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Lesley University – Sr. Associate Dean, Acad. Affairs, Art Institute of Boston

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reporting to the Dean at the Art Institute of Boston, at Lesley University, the successful candidate is responsible for directing and coordinating the activities of the academic departments of the school; for developing and communicating an academic vision and long range academic planning together with the Dean and Department Chairs; planning and implementing academic policies, procedures and systems; and managing faculty personnel procedures, committee assignments and workloads. The successful candidate is the primary college leader with regard to accreditation and the assessment and evaluation of academic programs. The incumbent supervises the Academic Program Manager, and is responsible for the overall management of the academic affairs office, including all activities and records involving curriculum, academic programs, and faculty. Supervises Academic Department Chairs and MFA Director, along with AIB’s Director of Academic Computing; coordinates AIB academic programs both internally and with other departments throughout the University. Represents Department Chairs, and makes recommendations regarding academic programs to the Dean, Provost, and other University administrators. Collaborates in the management of academic department budgets with the Assistant Dean for Administration and Department Chairs. The successful candidate will receive a Faculty contract and teaches courses as assigned. This position is located at 700 Beacon Street, Boston, MA

Please submit a cover letter and the names and contact information of three professional references along with your CV. Review of materials will begin on February 22, 2010.

Please note a representative from Lesley University will be attending the College Art Association Conference in Chicago in February. If you would like to meet with Lesley’s representative at the conference, please contact Margaret Murphy at 617-585-6652 for an appointment.


REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

A terminal degree and significant experience in higher education. The Senior Associate Dean should qualify for academic rank as an Associate Professor or higher. A strong background of college-level teaching in the visual arts is essential. Three plus years of successful administrative experience is required. Supervisory experience as a Department Chair or higher is required. A record of current and past scholarly and professional activity. Excellent managerial and administrative skills; able to direct staff, set priorities and analyze data. Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and problem-solving skills; a record of strong and consistent collaboration with faculty, administrators, staff and students.


Additional Information:
Grade: 30 Salary Range: $89,610-$132,623

Lesley University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of the college community and the curriculum. Candidates who believe they can contribute to that goal are encouraged to apply.

PLEASE APPLY ONLINE: http://lesley.interviewexchange.com/candapply.jsp?JOBID=17077

 

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Apron Show at the YWC

Posted February 5th, 2010 by admin
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Check out pictures of the
Young Women’s Caucus Apron Show Photo Album

http://youngwc.blogspot.com/

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Posted January 29th, 2010 by admin
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Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ART SPACES ARCHIVES PROJECT PRESENTS PANEL DISCUSSION AT THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION’S 98th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

“Alternative Publishing and Distribution Models as Art and Curatorial Practice”

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Art Spaces Archives Project (AS-AP) announces a panel discussion entitled “Alternative Publishing and Distribution Models as Art and Curatorial Practice,” to be held at the College Art Association’s 98th Annual Conference on Saturday, February 13, from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive, in the Columbus AB Room on the Gold Level of the East Tower.

Over the past six years Art Spaces Archives Project (AS-AP) has presented panels at the annual College Art Association Conference that have addressed contemporary art related archives by investigating institutional models and identities, institutional holdings, and the organizational histories of living and defunct alternative arts organizations. This year’s panel will examine how artists and curators have expanded the concept of arts venues to include publishing sites as models for the production and exhibition of contemporary art and curatorial practices.

The panel will feature Anthony Elms, artist / writer, assistant director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago and editor of WhiteWalls, a 30-year old Chicago–based art and language journal; James Hoff, cofounder with Miriam Katzeff of Primary Information, a non-profit organization devoted to printing artist’s books, artist’s writings, out of print publications and editions; and Emily Roysdon, artist / writer, and editor and cofounder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR.  The panel will be moderated by Ann Butler, project director of AS-AP, and director of the library and archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Founded in 1978, WhiteWalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. WhiteWalls is now an innovative Chicago–based publisher of fine art titles. Primary Information is a nonprofit organization devoted to the printing and in some cases republication of select artists’ books, artists’ writings, out-of-print publications and editions such as Real Life Magazine, The Great Bear Pamphlet Series, and long lost recordings of DISBAND, among others. Founded in 2001, LTTR is a feminist gender/queer artist collective with a flexible project-oriented practice. LTTR produces an annual independent art journal, performance series, events, screenings, and collaborations.

