Portuguese Centre for Architecture/Yale University Press, 2024)
Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020, edited by Peter Sachs Collopy and Claudia Bohn-Spector (Caltech Library/Getty Publications, 2024)
Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, edited by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz (Inventory Press/Williams College Museum of Art/Vincent Price Art Museum/Independent Curators International, 2024)
Eddie Chambers Named CAA114 Distinguished Scholar
posted by CAA — November 13, 2025
Photograph by Hakeem Adewumi
The Distinguished Scholar Session at the 114th CAA Annual Conference will recognize the career of Eddie Chambers, including his professional experience as an artist and curator, and celebrate his ongoing legacy of critical engagement, mentorship, and advocacy for Black British and African diaspora artists within the global field of art history.
Chambers is Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor in Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously, he held the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, and was a Visiting Professor at Emory University, Atlanta. In addition to his notable academic career, he has been professionally involved in the visual arts for four decades as an artist, art critic, and curator. He earned his PhD at Goldsmiths College University of London.
His broad areas of scholarship are the art and art history of the African diaspora. Chambers has written several books, including Run Through the Jungle: Selected Writings by Eddie Chambers (Institute of International Visual Arts, 1999); Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists in Britain (Rodopi Editions, 2012); Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s (I. B. Tauris, 2014); Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain (I. B. Tauris, 2017); World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art (Bloomsbury, 2021). His other writing has been published widely in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Panorama, and elsewhere.
Chambers has worked with many artists over the course of several decades, including Eugene Palmer, Cybil Charlier, Frank Bowling, Denzil Forrester, Barbara Walker, and Alberta Whittle.
Following two terms as a field editor for caa.reviews, he was Editor-in-Chief of CAA’s Art Journal until July 2024. Chambers is the editor of the just-published Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History.
Chambers’s career and his impact on the field will be celebrated with presentations and a dialogue with scholars and colleagues:
Session Panelists:
Cherise Smith, University of Texas at Austin
John Tyson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Katherine Gregory, Wake Forest University
Richard Hylton, Tyler School, Temple University and Reviews Editor, Art Journal
Register now for the CAA 114th Annual Conference, February 18–21, 2026 in Chicago!
The CAA114 Distinguished Scholar Session will be held on Thursday, February 19, 4:30–6:30 p.m. CT at the Hilton Chicago. This event will also be livestreamed via YouTube.
Call for Submissions: Services to Artists Committee Exhibition During CAA114
posted by CAA — October 30, 2025
Resistance and change often begin in art.
—Ursula Le Guin
The CAA Services to Artists Committee (SAC) is now accepting submissions for Parallel Worlds, an exhibition during the CAA 114th Annual Conference in Chicago.
Since the nineteenth century, science fiction has provided conceptual spaces for questioning and criticizing our world and imagining alternative futures. As notable futurist Stuart Candy states in The Futures of Everyday Life, what is “central to the present future studies is not an effort to ‘predict’ the future . . . but the effort to sketch ‘alternative futures.’” In other words, creativity and imagination are needed to better prepare for the unknown.
With this exhibition, SAC aims to draw attention to parallel worlds, temporal shifts, and alternative futures. Addressing a legacy of different communities and building on critical movements such as Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Queer Futurisms, Post-Humanist Futurism, Crip Futurism, Eco-Solar Punk Futurism, Speculative Futurism, and AI Futurism, we hope to collectively imagine beyond our current reality.
Art can serve as a mode of critique, resistance, and speculation to address and disrupt our deeply rooted colonial history. SAC invites submissions that challenge dominant narratives and provide a critical repositioning of identity, environment, technology, and time. SAC is especially interested in work that responds to the current social and cultural climates while offering new, creative, revolutionary visions for all futures.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Please combine into one pdf:
- Artist statement (up to 200 words)
- Biography (up to 150 words)
- CV
- Website (if applicable)
- Corresponding image list (image number, title, medium, dimensions, date)
- Handling, framing, and hanging descriptions
- Technology/equipment requirements
- Accessibility requirements
Portfolio of 10–15 images:
- Each image must be sized to 1 MB
- Title format: 01_Last name_Title_Medium_Dimensions_Date
Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Please Note:
- Entry is free, but all accepted artists must join CAA as an individual member to show their work.
- If selected, artists are responsible for arranging timely delivery (Wednesday, February 18) and pickup of artwork (Saturday, February 21) to the gallery in Chicago at their own expense during conference week.
- All work must be ready to be presented or hung equipped with D-rings or picture wire. Framing of the work and presentation details needs to be agreed upon in consultation with the curator.
- Any technology related to the work may need to be provided by the artist.
