CAA 2016

Washington, DC

QCA Business Meeting

Time: 02/04/2016, 12:30 PM—2:00 PM


Location: Wilson B, Mezzanine Level

QCA panel: Queer Exhaustion
Time: 02/06/2016, 12:30 PM—2:00 PM
Location: Maryland Suite, Lobby Level
Chairs: Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Florida International University; Tina T. Takemoto, California College of the Arts
Speakers: Xandra Ibarra, Nao Bustamante, Tameka Norris, Robert Summers

QCA Reception
Time: 02/06/2016, 5-7PM
Location: Number Nine, 1435 P St NW, directly across from Whole Foods on P St.
http://www.numberninedc.com/

Come mingle and bring your friends! We have a room reserved, so if you don’t see us immediately, be sure to ask for us.

Events featuring QCA members

Session: Geometric Abstraction, Op, and Kinetic Art in a Trans-National Perspective 
Time: 02/04/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM
Location: Wilson B, Mezzanine Level

European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum

Chairs: Lily Woodruff, Michigan State University; Daniel R. Quiles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Session: Curating Diversity: Ideologies & Methodologies
Time: 02/04/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM
Location: Salon 3, Lobby Level
Committee on Diversity Practices
Chair: Amanda Cachia, University of California, San Diego

Diversity in Context: Curating New Social Histories
Jonathan Katz, State University of New York at Buffalo

Copy That: Painted Replicas and Repetitions before the Age of Appropriation

Time: 02/06/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM
Location: Delaware Suite A, Lobby Level

“Who Will Paint New York?” (Again): Georgia O’Keeffe’s City Night
Jonathan F. Walz, Sheldon Museum of Art

Event: The Feminist Art Project: Performing Identity as Intersectional

Time: 02/06/2016, 9:00 AM—4:30 PM

Location: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005
Free and open to the public
Organizers: Zoë Charlton, American University; and Margo Hobbs, Muhlenberg College

9:00–9:15 AM
Welcome: Susan Fisher Sterling, National Museum of Women in the ArtsAcknowledgements: Connie Tell, The Feminist Art Project, Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, and Rutgers University

Introduction: Zoë Charlton, American University; and Margo Hobbs, Muhlenberg College

9:15–10:45 AM
Outrageous Intersectionalities: Colonial Peepshows, Muscular Mess Halls, and Fierce Soldaderas
Chair: Tina Takemoto, California College of the Arts
Panelists: Nao Bustamante, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute; and Xandra Ibarra, Independent Artist
Respondent: Amelia Jones, University of Southern California

This panel explores the intersectional possibilities for reimagining scenes of historical violence through erotic and speculative reenactments. Blurring boundaries of fact and fiction, the artists engage intersectional dimensions of power and vulnerability that challenge existing narratives of war, conquest, and racial oppression, to forge alternative feminist pasts and futures.

10:50 AM–12:20 PM
Women and the Sexual Other in East Asian Art and Visual Culture
Chair: Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, University of Louisville
Panelists: Charlotte Eubanks, Pennsylvania State University; Namiko Kunimoto, Ohio State University; and Sasha Welland, University of Washington

This panel explores women’s encounters with sexual otherness or queerness in the modern and contemporary visuality of East Asia. Works by Japanese artists, Korean TV shows, and other loci of East Asian visual culture, emergent in a multi-causal social mix, will be topics of feminist analysis.

1:20–2:50 PM
Re-Territorializing Gender: Women Artists and Expatriation
Chair: Linda Kim, Drexel University
Panelists: Tirza True Latimer, California College of the Arts; Saleema Waraich, Skidmore College; and Ana Perry, City University of New York
Respondent: Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard College

This panel insists on the importance of racial, economic, and sexual positions within and among subjects who chose to live abroad, to complicate the history of women artists and transnational movements. Women artists’ occupation of new national zones disrupted certain gendered essentialisms, while strategically mobilizing others.

