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Explore Our List of Resources for Teaching Remotely, Emergency Grants, and More
posted Mar 09, 2020
The University of Washington announced last week that it would cancel in-person classes and have students take courses and finals remotely. Image: The UW campus in 2017, photo by Priyaranjan Pattnayak.
To help stop the spread of COVID-19 throughout the United States, several universities, including the University of Washington, Stanford, Columbia and Princeton, have chosen to temporarily forgo in-person classes in favor of remote learning. The decision to transition classes is part of an attempt at “social distancing,” the practice of limiting large gatherings and in-person contact to slow the transmission of the virus.
In most of these cases, it has been left up to faculty to make decisions about how to move their classes online. In an effort to crowdsource resources, we’ve gathered tweets and links that instructors are sharing to help, and will continue to update this list as we receive new ones.
For the most up-to-the-moment updates, please visit our Twitter feed. You can also explore resources others are sharing here.
Is your institution canceling in-person classes? Log it here:
If you hear of colleges and universities cancelling F2F classes (including moving them online), please add them to this Googledoc. Thanks to @BryanAlexander and all who are helping gather & share info on the situation. #covidcampus https://t.co/XlwjeG4Nnd
— Laura R. Prieto (@Laura_R_Prieto) March 9, 2020
Resources for getting started:
So many of us in #higherEd #academicTwitter are looking at teaching online. We’ve collected some resources to help support you and your students. https://t.co/trA7WFCvrm #covidCampus
— Jacqueline Wernimont (@profwernimont) March 10, 2020
Faculty/teaching colleagues at colleges and universities. I am going to start a bare bones thread with some resources about moving to teach online. I am going to work this weekend on contingency plans myself and here are some links I need to read:
— Barbara Smith (@nanaslugdiva) March 6, 2020
ART & DESIGN EDUCATORS: considering schools seem to be going online only, let’s start a thread of best practices for teaching art & design classes online. What platforms? How do you structure you class? How do you give lectures? Run critiques? Let students show work?
— Mitch Goldstein (@mgoldst) March 10, 2020
Stanford is taking its classes fully remote. @beth_seltzer and I created (and are actively updating) a resource for our instructors to provide short-term support solutions. If you’re needing something similar, feel free to check out what we’ve done: https://t.co/ylyPOBQsC6
— Jenae Cohn (@Jenae_Cohn) March 7, 2020
Princeton will switch to digital classes after Spring Break to mitigate possibility of #COVID2019. I was part of the task force that built Harvard’s digital infrastructure during our week-long Boston Bombing lockdowns in 2013. Dynamic & interactive learning can thrive online!
— RL Barnes (@DigitalHistory_) March 9, 2020
On including your students in an online learning plan:
As mentioned earlier- critical question here. Talk to your students and set up a backup plan. Don’t rely on your institution. As a thought- ask your students what they can do if stuck at home for X number of weeks. Involve them in the process when possible. #CovidCampus https://t.co/SPC0OWPeHd
— Dennis E. Showalter (@DShowalterPhd) March 9, 2020
Explore more resources using #CovidCampus:
*USEFUL RESOURCES ALERT* follow the hashtag: #CovidCampus https://t.co/Kvm9lzP5s6
— Eric Mistry, MA, MBA (@ericmistry) March 9, 2020
A great resource for art historians ⬇️ #CovidCampus https://t.co/Zv1K88zJCB
— CAA Advancing Art & Design (@caavisual) March 12, 2020
HELPFUL LINKS
As Art Schools Cancel Student Shows, One Instagram Account Pledges to Give Them Life (ARTnews)
The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections (MCN)
Online Art & Design Studio Instruction in the Age of “Social Distancing” (Facebook group)
COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources (link)
A New Medical Emergency Grant for Artists (Hyperallergic)
15 Tips for Working Remotely (American Alliance of Museums)
Online Teaching – In the context of COVID19 (Simon D. Halliday)
Art History Resources via Smarthistory (link)
Internet Assistance for Low-Income Families (link)
RELATED READING
Opinion: Please Do a Bad Job of Putting Your Courses Online (Rebecca Barrett-Fox)
The Coronavirus and the Ruptured Narrative of Campus Life (The New Yorker)
How to Close Colleges Without Hurting Vulnerable Students (The Washington Post)
Have a resource to contribute? Email Joelle Te Paske, CAA media and content manager, at jtepaske@collegeart.org
New in caa.reviews
posted Mar 06, 2020
The three former field editors for theory and historiography—David Carrier, Michael Ann Holly, and Andrei O. Pop—reflect on the state of the field(s) and the place of reviewing in the theoretical life of art history. Read the full discussion at caa.reviews.
