CAA Affiliated Societies and CAA Professional Committee - Complete Session
The Association of Research Institutes in Art History Careers in Art History Internship Program and the Power of the Cross-Institutional Virtual Internship
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Association of Research Institutes in Art History
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Association of Research Institutes in Art History
In November, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH), an organization representing institutes of advanced research that promote scholarship in the history of art and related disciplines in North America and beyond, hosted two cohorts of 10 interns for a paid, four-week virtual internship program that took each cohort to four distinct member institutions, including the Archives of American Art, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Clark Art Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through weekly curricula, individual mentorship, and project-based research the 20 interns, largely undergraduate students or recent grads, the majority from historically marginalized communities and/or attending institutions of higher learning with limited access to paid internships in art history, learned about the different professional pathways available to them at art museums and research centers, including collections management, conservation, digital communications strategies, amongst others. In 2022 and 2023 two further iterations of the program brought together another 30 interns to engage in meaningful dialogue with the aim of expanding the professional pathways of undergraduate students on the institutional margins of the field. This panel brings together former interns, mentors, and ARIAH internship convenors to reflect on the pasts and futures of virtual internships in the field of art history and its allied disciplines. It also addresses how to provide meaningful internship opportunities for undergraduates, particularly those from historically marginalized communities, with a view to having them engage meaningfully in discussions about professions in art history and museums.
Art History Travel Fund Session
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions
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Session will present: Virtually
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Art History Fund for Travel to Special Exhibitions
Creative Practice as Pedagogical Practice
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: National Art Education Association
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: National Art Education Association
How does creative practice using artistic inquiry, artist methodologies, and interdisciplinary collaborations inform pedagogical practices? We explore the essence of personal art practice as research—creative inquiry— and its link to pedagogical practices. How does theory, practice, research and artmaking blur boundaries with pedagogical practices? Drawing from narrative inquiry to deeply understand one’s experience (Clandinin, 2013) our narrative stories interplay with art based practice using multiple forms of artistic inquiry. Collage pedagogy illuminates the range of disparate images individuals are bombarded with daily reinscribing images in artmaking to provided multiple perspectives necessary for critical engagement (Garoian & Gaudelius, 2008). Our practice as artists blends our work as theorist and practitioner where we theorize about our subject while also exploring and experimenting with how to frame our work conceptually (Marshall, 2014; Sullivan, 2005). We provide tools to foster creative thinking and conceptual skills inherent in art-based inquiry. One such tool is the research workbook. In education, they are sites for learning through visual and verbal exploration, experimentation and reflection. In art, they are tools for arts-based research that are often considered works of art themselves.
Clandinin D. J. (2013). Engaging in narrative inquiry. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
Garoian, C. & Gaudelius, Y. (2008). Spectacle pedagogy: Art, politics and visual culture.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Marshall, J. (2014). Art practice as research in the classroom: Creative inquiry for understanding
oneself and the world, The International Journal of the Arts,13-24.
Weaving Hybridity: Evolving Transdisciplinary, Transgenerational and Transcultural Bridging
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Leonardo Education and Art Forum
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Leonardo Education and Art Forum
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Leonardo/ISAST Affiliated Society Panel
Weaving Hybridity: Evolving Transdisciplinary, Transgenerational and Transcultural Bridging
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The past decades have witnessed increased collaborations between art and science; Yet, there is emerging innovation anxiety: did Silicon Valley create more problems than it solved? This Leonardo/ISAST panel offers a view of new developments involving a close look at the interstices between both disciplines and cultures. Held as a roundtable discussion, this panel considers how specific works in art and science productively intertwine, and in some cases, impact social and environmental issues in desirable ways. Might this proposed benefit also apply to a variety of geographical locations and cultures? We share the growing anxiety about the way that 8 billion humans are dominating too many ecosystems and launching new technologies, such as AI, without exploring the springs and sinkholes of Truths and Consequences.
Today’s growing hybrid cultures are by now international, inter-generational networks. Leonardo welcomes artists, historians, scientists, curators, and scholars to be part of this interchange at CAA.
