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College Art Association

{{short description|American scholarly society}}

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| formation = 1911

| type = Professional association

| headquarters = New York, New York

| location = United States

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| leader_title = Executive Director and CEO

| leader_name = Isimeme Omogbai

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| budget = $3.4 million{{cite web | url=https://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2020-06%20College%20Art%20Association%20Fin%20Stmts%20-%20FINAL.pdf | title=Organization audited financial statements}}

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The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty. Founded in 1911, it "promotes these arts and their understanding through advocacy, intellectual engagement, and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners.""About CAA." College Art Association. 3 October 2018. . CAA currently has individual members across the United States and internationally; and institutional members, such as libraries, academic departments, and museums located in the United States. The organization's programs, standards{{cite news |last1=Glueck |first1=Grace |title=Rockefeller Calls Parley on Art |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/01/17/120983283.html?pageNumber=57 |access-date=9 October 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=January 17, 1979}} and guidelines,{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Patricia |title=Selling a Fake Painting Takes More Than a Good Artist By |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/arts/design/selling-a-fake-painting-takes-more-than-a-good-artist.html |access-date=9 October 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=May 2, 2014}} advocacy,{{cite news |last1=Williamson |first1=Ben |title=Letters, The Guggenheim and PETA, on Animals and Art |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/opinion/guggenheim-peta-animals-art.html |access-date=October 9, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=October 17, 2017}}{{cite web |title=The Use of Animal Subjects in Art: Statement of Principles and Suggested Considerations |url=http://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/use-of-animals |website=CAA |access-date=October 9, 2018}} intellectual engagement,{{cite news |last1=Alden Jewell |first1=Edward |title=College Art Association Opens Today Exhibition of "Background of American Painting." |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/02/02/archives/college-art-association-opens-today-exhibition-of-background-of.html |access-date=October 9, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=February 2, 1933}} and commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners,{{cite news |last1=Boucher |first1=Brian |title=Black Lives Take Center Stage at College Art Association's 2017 Conference |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/college-art-association-newsy-issues-conference-776285 |access-date=9 October 2018 |publisher=Art Net News |date=December 8, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Glueck |first1=Grace |title=Women Artists Charge Bias at Modern Museum |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/04/13/81894248.html?pageNumber=36 |access-date=9 October 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=April 13, 1972}} align with its broad and diverse membership.

CAA publications, programs and grants

CAA publishes several academic journals, including The Art Bulletin, one of the foremost journals for art historians in English, and Art Journal, a quarterly journal devoted to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and visual culture. The association also publishes two digital publications, caa.reviews, which is devoted to the peer review of new books and exhibitions relevant to the fields of art, art history, and architecture, and Art Journal Open, a forum for the visual arts that presents artists’ projects, conversations and interviews, and scholarly essays from across the cultural field.

CAA runs several programs to support and address issues in the visual arts field. These include the CAA-Getty International Program,[https://www.collegeart.org/programs/support-grants/caa-getty-international-program CAA Getty International Program] Fair Use,[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/caa-fair-use Fair Use] CAA Conversations Podcast series,[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/podcasts CAA Conversations Podcast series] and RAAMP, Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals.[https://raamp.hcommons.org/ RAAMP, Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals]

CAA offers several grants to professionals in the field:

  • CAA Getty International Program
  • Millard Meiss Publication Fund[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/publishing-grants/meiss Millard Meiss Publication Fund]
  • Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/publishing-grants/terra-foundation Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant]
  • Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/publishing-grants/wyeth Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant]
  • Art History Special Exhibition Travel Fund[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/travel-grants/art-history-travel-fund Art History Special Exhibition Travel Fund]
  • CAA Travel Grant in Memory of Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/travel-grants/edwards CAA Travel Grant in Memory of Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards]
  • Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/travel-grants/graduate-students Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants]
  • International Member Conference Travel Grants[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/travel-grants/international International Member Conference Travel Grants]
  • Samuel H. Kress Foundation CAA Conference Travel Fellowship for International Scholars[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/travel-grants/kress Samuel H. Kress Foundation CAA Conference Travel Fellowship for International Scholars]
  • CAA Professional Development Fellowships for Graduate Students[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/fellowships CAA Professional Development Fellowships for Graduate Students]

