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Women's Caucus for Art
Breaking in Two and Mending: Art and Motherhood
Wednesday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Margaret Lazzari, University of Southern California; Sabine Sighicelli, Brooks Institute of Photography
Art Spaces Archives Project
Mitigating the Obvious Culture and the Search for Broader Humanity: Bridging the Gap between Us and Them
Wednesday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: David Platzker, Specific Object
Joshua Decter, University of Southern California
Edgar Arceneaux, Watts House Project
Open Session: Painting
Wednesday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: David Pagel, Claremont University Graduate School
Sharon Ellis
Annie Lapin
Monique Prieto
Michael Reafsnyder
Steve Roden
ARTspace
The State of California Printmaking: History with a Future
Wednesday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Sylvia Solochek Walters, San Francisco State University; Barbara Foster, San Francisco State University
The Importance of Collecting Locally: California Contemporary Print Archives at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Karin Breuer, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Mission Gráfica: Consejo Gráfico and Bay Area Latino Printmaking
Juan Fuentes, independent artist, San Francisco
Printed Strata: The Lesser Known and Unknown in the Los Angeles Printmaking World
Jennifer D. Anderson
Cultivating Creativity at Kala Art Institute
Archana Horsting, Kala Art Institute
California/Asian Connections in Printmaking
Jimin Lee, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tamarind and the Birth of Print Marketing in Los Angeles
June Wayne, Brodsky Center, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
National Endowment for the Humanities
Funding Sources from the National Endowment for the Humanities: New Programs and Updates on Grants for Art Historians, Educators, and Museums
Thursday, February 26, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Barbara Bays, National Endowment for the Humanities; Danielle Shapiro, National Endowment for the Humanities
Attention Must Be Paid
Thursday, February 26, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 406AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Sean Elwood, Creative Capital Foundation
Erin Cosgrove, independent artist
Lynn Hershman-Leeson, independent artist
Sharon Lockhart, independent artist, Los Angeles
Association for Critical Race Art History
Artists’ Roundtable: Doing the Work
Thursday, February 26, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Camara Holloway, University of Delaware
Rodney Ewing
Farzad Kohan
Alma Lopez
CAA Advocacy Session: International Law and the Visual Arts
Thursday, February 26, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Paul Jaskot, CAA President; Jeffrey P. Cunard, CAA Counsel
Mark Stephens, Finer Stephens Innocent
Public Art Dialogue
Public Art and Pedagogy
Thursday, February 26, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Nancy Scott, Brandeis University; Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame
Collaborative Field Projects: From NOLA to San Joaquin Valley
Suzanne Lacy, Otis College of Art and Design
Memory/Works Memorial to Slavery, Nantes, France
Julian Bonder, Bonder Associates; Roger Williams University
Pragmatic Pedagogy: Public Art as Civil Society in Cuba of the Special Period
Peter Kalb, Brandeis University
Education or Reeducation: The Specter of Critical Public Art in Contemporary China
Poyin Auyeung
Distinguished Scholar's Session: Svetlana Alpers
Paintings/Problems/Possibilities
Thursday, February 26, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Mariët Westermann, New York University Dubai
Carol Armstrong, Princeton University
Thomas Crow, Insitute of Fine Arts, New York University
James Hyde, independent artist, Brooklyn, New York
Stephen Melville, Ohio State University
Mariët Westermann, New York University Dubai
National Endowment for the Arts
Grant Opportunities
Thursday, February 26, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Robert Frankel, National Endowment for the Arts
The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design
Past and Future Textiles in Academia
Thursday, February 26, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Christy Matson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Tailored to Fit: The Role of Fibers in the Art Department at Appalachian State University
Jeana Eve Klein, Appalachian State University
Integration: Digital + Hand
Vita Plume, North Carolina State University
New Materials and Technology from the Perspective of an Art Institute
Pauline Verbeek-Cowart, Kansas City Art Institute
National Committee on the History of Art
Art History as a Developing Practice
Friday, February 27, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University; Thomas Gaehtgens, Getty Research Institute