Tobias Vogt writes about the 2019 Venice Biennale, May You Live in Interesting Times. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Esra Akın-Kıvanç discusses The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting by Lamia Balafrej. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Mar 04, 2020
The Smithsonian Puts 2.8 Million Images in the Public Domain
The Smithsonian opted for a Creative Commons Zero license, which places work “as completely as possible in the public domain.” (Wired)
Louvre Closes to Public as Staff Meets to Discuss Spread of Coronavirus in France
The institution temporarily closed this week to discuss the spread of the virus. (ARTnews)
Refugee Docents Help Bring A Museum’s Global Collection To Life
Attendance at the Penn Museum has shot up since the Global Guides’ first tours in 2018. (NPR)
Meet the Iowa Architect Documenting Every Slave House Still Standing
Since 2012, Jobie Hill has surveyed hundreds of structures that she believes once served as homes to enslaved African Americans. (Atlas Obscura)
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New in caa.reviews
posted Feb 28, 2020
Diana Seave Greenwald reviews Out of Earshot: Sound, Technology, and Power in American Art, 1860–1900, by Asma Naeem. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Grace Harpster discusses the exhibition Through a Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt at the Carlos Museum, Atlanta. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Susan Danly writes about the catalog Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting by Dana E. Byrd and Frank H. Goodyear III. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Are You in a CAA Photo? Let Us Know
posted Feb 27, 2020
Lynne Allen and Melissa Potter at the 2020 Annual Conference in Chicago. Photo: Stacey Rupolo
Each year we welcome thousands of CAA members, colleagues, and friends to our Annual Conference. It is an exciting time of year with an incredible amount of activity.
As a membership organization, it is important to us to include names wherever possible. While we try to identify those in conference photographs by badge, event, or word-of-mouth and include that information in the caption, we are not always able to do so. (We also err on the side of caution, in case we get it wrong!)
If you see yourself in a CAA photo and would like to be identified in the future, we will do our best to make it happen. Please let Alison Chang, director of communications, marketing, and membership, know at: achang@collegeart.org
Thank you!
Meet the Winner of a Free Registration for CAA 2021
posted Feb 27, 2020
Jevi is the winner of a free CAA 2021 registration after becoming a member onsite at the 2020 Annual Conference at the CAA booth in the Book and Trade Fair.
She was first introduced to the CAA through the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award, granted by the New Media Caucus. Congrats, Jevi!
Learn more about her work:
Jevi is an Honours Business Informatics B.ASc. McMaster University graduate, and studied Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (PCert) at MIT. She has worked in IT over the years as an Analyst, an Ethical Hacker, Software Programmer, and as a Research Assistant at OCAD University and University of Toronto. Hailed from a family of scribophiles, she enjoys photography, poetry and prose, and completed a study of Art & Design at the GBC School of Design graduating with honours, and Digital Media at OCAD University. She is a hobbyist green-thumb and fishkeeper, and has a three-canine RAID (Redundant Assemblage of Independent Dogs) named Gigabyte, Terabyte, and Kilobyte, who occasionally go urban-exploring with her. Jevi is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Futures at OCAD University, where she serves on the Senate, and as a member of the Senate Executive Committee, Senate Graduate Studies Committee, Senate Student Appeals Committee and Research Committee.
CAA Invites Proposals Related to Climate Crisis at 2021 Annual Conference
posted Feb 26, 2020
Fridays For Future protest in Toronto, Canada. Photo: Jasmin Sessler
As part of the 2021 Annual Conference, CAA seeks to offer a selection of sessions, papers, speakers, and related programming on the topic of Climate Crisis. Including but going beyond eco-art and eco-criticism, and with climate justice and intersectional thinking as priorities, panels and presentations can address ecology as a matter of the content of artworks, but also, and pressingly, how we—artists, designers, and art historians, institutional stakeholders and independent practitioners, and members of allied fields—can and should change our professional practices in light of the crisis.