About Art Spaces Archives Project

Art Spaces Archives Project (AS-AP) is a nonprofit initiative founded by a consortium of alternative art organizations, including Bomb magazine, College Art Association, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), New York State Artist Workspace Consortium, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. With funding provided by NYSCA, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, AS-AP has a mandate to help preserve, present, and protect the archival heritage of living and defunct for- and not-for-profit spaces of the “alternative” or “avant-garde” movements of the 1950s to the present by compiling a national index of alternative arts spaces, assessing preservation needs, and helping to establish best practices for contemporary art related archives. AS-AP’s website, www.as-ap.org <http://www.as-ap.org> , serves as an online resource for information pertaining to collections and repositories containing the archives of the avant-garde, tools to assist in archiving, and other aids for scholars interested in alternative or avant-garde movements.

About the Center for Curatorial Studies

In January 2007 AS-AP merged with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard. CCS Bard is an exhibition, education, and research center dedicated to the study of art and curatorial practices from the 1960s to the present day. In addition to the CCS Bard Galleries and the newly inaugurated Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard houses the Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 2,000 contemporary works, as well as an extensive library and curatorial archive that are accessible to the general public. The Center’s two-year graduate program in curatorial studies is specifically designed to deepen students’ understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating contemporary art. Exhibitions are presented year-round in the CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, providing students with the opportunity to work with world-renowned artists and curators. The exhibition program and the collection also serve as the basis for a wide-range of public programs and activities exploring art and its role in contemporary society.

For more information please call CCS Bard at 845-758-7598, write ccs@bard.edu or visit www.bard.edu/ccs <http://www.bard.edu/ccs> .

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THE FEMINIST ART PROJECT OFFERS DAY OF FREE PANELS

Posted January 21st, 2010 by admin
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THE FEMINIST ART PROJECT OFFERS DAY OF FREE PANELS ON CURRENT FEMINIST ART ISSUES
Saturday, February 13, 2010
9am - 5pm
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago

The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) announces the schedule for its special Day of Panels at the 2010 College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference in Chicago in February 2010. TFAP will present a series of extraordinary forums on Saturday, February 13th, 9am - 5pm. The annual day of panels is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

The TFAP Day of Panels is organized by Maria Elena Buszek, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, School of Liberal Arts, Kansas City Art Institute. The Day of Panels will address pressing feminist issues concerning contemporary feminist practices for artists, critics, and scholars, featuring collaborations between speakers from these fields, presented as dialogues and performances that would otherwise rarely find a comfortable space in the traditional CAA conference sessions.

All events will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Acapulco, Gold Level, West Tower, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601.

Schedule for The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels, February 13, 2010

9:00-10:30 am  When No Means More Than No
This panel will evaluate instances wherein “no” might mean more than no—or less.

10:45 am-12:00 pm  Feminist Artists and Feminist Curators: A Conversation About Collaboration
This roundtable conversation featuring feminist curators and artists will address the challenges, pleasures, and workaday details of contemporary feminist creative and curatorial practices.

12:30-1:45 pm  Wandering Uteri, de/reConstructed Vulvas, and Architectures of Hospitality
In this provocative presentation, cyberfeminist artists/health activists/scholars combine research, on-the-ground activism, and artistic production to illuminate contemporary and historical representations of medical interventions into female/male/transgender reproductive functions and health care.

2:00-3:30 pm  Feminist Painting
What does it mean to paint “like a woman”—and how might that differ from painting as a feminist? This session brings together four artists of different generations to discuss the political ramifications of applying pigment to surface.

3:45-5:00 pm  Push and/or Pull: Trans and Gender-Variant Artists Discuss the Role of Feminism in Their Work
In recent years debates have raged over the place that transgender, gender-variant, and genderqueer people occupy in contemporary feminism.  This panel will feature three artists who will discuss their work and how they negotiate feminism; ways that feminism is exclusive or inclusive and how the contribute to the evolution of contemporary feminist theory and praxis.

For more detailed descriptions of the TFAP Day of Panels go to: http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/calendar
The annual day of panels is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

For more information on TFAP, please visit http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/.

