Los Angeles 2009
Enjoy a winter break in sunny California. The 97th CAA Annual Conference will be held February 25–28, 2009, in downtown Los Angeles. All sessions, the Book and Trade Fair, and the Career Fair take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center; the headquarters hotel is the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
The downtown Los Angeles area boasts many cultural sites, including the Frank Gehry–designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, which also houses REDCAT, an art gallery programmed by CalArts. Also found in the area are the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and its satellite space, Geffen Contemporary; the Japanese American National Museum; and a district of cutting-edge contemporary-art galleries in Chinatown. Among other important art museums nearby are the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Norton Simon Museum; the Skirball Cultural Center; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center; and the Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
2009 Call for Participation
Listing more than 120 sessions, the 2009 Call for Participation arrives in the mailboxes of all CAA individual and institutional members in early March; it can also be downloaded now.
This publication describes many of next year’s panels and presentations. CAA and session chairs invite your participation: please follow the instructions in the booklet to submit a proposal for a paper or presentation. This publication also includes a call for Poster Session proposals and describes the Open Forms sessions, a recently added conference feature.
In addition to attending and participating in the wide-ranging panels on art history, studio art, contemporary issues, and professional and educational practices, 2009 conference attendees can look forward to four days of ARTspace programming, events at museums and galleries in the greater Los Angeles area, and postconference trips to nearby museums and art centers. Convocation, program sessions, the Career Fair, and other events are held at the Los Angeles Convention Center; the headquarters hotel is the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites.
Deadline for proposals of papers: May 9, 2008.