3:00–4:30 PM

Two Performances: Candidate and Male Polish
Performers: Danielle Abrams, Independent Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Sheldon Scott, Independent Artist

Candidate is a monologue and play staged with six volunteers from the audience, to investigate how intersectional identities inflect an artist’s experience of a residency, and a conference job interview. Male Polish interrogates the transactional nature of femininity and the effeminate through the lens of male-desired, gender normativity.

Exhibition: “Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community” 
MICA, Baltimore
Curated by John Chaich
This exhibition presents 26 artists from 4 continents who are remixing fiber and textile craft traditions and materials to explore contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identities and ideas. Queer Threads was first exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York in January 2014 and marked the first exhibition expressly examining contemporary queer fiber art practices.

http://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/traveling.html

Queer Threads Unraveled: A Roundtable Discussion

Sunday, Feb. 7, 1–3 p.m.

MICA, Brown Center: Room 320, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.

Using the Queer Threads exhibition as a framework, the open format will discuss the relationship between queerness and fiber practice, history, criticism and pedagogy, exploring how fiber craft processes/materials provide a sense of queer agency, how scholarship and media can responsibly balance the attention given to men working in fiber while respecting its feminist roots, and how society sees queer fiber work by non-queer artists. Scholars Julia Bryan-Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley and Ann Cvetkovich, Ph.D., Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, will offer insights from their publications and research. MICA Fiber Department faculty members Aaron McIntosh and Kristine Woods will lend perspectives of queer fiber artists both within and outside of the exhibition itself. The roundtable will be co-moderated by curatorJohn Chaich and Jeanne Vaccaro, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the Indiana University Bloomington.

Other events of possible interest

Committee meeting: CAA Committee on Diversity Practices

Time: 02/03/2016, 12:30 PM—2:00 PM


Location: Park Tower Suite 8209, Lobby Level

Session: The Community-Based Museum in Global Context

Time: 02/03/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM

Location: Wilson C, Mezzanine Level

Chairs: Remei Capdevila-Werning, El Museo del Barrio; Joy Liu, Museum of Chinese in America

Partnership in Preservation of Rustbelt Queer History
Katie Madonna Lee, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians; Catherine Page-Vanore, Independent Museum Professional; and Alison Stankrauff, Indiana University South Bend

Session: The Visual Politics of Play: On the Signifying Practices of Digital Games
Time: 02/05/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM
Location: Washington 3, Exhibition Level
Chair: Soraya Murray, University of California, Santa Cruz

Queer Games, Failure, and Inclusivity
Dietrich Squinkifer, Artist

Session: #CAAadvocacy
Time: 02/05/2016, 12:30 PM—2:00 PM
Location: Harding, Mezzanine Level
CAA Task Force on Advocacy
Chairs: Sandra L. Esslinger, Mt. San Antonio College; Amy Hamlin, St. Catherine University; Karen J. Leader, Florida Atlantic University

The CAA Task Force on Advocacy aims to empower membership to advocate for the visual arts. Charged with reviewing CAA’s current advocacy policies and developing a prioritized list of advocacy topics for CAA, the Task Force on Advocacy will use this session to facilitate discussion on key issues: the changing academic workplace, diversity in our fields and best diversity practices, and the public face of the humanities. Presenters will offer stories of success and introduce a draft advocacy toolkit designed to provide participants with strategies that have worked. There will also be ample opportunity for dialogue during the session to encourage participants to share their best advocacy practices and pose questions to the group.

Session: Identity Politics as Counterhegemonic Practice

Time: 02/06/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM
Location: Washington 3, Exhibition Level
Chairs: Nizan Shaked, California State University, Long Beach; John Tain, Getty Research Institute

Session: The Ancient Art of Transformation
Time: 02/06/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM
Location: Wilson A, Mezzanine Level
Chairs: Renee Marie Gondek, College of William & Mary; Elizabeth M. Molacek, Harvard University, Harvard Art Museums

Mirrors as Instruments of Sexual and Social Transformation
Mireille M. Lee, Vanderbilt University