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Visual Culture / Art History Caucus
The Visual Culture/Art History Caucus was organized many years ago by Patricia Hills to provide a home within the ASA for scholars working in the fields of American visual culture and art history. Its members include teachers, museum curators, librarians, and others who research a variety of visual forms and media, such as painting, photography, sculpture, film, television, advertisements, cartoons, visual ethnographies, and the Internet. The VC/AH Caucus works closely with the national organizing committees and councils of the ASA; organizes and sponsors sessions, conducts business, and co-hosts a reception at the ASA’s annual meeting.
Through this discussion board, the Caucus acts as a clearinghouse for people teaching and doing research in visual culture and art history and those seeking to broaden their community or to gain the advice of other scholars and teachers.
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Session Announcement: CAA Dallas 2008
Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA) Professional Session at the CAA Annual Conference in Dallas.
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Whither this Forum?
Now that everyone has submitted their proposals for next year’s conference, I’d like to turn our attention to this blog.
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Update on Maier Museum sale of American Paintings
Some of you may already be aware of our colleagues’ attempts to halt the Maier Museum of
Art’s sale of several important American paintings. I’m forwarding some valuable information about this situation that has been assembled by Sarah Cash of the Corcoran Museum. There’s still time to make a year-end donation.
The sale of works in public collections and the weakening of historically-important collections of American art is of vital interest to our community. As the recent success keeping the Gross Clinic in Philadelphia attests, public action can make a difference.
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ASA 2008 - Film Studies and American Studies
I’d like to put together a panel or round table on film studies within American Studies for the 2008 Meeting.
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2/26/08: “Selling Out: Are College Art Collections a Learning Resource or a
"Selling Out” will explore several aspects of a hot topic in the art
museum world: What are the major factors that go into deciding which
art objects remain in or are de-accessioned (i.e., somehow removed) from
college and university art collections? How are these decision made?
And: What are the short-term and long-term ramifications of these
decisions?
The program will open with a talk by Sarah Cash, Smith class of 1980,
former director of the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, from 1995
to 1998. In October 2007, four major works from the permanent
collection of the Maier Museum were removed from the college to be sold
- despite protests from museum staff, faculty, and alumnae- to support
the endowment of the college and, according to college authorities, to
protect its accreditation.
Immediately following Ms. Cash’s presentation, there will be a
half-hour panel discussion (panel will include John M. Connolly,
Professor of Philosophy, Smith College; Jessica Nicoll, Director and
Chief Curator of the Smith College Museum of Art; and others).
For directions visit www-dot-smith-dot-e-d-u-backslash-artmuseum
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For more information, log on to http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/
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3/04/08: “Selling Out: Are College Art Collections a Learning Resource or a
"Selling Out” will explore several aspects of a hot topic in the art
museum world: What are the major factors that go into deciding which
art objects remain in or are de-accessioned (i.e., somehow removed) from
college and university art collections? How are these decision made?
And: What are the short-term and long-term ramifications of these
decisions?
The program will open with a talk by Sarah Cash, Smith class of 1980,
former director of the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, from 1995
to 1998. In October 2007, four major works from the permanent
collection of the Maier Museum were removed from the college to be sold
- despite protests from museum staff, faculty, and alumnae- to support
the endowment of the college and, according to college authorities, to
protect its accreditation.
Immediately following Ms. Cash’s presentation, there will be a
half-hour panel discussion (panel will include John M. Connolly,
Professor of Philosophy, Smith College; Jessica Nicoll, Director and
Chief Curator of the Smith College Museum of Art; and others).
For directions visit www-dot-smith-dot-e-d-u-backslash-artmuseum
~~~
For more information, log on to http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/
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Submitted by Elizabeth Hutchinson
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