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News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Oct 03, 2018
Courtesy Guerrilla Girls
Spelman College Awarded $5.4 Million Grant to Increase Diversity in Museum Field
The grant will establish the Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies. (Press release)
The Guerrilla Girls Are Helping Museums Contend With #MeToo. Read Their Proposed Chuck Close Wall Labels Here
The feminist collective shows how to call out—or gloss over—accusations against artists accused of sexual misconduct. (artnet News)
Research Study: Impact of Art Museum Programs on K–12 Students
This study builds on and amplifies previously limited research on the impact of art museum programming. (NAEA)
Guggenheim Museum Announces Free Admission for Students, Faculty, and Staff at Five CUNY Schools
The museum’s new program will provide over 100,000 New York City college students with free admission. (Press release)
The Getty to Start a Research Center for African-American Art
The Getty’s initial partners include the Studio Museum in Harlem, the California African American Museum, Art+Practice, and Spelman College. Dr. Kellie Jones, 2018 CAA awardee for Excellence in Diversity, will be a senior consultant for the project. (New York Times)
Seven Tips for Greater Accessibility at Events
“In 2018 accessibility means more than a ramp or an elevator. It means giving everyone a chance to experience your presentations, events, exhibits, and collections.” (American Alliance of Museums)
Registration Now Open for the 2019 CAA Annual Conference
posted Oct 02, 2018
CAA Annual Conference 2018 in Los Angeles. Photo: Rafael Cardenas
2019 CAA Annual Conference
New York Hilton Midtown
February 13-16, 2019
Four days for everyone in the arts with over 300 sessions and panels, dozens of receptions and parties, professional development workshops, lightning talks, and exhibitors. #CAA2019 #CAANYC
The CAA Annual Conference returns to New York in 2019. From February 13-16, at the New York Hilton Midtown, we welcome all those in the visual arts to attend over 300 sessions and professional development workshops, and dozens of receptions, parties, and special tours at local museums and cultural institutions. The Book and Trade Fair and the Cultural and Academic Network Hall, with hundreds of booths showcasing the latest products, programs, and books, will occupy three floors of the Hilton New York Midtown. Our partners offering free admission and special tours this year include The Frick Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, The Jewish Museum, Dia Art Foundation, the Rubin Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Neue Galerie, and many others.
The 107th CAA Annual Conference content will address the full breadth of the field of visual arts and design and examine a range of cultures, histories, and scholarship. We anticipate more than 5,000 professionals in the arts to attend the conference in New York. Sessions will include “Below the Mason-Dixon Line: Artists and Historians Considering the South,” “Deskilling in the Age of Donald Trump,” “Immigration and Inclusion in Art Museums,” “Supporting Immigrant Artists and Communities,” “Mapping Crime,” “Endangered Data,” and “Racist Human Mascots: A Guide for Artists and Designers to Determine the Qualifications of Racism in Commercialized Art,” among hundreds of other panels.
The Distinguished Scholar for the 107th CAA Annual Conference is Dr. Elizabeth Boone, the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Dr. Boone specializes in Pre-Columbian and early colonial art of Latin America.
New this year, the CAA Annual Conference will feature twenty professional development workshops supported by The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. The workshops add to CAA’s annual workshop offerings for a total of thirty available workshops at the Annual Conference. The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation workshops will be led solely by MFA candidates and adjunct faculty with the aim of strengthening practical, hands-on skills for studio artists as well as providing professional development opportunities.
Once again, CAA will offer a number of travel grants and scholarships to individuals looking to attend the Annual Conference. With the generous support of Blick Art Materials and Routledge, Taylor & Francis, CAA will provide eight student member registrants with $250 each to attend the conference.
We look forward to seeing you in NYC!
Please contact Member Services at membership@collegeart.org or at 212-691-1051, ext. 1 with any questions.
Help Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) Teach the Importance of Design History
posted Oct 01, 2018
Guglielmo Ulrich, Divano, seoffale, e stipetto [Perspective of L-Shape Sofa and Storage Unit], 1933, watercolor and black and metallic ink, over graphite, sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 9/16 in. (28.2 × 19.2 cm). Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ArtHistoryTeachingResources.org
Funding Sought: $4,000
Every day, across thousands of universities and high schools in the US, students learn about the history of art from prehistory to the present. Very rarely is design history incorporated into this curriculum. Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR)—a non-profit teaching resource site in the visual arts—wants to change this.
AHTR has collaborated with CAA’s Committee on Design to propose an initial collection of online teaching resources related to design history of the last two hundred years that will enable university-level and AP instructors to confidently teach them in foundational art and design history survey classes. The resources will be hosted online at arthistoryteachingresources.org in an area clearly marked as “design history” content.
Like AHTR’s existing resources already, the Design History Teaching Resources will include scholarly, well-researched, and peer-reviewed lecture outlines, image clusters, and bibliographies, as well as innovative digital videos and links to other Open Educational Resources (OERs) for students and teachers. The resources will remain freely accessible and open to all under a Creative Commons license.
To realize these resources AHTR needs to raise a modest sum of $4,000. If you might consider supporting this venture with a donation large or small, and would like to see the budget outline, timeline for completion, or any further details about the project, please contact: info@arthistorytr.org
Janis Chakars and Martha Lucy
posted Oct 01, 2018
The weekly CAA Conversations Podcast continues the vibrant discussions initiated at our Annual Conference. Listen in each week as educators explore arts and pedagogy, tackling everything from the day-to-day grind to the big, universal questions of the field.
