5:30–7:00 PM

CAA Convocation
Open to the public
Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall Meeting Room 502AB

• Welcome
  Linda Downs, CAA Executive Director
• Presidential Address
  Paul Jaskot, CAA President
  
• Presentation of the CAA Awards for Distinction
  
• Keynote Address
  Leonardo López Luján, chief archaeologist, Museo Templo Mayor, Mexico City

7:00–10:00 PM

CAA Gala Reception
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA

Limited availability. Advance registration required. Tickets required for admission. Transportation: Depart by bus from the Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall entrance, at 7:00 PM; bus departs the Getty Center at 10:00 PM to return to the conference hotels to arrive at approximately 11:00 PM.

Price
Advance: $20
Onsite: $25

8:30–10:00 PM
Viewing
Lobby Court Lounge
Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites
404 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA
Selections from the ARTspace Media Lounge and works curated by Sherin Guirguis. This event is made possible with the generous support from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites.

12:30–2:00 PM
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Celebrating Philip Conisbee
Los Angeles County Art Museum
Brown Auditorium
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA

2:30–5:00 PM
Distinguished Scholar Session Honoring Svetlana Alpers
“Painting/Problems/Possibilities”
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 502AB, Level 2
Chair: Mariët Westermann

Centering on the art of painting, the panel will discuss the provocations and possibilities of Svetlana Alpers’s scholarly and creative work.

5:30–8:30 PM
Open House and Reception: Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Pharmaka, and Bert Green Fine Art LACDA:
107 West 5th Street; Pharmaka: 101 West 5th Street; Bert Green Fine Art: 102 West 5th Street

On view at LACDA: new digital, conceptual, and photographic works, including internationally recognized artists Martin Gantman, Michael Salerno, Jean Ferro, and Rex Bruce. On view at Pharmaka: New Mythologies. At Bert Green Fine Art: Jessica Curtaz, Sandra Yagi, and Doug Cox; plus, Richard Ankrom in the exterior Project Windows.

Directions: At intersection of 5th Street and Main Street, downtown Los Angeles.

6:30–8:00 PM
Discussion: Irving Sandler and Raphael Rubinstein
Ahmanson Auditorium, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA

Join “on-the spot” art historian Irving Sandler and Raphael Rubinstein (former senior editor of Art in America and current professor of critical studies at the University of Houston) for a vivid discussion of the most critical decade in the postwar ascendancy of American painting: 1942–52. This event coincides with the release of Irving Sandler’s newest book, Abstract Expressionism: Rethinking the Critical Decade, to be published by Hard Press Editions and the School of Visual Arts.

6:30–8:00 PM
Reception: Art Center College of Design
950 S. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA

The Art Center College of Design invites conference attendees to join Art Center faculty and CAA colleagues at a reception and presentation at its South Campus Wind Tunnel building. A former aircraft-testing facility redeveloped by Daly Genik, Inc., it was one of the first buildings to receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification from the city. There will be fifteen-minute presentations on developments in twenty-first-century technologies, on new approaches to art and design pedagogy and practice, and on sustainability in design practice.

RSVP requested by February 18 to fred.fehlau@artcenter.edu.

Directions: rail transportation from downtown LA to Pasadena is approximately thirty minutes; go to www.metro.net/ for details.

6:00–9:00 PM

An Evening at UCLA

Reception: CAA Annual Exhibition

Fowler Museum
Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa

Curated by Mary Nooter Roberts, this exhibition presents the work of five outstanding artists with close associations to Africa: Yto Barrada, Claudia Cristovao, Alfredo Jaar, Georgia Papageorge, and Bernie Searle. Each offers a compelling example of the ways that time-based media lend themselves to the representation of complex transnational, postcolonial identity politics resulting from diasporic displacement, geographic rifts, and deep emotional attachments and divides.

Exhibition viewing and wine-and-cheese reception. Also on view are Transformations: Recent Contemporary African Acquisitions; Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda; Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives, and Reflecting Culture, The Francis E. Fowler, Jr. Collection of Silver.

Open House

Hammer Museum
On view will be Portraits from the Collections, a selection of works on paper and paintings drawn from the collections of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and the Hammer Contemporary Collection, curated by Cynthia Burlingham and Gary Garrels. Artists represented in the exhibition include David Dupuis, David Hockney, Ray Johnson, Gustav Klimt, Sharon Lockhart, Edvard Munch, Catherine Opie, Pablo Picasso, Jack Pierson, Kiki Smith, John Sonsini, and James McNeill Whistler. Also on view will be two Hammer Projects by artists Erin Cosgrove and Shirana Shahbazi, and the Armand Hammer Collection of old-master and nineteenth-century European and American paintings.

