Sessions
CENTENNIAL SESSIONS 2012
All sessions will take place in the Los Angeles Convention Center, unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, February 22
2:30–5:00 PM
Performance Evaluations
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2
Chair: Malik Gaines, Hunter College, City University of New York
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside
Andrea Fraser, University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Kersels, California Institute of the Arts
Tavia Nyong’o, New York University
Thursday, February 23
Re/Locating Learning: Public Practices as Art
West Lobby, Level 1
A performative intervention occurring throughout the day by Suzanne Lacy, Otis College of Art and Design.
9:30 AM–Noon
Seeing Is Doing, Doing Is Teaching
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2
Chair: Michael Ned Holte
Andrea Bowers, independent artist
Charles Gaines, California Institute of the Arts
Simon Leung, University of California, Irvine
2:30–5:00 PM
LA RAW: Conversations on Art, Life, and Practice in Los Angeles
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2
Chair: Michael Duncan, independent curator
Carole Caroompas, Otis College of Art and Design
Frohawk Two Feathers, independent artist
Llyn Foulkes, independent artist
Stas Orlovski, Long Beach City College
Charles Garabedian, independent artist
John Sonsini, independent artist
Friday, February 24
Re/Locating Learning: Public Practices as Art
West Lobby, Level 1
A performative intervention occurring throughout the day by Suzanne Lacy, Otis College of Art and Design.
9:30 AM–Noon
Women, Surrealism, California, and Beyond
Terrace Room, 5th Floor, LACMA West, LACMA
Shuttle buses will be available at 8:30 AM from the West Hall of the Convention Center. They will return to the Convention Center at 12:30 PM.
Chair: Martica Sawin, independent scholar
A World Made from Magic: Esoteric Lineages in the Works of Women Surrealists in Mexico
Tere Arcq, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Hybridity and Space: Leonora Carrington's Kitchen
Katherine Conley, Dartmouth College
California—NY—Mexico City: Connections and Contrasts
Ilene Susan Fort, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Discussant: Michael Taylor, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: CAA Town Hall Meeting
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2
Chairs: Margaret Lazzari, University of Southern California;
2:30–5:00 PM
The Eye, the Hand, the Mind: Revelations
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2
Shuttle buses will be available at 1:30 PM from the West Hall of the Convention Center. They will return to the Convention Center at 5:30 PM.
Chair: Susan Ball, New York Foundation for the Arts
Judith K. Brodsky, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Craig Houser, City College of New York, City University of New York
Karen J. Leader, Florida Atlantic University
Ferris Olin, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Julia Sienkewicz, Duquesne University
Christine L. Sundt, Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation
Holland Cotter, The New York Times
Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
Connections: Architecture and Design in Los Angeles at Midcentury
Bing Theater, Plaza Level, Bing Center, Los Angeles Time Central Court entrance, East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Chair: Ruth Weisberg, University of Southern California
Wim de Wit, Getty Research Institute
Wendy Kaplan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louis Danziger, graphic designer
Ray Kappe, architect
Gere Kavanaugh, designer
Bobbye Tigerman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Saturday, February 25
Re/Locating Learning: Public Practices as Art
West Lobby, Level 1
A performative intervention occurring throughout the day by Suzanne Lacy, Otis College of Art and Design.
2:30–5:00 PM
“Reclaiming” the Studio as a Site of Production
West Hall Meeting Room 515B, Level 2
Chair: Patty Wickman, University of California, Los Angeles
Michele Grabner, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Karen Kleinfelder, California State University, Long Beach
Amanda Ross-Ho, independent artist
Discussant: Doug Harvey, independent artist and writer
