Voices from the Field: CAA-Getty International Alumni

The CAA-Getty International Program, supported by Getty, provides funding to art historians, museum curators, and other visual arts professionals from around the globe, enabling them to attend CAA Annual Conferences. The program was established to diversify CAA membership, increase international presence at CAA conferences, and foster greater cross-cultural understanding of different contexts and methodologies of art scholarship and practice. Rigorous dialogue between international scholars and their North American peers has yielded collaboration, community, and lasting connections: CAA-Getty alumni have worked together on publications, exhibitions, convenings, and many other projects. The program—now in its fifteenth year—has gathered 179 scholars from sixty-one countries and continues to have significant global impact on the field. Many participants become CAA ambassadors in their respective countries by sharing knowledge acquired during the program with their colleagues at home.