Open House

The Broad Art Center
Designed by Richard Meier and Partners Architects, the UCLA Art Department’s headquarters will welcome visitors. The various visual-arts departments will be open, and the undergraduate juried art exhibition will be on view in the New Wight Gallery.

Price
Advance: $20
Onsite: $25

Transportation: Depart by bus from the Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall entrance, at 6:00 PM; bus departs the Broad Art Center at 9:00 PM for return to the conference hotels, at approximately 10:00 PM. Limited availaility.

7:00–9:00 PM
Film Screening and Discussion: The Cool School
REDCAT: The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA

Join us for a special evening at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles for a screening of the film The Cool School, a documentary about how a few renegade artists built the Los Angeles art scene from scratch. Principal cast includes: Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Billy Al Bengston, Irving Blum, and Robert Irwin. The film’s director, Morgan Neville, will be on hand for a Q&A session after the film.

The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is the California Institute of the Arts’ downtown center for innovative visual, performing, and media arts. CalArts operates galleries and a state-of-the-art two-hundred-seat theater located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles. Limited availability.

Price
Advance: $10
Onsite: $15

8:30–10:00 PM
Reception and Viewing
Lobby Court Lounge, Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites
404 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA

Selections from the ARTspace Media Lounge and works curated by Sherin Guirguis. This event is made possible with the generous support from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites.

12:30–2:00 PM
Roundtable: Hacienda Room, Faculty Center, UCLA
480 Charles Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA

Discussion on Contemporary Architectural Trajectories in East Asia, led by Ken Tadashi Oshima and Vimalin Rujivacharakul. Speakers: Qingyun Ma, University of Southern California; Hitoshi Abe, University of California, Los Angeles; Wim DeWit, Getty Research Institute; and Brooke Hodge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Directions: Take South Figueroa Street to Wilshire Boulevard. Turn right on Wilshire Boulevard and continue to Westholme Avenue. Turn right on Westholme Boulevard and go north to enter UCLA campus. The Faculty Center is the first building on your right.

From the 405 freeway, take the Sunset Boulevard exit and go east. Turn right on Hilgard Avenue, then turn right on Westholme (the second traffic light) and enter the UCLA campus.

Map: http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/directions.htm.

2:30–5:30 PM
Annual Artists’ Interviews
Los Angeles Convention Center,
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2

Lawrence Weschler of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Chicago Humanities Festival interviews light and space artist Robert Irwin. A second interview will be announced.

12:30–2:00 PM and 5:30–7:00 PM
Open House and Tour: The Wende Museum
5741 Buckingham Parkway, Suite E, Culver City, CA

Facing the Wall: Living with the Berlin Wall
Tour of Museum’s collection of Eastern European cold-war artifacts.

Directions: from downtown, take I-10, then 405 south to West Slauson, make right, then left on Buckingham.

6:00–8:00 PM
Opening Reception: CAA Regional MFA Exhibition
Roski School of Fine Arts Gallery and Lindhurst Fine Art Gallery,
Watt Hall 104,
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Transportation: Depart by bus from the Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall entrance, at 5:00 PM; bus departs the Lindhurst Fine Art Gallery, Watt Hall, at 8:00 PM for return to the conference hotels, to arrive at approximately 10:00 PM. Limited to the first forty-five people.

6:00–9:00 PM
Open House and Reception: Institute of Cultural Inquiry
1512 S. Robertson Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA

On view: works by associates of the institute.

Directions: from Convention Center, catch Metro Rapid 728 at northwest corner of Olympic/Figueroa to Olympic/Robertson; walk approximately five blocks south.

7:00–9:00 PM
Reception at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA

Visit the newly opened Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) at LACMA, which holds some of the most iconic artworks from the last four decades—most from the famed Broad Collections, reflecting Eli and Edythe Broad’s practice of collecting artists in depth. Also on view at BCAM is the exhibition Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, which traces the political, cultural, and theoretical discourses during the cold war in the East and West German art worlds by showing the varied roles that conventional art, new media, new art forms, popular culture, and contemporary art exhibitions played in the establishment of their art in the postwar era.

At the Ahmanson Building, participants on view the highly acclaimed reinstallation of LACMA’s collection of modern art, which includes paintings and sculpture from Europe (including Russia), with additional pieces from the United States and Mexico. In addition, the collection includes important paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Matisse, Schwitters, and Magritte. Also newly installed are the Latin American Art: Ancient to Contemporary galleries in the Art of the Americas Building, which feature numerous recent acquisitions of ancient American, Spanish colonial, modern, and
contemporary art.

