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Join the CAA Board of Directors
posted by CAA — May 06, 2024
Now accepting Board of Directors nominations for the 2025–29 term! CAA seeks individuals passionate about shaping the future of the organization and the field. The Board is responsible for all financial and policy matters related to CAA, as well as promoting excellence in scholarship, curation, design, and art practice. CAA’s Board is also charged with representing and advocating for the membership regarding current issues affecting the visual arts and humanities.
Nominations and/or self-nominations must include the following:
- Nominee name, affiliation, and e-mail address
- Nominator name, affiliation, and e-mail address (if different from nominee)
- Nominee résumé/CV
- Nominee statement of interest (250 words maximum)
Please send all information and/or any questions via e-mail to Maeghan Donohue, CAA Chief of Staff & Director of Strategic Planning, Diversity, and Governance, with the subject line: Board of Directors Nomination.
Deadline: July 12, 2024
CAA Signs on to the American Historical Association’s Statement on 2024 Campus Protests
posted by CAA — May 06, 2024
CAA has signed on to the American Historical Association (AHA) Statement on 2024 Campus Protests, in response to recent decisions by colleges and universities to encourage police intervention and suppress protests. We stand with AHA in recognizing the historical dangers of suppression, “the fundamental value of peaceful protest on college and university campuses,” and the need for administrators at these institutions to reevaluate their forceful handling of such peaceful demonstrations:
“It is appropriate for universities to establish and enforce, through fair and transparent procedures, reasonable and content-neutral restrictions on the time, place, and manner of protests and other assemblies. These procedures should not, however, deprive students, faculty, and staff of their right to gather, speak, debate, and protest.”
AHA’s statement resonates with CAA’s mission to advocate for the visual arts through “intellectual engagement and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners,” as more broadly this speaks to a commitment to advocating for diversity of ideas. Opposing ideas, whether expressed via visual art or through protest, can disturb and trigger discomfort. However, as AHA’s statement underscores, “encountering ideas that might make us uncomfortable is central to the educational process.”
OTHER LEARNED SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS WHO HAVE SIGNED THE AHA STATEMENT
American Association for Italian Studies
American Association of Geographers
American Society for Environmental History
American Society for Theatre Research
American Sociological Association
Association for Asian Studies
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
California Scholars for Academic Freedom
Dance Studies Association
Disability History Association
Executive Committee of Czechoslovak Studies Association
Historians for Peace and Democracy
International Labor and Working-Class History
Labor and Working-Class History Association
Linguistic Society of America
Medieval Academy of America
North American Conference on British Studies
Network of Concerned Historians
Oral History Association
PEN America
Shakespeare Association of America
Sixteenth Century Society
Society for French Historical Studies
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Society for the History of Children and Youth
Society for US Intellectual History
Southern Association for Women Historians
Southern Historical Association
Western Society for French History
World History Association
Apply for CAA Committee Service!
posted by CAA — Apr 24, 2024
Join one of CAA’s twelve Professional Committees, the Annual Conference Committee, or the Publications Committee as an at-large member! Each committee works from a charge established by the Board of Directors. For many CAA members, committee service fosters professional relationships, community, and facilitates impactful contributions to pressing issues in the visual arts and higher education.
Important Committee Service Information:
- Committee members serve a three-year term. Service for this committee cycle begins in February 2025 at the CAA 113th Annual Conference and concludes in February 2028 at the 116th Annual Conference.
- All applications are reviewed by current committee members as well as CAA leadership.
- Appointments will be announced by November 1, 2024. New members will be introduced to their committees during their respective business meetings at the 113th Annual Conference in New York City (February 12–15, 2025).
- If appointed, applicants are expected to attend committee meetings, participate actively in the work of the committee, and contribute expertise to defining the current and future work of the committee.
- Appointees must be current CAA members before the start of their committee service, but do not need to be CAA members to apply.
- All committee members volunteer their service without compensation.
Visit our website using the links below to review the mission of each committee as well as the current roster of committee leadership and members.
CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
The Annual Conference Committee is responsible for shaping the program of the Annual Conference, ensuring that the program reflects CAA’s goals: to make the conference an effective place for intellectual, aesthetic, and professional learning and exchange, to reflect the diverse interests of the membership, and to provide opportunities for participation that are fair, equal, and balanced.
CAA PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES
CAA’s twelve Professional Committees represent the constituent interests of the organization by addressing standards, practices, and guidelines in the professions of our individual and institutional members.
- Committee on Design
- Committee on Diversity Practices
- Committee on Intellectual Property
- Committee on Research and Scholarship
- Committee on Women in the Arts
- Education Committee
- International Committee
- Museum Committee
- Professional Practices Committee
- Services to Artists Committee
- Services to Historians of the Visual Arts Committee
- Student and Emerging Professionals Committee
CAA PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
The Publications Committee oversees CAA’s publishing activities and supervises the editorial boards of The Art Bulletin, Art Journal/AJO, and caa.reviews.
Please Note: At-large members of the Publications Committee represent the voice of our membership, and perform the role of committee secretary, taking minutes at three Publications Committee meetings per year in February, May, and October.
If you are interested in applying to serve on a CAA committee, please click the APPLY TO SERVE button below to fill out the application form and upload your CV as well as a brief personal statement describing your interest and experience. If you are applying to more than one committee, please submit a separate personal statement tailored to each of the committees to which you are applying, noting why you’d like to serve on that specific committee.
Contact Maeghan Donohue, CAA Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Planning, Diversity & Governance with any questions.
Deadline: August 8, 2024
CAA Advocacy Policy and Procedures
posted by CAA — Apr 22, 2024
As the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, CAA has an important role to play in public discourse on matters related to visual arts scholarship and practice. The CAA Board of Directors, Executive Director, members, and staff contribute to public understanding of visual arts advocacy through our newsletter, ED letters, social media platforms, special events, and sessions/workshops at our Annual Conference.
When the Executive Director or the Advocacy Committee perceives good reason to publish a statement on behalf of CAA (which may involve requesting endorsements from affiliated member societies/organizations or signing on to advocacy statements drafted by those affiliates), the Advocacy Committee convenes to interrogate the issue. If this issue is deemed in service to CAA’s mission and a majority of Advocacy Committee members agree to act, a member of the committee or staff will draft an original statement depending on capacity. The Advocacy Committee may approve the statement, reject it, or request changes; responses are needed from all members as soon as possible and no later than two days after receipt. The Advocacy Committee and Executive Director will agree on any action to be taken in response to expressed concerns. Once the entire committee reviews and approves the final draft, the statement will go live on the CAA website and will be distributed across social media channels when appropriate. In the case of a sign on to another organization’s advocacy statement, the Executive Director will share the sign on opportunity with the Advocacy Committee, and they will discuss and vote to determine whether to proceed.
The Executive Director is authorized to issue statements on behalf of the organization without review by the Advocacy Committee on time-sensitive matters (see example). At these times, the ED will specify this an ED response, so as not to speak on behalf of the Advocacy Committee, Executive Committee, or Board of Directors without consent.
CAA cannot respond to every advocacy request brought forth by our members. Our goal remains maximum impact when advocating for the field. There are times when calls to advocacy from one constituency directly conflict with another. It is for this reason that it is imperative our Board of Directors, and by extension, our Advocacy Committee remain diverse in background, field, and perspective, to ensure decisions are made as objectively as possible on behalf of membership and the field; advocacy action must also be in direct alignment with our mission, and in accordance with our 501(c)(3) status.
CAA must concentrate its energy and prestige on matters related to the advancement and protection of visual arts and scholarship, including academic infrastructure and professional practice.
Because CAA is the umbrella organization for a diverse membership with varying needs and viewpoints, we cannot engage in party politics and cannot take a stand on issues that are not in direct alignment with our mission.
