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About the CAA 94th Annual Conference in Boston

Dates

February 22–25, 2006

Location

The Hynes Convention Center
900 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115

Attendance

In 2005, over 5,000 participants attended CAA’s Annual Conference, held in Atlanta. Visual-arts professionals, including art historians, artists, students, museum curators and directors, and art lovers, enjoyed a wide variety of sessions, panel discussions, career-development workshops, exhibitions, and special events. A similar turnout is anticipated in Boston.

Sessions

Conference sessions feature presentations from art-history scholars, graduate students, artists, and curators from institutions across the country and internationally, Conference sessions address a range of topics in art history and the visual arts. In total, over 180 sessions are offered.

Career Fair

The Career Fair includes four days of mentoring and portfolio-review sessions, career-development workshops, and job interviews. CAA’s Online Career Center, an arts employment database, allows employers to post job openings during the Conference; candidates can review continually updated listings and arrange interviews.

Book and Trade Fair

This year’s Book and Trade Fair presents 160 exhibitors displaying new publications, artists’ materials, digital resources, and innovative products of interest to artists, scholars, and the general public. The editors of The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and caa.reviews, CAA’s three journals, will be available on Friday morning, February 24, to discuss and answer questions about their publications. The Book and Trade Fair also features book signings, lectures and art-materials demonstrations.

Exhibitions

CAA sponsors exhibitions at the Annual Conference. The reception for the annual CAA exhibition will take place at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery on Friday, February 24, at 6 pm. Organized by Laura Donaldson, director of the Mills Gallery, and entitled After, the exhibition presents internationally acclaimed artists whose work examines the aftermath of “events” that range from professional and intimate to cataclysmic and world changing. The reception for annual MFA exhibition reception will be held at the Massachusetts College of Art, on Thursday, February 23 at 5:30 pm. The reception for the newly inaugurated annual BFA exhibition will be held at Boston University, on Thursday, February 23 at 5:30 pm.

Special Events

The distinguished art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto of Columbia University will deliver the keynote address at Convocation on Wednesday, February 22. Other special events feature a number of receptions at Boston’s art museums and galleries. Highlights include an opening-night gala reception at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (following Convocation), hosted by the museum’s director, Malcolm Rogers. Complimentary admission to the exhibition David Hockney Portraits is included.

Awards and Fellowships

One of the Conference’s most anticipated events, CAA’s annual Awards of Distinction will be presented to outstanding artists, teachers, scholars, critics, conservators, and museum professionals. The award winners will be announced on Wednesday, February 22, at Convocation. Past recipients include Ed Ruscha, Robert Blackburn, Roberta Smith, Yve-Alain Bois, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, among others.

Business Meetings

Throughout the Conference, a large number of academic, professional caucuses, societies, associations, and special-interest groups convene to discuss issues affecting their discipline.

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