Wine, beer, soft drinks, water, and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Those with tickets will receive free access to the entire museum.
Transportation: Depart by bus from the Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall entrance at 6:30 PM; bus departs from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at 9:00 PM for return to the conference hotels, to arrive at approximately 10:00 PM. Limited availability.

Price
Advance: $20
Onsite: $25

8:30–10:00 PM
Viewing
Lobby Court Lounge
Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites
404 South Figueroa Street

Selections from the ARTspace Media Lounge and works curated by Sherin Guirguis. This event is made possible with the generous support from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites.

9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Feminist Art Project Special Sessions
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 502A, Level 2

The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) will host a series of events for the Annual Conference. CAA is a founding program partner of TFAP. Started by Arlene Raven, Judy Chicago, and Susan Fisher Sterling, the Feminist Art Project is administered by Rutgers University’s Institute for Women and Art, under the auspices of the associate vice president for academic and public partnerships in the arts and humanities, and directed by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin.

9:30–10:00 AM
Black Women, But, Are They Feminists?
Suzanne Jackson, Savannah College of Art and Design

This panel will examine questions about the past and present concerns women of color have had in the art world surrounding feminism and feminist issues. The evolution of black consciousness for women and the complications of all women not seeking freedom from traditional roles remain important aspects of the dialogue surrounding race and gender for women of color.

10:45 AM–12:15 PM
Salon des Refuses or Who Was/Is “In” and “Out” of the Recent Feminist Exhibitions
Maren Hassinger, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Rachel Rosenthal, independent artist
Recent feminist exhibitions, including WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, received considerable press and attention but did not include all of the women who played significant roles in the decade of the 1970s. This panel will consider what the situation and meaning is of not having one’s work recognized in these exhibitions.

12:30–1:45 PM
Transnational Feminism
Yong Soon Min, University of California, Irvine, and Connie Samaras, University of California, Irvine

Given the proliferation of difference—some that matter and much that is superfluous—that characterizes the contemporary globalized art field, our conversation will center on markers of difference in the intersections of class, race, age, sexuality, nationality, and media that signal notable shifts in our understanding of female subjectivity.

Moreover, we will consider how these shifting understandings are imbricated within issues of translation in the transnational cultural traffic.

2:00–3:15 PM
Artists Converse on Feminism
Maria Buszek, Kansas City Art Institute

How do artists consider the questions about feminism in their art? How do artists consider these questions in various media? How does the social situation of women today have on impact on their work? What is the status of the body, and of the body beautiful, in art? What political issues most engage feminist artists today? These are only a few of the points of discussion for this conversation among feminist artists working in different media and coming-of-age under different phases of feminist activism.

3:30–5:00 PM
Women Performance Artists
Jill O’Bryan, independent critic and artist

This panel will be a combination of miniperformances, or performance excerpts, with commentary and critique on the state of feminist performance today.

12:30–2:00 PM
Exhibition Tour: Norton Simon Museum
Ruth Weisberg: Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image
411 West Colorado Boulevard at Orange Grove Boulevard
Pasadena, CA

Guided tour by the artist of her exhibition. Ruth Weisberg’s new series is inspired by Guido Cagnacci’s Martha Rebuking Mary for Her Vanity (after 1660), one of the museum’s most important Baroque paintings.

Directions: the city of Pasadena provides a shuttle bus to transport passengers through the Pasadena Playhouse district, the Lake Avenue shopping district, and Old Pasadena. A shuttle stop is located in front of the museum. Please visit www.cityofpasadena.net/artsbus for schedules. If traveling by car, parking is free.

6:00–8:00 PM
Reception and Film Screening: The Wende Museum
5741 Buckingham Parkway, Suite E,
Culver City, CA

Screening of Wende Flicks.

Directions: from downtown, take I-10, then 405 south to West Slauson, make right, then left on Buckingham.

6:30–9:00 PM
Reception at the Getty Villa
17985 Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Palisades, CA

Come visit the Getty Villa, reopened two years ago after the completion of a major renovation project. This reception will immediately follow the session “The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria,” chaired by Karol Wight, the J. Paul Getty Museum’s senior curator of antiquities. Limited availability. Advance registration required; tickets required for admission.
Price
Advance: $20
Onsite: $25

Transportation: Depart by bus from the Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall entrance, at 5:00 PM; bus departs the Getty Villa at 9:00 PM for return to the conference hotels, to arrive at approximately 10:00 PM.

