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The call for participation in the 1998 conference in Toronto has issued
and the deadline has passed for submission of paper proposals to session
chairs.  The conference will be held February 25-28, 1998.

The call for session proposals for the 1999 conference in Los Angeles has
been issued.  Session will take place Wednesday, February 10 through
Saturday, February 13, 1999.  Statements by the Art History and Studio
Arts theme chairs and the proposal submission guidelines are published in
the May/June 1997 issue of the CAA News (pp.4-7; the session proposal
submission form is on the last page of that issue). DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT
OF SESSION PROPOSALS IS SEPTEMBER 5, 1997.

The Session themes are:  "From Another Place:  Difference, Encounter,
Acculturaion, Identity" (Art History theme) and "Ring of Fire" (Studio
Arts theme).

While CAA welcomes session proposals on any topic of interest to members
of the CAA without regard to category, those well-written proposals that
are oriented toward the conference theme gain extra attention.

ARLIS MEMBERS -- please work on session proposal ideas so we are
represented with a joint session in 1999.  Contact your ARLIS CAA liaison
(address listed below) for further information.  REMEMBER, THE DEADLINE
FOR RECEIPT OF SESSION PROPOSALS IS SEPTEMBER 5, 1997.

The May/June issue of CAA News also includes "Criteria for the Hiring &
Retention of Visual Resources Professionals" (pp.8-10).

CAA News now offers a new column entitled "Web Update."  See the May/June
issue of CAA News, p.12.

Winners of CAA prizes at the 1997 conference in New York City were:

Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize (for an outstanding journal article):  "The
White Obelisk and the Problem of Historical Narrative in the Art of
Assyria" by Holly Pittman

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award (for a distinguished catalogue in the history of
art):  Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York by
Rebecca Zurier, Robert Snyder, and Virginia Mecklenburg (National Museum
of American Art in association with W.W. Norton Co.

Charles Rufus Morey Award:  African Vodun:  Art, Psychology, and Power by
Suzanne Preston Blier

Frank Jewett Mather Award (distinction in art criticsm):  Christopher
Knight, Los Angeles Times

CAA Committee on Women in the Arts Recognition Award:  Louise Bourgeois

Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement:  Peter Voulkos

Distinguished Body of Work, Exhibition, Presentation, or Performance:
Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and Mel Bochner

Distinguished Teaching of Art History:  Francoise Forster-Hahn (University
of California, Riverside)

Distinguished Teaching of Art:  Ken Ferguson (Ceramicist, Kansas City Art
Institute)

CAA/National INstitute for Conservation Joint Award for Distinction in
Scholarship and Conservation:  Henry W. Lie (Straus Center for
Conservation, Harvard University for technical examination of classical
bronzes in American collections.

Now available from CAA headquarters in New York:  International Directory
of Arts Organizations, edited by Danielle Hughes (covers over 1,000
organizations in the visual arts around the world).

Book Note:  OUR CREATIVE DIVERSITY;  REPORT OF THE WORLD COMMISSION ON
CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT.  Paris:  UNESCO, 1995.  $40 (available from
Bernan Associates)  Produced by the UNESCO Commission on Culture and
Development.



                                Ray Anne Lockard
                         Head, Frick Fine Arts Library
                           University Library System
                            University of Pittsburgh
                             Pittsburgh, PA  15260
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