CAA SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY
The CAA Board, Executive Director, and staff agree that due to the limitations of the mode, comments made on social media about visual arts practice or scholarship by CAA staff are most effective when they are constructive and celebratory of the achievements of CAA and members of the CAA community. CAA staff and Board members may wish and indeed are encouraged to share information about CAA and its programs, including on social media.
CONTACT US
If you have an advocacy request, please contact info@collegeart.org with the subject line “Constituent Advocacy Request” and your concern will be escalated to the Advocacy Committee for immediate discussion.
Policy adopted by the CAA Board of Directors on February 18, 2024.
Call for Nominations: Jury Members for CAA Grants and Awards (2024–2027)
posted by CAA — Apr 03, 2024
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for individuals with relevant expertise to serve on our juries for Awards for Distinction, Publication Grants, Travel Grants, and Fellowships. Jury service is one of the most impactful volunteer positions at CAA; help select our next awardees and grantees!
To apply, send an e-mail to Cali Buckley, CAA Manager of Grants and Awards & Director of CAA-Getty International Program, with the following:
- Statement of interest outlining qualifications and experience of nominee (150 words maximum)
- CV (two pages maximum)
Three-year terms begin in July. Current CAA Committee and Editorial Board members are not eligible to apply.
Deadline: June 1, 2024
CURRENT JURY OPENINGS
- Art Journal Award
- Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for Non-catalogue Books in the History of Art
- Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for Art Bulletin articles
- The CAA/American Institute for Conservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation
- Jury for the Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work, Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Distinguished Teaching of Art Award
- Distinguished Feminist Awards for Scholars and Artists
- Millard Meiss Publication Fund for Books in Art History
- Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant
- Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions
- Professional Development Fellowship in Visual Art
- Michael Aurbach Fellowship for Excellence in Visual Art
Call for Editor-in-Chief, The Art Bulletin
posted by CAA — Mar 11, 2024
The Art Bulletin Editorial Board invites nominations and self-nominations for the position of editor-in-chief for a three-year term—July 1, 2025–June 30, 2028—with service as incoming editor designate from July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025, and as past editor from July 1, 2028–June 30, 2029.
The candidate should have published substantially in the field and may be an academic, museum-based, or independent scholar; institutional affiliation is not required. The Art Bulletin features leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions. From its founding in 1913, the quarterly journal has published, through rigorous peer review, scholarly articles and critical reviews of the highest quality in all areas and periods of the history of art.
Working with the editorial board, the editor-in-chief is responsible for the content and character of the journal. Each issue has approximately 150 editorial pages, not including book and exhibition reviews, which are the responsibility of a reviews editor. The editor-in-chief reads all submitted manuscripts, refers them to appropriate expert referees for peer review, provides guidance to authors concerning the form and content of submissions, and makes final decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of articles for publication. The editor-in-chief also works closely with the CAA staff in New York, where production for The Art Bulletin is organized. This is a half-time position. CAA provides financial compensation to the editor’s institution, usually in the form of course release or the equivalent, for three years. The editor is not compensated directly. The term includes membership on the Art Bulletin Editorial Board.
The editor-in-chief attends the Art Bulletin Editorial Board’s three meetings each year and submits an annual report to the CAA Board of Directors.
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. The Art Bulletin also encourages nominations from two-person editorial teams representing divergent and/or complementary fields and approaches. Editors may not publish their own work in the journal during the term of service. Candidates should have a willingness to explore webinars and podcasts, and conduct other outreach activities.
Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Interested applicants—both self-nominated or nominated by someone else—should submit a CV and a cover letter in one PDF document to Eugenia Bell, Editorial Director.
Deadline: Monday, May 6.
The Art Bulletin Seeks An Editorial Board Member
posted by CAA — Mar 11, 2024
CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for one (1) individual to serve on The Art Bulletin Editorial Board for a four-year term, July 1, 2024–June 30, 2028. The ideal candidate has published substantially in the field and may be an academic, museum-based, or independent scholar; institutional affiliation is not required. The Art Bulletin features leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions.