CAA podcasts are now on iTunes. Click here to subscribe.
This week, Janis Chakars and Martha Lucy discuss art education in a visual society within the context of the Barnes Foundation.
Janis Chakars is associate professor of communication and digital media, Neumann University. Martha Lucy is deputy director for research, interpretation and education at the Barnes Foundation.
New in caa.reviews
posted Sep 28, 2018
Lacey Baradel reviews Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas edited by Catharina Manchanda. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Maria Maurer writes about The Renaissance: Revised, Expanded, Unexpurgated, edited by D. Medina Lasansky. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Alta Steenkamp discusses Adjaye, Africa, Architecture: A Photographic Survey of Metropolitan Architecture by David Adjaye and Peter Allison. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Sep 26, 2018
Installation view of Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Photo: David Stover © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, via artnet News
African American Artists Are More Visible Than Ever. So Why Are Museums Giving Them Short Shrift?
Since 2008, just 2.4% of all acquisitions and gifts and 7.6% of all exhibitions at thirty prominent American museums have been the work of African American artists, according to new research published by artnet News and In Other Words. (artnet News)
Creativity From the Chaos of Hurricane Maria
One year later, artists in Puerto Rico talk about how the devastation and its aftermath influenced their work. (New York Times)
The Underrepresentation of Latinx Faculty and the Future of Higher Education
Latinx faculty from around the country share how underrepresentation has impacted their work. What will it take to chart a different future in higher education? (Latinx Talk)
Mission Accomplished?: As Mainstream Art Museums Rush to Diversify, What Is the Role of Culturally Specific Museums Working for a Cause?
Culturally specific museums are uniquely positioned in current discussions of equity in the art world. (ARTnews)
How Can You Make Big Classes Feel Smaller?
Emails sent at key moments during the semester are one strategy to help personalize large lectures. (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Why Your Doctor May Be Prescribing Art Classes in the Future
A recent UK study found that 66% of doctors believe the arts have a positive role to play in the prevention of illness. (Artsy)
Amy K. Hamlin and Karen J. Leader
posted Sep 25, 2018
The weekly CAA Conversations Podcast continues the vibrant discussions initiated at our Annual Conference. Listen in each week as educators explore arts and pedagogy, tackling everything from the day-to-day grind to the big, universal questions of the field.
CAA podcasts are now on iTunes. Click here to subscribe.
This week, Amy K. Hamlin and Karen J. Leader discuss Art History That, a project they launched in 2014 to curate, crowdsource, and collaborate on the future of art history.
Amy K. Hamlin is Associate Professor of Art History at St. Catherine University. Karen J. Leader is Associate Professor of Art History at Florida Atlantic University. They are the co-founders of Art History That, and are co-authoring the book Art History That: Initiatives for the Future of a Discipline.
CAA Announces Campus Ambassador Program
posted Sep 24, 2018
CAA 2018 Annual Conference attendees. Photography by Rafael Cardenas
Students have always been vital to CAA. Our student membership, which is nearly one quarter of our entire membership, has always been vocal, engaged, and eager. This fall we are looking to our students to help carry CAA into the future with the launch of the CAA Ambassador Program.
CAA is seeking Ambassadors in the New York, Boston, and Chicago areas to represent CAA and give short talks about the organization to their fellow classmates and students in nearby schools. The six selected Ambassadors will be compensated for each talk and given a complimentary CAA Annual Conference registration and one-year CAA membership at the student level. Ambassadors will collect feedback at their talks and have check-ins with CAA staff leading the project.
To be considered for the CAA Ambassador role, applicants must be currently enrolled in a visual arts-focused program at a university or college in the New York, Boston, or Chicago area. Applicants should be in their junior year or higher. Master’s degree, Master of Fine Arts, and PhD candidates are encouraged to apply. Familiarity with CAA and its programs is necessary for this role. Candidates should feel enthusiastic about spreading the word about CAA and feel comfortable speaking in front of groups. The Ambassador role is a two-semester commitment (fall and spring) with a maximum of five talks given on campuses each semester.
To be considered for the CAA Ambassador Program, please submit your resume or CV, cover letter expressing your interest, and one reference to Alison Chang at achang@collegeart.org.
Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.
New in caa.reviews
posted Sep 21, 2018
S. A. (Ali) Shobeiri reviews On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry by Diarmuid Costello. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Leisa Rundquist discusses Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada, edited by Franklin Sirmans and Yael Lipschutz. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
News from the Art and Academic Worlds
posted Sep 19, 2018
A collection of #FirstDayFirstImage posts, via Exposure
The Pervasive Power of Male Privilege at America’s Elite Universities
Institutions have hired men with predatory reputations and retained them, despite complaints from women students and faculty. (Hyperallergic)
How to Create a Syllabus
And get your students to actually read it. (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Souls Grown Deep Foundation Launches a New Paid Internship Program for Students of Color
New Orleans Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will also participate. (artnet News)
Colleges Face Pressure to Answer a Basic Question: What Are Students Learning?
Measuring learning in college, and reporting the results, is surprisingly hard to do. (PBS News Hour)
Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes: #FirstDayFirstImage
“What if we set the tone on the very first day of class, with the very first image we show our students, by discussing one work from a historically underrepresented artist? And so #firstdayfirstimage was born.” (Exposure)
Eight Ways to Tackle Diversity and Inclusion in Peer Review
Practical suggestions from recent studies on diversity and bias in peer review. (Scholarly Kitchen)