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November Picks from the Committee on Women in the Arts
posted Nov 10, 2010
Each month, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts produces a curated list, called CWA Picks, of recommended exhibitions and events related to feminist art and scholarship from North America and around the world.
Two CWA Picks for November 2010 focus on conference sessions and a symposium taking place this week. At the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, which starts today in Denver, two Friday sessions explore art and film by women since the 1970s. On Saturday, the American Folk Art Museum in New York is hosting a daylong event broadly examining the role of women in culture from antiquity to the present.
CWA Picks also include four exhibitions. Sally Mann is showing new photographs at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Lynda Benglis’s touring show stops at the Rhode Island School of Design. Two institutions in Connecticut are presenting historical presentations of needlework and embroidery.
Check out past CWA Picks archived at the bottom of the page, as exhibitions highlighted in previous months are often still on view.
Image: Chandler Family, canvas work with pastoral scene, 1758, wool and silk on linen, 15¾ x 22 7/8 in. Private Collection, Woodstock, Connecticut (artwork in the public domain)
Affiliated Society News for November 2010
posted Nov 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.
CAA Publishes an Important Addendum to Its Tenure Guidelines for Art Historians
posted Nov 08, 2010
At its May 2010 meeting, the CAA Board of Directors approved a resolution that updates the Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians. Submitted by Anne Collins Goodyear, vice president for publications, the addendum urges academic tenure-and-promotions committees to consider and evaluate museum publications when making their deliberations. Exhibition catalogues, the resolution notes, may be published by an academic press or museum, or in association with a nonacademic press.
The following paragraphs, which are part of the addendum, provide background for the resolution:
During the past ten years, while academic publishing has been shrinking dramatically, museum publishing has flourished, moving to the forefront as the venue for much substantial scholarship in our field.
Museum exhibition and collection catalogues are not, by and large, peer-reviewed in the traditional sense. The long lead times required for blind peer review do not accommodate the tight schedules of most exhibition catalogues, which must appear when shows open. Yet exhibition catalogues do undergo a form of peer review. Though not blind, it is thorough, as the collaborative curatorial teams that produce exhibition catalogues, and museums’ editorial departments and consultants, carefully evaluate the scholarship contained within, striving to ensure that it is accurate and of the highest possible quality.
In the past, one argument lodged against exhibition catalogues has been that the essays can vary in quality. Some essays in exhibition catalogues—at times in the same catalogue—contain original, important scholarship, while others can be included for political reasons, perhaps to secure certain loans or financial contributions essential to the successful mounting of a show. In fact, this situation is not fundamentally different from scholarship published in festschrifts, anthologies, or other non-museum collections of scholarly essays. It is not unusual for some authors in such publications to be included for practical, rather than scholarly, reasons. Yet this does not disqualify every essay in these publications from being considered in tenure decisions.
Helen Evans of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lucy Oakley of the Grey Art Gallery at New York University authored the proposal, with input from the Publications Committee. The Professional Practices Committee, which reviews new and revised Standards and Guidelines, endorsed the proposal, which the board then passed.
The addendum has been added to Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians and joins updates made in 2005 and 2007. CAA encourages you to review all official Standards and Guidelines for professionals in the visual arts.
CAA Members Can Help Fight Breast Cancer with a Quote from Liberty Mutual
posted Nov 05, 2010
CAA members are eligible to participate in the Liberty Mutual Quote for Hope campaign. If you get an insurance quote on automobile, home, or renters insurance by November 30, Liberty Mutual will donate $5 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fight breast cancer and save lives. Visit the above website or call 888-652-2145 for additional information and to get a quote. Please have your current policy and driver’s license on hand.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest breast-cancer organization with the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to fighting the disease. Liberty Mutual is a CAA membership-benefit partner.
No purchase of a policy is necessary. This offer is not available to residents of Iowa, Massachusetts, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Utah. CAA members may get one quote per policy type (i.e., auto, home, or renters). A discount is available where state laws and regulations allow, and discounts may vary by state. To the extent permitted by law, applicants are individually underwritten; not all applicants may qualify. A consumer report from a consumer-reporting agency and/or a motor-vehicle report on all drivers listed on your policy may be obtained where state laws and regulations allow. Coverage is underwritten and provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and affiliates, 175 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
Conference Information and Registration Booklet Mailed
posted Nov 01, 2010
The recently published Conference Information and Registration booklet provides important details, deadlines, and directions for attending the 99th Annual Conference and Centennial Kickoff, taking place February 9–12, 2011. The booklet was mailed last week to all current individual and institutional CAA members; nonmembers and those wanting a digital file may download a PDF.
Following sections on registration and CAA membership, Conference Information and Registration explains basic processes for candidates seeking jobs and employers placing classified advertisements and renting interview booths. In addition, it lists topics for seven professional-development workshops and content for the Student and Emerging Professionals Lounge. If you want to connect with former and current professors and students, consult the Reunions and Receptions page.
The booklet includes paper forms for CAA membership, conference registration, workshops, special events, and mentoring enrollment. You may also choose to join CAA and register online.
The contents of Conference Information and Registration are published on the conference website, which is being updated continuously between now and the February meeting.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted Oct 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.
