Global Conversations: Mentoring Beyond the Classroom

Filmed at the National Museum of Mexican Art, this program features a discussion about mentorship between two Chicago-based artists, Rubén Aguirre and Dan Ramirez, mediated by Cesáreo Moreno, Director and Curator of the National Museum of Mexican Art. Their conversation takes place inside Aguirre’s exhibition Tectonic Reflections, open at the National Museum of Mexican Art until July 24. This program was a part of the session, “Mentoring Beyond the Classroom: The Continuing Relationship Over Time,” at CAA’s 2022 Annual Conference in February, chaired by Richard Serrano, a member of CAA's Services to Artists Committee. Watch the conversation here!

CAA's New Membership Plans

We have added more information to our website about CAA's new membership plans, which go into effect July 1, 2022 and were previously presented during the Annual Conference and in the Executive Director's monthly letters. 

As we continue the rollout of our new digital platform, we ask you to complete your membership profile. By filling it out as much as possible, we are able to better personalize your CAA experience. This includes not only your personal demographic information but also your fields of study. Your voice is critical, and these attributes are some of the most important ways for us to serve you as myCAA takes shape.

CAA 2023 Annual Conference Proposal Submissions - due at midnight!

Nominations Open for CAA Juries

CAA invites nominations and self-nominations for individuals to serve on our Awards for Distinction, Publication Grant, Fellowship, and Travel and Support Grant juries. Materials are due to CAA by June 1, 2022.

 Candidates must possess expertise appropriate to the jury’s work and be current CAA members. They should not hold a position on a CAA committee or editorial board beyond May 31, 2022. CAA’s president and vice president for committees appoint jury members for service. Terms begin July 2022. 

Nominations and self-nominations should include a brief statement (no more than 150 words) outlining the individual’s qualifications and experience and a CV (an abbreviated CV no more than two pages may be submitted). Additional details are available on our website.

Looking Back at a Year of Robust Humanities Advocacy 

In early March, five months after Fiscal Year 2022 began, Congress passed a funding package for the year. The package included significant increases for federal humanities programs—most significantly, the largest increase seen in a decade for the National Endowment for the Humanities.  

This success followed a full year of robust humanities advocacy, much of which was supported by scholarly societies such as CAA. These initiatives were discussed at the National Humanities Alliance (NHA)’s Humanities Advocacy Day in 2021. Read the full column about the event by Alexandra Klein, National Humanities Alliance (NHA) Communications and Government Relations Manager, here. 

Application Period Extended: Art Journal Open Editor-in-Chief 

We have extended our deadline for our Art Journal Open’s Editor-in-Chief to serve for a three-year term. Art Journal Open (AJO) is an open-access digital journal for the visual arts, which presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, scholarly essays, and other forms of content from across the cultural field. Contributions focus on post-1945 material, with an emphasis on the contemporary and underrepresented perspectives.  

The editor is responsible for commissioning all content for AJO, including projects, texts, and time-based content by artists and other authors, and determines the appropriate scope and format of each project. Qualifications for the position include a broad knowledge of current art, the ability to work closely with artists in a wide variety of practices, and experience in developing written and other content for arts platforms. 

Learn more and apply here. Deadline: June 1.

CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts Exhibition Picks 

CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts have released their March and April “picks.” It includes exhibitions that encourage viewers to reframe familiar historical narratives and hierarchies. The content explored by these artists ranges from political icons to advertising and myth; and their approaches weave together tradition with experimentation. The works in these exhibitions move between the past and the present, providing a perspective tied to both individual and collective memory.  

Member Spotlight: Mira Schor

Mira Schor is a painter and writer born in New York City. Schor received her MFA from CalArts where she was a member of the CalArts Feminist Art Program and a participant in the historic feminist art installation Womanhouse. She is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture and A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life (both Duke University Press). Schor has received several awards for her work including CAA’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. Schor was co-editor with fellow painter Susan Bee of the journal M/E/A/N/I/N/G. In 2019, she was awarded the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.
 
The central theme in Schor’s recent work is the experience of living in a moment of incipient fascism, collective trauma, climate collapse, and accelerated time. Her major painting installation War Frieze was exhibited at Art Basel in 2021 and she is currently working for a one-person show at Marcelle Alix in Paris this upcoming fall. She is represented by Lyles & King who recently published a book on fifty years of her art practice.
 
As a CAA member, Schor first presented a paper on the work of Lenore Tawney at the Annual Conference in Chicago in 1976, on a panel organized by Miriam Schapiro. In the years since, Schor has been active on several panels, with a notable presentation in 2003 on the blur in Gerhard Richter’s painting seen through the focus of the Holocaust. Schor’s work has been reviewed in CAA’s Art Journal and her visual project War Crawl was published in Art Journal in 2009. She was featured in the Annual Artists’ Interviews at the 2013 conference and served as a member of the CAA’s Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement Jury from 2017-2019. Read more about Schor’s work and her many accomplishments on her website.

Call for CAA Membership Video Testimonials

CAA is gathering video testimonials from those in our community discussing how and why you have engaged with CAA. We are hoping to feature voices showcasing the multitude of ways that members have participated within the organization and utilized its resources. No story is too small, and we would love to hear from you! Please send your submission or any questions to development@collegeart.org.