International Committee for the History of Art (CIHA)
The World at Stake
Friday, February 27, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Jaynie Anderson, University of Melbourne
Federico Freschi, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Crossing Cultures: The Research Agenda Set by the Melbourne Congress
Jaynie Anderson, University of Melbourne
Art and Anthropology
Thierry Dufrêne, Institut international d'histoire de l'art
The Challenge of the Object in a Global World
Ulrich Grossmann, Germanisches National Museum
ARTspace
Video Hits the Streets: Art, Surveillance, Marketing, and Mobile Media
Friday, February 27, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Anne Bray, LA Freewaves; Claremont Graduate University; and University of Southern California
City as Screen/Body as Movie
Holly Willis, Institute for Multimedia Literacy
Public Art for Public Action, The City As Interactive Installation
Steve Dietz, 01SJ Biennial and Northern Lights
Freewaves' Hollywould Video Festival at Fifty Venues on Hollywood Boulevard
Anne Bray, LA Freewaves; Claremont Graduate University; and University of Southern California
Remapping-LA: Social Computing
Fabian Wagmister, University of California, Los Angeles; REMAP; and cheLA
LA Art Schools: A Conversation about the Past and Present
Friday, February 27, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 411, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Roy Dowell, Otis College of Art and Design
Russell Ferguson, University of California, Los Angeles
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Art Center College of Design
Tom Lawson, California Institute of the Arts
Ruth Weisberg, University of Southern California
CAA Exhibitor Session
Outdoor Mural Painting in Los Angeles: Up against the Wall!
Friday, February 27, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Mark Gottsegen, Art Materials Information and Education Network, Intermuseum Conservation Assocation
Rebecca Anne Rushfield, independent conservator, New York
Mark Golden, Golden Artist Colors
Leslie Rainer, Getty Conservation Institute
Kent Twitchell, independent artist
Mark Gottsegen, Art Materials Information and Education Network, Intermuseum Conservation Association
Captivating Audiences: A Visitor-Centered Approach to Art Museum Practice
Friday, February 27, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Nancy Jones, Detroit Insitute of Arts
Divorce Art-History Style
Graham W. J. Beal, Detroit Institute of Arts
Theme and Content: The Curator's Role
George Keyes, Detroit Institute of Arts
Listening to Visitor's Voices
Matt Sikora, Detroit Institute of Arts
Facilitating Engagement
Jennifer Czaijkowski, Detroit Institute of Arts
ArtTable
ArtTable Career-Advisory Roundtables
Friday, February 27, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 512, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Jessica Palmieri, ArtTable
For registration information, please select this link http://www.memberize.com/clubportal/clubdocs/158/CAACareerAdvisory%20Info%20and%20Application_fill%20in.pdf
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ARTspace
Annual Artists’ Interviews
Friday, February 27, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Services to Artists Committee
Interview: light and space artist Robert Irwin
Lawrence Weschler, New York Institute for the Humanities; Chicago Humanities Festival
Interview with painter Ruth Weisberg, University of Southern California
Barbara Isenberg, writer and lecturer
Historians of Netherlandish Art
The Object of Netherlandish Art
Saturday, February 28, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Claudia Goldstein, William Paterson University; Alexandra Onuf, University of Hartford
"Leave This Panel Closed": The Object Lessons of the Liège Satirical Diptych, ca. 1520
Noel Schiller, University of South Florida
The Medium and the Message: Tapestry in the Seventeenth Century
Koenraad Brosens, Flemish Science Foundation, University of Leuven
Cultures of the Object, Objects of Culture: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting
Julie Berger Hochstrasser, University of Iowa
Sign of the Times: Nationalism and the Politics of the Van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece
Jenny Graham, University of Plymouth
Discussant:James J. Bloom, Vanderbilt University
AP Studio Art Program
The Role AP Can Play in Transitioning Millenials to College Study in the Visual Arts
Saturday, February 28, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 403B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Jan Feldhausen, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
ARTspace
Return to the Table: Artists and Curators on Olivier Debroise's "Un Banquete en Tetlapayac" (An Homage to Olivier Debroise, 1952–2008)