We invite discussions of creative interventions into the status quo, up to and including a serious discussion of ways of reducing the carbon footprint of the annual conference itself, while preserving and enhancing access. Practices and themes may include remediation and amelioration, thematic representation and critique, the ramifications of change for institutions and collections, issues of preservation, and the nature of research. We invite radical and practical proposals. The conference content will stress a broad and inclusive conversation on climate crisis impact through the lens of age; gender; nationality; race; religion; and socioeconomic status among others.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Feb 26, 2020
5Pointz in January 2013. Photo courtesy of Ezmosis via Wikimedia Commons/artnet News
A Stunning Legal Decision Just Upheld a $6.75 Million Victory for the Street Artists Whose Works Were Destroyed at the 5Pointz Graffiti Mecca
The trial was a key test of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), which grants protections to artworks deemed to be of “recognized stature.” (artnet News)
‘It Confirms the Dread I Felt on Election Day’: Artists From Countries Targeted by Trump’s Latest Immigration Ban Speak Out
The addition of Nigeria, Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, and Tanzania to the restricted travel list nearly doubles the number of countries affected since Trump’s original executive order. (artnet News)
Concerns Over Britain Returning Elgin Marbles to Greece Arise as EU Drafts Brexit Negotiating Mandate
After a draft EU mandate leaked to the media last week, reporters were quick to speculate that the Parthenon Marbles could become a bargaining tool in Brexit trade talks. (ARTnews)
American Alliance of Museums: Advocacy Toolkit
Museums Advocacy Day is happening now in Washington DC. Use American Alliance of Museums’s free advocacy tools to join in. (AAM)
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Deadline extended: Art Journal Seeks Editor-In-Chief
posted Feb 25, 2020
The Art Journal/AJO Editorial Board invites nominations and self-nominations for the position of editor-in-chief for the term July 1, 2021–June 30, 2024 (with service on the Art Journal/AJO Editorial Board in 2020–21 as editor designate, and in 2024–25 as past editor). Art Journal, published quarterly by CAA, is devoted to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and visual culture.
Working with the editorial board, the editor-in-chief (EIC) is responsible for the content and character of the journal. The EIC solicits content, reads all submitted manuscripts, sends submissions to peer reviewers, and provides guidance to authors concerning the form and content of submissions; develops projects; makes final decisions regarding content; and may support fundraising efforts on the journal’s behalf. A candidate may be an artist, art historian, art critic, art educator, curator, or other art professional. The EIC works closely with CAA’s New York staff.
The EIC attends the three meetings each year of the Art Journal/AJO Editorial Board—held in the spring and fall by teleconference or in New York, and in February at the CAA Annual Conference—and submits an annual report to CAA’s Board of Directors. The EIC is responsible for expenses related to travel and lodging.
The position usually requires 20 hours a week. CAA provides financial compensation for course releases, usually to the EIC’s employer.
Candidates must be current CAA members in good standing and should not be serving on the editorial board of a competitive journal or on another CAA editorial board or committee. CAA encourages applications from colleagues who will contribute to the diversity of perspectives on the Art Journal/AJO 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. A CV, a letter of interest from the nominee, and at least one letter of recommendation must accompany each nomination. Please email to Joan Strasbaugh, Managing Editor, jstrasbaugh@collegeart.org, and include “Art Journal Editor-in-Chief Search” in the subject line.
Deadline (extended): June 1, 2020
Meet the New CAA Board Members
posted Feb 24, 2020
From left to right: Lara Ayad, Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Scherezade Garcia-Vasquez, Tiffany Holmes, and Nada Shabout
The results of the 2020 CAA Board of Directors Election were presented at the CAA Annual Business Meeting, Part II on Friday, February 14 at 2:00 PM at the 108th CAA Annual Conference in Chicago.
We are grateful to all the candidates who put forward their names for consideration this year. The 2019-20 Nominating Committee selected six candidates for election for four-year terms, and—new this year— two Emerging Professional candidates, who were eligible for a two-year term. Voters were asked to select four of the six candidates for four-year terms, and one candidate in the Emerging Professional category.
CAA Board of Directors Election
We congratulate Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Scherezade Garcia-Vasquez, Tiffany Holmes, and Nada Shabout on their election by CAA membership for four-year terms and Lara Ayad on her election for a two-year term as the inaugural Emerging Professional board member.
Learn more about the new members:
• Lara Ayad
Assistant Professor, Art History
Skidmore College
• Mora Beauchamp-Byrd
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
Oklahoma State University
• Scherezade Garcia-Vasquez
Interdisciplinary visual artist
Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design
• Tiffany Holmes
Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Studies
Maryland Institute College of Art
• Nada Shabout
Professor of Art History
University of North Texas
About the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is charged with CAA’s long-term financial stability and strategic direction; it is also the Association’s governing body. The board sets policy regarding all aspects of CAA’s activities, including publishing, the Annual Conference, awards and fellowships, advocacy, and committee procedures.
Thank you to all those who voted!