The editorial board advises The Art Bulletin Editor-in-Chief and assists by seeking authors, articles, and other content for the journal; performs peer review and recommends peer reviewers; may propose new initiatives for the journal; and may support fundraising efforts on the journal’s behalf. Members also assist the editor-in-chief to keep abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference and other academic conferences, symposia, and events in their fields.
The Art Bulletin Editorial Board meets three times a year, with meetings in the spring and fall (remote) plus one at the CAA Annual Conference in February (board members pay travel and lodging expenses to attend the conference in February. Members of all editorial boards volunteer their services to CAA.)
Candidates must be current CAA members in good standing and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal. Members may not publish their own work in the journal during the term of service. CAA encourages applications from colleagues who will contribute to the diversity of perspectives on The Art Bulletin Editorial Board and who will engage actively with conversations about the discipline’s engagements with differences of culture, religion, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, and access. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a name; self-nominations are also welcome. Interested applicants—both self-nominated or nominated by someone else—should submit a CV and a cover letter as a single PDF document by Monday, May 6 to Eugenia Bell, Editorial Director.
Congratulations to the 2024 Distinguished Awardees!
posted by CAA — Mar 04, 2024
Each year at the Annual Conference CAA honors outstanding achievements in visual arts and art scholarship during Convocation by announcing the annual Awards for Distinction recipients. Congratulations to this year’s awardees!
Distinguished Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing on Art
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement
Carrie Mae Weems and Suzy Lake
Art Journal Award
Ken Gonzales-Day, “Race, Whiteness, and Absence in Studio Practice,” Art Journal, Fall 2023
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, James A. Doyle, and Joanne Pillsbury, eds., Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions
Perrin Lathrop, ed., African Modernism in America, Yale University Press and the American Federation of Arts, 2022
Frank Jewitt Mather Award
Kobena Mercer, Alain Locke and the Visual Arts, Yale University Press, 2022
Frank Jewitt Mather Honorable Mention
Andrea Giunta, The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America, trans. Jane Brodie, University of California Press, 2023
Charles Rufus Morey Book Award
Matthew Francis Rarey, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic, Duke University Press, 2023
Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize
Daniel M. Zolli, “Making Up Materials: Donatello and the Cosmetic Act” The Art Bulletin, 105.4, 2023: 36–63.
CAA/AIC Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation
Han Neevel and Birgit Reissland
Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work
Distinguished Teaching Award (Art)
Distinguished Teaching Award (Art History)
Monica Juneja
Distinguished Feminist Award (Art)
Distinguished Feminist Award (Art History)
Excellence in Diversity Award
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Michael Aurbach Fellow Announced!
posted by CAA — Mar 04, 2024
Congratulations to this year’s recipient of the Michael Aurbach Fellowship for Excellence in Visual Art, Sara Torgison!
Sara Torgison is an interdisciplinary artist working in ceramic, fiber, and found materials. Her work builds into and extends finite and fragile surfaces to emphasize and inhabit marginal spaces. Strange alliances formed in passages between hard and soft substances are resonant of the shifts inherent in navigating public and private life and the distance between self and other. The action of configuring bridges in transitional zones draws upon traditions of mending and maintenance as a continuous collaborative process.
Sara received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati Department of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, and a BFA from the California Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Sara is currently Visiting Ceramics Faculty at Miami University of Ohio, and works as a preparator at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. She has participated in various artist residencies and workshops, including Penland School of Craft’s winter residency for which she was awarded a distinguished fellowship in 2024. Sara was a 2023 Ohio Arts Council Creative Excellence Grant recipient. Her work is widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Alex Lukas was born in Boston, MA. With a wide range of influences, Lukas’s practice is focused on the intersections of place and human activity, narrative, history, and invention. His fieldwork, research, and production reframes the monumental and the incidental through intricate publication series, sculptures, drawings, prints, videos, and audio collages. Lukas’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Kadist Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art library, the New York Public Library, and the library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lukas has been awarded residencies at the Bemis Center for the Arts, the Ucross Foundation, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Fountainhead, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry program, among others. He graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, and received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018. Lukas is currently an Assistant Professor of Print and Publication in the Department of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and organizer of CA53776V2.gallery, an experimental exhibition platform on the dashboard of a 2007 Ford Ranger.