The CAA Annual Conference

CAA holds its Annual Conference in February every year. The conference moves to different cities each year, returning to New York every other year. Cities that have hosted the CAA Annual Conference include Houston, Seattle, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, and other major American cities. Between four and six thousand members attend each year, depending on the location. The convention is the largest and most important of the year for makers and interpreters of visual art and visual culture. The conference typically includes more than 300 panels and sessions examining a wide array of topics and issues in the art world. The conference often offers free admission and behind the scenes tours of local cultural institutions and museums and several parties and receptions for attendees.{{cite news |title=Techno Seduction | newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1997/02/07/531170.html?pageNumber=78 |access-date=9 October 2018 |date=February 7, 1997}}{{cite news |last1=McGill |first1=Douglas C. |title=Technology Meets Esthetics at College Assembly |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1986/02/15/228286.html?pageNumber=13 |access-date=9 October 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 15, 1986}}

Highlights of the Annual Conference are the keynote address and Convocation Ceremony, which features the presentation of the Awards for Distinction.{{cite web |last1=Russeth |first1=Andrew |title=College Art Association Announces 2018 Awards for Distinction |url=http://www.artnews.com/2018/01/26/college-art-association-announces-2018-awards-distinction/ |website=artnews.com |date=26 January 2018 |publisher=Art News |access-date=9 October 2018}} Previous keynote address speakers have included Charles Gaines, Mary Miller, Tania Bruguera, Dave Hickey, Jessica Stockholder, Robert Storr, Rocco Landesman, and many other noted academics, artists, curators, and art critics.

Each year, CAA honors a scholar in the field with the Distinguished Scholar Session. Previous awardees have included Wu Hung, Kaja Silverman, Richard J. Powell, Robert Farris Thompson, Rosalind Krauss, Linda Nochlin, James Cahill, and others.{{Cite web|url=http://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/scholars|title=Annual Conference {{!}} Programs {{!}} CAA|last=Association|first=College Art|website=www.collegeart.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-04}}

The Annual Conference also features the Annual Distinguished Artist Interviews. The Annual Distinguished Artist Interviews comprise two back to back conversations between artists and an individual familiar with their work. Recent Artist Interviews have included Kellie Jones, Catherine Opie with Helen Molesworth, Judy Baca with Anna Indych-López, Coco Fusco with Steven Nelson, Katherine Bradford with Judith Bernstein, Joyce Scott with George Ciscle, and Rick Lowe with LaToya Ruby Frazier, among many others.{{Cite web|url=http://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/history|title=Annual Conference {{!}} Programs {{!}} CAA|last=Association|first=College Art|website=www.collegeart.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-04}}

CAA Awards for Distinction

CAA presents each year 14 Awards for Distinction.{{Cite web|url=http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards|title=Awards for Distinction {{!}} Programs {{!}} CAA|last=Association|first=College Art|website=www.collegeart.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-04}}

  • The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/morey The Charles Rufus Morey Book Award] (Charles Rufus Morey)
  • The Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/barr The Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award]
  • The Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/barr-smaller-museums The Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions] (Alfred H. Barr Jr.)
  • The Frank Jewett Mather Award[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/mather The Frank Jewett Mather Award]{{cite web |title=Roberta Smith |url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/roberta-smith |work=The New York Times |access-date=9 October 2018}}{{cite news |title=Dore Ashton, Art Critic Who Embraced and Inhabited Modernism, Dies at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/arts/design/dore-ashton-art-critic-who-embraced-and-inhabited-modernism-dies-at-88.html |access-date=1 March 2025 |publisher=New York Times |date=February 4, 2017}} (Frank Jewett Mather)
  • The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/porter The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize] (Arthur Kingsley Porter)
  • Art Journal Award[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/art-journal Art Journal Award]
  • The Distinguished Teaching of Art Award[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/teaching The Distinguished Teaching of Art Award]
  • The Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/art-history The Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award]
  • The Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/body-of-work The Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work]
  • The Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/lifetime The Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement]
  • The Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/writing The Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art]
  • The Distinguished Feminist Awards: one to an art historian and one to an artist[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/feminist The Distinguished Feminist Awards]
  • The CAA/American Institute for Conservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/conservation The CAA/American Institute for Conservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation]
  • The Excellence in Diversity Award[http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/diversity The Excellence in Diversity Award]

See also

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External links

  • {{official website}}
  • [http://www.caareviews.org/ caa.reviews]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20181010174608/https://caajournals.directfrompublisher.com/subject/art-journal Art Journal]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20181010213519/https://caajournals.directfrompublisher.com/subject/art-bulletin The Art Bulletin]
  • [http://artjournal.collegeart.org/ Art Journal Open]

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Category:Learned societies of the United States

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Category:Presidents of the College Art Association