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ARTSPACE

ARTspace is a conference within the conference, tailored to the needs and interests of practicing artists but open to all conference attendees. It includes a session space, set theater-style, and a lounge for video programming and other events.

ARTspace is located in Lone Star Ballroom C4, 2nd Floor, Adam’s Mark Hotel

Wednesday, February 20

7:30–9:00 am
Morning coffee, tea, and juice

9:30 am–12:00 pm
Landscape: Fact and Fiction
Chairs: Janet L. Pritchard, University of Connecticut; Thomas P. Bruhn, University of Connecticut

Discussants: Judith Thorpe, University of Connecticut; Bruce Myren, University of Connecticut

12:30–2:00 pm
Artists’ Residencies/Worldwide Opportunities
Chair: Elizabeth Conner, independent artist, Seattle

2:30–5:00 pm
Gestures of Resistance: Craft, Performance, and the Politics of Slowness
Chairs: Shannon Rae Stratton, ThreeWalls Artist Residency and Exhibitions; Judith Leemann, Assumption College

The 100-Mile Suit: Costume as an Exercise in Regionalism
Kelly Cobb, Maryland Institute College of Art

Michael Rakowitz and the Anti-Craft Tradition
Bibiana Obler, Johns Hopkins University

Making and Faking: Industrial Distillation of the Crafted Mark
Rod Northcutt, Rochester Institute of Technology

Doing Time: Women, Hand-Spinning, and Quiltmaking in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1800–1880
Patricia Keller, McNeil Center, University of Pennsylvania

Un-Express; or, Delivering Slowness as Political Ploy
Kristine Woods, Maryland Institute College of Art; Christopher Whittey, Maryland Institute College of Art

Thursday, February 21

7:30–9:00 am
Morning coffee, tea, and juice

9:30 am–12:00 pm
Immense Prints
Chair: Sheri Fleck Rieth, University of Mississippi

Type A; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Dremel Tool
Chris Brady, Hinds Community College

War Birds: Large-scale Print Collages
Dale Clifford, Savannah College of Art and Design

Satirical Large-Scale Prints: Outlaw Printmaking and Beyond
Tom Huck, Washington University, St. Louis

Make It Big: DonÕt Make It Red, Make It Blue!
Barbara Madsen, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University

Papercuts
Carlyle Wolfe, University of Mississippi

Lil Ole Lady, Living Large
Sheri Fleck Rieth, University of Mississippi

12:30–2:00 pm
The Sustainable Studio
Chairs: Patricia Flores, California College of the Arts; Duane Slick, Rhode Island School of Design

Hazardous Traditions: A Short History of the Environmental Impact of Art Practice
Patricia Flores, California College of the Arts

Trial by Fire; or, The Implementation of Culture Change in the Art School and the Studio Setting
Duane Slick, Rhode Island School of Design

Personal and Environmental Sustainability: Self, Disaster, Revolution
Jae Rhim Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:30–5:00 pm

The Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic
Chair: Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University

Encaustic Painters of Ancient Times
Richard Frumess, R & F Handmade Paints

Contemporary Encaustic Painting
Joanne Mattera, Massachusetts College of Art and Montserrat College of Art

Reveal/Conceal
Kristy Deetz, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Mapping Topographies: Wax Surfaces and Digital Shimmer
Peter Dykhuis, Dalhousie Art Gallery

Material, Memory, and Meaning
Lorraine Glessner, Tyler School of Art

Heated Drawing
Cheryl Goldsleger, Georgia State University

Recent Work in Wax and Plaster
Heather Harvey, independent artist, Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Hammer, Tape, Torch, Mesh, and Wax: Approaches within an Encaustic Process
Jeffrey Hirst, independent artist, Minneapolis

Divas and Chefs Discussed
Timothy McDowell, Connecticut College

Friday, February 22

7:30–9:00 am
Morning coffee, tea, and juice

9:30–12:00 pm
Living Locally, Exhibiting Nationally: A Conversation with Vernon Fisher, David Bates and Melissa Miller
Chair: Philip Van Keuren, Southern Methodist University

12:30–2:00 pm
CAA Services to Artists Committee
Then and Now: What George KublerÕs Book, The Shape of Time, Means Today
Chair: Reva Wolf, State University of New York, New Paltz

Back to the Future: Lawrence Alloway, George Kubler, and New York’s Downtown Scene
Shelley Rice, New York University
Mary Miller, Yale University


2:30–5:00 pm
Annual Artist Interviews
Yoko Ono will be interviewed by Jonathan Fineberg
Adel Abidin will be interviewed by Nada Shabout
The Artist Interviews will be held in
Dallas Ballroom B, 1stFloor, Adam’s Mark Hotel

6:00–9:00 pm
ARTexchange
2nd Floor Pre-convene
Cash Bar
Arts Exchange is an open portfolio session where CAA artist members are offered tables to show drawings, prints, photographs, small paintings and works on laptop computers. The session is open to the public and free of charge. Sale of work is not permitted.

Saturday, February 23

7:30–9:00 am
Morning coffee, tea, and juice

9:30–12:00 pm
Fictional Realism
Chair: Robert Jessup, University of North Texas

Fictional Realism
Robert Jessup, University of North Texas

Painting: Constructing Truths, Lies, and Temporary Meanings
Matthew Bourbon, University of North Texas

The Space in Between: Pictorial Storytelling
Elaine Pawlowicz, University of North Texas

Human Perception versus the Camera: The Virtues of Drawing from Life
Lari Gibbons, University of North Texas

12:30–2:00 pm
Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities
Chair: Laura Perez, University of California, Berkeley
Amalia Mesa-Bains, California State University, Monterey Bay
Celia Alvarez Munoz, independent artist, Arlington
Yolanda Lopez, independent artist, San Francisco
Delilah Montoya, University of Houston

2:30–5:00 pm

Studio Art Open Session
Sculpture
Chair: Tanya Synar, Texas WomenÕs University

Cameron Schoepp, Texas Christian University

Frances Bagley, independent artist, Dallas

Tom Orr, independent artist, Dallas