Kristy Hughes is a sculptor, painter, and educator. She received her MFA from Indiana University and her MA and BA from Eastern Illinois University. Hughes was awarded a 2022–23 Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and has held residencies at the ChaNorth Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Liquitex Residency at Residency Unlimited, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and a full fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: the Sculpture Center in Cleveland, OH; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; ChaShaMa, New York; Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, in addition to exhibitions at universities in North Carolina and South Carolina. Her work has been featured most recently in Maake magazine, New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, Create magazine, and Vast magazine. Hughes is a full-time lecturer at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT, where she teaches sculpture, painting, and drawing.
caa.reviews Seeks Two Editorial Board Members and Field Editors in Seven Areas
posted by CAA — Feb 08, 2024
caa.reviews seeks two new Editorial Board Members to each serve a four-year term, July 1, 2024–June 30, 2028.
CAA encourages applications from candidates with a strong record of scholarship who are committed to the imaginative development of caa.reviews. An online, open-access journal, caa.reviews is devoted to the peer review of recent books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art history, visual studies, and the arts.
The Editorial Board advises the Editor-in-Chief, guides Field Editors in their process of identifying books, exhibitions, and review authors suitable for the journal, and proposes new initiatives for the journal’s editorial programs. Editorial Board Members stay abreast of trends and issues in the field by attending and reporting on sessions at the CAA Annual Conference, as well as other academic conferences, symposia, and events in their fields.
The caa.reviews Editorial Board meets three times a year, twice in the spring and fall and once at the Annual Conference each February. Meetings in the spring and fall are currently held by videoconference, while the February meeting typically occurs in person. Members of all editorial boards at CAA volunteer their services without compensation or financial support for travel to and accommodations at the Annual Conference
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not currently serve on the editorial board of a competing journal or another CAA editorial board or committee. Nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a letter of nomination. Please email a letter of nomination or self-nomination, describing your nominee’s interest in and qualifications for appointment, the nominee’s CV, and contact information to Eugenia Bell, Editorial Director, ebell@collegeart.org. Please include the subject line caa.reviews Editorial Board Member.
Deadline: Monday, May 6.
CAA is also inviting nominations and self-nominations for individuals to join the caa.reviews Council of Field Editors for a three-year term July 1, 2024–June 30, 2027 (renewable once). An online, open-access journal, caa.reviews is devoted to the peer review of new books, museum exhibitions, and projects relevant to art history, visual studies, and the arts. Candidates may be artists, art historians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals with stature in the field and with experience writing or editing books and/or exhibition reviews; institutional affiliation is not required.
CAA is searching for Field Editors in the following fields:
- Art of the Ancient Mediterranean, Europe, and West Asia
- Latin American Art
- Photography
- Art of the Ancient Americas
- Exhibitions: Southeast
- Exhibitions: Southwest
- African Art
Working with the caa.reviews Editor-in-Chief, the caa.reviews Editorial Board, and CAA’s staff editor, each Field Editor selects content to be reviewed, commissions reviewers, and considers manuscripts for publication. Field Editors for books are expected to keep abreast of newly published and important books and related media in their fields of expertise, and those for exhibitions should be aware of current and upcoming exhibitions (and other related projects) in their geographic regions.
The Council of Field Editors meets once a year in February at the CAA Annual Conference. Members of all CAA committees and editorial boards volunteer their services without compensation or financial support for travel to and accommodations at the Annual Conference.
Candidates must be current CAA members and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competing journal or another CAA editorial board or committee. Nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Nominators should ascertain their nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting a letter of nomination. Please email a letter of nomination or self-nomination describing your nominee’s interest in and qualifications for appointment, the nominee’s CV, and contact information to Eugenia Bell, Editorial Director, ebell@collegeart.org. Please include the subject line caa.reviews Field Editor.
Deadline: Monday, May 6.