- Each artist is required to gallery sit for at least one shift during the exhibition and is strongly encouraged to attend the Thursday night reception.
Submit now via email to SAC!
Deadline: December 5
Elyse Longair, Cryopreservation Birth Chamber, 2020; Elyse Longair, Man in Capsule, 2022 (images provided by the artist)
Faheem Majeed to give CAA114 Convocation Keynote Address
posted by CAA — October 23, 2025
Photograph: Michael Sullivan
We are delighted to announce Faheem Majeed as the 2026 Convocation keynote speaker at the organization’s 114th Annual Conference in Chicago.
Majeed is an artist, curator, educator, and nonprofit administrator whose work focuses on institutional critique and centers collaboration as a tool to engage communities in meaningful dialogue. He received his BFA from Howard University and an MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago, where he is currently an assistant professor of art. He is the recipient of the Field and MacArthur Foundations’ Leaders for a New Chicago award, the Joyce Award, and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant, and has been recognized as a Harpo Foundation awardee. Majeed served as the executive director of the South Side Community Art Center from 2005 to 2011 and is the founder and co-director of the Floating Museum, an arts collective and nonprofit that creates new models to explore relationships between art, community, architecture, and public institutions. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Centre Pompidou, the Highline, and the Hyde Park Art Center. Majeed’s sculpture highlights marginalized objects, histories, people, and places them into powerful narratives that challenge and recontextualize their value while fostering dialogue and broader social change.
CAA114 Convocation will be held on Wednesday, February 18, 6:00–7:30 p.m. CT. at the Hilton Chicago. The event will also be livestreamed via YouTube.
Register now for the CAA 114th Annual Conference, February 18–21, 2026!
Call for Applications: CAA-Getty International Program 2026
posted by CAA — March 12, 2025
CAA will begin accepting applications for the CAA-Getty International Program on March 15! Thanks to generous support from Getty, the program—now in its fifteenth year—enables scholars from around the world to travel to Chicago to participate in the CAA 114th Annual Conference, February 18–21, 2026. The program features a preconference colloquium on international issues in art history, followed by a week of sessions, workshops, events, museum visits, and professional development opportunities.
To date, the program has gathered 179 scholars from sixty-one countries, and continues to have significant global impact on the field. These annual convenings have yielded collaboration, community, and lasting connections while also serving to diversify CAA membership, increase international presence at CAA conferences, and foster greater cross-cultural discourse around international art scholarship and practice.
We also invite alumni of the program to apply to return and support first-time participants, take part in program events, and present new scholarship at the Annual Conference in our dedicated CAA-Getty International Program Alumni Session.
The individuals selected for the 2026 program will receive a one-year CAA membership, have their conference registration fee, travel expenses, and accommodation costs covered, and will receive per diems for meals and incidentals.
International art historians, curators, and other visual arts professionals are encouraged to apply!
Visit our CAA-Getty page for eligibility and application requirements. All interested Getty applicants, whether new scholars or alumni, will need to submit a general conference application (individual presentation proposal) and indicate their interest in participating in the CAA-Getty International Program.
Deadline: April 25
This program is made possible with support from Getty.
CAA113 Annual Artist Interviews Announced!
posted by CAA — December 06, 2024
Wendy Red Star (photograph by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) and Martha Rosler (photograph by Tina Barney)
CAA is thrilled to share that artists Wendy Red Star and Martha Rosler will be the featured guests of the CAA 113th Annual Conference Annual Artist Interviews! Red Star will be interviewed by Josh T Franco, head of collecting, Archives of American Art, and Charlotte Ickes, curator of time-based media art and special projects, National Portrait Gallery. Columbia University professor of art history and archaeology Julia Bryan-Wilson will speak with Rosler. This session is supported in part by the Joan Mitchell Foundation in conjunction with Joan Mitchell’s centennial celebration.
Wendy Red Star
Wendy Red Star is an Apsáalooke artist based in Portland, OR, whose multidisciplinary practice explores intersections of Apsáalooke history and colonial narratives through conceptual art and pop culture. Raised in Apsáalooke traditions, she uses her work to reframe historical narratives and amplify Apsáalooke perspectives.
Red Star’s work has been exhibited at major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Broad, Fondation Cartier, and the Seattle Art Museum. Her monumental sculpture, The Soil You See . . ., debuted on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in 2023, and was later acquired by Tippet Rise Art Center.
Her work is in over eighty public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the British Museum. A 2024 MacArthur Fellow, Red Star’s artist’s books include Delegation (2022) and Bíilukaa (2023). She holds an MFA from UCLA and has lectured internationally, including at Yale University and the Banff Centre.
