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To ARLIS/NA colleagues:
As the recently-appointed ARLIS/CAA liaison, I thought a reminder
might be in order regarding deadlines for upcoming CAA conference
participation. The College Art Association has its next three
conferences at or beyond the planning stages.
2000:
Next year's New York conference is scheduled for Wednesday
through Saturday, February 23-26, 2000, and the program is
more-or-less in place. I hope to have the opportunity to visit
with other ARLIS members there--perhaps after sessions such as:
"The Archives of the Avant-Garde: Archiving the Non-Archival"
(discussing documentation of "problematic art"),
"Shaping the Tools: Emerging Genres of Art-Historical Literature
in the 19th Century" (investigating the history of the monograph,
the catalogue, the art historical survey),
"Outsiders Looking In: Art Historiography by Non-Historians"
(looking at specific cases of outsider art history),
2001:
The 2001 conference will be held in Chicago, February 28-March 3,
and THIS IS THE TIME TO PROPOSE SESSIONS. The proposal deadline
is September 15, 1999. If you have a proposal in mind, you can
get complete details of the submission process at the CAA website:
http://www.collegeart.org/caa/news/1999/3/sessionprop_guidelines,
html
Needless to say, I urge and encourage you to participate. The
2001 conference will be the first to use new session categories
that are intended to expand program possibilities. So, if you
have hesitated in the past with a proposal that was neither
clearly historical nor studio-related, reconsider the four new
categories of: Historical Studies, Contemporary Issues/Studio
Art, Education and Professional Practice, and Other.
CAA is also soliciting proposals for exhibits to coincide with
the 2001 Chicago conference. (Grant support of $10,000 is
available.) Works exhibited must be those of CAA members, and
more details are available on the CAA website. The deadline for
exhibit proposals is October 29, 1999.
2002:
Finally, the 2002 meeting (to be held in Baltimore) is already
in the preliminary planning phase. Nominations and self-
nominations for regional chair positions are being solicited
at the moment. If you are interested, the deadline for nominations
is September 30, 1999.
Please feel free to contact me if your library has limited web
access and you need information or forms mailed to you. I'll
be happy to print off copies for you.
Linda Duychak
Reference Librarian
Kohler Art Library
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
(608) 263-2257
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