Fashioning the Modern In and Beyond the Middle East: Photography as a Technology of Expression in the Islamic World
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Historians of Islamic Art Association
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Historians of Islamic Art Association
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Photography was taken up in the Islamic world almost immediately after the Daguerreotype process had been publicly introduced in Paris in 1839. This panel investigates photography as a technology of modernity—from its earliest moments to the twenty-first century. It examines the medium’s itinerant character, its role in the visualization of cultural identity and diasporic modes of representation in Africa and the Middle East. More specifically, it considers photography’s relationship to religious rules, underlining that Islam is not monolithic. Like the photographic image, which slips easily across disciplinary boundaries, our panel is interdisciplinary and brings together the voices of practicing photographers, anthropologists, and art historians. It critically evaluates photographic representations in and of the modern and contemporary Islamic world by asking questions such as: How did photography, especially that of and in the Middle East and Africa, contribute to the fashioning of a modern self?; What does the itinerancy of the photographic medium and its cross-pollination across different geographies tell us about colonial and imperial modernism of the period?; How do archives and repositories impact our understanding of the histories of MENA photography today?; What do we know about the relationship between photographic representations from the Islamic world and Islam in the past and present?; How does contemporary art engage with the complex heritage of modern Middle Eastern and African photography?
Indigo Arts Alliance: An Innovative Model of Global Citizenry
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Indigo Arts Alliance
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Indigo Arts Alliance
Peer Review Futures
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Publications Committee
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Publications Committee
By its nature, peer reviewing does not carry the same weight as (ironically) the reviewed text. How can we counter a culture of invisible or unacknowledged labor within the peer review process? How might peer reviewing be (better) recognized? What can we glean/model from other fields (i.e., investigative journalism, curatorial) that center, make visible, and value the collective team (“the many hands”) in the work? Can we reimage how peer review counts in promotion (shifting it from service to research)? Editors and Board members of CAA journals will discuss these questions and some ideas they are piloting. We welcome others to share their thoughts on the future of peer review.
Aspects of Visual and aural communication in Italian Devotion
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History
This session explores several cases wherein visual and aural senses—gazing and singing—are critical forms of communicating spirituality and knowledge within devotions and meditation.
The “Russian” Avant-Garde in a Time of War
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture
In the past fifty years, the Russian avant-garde has become a canonical chapter in modernist art histories and has often served as a site for contemporary investments in radical, critical, and emancipatory artistic and political practices. However, the onset of Russia’s atrocious war against Ukraine in February 2022 has exposed the imperialist assumptions in the field—indeed, the very term “the Russian avant-garde” is a longstanding and rarely questioned shorthand for a muti-ethnic and multi-national group of artists working in the late Russian Empire and the early Soviet Union. In a context in which Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky declares that “our exhibitions abroad are a special operation, a powerful cultural offensive,” scholars and curators must wrestle with whether their work is a site of resistance or complicit in a form of soft power.
This round table brings together art historians who have thought extensively about the Russian avant-garde to consider its legacy in the light of the current crisis. They will reflect on the uses to which the avant-garde has been put historically in its reception (by scholars, museums, and artists) in the west, the USSR, and in the sovereign states that were once Soviet republics. What does it mean to write this history in dialogue with, or independently of, the current repressive regime in Russia and/or ongoing struggles to defend a sovereign cultural identity in Ukraine?
Getty Scholars Session
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: CAA-Getty International Program
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: CAA-Getty International Program
Nepantla Modernism, ‘Nepantlismo,’ Aesthesis, and the Decolonial in the Work of Contemporary US Latinx Artists
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: US Latinx Art Forum
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: US Latinx Art Forum
The panel surveys contemporary art production by US Latinx artists of New Mexico, Texas, New York, and San Francisco working with multimedia objects, needle-based art, murals, and photography. In Karen Mary Davalos’ paper, Minnesota-based artist Dougie Padilla, Texas-born artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, and Portland-based artist V. Maldonado are considered through “nepantla modernism,” the use of traditional epistemologies in their contemporary engagement of racialized ageism, consumerism, and trans spatial politics. Guisela Latorre advances a reading of the decolonial aesthetics of the community-based stitched projects of Texas fiber sculptor, Margarita Cabrera, who addresses colonial wounds of the US-Mexico borderlands through the fabric construction of domestic objects and local plants. Ann Marie Leimer reconsiders the murals of San Francisco’s historic Balmy Alley within the context of the rapidly shifting demographics of the predominantly Latinx Mission District. And, Mariana Ortega looks at the “embodied memory-making” of the immigrant self in the photography of Ecuadorian-American New York photographer, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira.
