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Shaun Leonardo in Conversation with Dawit Petros During CAA114 Annual Artist Interviews
posted by CAA — January 22, 2026
Photograph by Argenis Apolinario
Shaun Leonardo will be in conversation with Dawit Petros during the CAA 114th Annual Conference Annual Artist Interviews!
Shaun Leonardo’s multidisciplinary work negotiates societal expectations of manhood, usually through the definitions surrounding black and brown masculinities, along with its notions of achievement, collective identity, and experience of failure. His performance practice is participatory and invested in a process of embodiment.
Leonardo’s fifteen-plus-year career as an artist and arts administrator has centered on community engagement, public programming, and experimental pedagogy. From 2016 to 2024, Leonardo played a pivotal role at Recess, co-directing its evolution as a socially engaged arts organization and launching the Assembly diversion program. Based in Brooklyn, Leonardo received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is a recipient of support from Creative Capital, Guggenheim Social Practice, Art for Justice, and A Blade of Grass. His work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum, the High Line, the New Museum, and Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, and has been profiled in The New York Times and on CNN. He is Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens.
The CAA114 Annual Artist Interviews featuring Shaun Leonardo and Joyce Kozloff will be held on Friday, February 20, 4:30–7:00 p.m. CT at the Hilton Chicago. This event will also be livestreamed via YouTube.
Register now for the CAA 114th Annual Conference, February 18–21 in Chicago!
CAA114 Badge Benefits: Access Local Chicago Museums During the Conference!
posted by CAA — January 21, 2026
CAA has partnered with select Chicago museums to offer Annual Conference attendees complimentary admission between February 18 and 21. Register now to enjoy these benefits!
ART INSTITUTE CHICAGO
Present your conference badge at the admissions desk during museum hours: Wednesday, 11 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Thursday, 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., Friday–Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
On view:
Bruce Goff: Materials Worlds
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lost
On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival
DRIEHAUS MUSEUM
Present your conference badge at the admissions desk during museum hours: Wednesday, 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., Thursday–Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
On view:
Tiffany Lamps: Beyond the Shade
The Land of Oz: Beyond the Page
INTUIT ART MUSEUM
Present your conference badge at the admissions desk during museum hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
On View:
Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago
Henry Darger: The Room Revealed
LOCAL CHICAGO MUSEUMS FREE TO THE PUBLIC
THE BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART
Hours: Wednesday–Friday, 12:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
On view:
Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill
Hamdia Traoré’s “Des marabouts de Djenné” and Muslim Portraiture in Mali
CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
Hours: Daily, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
On view:
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Not a Soft Thing: A Group Exhibition by Artist Mothers
Uncertain Histories
DEPAUL ART MUSEUM
Hours: Wednesday–Thursday, 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., Friday–Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
On view:
Tengo Lincoln Park en mi corazón: Young Lords in Chicago
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing
HYDE PARK ART CENTER
Hours: Monday–Thursday, 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., Friday–Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
On view:
Yoonshin Park: Prompt and Prompted
Mutuality: The Center Program Biennial Exhibition
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Hours: Monday–Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Thursday, 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., Friday–Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
On view:
MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades
If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
On view:
Hay cultura en nuestra comunidad: Ray Patlán in Chicago, 1968–1975
Rieles y Raíces: Traqueros in Chicago and the Midwest
Nuestras Historias: Stories of Mexican Identity from the Permanent Collection
THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY
Hours: Wednesday–Friday, 12:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Saturday–Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
On view:
Leah Ke Yi ZhengChange, I Ching (64 Paintings)
RIVERSIDE ARTS CENTER
Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
On view:
Ross Sawyers: The Future Still Isn’t What It Used to Be
SMART MUSEUM OF ART
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
On view:
Theaster Gates: Unto Thee
Smart to the Core: Wise to Power
Joyce Kozloff in Conversation with Nancy Princenthal During CAA114 Annual Artist Interviews
posted by CAA — January 09, 2026
Photograph by Carolyn Yarnell
Joyce Kozloff will be in conversation with Nancy Princenthal during the CAA 114th Annual Conference Annual Artist Interviews!
Joyce Kozloff has been an activist in the feminist art movement on both coasts since 1970 and was a member of the Pattern and Decoration movement in the ’70s. Cartography and mapping have been important foundations of her work since 1990 and are structures through which she explores the range of human knowledge and the imposition of imperial will.After a sustained commitment to public art throughout the 1980s and ’90s, she returned to a studio practice that encompasses painting, sculpture, installations, printmaking, and photography. Two glass mosaic and ceramic tile public works—Parkside Portals (2018) for the MTA Art and Design Program, and Memory and Time (2021) for the General Services Administration (GSA). Her work is included in public collections such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Jewish Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art. The survey Joyce Kozloff: Contested Territories is on view at the Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, through April 2026. She has been represented by the DC Moore Gallery in New York since 1995.
The CAA114 Annual Artist Interviews will be held on Friday, February 20, 4:30–7:00 p.m. CT at the Hilton Chicago. This event will also be livestreamed via YouTube.
Register now for the CAA 114th Annual Conference, February 18–21 in Chicago!
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.