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler’s work centers on the public sphere and everyday life, particularly with respect to women. Recurring themes include food in its many roles and guises, urbanism and spaces of transit, and war and national security. She has initiated a number of events in the US and Europe that bridge diverse publics, including garage sales, pop-up libraries, and a long-standing collaborative project that explores homelessness, housing, and the built environment. Through her varied artistic practice, writing, and activism, she challenges the mechanisms of power and their normalization within imagery, narrative, and discourse.
She has received numerous honors, including the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the College Art Association Distinguished Feminist Award, the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, the Spectrum International Prize in Photography, the Guggenheim Museum Lifetime Achievement Award, the Asher B. Durand Award, the Lichtwark Prize, and four doctorates Honoris Causa.
Rosler lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, whose decades of gentrification have often figured in her work.
The CAA113 Annual Artist Interviews will be held on Friday, February 14, 4:30–7:00 p.m. ET at the New York Hilton Midtown. This event will also be livestreamed via YouTube.
Register now for the CAA 113th Annual Conference, February 12–15, 2025 in New York City!
CAA113 Badge Benefits: Access Local NYC Museums During the Conference!
posted by CAA — November 29, 2024
CAA has partnered with several New York City museums to offer Annual Conference attendees complimentary admission and other benefits. During the week of CAA113, attendees can enjoy access to the Cloisters, El Museo del Barrio, the Guggenheim, the Hispanic Society Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Explore museum benefits for conference attendees and current exhibitions on view to make the most of your time in New York! Register now to enjoy these benefits.
Complimentary admission for conference attendees February 13–15. Show your conference badge at the admissions desk to gain entry.
Ten percent discount February 13–16 at the museum shop. Admission is pay what you wish.
On view:
Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024
(Though the full exhibition closes in early February, select galleries will remain open through March 16)
Complimentary admission for conference attendees February 12–15. Show your conference badge at the admissions desk to gain entry.
On view:
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
Piet Mondrian: Ever further
By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARY
Ten percent discount February 13–16 at the gift shop. Admission is free to the public.
On view:
A Room of Her Own: The Estrado and the Hispanic World
The Colorful World of Pancho Fierro, Afro-Peruvian Painter
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Complimentary admission for conference attendees February 13–15. Show your conference badge at the admissions desk to gain entry.
On view:
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now
Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
The Great Hall Commission: Tong Yang-Tze, Dialogue
The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo
Complimentary admission for conference attendees February 12–15. Show your conference badge at the admissions desk to gain entry.
On view:
Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern
Pirouette: Turning Points in Design
Complimentary admission for conference attendees February 13–15. Show your conference badge at the admissions desk to gain entry.
On view:
Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon
Complimentary admission for conference attendees February 12–16. Show your conference badge at the admissions desk to gain entry.
On view:
Barbie®: A Cultural Icon
Craft Front & Center: Conversation Pieces
OUT of the Jewelry Box
Anne Wilson: The MAD Drawing Room and Errant Behaviors
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Complimentary admission for conference attendees February 12–15.
***Tickets must be booked in advance here. Use code CAA2025 for complimentary general admission.
On view:
Christine Sun Kim: All Day, All Night
Shifting Landscapes
Jeanne-Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands
Notice of the CAA 113th Annual Business Meeting
posted by CAA — November 26, 2024
CAA Annual Business Meeting
Friday, February 14, 2025
12:00 p.m. ET
The 113th Annual Business Meeting of the members of the College Art Association will be called to order at 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday, February 14, 2025, at the New York Hilton Midtown. Access to this meeting is included in paid and no-cost registration. Once registered, please log into the online conference schedule to view more details about this meeting. CAA President, Dr. Denise Baxter will preside.
AGENDA
- Welcome + Call to Order – Denise Baxter, CAA Board President
- Executive Director Report – Meme Omogbai, CAA Executive Director + CEO
- Approval of 112th Annual Business Meeting Minutes [ACTION ITEM]
- Old/New Business
- Board Election Results – Denise Baxter, CAA Board President
- Adjourn
SPECIAL DISCUSSION
Immediately following the CAA 113th Annual Business Meeting, Robert B. Townsend, Director of Humanities, Arts, and Culture Programs and Codirector of Humanities Indicators at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will lead a discussion on the state of the field based on the Mellon Foundation-funded Arts and Humanities national survey of department chairs in each discipline.
BOARD VOTING
The 2025 Board of Directors slate will be announced in December 2024 along with an online voting form. Please submit your voting form for the 2025 election no later than 5:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
NEXT MEETING–2026
The 114th Annual Business Meeting of the College Art Association will be held in February 2026 at the Hilton Chicago during the CAA Annual Conference; precise date and time to be announced.