The Women’s Caucus for Art Announces 2011 Lifetime Achievement Awards
posted Oct 18, 2010
The Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA), a CAA affiliated society, has announced the 2011 recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Award: Beverly Buchanan, Diane Burko, Ofelia Garcia, Joan Marter, Carolee Schneemann, and Sylvia Sleigh. In addition, WCA has given the 2011 President’s Art and Activism Award to Maria Torres.
The awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 12, 2011, during the annual WCA and CAA conferences in New York. The awards ceremony, free and open to the public, 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.
Beverly Buchanan
Born in 1940, Beverly Buchanan began creating art at an early age. She received a bachelor’s degree in medical technology from Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then earned a master’s of science in parasitology and a master’s of public health degree, both from Columbia University. Rather than pursuing a degree in medicine, she decided to focus on making art. Buchanan studied at the Art Students League before moving to Georgia, where she still lives, dividing her time between there and Michigan. Her early sculptures were poured concrete and stone, and she has since worked in a variety of media, focusing on southern vernacular architecture. Buchanan is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. In addition, she was a Georgia Visual Arts honoree and a recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and was honored with a Recognition Award by CAA’s Committee for Women in the Arts in 2005.
Diane Burko
A painter and photographer who resides in Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Diane Burko has been involved in the feminist movement since the early 1970s. She is a founding member of WCA who also founded and organized the first multivenue feminist citywide art festival in Philadelphia, called “Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, Past and Present,” also known as “Focus.” After that event, Burko continued her feminist commitment to the present day, serving on the WCA and CAA boards and on the Philadelphia Art Commission. She is now the chair of CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts. Burko has been recognized with fellowships from the Bellagio Center, the Terra Summer Residency in Giverny, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among many other honors. One of the first movers and shakers in the feminist art movement, Burko has not yet been fully recognized for her important contributions.
Ofelia Garcia
Ofelia Garcia is professor of art at William Paterson University, where she was dean of the College of the Arts and Communication for a decade. She earned her BA at Manhattanville College and her MFA at Tufts University, and was a Kent fellow at Duke University. Garcia has been on the art faculty at Boston College, a critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, director of the Print Center in Philadelphia, and president of the Atlanta College of Art and Rosemont College. Also a former president of WCA, Garcia has served on numerous boards, including those of CAA, the American Council on Education, and Haverford College; she was most recently board chair of the Jersey City Museum. Garcia now serves as vice chair of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, on the Hudson County Art Commission, and on the boards of the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and Catholics for Choice.
Joan Marter
Joan Marter is distinguished professor of art history at Rutgers University. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware and has lectured and published widely. She is currently editor-in-chief of The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, a five-volume reference set forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2010. Marter serves as editor of Woman’s Art Journal, in print continuously for thirty-one years. She has published monographs on artists such as Alexander Calder and has written extensively about Abstract Expressionism and women artists. In 2004, she was inducted into the Alumni Wall of Fame at the University of Delaware. A former member of the CAA Board of Directors, Marter is currently president of the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann is a multidisciplinary artist whose radical works in performance art, installation, film, and video are widely influential. The history of her imagery is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, and the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. Her involvement in collaborative groups includes the Judson Dance Theater, Experiments in Art and Technology, and many feminist organizations. Schneemann has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and in New York at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Internationally, she has shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Centre George Pompidou in Paris. Her recent multichannel video installation Precarious was presented at Tate Liverpool in September 2009. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York in New Paltz presented a major retrospective in summer 2010.
Sylvia Sleigh
Born in 1916 in Wales, Sylvia Sleigh paints portraits in a realist style, informed by sources ranging from the Pre-Raphaelites to famous portraits throughout history. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1953 at the Kensington Art Gallery; her most recent, at I-20 Gallery in New York, closed in January 2010. She married the art critic Lawrence Alloway in 1954, with whom she became part of the London avant-garde. They later moved to the United States, where she continued painting and showing her work. In 1970, Sleigh became actively involved in feminism and started painting life-size nudes in her precise, realist style. She was active in many of the first women-artist-run galleries, including A.I.R. Gallery and Soho 20. Her work can be found in numerous major public and private collections. Sleigh was honored with CAA’s Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2008.
Maria Torres
Winner of the 2011 Presidents Art and Activism Award is Maria Torres, president and chief operations officer of the Point Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx in New York. The Point’s mission is to encourage the arts, local enterprise, responsible ecology, and “self-investment” in a community traditionally defined in terms of its poverty, crime rate, poor schools, and substandard housing. In 1993, Torres received a BS from Cornell University. That same year, she launched the Neighborhood Internship Bank for at-risk youth, the first employment service of its kind in the South Bronx, and established La Marqueta, an outdoor community market aimed at lowering the barriers to the marketplace for neighborhood entrepreneurs. In 1994, Torres worked with Paul Lipson, Mildred Ruiz, and Steven Sapp to found the Point. Recipient of Union Square Award in 1998, she served on the Board of the Bronx Charter School for the Arts from 2002 to 2009.
About the Awards
The WCA Lifetime Achievement Awards were first presented in 1979 in President Jimmy Carter’s Oval Office to Isabel Bishop, Selma Burke, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Past honorees have represented the full range of distinguished achievement in the visual arts, and this year’s awardees are no exception, with considerable accomplishments and contributions represented by their professional efforts.
People in the News
posted Oct 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 Oct 17, 2010
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
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 Oct 15, 2010
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
To learn more about submitting a listing, please see the instructions on the main Member News page.
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.