Saturday, February 28, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Rita Gonzalez, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Creative Capital Foundation | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Project Presentations
Saturday, February 28, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Margaret Sundell, Creative Capital Foundation | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Generative Art, Creative Possibilities
Robby Herbst
In a Large Open Space
Elizabeth Kotz
What Was Contemporary Art
Richard Meyer
Terms of Engagement: Re-Envisioning the Political in Art
Sharon Mizota
Touching Contemporary Art, Part II
Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 405, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Elizabeth Adan, California Polytechnic State University
Tactility and/in the Aesthetic Event: Dialogism, Difference, and Corporeality
renée c. hoogland, Wayne State University
At Hand: The Tactility of Richard Pettibone's Small-Scale Art Copies
Elisa Schaar, Oxford University
Differentiating Touch
Fiona Candlin, Birkbeck College, University of London
Touching Sound: Extending the Listening Experience
Rupinder Dhillon, University of California, Santa Cruz
Curating through Craft: Centralizing Touch in a Museum Environment
Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft
Art and the Memory of Revolution, 1789–1939, Part II
Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania
Natural Attacks? The Politics of Lightning and the French Revolution
Christian Fuhrmeister, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Skeletons in the Closet: Secrets and Lies in Revolutionary France
Richard Taws, McGill University
[In]Secure Space: The Mellah of Fez, Morocco
Michelle Huntingford Craig, University of California, Los Angeles
Jacob Lawrence's "Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture" and History Painting from Below
Linda Kim, Smith College
The Revolutionary Future Anterior: John Heartfield's 1930s Photomontages
Sabine Kriebel, University College Cork
Clothing, Flesh, Bone: Visual Culture above and below the Skin, Part II
Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Victoria Rovine, University of Florida; Sarah Adams, University of Michigan School of Nursing
Fashioning the Maternal Body: Rei Kawakubo, Georgina Godley, and Leigh Bowery
Francesca Granata, University of the Arts London; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shift-ed Perceptions: The Fabricated Body in Lorna Simpson's Shift Dress Works
Nika Elder, Princeton University
The Physiognomy of Modern Architecture in Germany, 1890–1914
Didem Ekici, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
What a Body Can Do
Irene Small, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant:Victoria Rovine, University of Florida
Reviewing the American Landscape, Part II
Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Janice Simon, University of Georgia
The Imperial Picturesque on the Northern Caribbean Frontier: Thomas Coram's Representations of the Lowcountry Plantation Landscape
Anna O. Marley, University of Delaware
Meaningful Places: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Local Landscapes of the American West
Rachel Sailor, University of Texas at Tyler
The Last Frontier? Bierstadt's "Wreck of the 'Ancon'" and the Problem of the Alaskan Landscape
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard College, Columbia University
Remapping the Regional and National Landscape: American Modernists in Canada
Donna M. Cassidy, University of Southern Maine
Anne Truitt's "First" (1961) and the Landscape of Memory
Michael Alavar de Baca, Harvard University
Land Use in Contemporary Art, Part II
Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Kirsten Swenson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
On Wheat
Kimberly Paice, University of Cincinnati
Urban Earthworks: Land Art and Gender in 1970s New York
Alexandra Schwartz, Museum of Modern Art
Scratches, Roads, and Monuments: Ground Truth in Land Arts of the American West
Chris Taylor, Texas Tech University
"Mushrooms|Clouds": Museums, Interdisciplinary Networks, and Environmental Initiatives
Ann Wolfe, Nevada Museum of Art
Land Ethics: Post–Land Art
Patricia Watts, Ecoartspace
Surrealism au naturel, Part II
Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Stephanie L. Taylor, New Mexico State University; Gavin Parkinson, Courtauld Institute of Art
Breasts and Eggs for Breakfast: A Surrealist Farm
Analisa Leppanen-Guerra, DePaul University
The Duality of Léon Tutundjian’s Biomorphism: The Burden of Survival and the Search for Life
Jean Murachanian, University of California, Los Angeles
Rurality Meets Urbanity in Man Ray's "L'Étoile de mer"
Robert Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Destructive Salvation: Max Ernst’s Microbes and the Politics of the Atom
Peter Mowris, University of Texas, Austin
