by Patrick Vernon After my recent article on the absence of black historians and the growing network of independent black scholars, I felt I wanted to share one of my personal heroes who embodies the characteristics and challenges that black historians face today. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Joel Augustus Rogers, […]
by Karen Williams The first time that I saw a photograph of the Zwarte Piet celebrations in the Netherlands, the door to questions of slavery in my own life swung wide open. There – right there – looking back at me was the representation of my personal history, and the long history of Dutch slavery […]
via Zwarte Piet is a product of the Netherlands’ long involvement in the slave trade — Media Diversified
Submission Portal: https://caa.submittable.com/submit
CAA 105th ANNUAL CONFERENCE – FEBRUARY 15-18, 2017, NEW YORK, NY
The call for proposals for 2017 begins March 1, 2016, and ends April 18, 2016.
The Annual Conference Committee invites session and paper proposals that cover the breadth of current thought and research in art, art and architectural history, theory and criticism, pedagogical issues, museum and curatorial practice, conservation, and developments in technology.
All sessions will be 90 minutes in length. Please plan accordingly.
To submit a proposal individuals must be current CAA members. If you are not a current member, please renew your membership or join CAA. Please note that all session participants and leaders must also be current CAA members and register for the conference. Online registration for the CAA 105th Annual Conference will begin in mid-September and end in late December.
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Tyler School of Art is hiring adjunct faculty for fall 2016 and spring 2017 to teach Race, Identity, and Experience in American Art, a general education (Gen Ed) race and diversity class, typically taught by art historians but open to instructors in related fields or fine arts.
See more about the Gen Ed program here: http://gened.temple.edu/
and Tyler School of Art here: http://tyler.temple.edu/#/prospective
More immediately, we plan to offer two online sections of this course this Summer I (class start date May 9) and welcome applications by instructors interested in building a teaching portfolio which includes online experience. Additional professional development funds are available immediately for instructors who would teach online this summer and work in advance to develop the online iteration of this class.
Please send email of interest and CV to Jennifer Zarro at jzarro@temple.edu
Race, Remembrance, and Reconciliation: International Dialogue in National Museums
Chair: Julie L. McGee, University of Delaware
The year 2016 marks the opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s newest museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Framed as constructive and palliative, for remembrance, race dialogue, reconciliation, and healing, the NMAAHC seeks to foreground African American history and culture in a broader global context inclusive of freedom struggles.
In this open format session, scholars, curators, artists, and educators embrace the complexity and contradictions embedded in visions of museology and arts and heritage management as agents of emancipation and social repair. Of concern is the performative nature of museums in the twenty-first century vis-à-vis race, remembrance, and reconciliation—potentially ambiguous yet on-going engagements. What roles do objects, history, or cultural heritage perform under such curatorial and museological mandates and visions? How do changing sociopolitical and cultural landscapes and challenges to representational politics shape museum practices? Deep spatial memory, in the USA and South Africa, and Black centered cultural institutions and programming are considered. Designed as a forum led by thought-provoking contributors, this session offers an open conversation on the intersection of race, remembrance, and reconciliation in cultural institutions.
Speakers:
NMAAHC and the Deep Memory of Black Spaces
Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University
Remembrance: An African American Museum Dialogue
David C. Driskell, University of Maryland, College Park
Museums and Reconciliation during the Civil Rights Movement: The Case of the Studio Museum in Harlem
Susan E. Cahan, Yale University
Museums for ALL: Toward a Critical Approach to the Re-conceptualization of Museums
Wayne Alexander, Iziko Museums of South Africa, Cape Town
Thursday, Feb. 4, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM
Location: Salon 3, Lobby Level
Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Curator, Contemporary Art
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
The Curator, Contemporary Art will serve as a key member of the curatorial team working to expand the impact of Crystal Bridges by broadening and sustaining an exciting and relevant contemporary art program. The Curator will be a dynamic, visionary, accomplished, and productive individual, who is charged with shepherding all activities related to contemporary art at the museum. The ideal candidate is flexible, experimental, creative, a collaborative spirit, has a passion for connecting to our guests and diverse communities, and embraces innovative ideas. Experience with post-1960 American art, exhibitions, acquisitions, publications, collection care, creating spaces, programs, and donor relations is critically important as are excellent speaking, writing, and research abilities. The Curator is expected to serve as an ambassador for Crystal Bridges locally, nationally, and internationally through active participation as a member of the field and with the general public.
Qualifications:
M.A. in art history; Ph.D. preferred; extensive knowledge of American art post-1960 required; outdoor sculpture knowledge preferred; minimum of five years curatorial experience with a track record of exhibitions, acquisitions, publications, budget management, and supervising others; excellent verbal and written communications skills and working relationships with collectors, artists, and the art market.
For full job description and application information, please visit our website at http://crystalbridges.org/about/careers-internships/.
Crystal Bridges is committed to a diverse workforce.
The Winston & Carolyn Lowe Curatorial Fellowship for Diversity in the Fine Arts (Lowe Curatorial Fellowship) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, PA offers the opportunity for a highly qualified candidate with outstanding credentials to gain professional curatorial experience at a nationally renowned museum of American Art affiliated with a degree-granting fine arts art school. One of the main goals of the Fellowship is to enhance diversity by focusing recruitment efforts on under-represented groups in America in the curatorial profession.
The Lowe Curatorial Fellowship will be a full-time, two-year term position offering a highly mentored and structured curatorial experience at PAFA. The Lowe Curatorial Fellowship will be designed to provide a professional bridge to a major institutional museum career and encourage diversity within the museum field. The Fellowship provides growth and development for outstanding candidates, particularly those from underrepresented groups, and provides a professional bridge to museum careers, encouraging diversity within the museum field. The start date will be determined based on the successful applicant’s schedule.
Applications will be accepted immediately and will be reviewed until an appropriate candidate is identified.
An important discovery has been made of a Bust of Christ by the Afro-Indian sculptor Edmonia Lewis (1842-1907). It is in a collection in Scotland for which she also created a Madonna and Child With Angels.
A work by her of this name was auctioned in London in the latter part of the 19th-century, but with no illustration and little other information.
For a quick intro to Lewis, her life and career, Google “Marilyn Richardson” “Edmonia Lewis” both in quotes.
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