The Art of Appraisal: Insights From the Experts
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: American Society of Appraisers
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: American Society of Appraisers
Representatives from the American Society of Appraisers will share their knowledge on the critical elements that contribute to determining the value of art and how one is able to enter the appraiser profession.
Art that Illustrates Philosophy: Author Meets Critics
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: American Society for Aesthetics
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: American Society for Aesthetics
Illustration is a topic that has been neglected in the philosophy of art. Thoughtful Images is the first comprehensive study of art that illustrates philosophy. In addition to providing the basics of a theory of illustration, the book’s discussion of illustrations of philosophy includes: the first such illustrations in Ancient Greece and Rome, illuminated manuscript illustrations of Aristotle’s Ethics, paintings that are illustrations of philosophy, illustrations of Wittgenstein’s work, and graphic literature that illustrates philosophy. The three critics will engage in a discussion of both aspects of the book. They will each extend Wartenberg’s analysis in unexpected ways, showing the fruitfulness of his discussion for future directions of research in the philosophy of illustration.
One of the unique features of this panel is that the critics are all practicing artists, although Strayer is also a philosopher. This will add an unusual element to the critical discussion of a work in the philosophy of art.
The panel will be of interest to art historians and art theorists as well as philosophers of art.
Spiritual Moderns: A Roundtable Conversation with Erika Doss
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art
Erika Doss’s recent publication, Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists & Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2023), joins the ranks of significant, often provocative publications in recent years that have sought to reveal and reevaluate the religious or “spiritual” resonances of artistic modernism. Focusing on the work and life of four iconic American artists of the 20th century – Joseph Cornell, Mark Tobey, Agnes Pelton, and Andy Warhol – Doss challenges the presumed secularity of modern art and illuminates the compelling, often dense, sacrality of modern American visual culture. This roundtable discussion, featuring four prominent scholars in dialogue with the author, will explore the assumptions, motivations, and insights of Doss’s analysis, and consider a more open, inclusive, and diverse reading of American Modernism.
Curating Pacific Art in the United States: A Roundtable Discussion
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Pacific Art Association
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Pacific Art Association
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This roundtable discussion brings together curators and researchers who work with and care for museum collections of Oceanic visual and material culture in the United States. The panelists will share updates on current projects, including the redevelopment of Pacific galleries, acquisition strategies, and new research on collections. This will be an opportunity to discuss critical issues in Oceanic art curation, including: community engagement and critical methodologies grounded in Pacific epistemologies; the ethical and sociopolitical issues around museum collection and display; how to engage with different audiences, especially in the settler colonial context of North America; and how to collaborate across institutions.
Illustrating Research, Illustrating History: The Role of Archival and Historical Research in Illustration Practices
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Art Libraries Society of North America
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Art Libraries Society of North America
The role of research in contemporary arts practice, along with the visual arts as a form of research, is widely acknowledged Yet, comparatively little literature has been devoted to the role research plays in professional illustration and design practices. In highlighting this relationship this session aims to examine how illustrators and designers approach research and incorporate it into their practices. In operating outside of the traditional lens of art historical discourse, this session aims to explore how illustrators and designers engage with and disseminate historical and archival information unique to their medium.
New Approaches to Embodiment and Italian Art
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Italian Art Society
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Italian Art Society
Representation and evocation of the bodies of people past have long been a principal concern of Italian Renaissance art and art history. The body had a central place in Christian theology; artists avidly engaged with the Classical nude; potentates and members of the middle class immortalized themselves in portraits; and court commissions provided opportunities for representing otherness. In recent years, research grounded in feminism, queer studies, somaesthetics, performance studies, disability studies, and critical race theory has challenged art historians to rethink early modern bodies, their representation in art, and the historical contingency of corporeal existence. Yet, while the body figures crucially in a vast range of studies on religion, politics, medicine, poetics, play, and many other topics, it is paradoxically all too easy to lose sight of historically embodied experience itself as well as the visual strategies that artists employed to make bodies “matter.” Scholars are thus faced with a persistent and self-renewing challenge to develop methodologies for the study of art and the ever-elusive body. This panel seeks to expand the scope of inquiry into embodiment and Italian art through investigations of the mediating role of art in training the body; treating the non-human as though it has a human body; and the implications of adapting or altering the body through physical or spiritual intervention.
Beyond the Patriarchal, Western, White –Influenced Design Canon: Equity-Based Approaches to Design Thinking and Teaching
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Committee on Design
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Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Committee on Design