6:30–9:30 PM
WCA Awards Ceremony
Wilshire Grand Hotel, Ballroom
930 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA

The Women’s Caucus on Art (WCA) will honor the five recipients of its 2009 Lifetime Achievement Awards: Maren Hassenger, Ester Hernandez, Joyce Kosloff, Margo Machida, and Ruth Weisberg. Dinner 6:30–7:30 PM; ceremony 7:30–9:30 PM. For ticket information, check the WCA website.

8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Public Arts Works by Women
Jerri Allyn, Otis College of Art and Design; Meg Cranston, Otis College of Art and Design; and Debra Padilla, Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)

Catch a Public Art Bus Tour with artists Jerri Allyn and Meg Cranston and SPARC director Debra Padilla as your tour guides. Public performances and community-based projects are included.

The bus tour will feature sculptural installations by May Sun and Sheila de Bretteville in Little Tokyo; the 7th and Hill Street Metro Rail stop codesigned by Kim Abeles; the Filipino Veterans War Memorial in Historic Filipinotown by Cheri Gaulke; 400 Youth—1 Wall by Judy Baca; among other locations. The tour will include lunch and viewing of a permanent wall installation by Alexis Smith at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Cranston will note sites of infamous performances along Sunset and Wilshire Boulevards and Avenue of the Stars; impromptu appearances by performance groups the Waitresses and LA Art Girls will occur en route. While traveling between sites, tour participants can also join a sing-along with the folk singer Phranc.

Price
Advance: $20
Onsite: $25
Limited availability

Transportation: Depart by bus from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 S. Figueroa Street, at 8:00 AM; bus departs from Echo Park at 4:30 PM for the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, to arrive at approximately 5:30 PM.

Los Angeles Public Art Tour map by Irina Contreras and essay by the art historian Marlena Donahue will be available in LOUDmouth magazine, a publication of the Women’s Center at Cal State East LA for the CAA conference.

9:30 AM–5:00 PM
Tour: Art of Southern California
José Drudis-Biada Gallery at Mount St. Mary’s College (MSMC), California State Univerity, Channel Islands Library (CSUCI), and Getty Villa. Sponsored in part by CSUCI, José Drudis-Biada Gallery at MSMC, Getty Villa Education, and Art Historians of Southern California.

The tour starts at the José Drudis-Biada Gallery at MSMC with a breakfast reception for the exhibition Insight/Inside LA, curated by Jody Baral. The next stop will be California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI) and a lunch reception for the exhibition Postmodern Calligraphies, curated by Irina D. Costache and held in the library designed by Sir Norman Foster and Associates. From there, the participants will travel via the scenic Pacific Coast Highway to the Getty Villa. The museum tours are organized by Ann Steinsapir, Villa education specialist. All participants will receive a CD catalogue of both exhibitions.

Price
Advance: $20
Onsite: $25
Limited Availability

Transportation: Depart by bus from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 S. Figueroa Street, at 9:30 AM; bus departs the Getty Villa at 3:30 PM for the Westin Bonaventure Hotel to arrive at approximately 4:30 PM.

12:15–5:15 PM
Field Trip with the Los Angeles Urban Rangers: Malibu Public Beaches Safari
Join the Los Angeles Urban Rangers for a Malibu Public Beaches Safari, which will show you how to find, park, walk, picnic, and sunbathe on a Malibu beach legally and safely. The safari will visit two different beaches. Skills-enhancing activities include a public/private boundary hike, sign watching, a no-kill hunt for access ways, and a public easement potluck. Founded in 2004, the Los Angeles Urban Rangers is a collective of artists, architects, urban designers, and scholars that offers site-specific programming in and about Los Angeles and its everyday built environment.

Price
Advance: $20
Onsite: $25
Limited availability

Transportation: Depart by bus from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 S. Figueroa Street, at 12:15 PM; bus departs from Malibu at 4:30 PM for the Westin Bonventure Hotel, to arrive at approximately 5:15 PM.

1:00–4:00 PM
Open House and Reception
Westside University Galleries Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University; and Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Burns Fine Arts Center, 1 LMU Drive and 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles

On view at the Laband Art Gallery: Gallery 32 and Its Circle: Los Angeles’ African American Art Community in the 1960s and 70s. On view at Ben Maltz Gallery: The Future Imaginary.

Price
Advance: $20
Onsite: $25
Limited availability

Transportation: Depart by bus from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 S. Figueroa Street, at 11:30 am; bus departs Ben Maltz Gallery at 4:00 PM for return to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel to arrive at approximately 5:00 PM. Free parking available at both locations for attendees with their own transportation.