Coming soon to the TFAP website: Feminist Art Resources in Education (FARE) is a portal to unique educational resources that utilize feminist art practice, theory and history to enrich learning and empower students, youth
and adults to use critical thinking and build self-esteem. Look for FARE February 1, 2010

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Posted January 20th, 2010 by admin
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Open Call for Entries for All Photographers

Theme: Landscapes • Unfeigned or Illusory

A Landscape, as defined by this Call for Entry, can be representational or non-representational, urban, suburban or rural.
Juror: Todd Brandow, Founding Director of the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.
Entry Fee: $35 up to 5 images; $10 each additional (no limit on number that may be submitted)
Prizes: $300 for 1st; $200 for 2nd; $100 for 3rd
Entries Due: March 8, 2010
Notice of Acceptance: March 18, 2010
Exhibition Dates: April 23, 2010 – June 13, 2010 at the Mpls Photo Center
Reception: April 23, 2010, 6:30 - 9:00 pm at the Mpls Photo Center

About the Juror
Born and raised in Minneapolis, Todd Brandow worked as an art consultant in New York for many years. Since 1997, he has been living in Paris, working as a photography curator, foundation director and book publisher. He co-produced and co-curated the highly successful Edward S. Curtis vintage exhibitions, drawn from the collection of Christopher Cardozo, that were exhibited in European museums between 2000 and 2006. US State Department-sponsored modern print shows of Curtis’s work are currently touring Latin America, Europe and will be soon in North Africa and Japan under his direction. He co-curated a retrospective tour of Finnish photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen with critic A. D. Coleman. He recently co-curated with Musée de l’Elysée Director William Ewing and Senior Curator Nathalie Herschdorfer the exhibitions /Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography/ and /Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years 1923-1937/. Brandow is the founding director of the Minnesota-based non-profit organization, the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), and President of FEP Editions LLC. Currently, ten new major exhibitions are in the planning and production stages.

Entry Checklist
Entries are submitted online at http://www.MplsPhotoCenter.com/exhibits/callforentries
To prepare your images for uploading, please adhere to the following image file specifications:

  • sRGB or RGB color space (standard) - NOT     CMYK (typically used by printing industry)
  • Save files to 72 ppi resolution; any layers     flattened, 8 bit JPEG files (16 bit will not upload.)
  • Sized to 1,280 pixels on the longest side,     the other size width or height proportional
  • JPG format
  • JPG compression at level 7 (medium). This     compression level will not affect the quality of images viewed on a     monitor.
  • Do use characters other than a period     preceding jpg in the file name. The following characters will lead to     image uploading problems: !@#$%^&*()_+

http://www.MplsPhotoCenter.com/exhibits/callforentries

Clare O’Neill
Exhibitions Manager
Mpls Photo Center, LLC
2400 North Second Street,
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411
Cell + Studio: 651-246-1831

visit: www.mplsphotocenter.com <http://www.mplsphotocenter.com/>

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Abstract landscape painting by artist Kathy Dobash

Posted January 19th, 2010 by Kathleen Marie Dobash
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July 2008 Landscape byKathy Dobash/Ortiz Engineered Products,Inc
Photograph at this link:  http://www.fotolog.com/beautyflowerpoem/44775584

Abstract landscape painting by artist Kathy Dobash in Ortiz Engineered Products, Inc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai2ozWDfRr8

THANKS!

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Joining the Traveling Exhibition

Posted January 18th, 2010 by Liz Dodson
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*Open to other WCA Chapters and The Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom branches joining the Travel Exhibition.

Women and Water Rights, Rivers of Regeneration Exhibition Project will explore a local and global  water related issues problem through art exhibitions and related programs beginning at the University of Minnesota Nash Gallery from February 23 to March 25, 2010. We now are approaching the deadline for the grant. Need to  confirm with those below that will take part in this travel exhibition to keep the message and momentum moving for the next. three years!.


• The main sponsors are The University of Minnesota, Department of Art, http://www.art.umn.edu/, Women’s Caucus of Art, WCA, nationalwca.org http://nationalwca.org/, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, WILPF, http://www.wilpfmn.org/.
Here is a very tentative schedule: Check our website at www.womenandwater.net for updates.

Two months time slots to receive, exhibit, repack and send on.• ALL TENTATIVE DATES   * Some dates have changed from previous schedules, please see if these changes will work for you.
•1) Missoula, Montana    Rebecca Kramer      Montana3826@msn.com  May/June 2010
 2)    Open …..July/ August, 2010
3)     Open …… September, October, 2010
4)   LA  ( possibility
Ann Isolde   aisolde@roadrunner.com ……..November,  December 2010
5) NYC(would like to secure the United Nations as venue if possible)
Linda Gilbert Schneider   gilbertschneider@yahoo.com  ……..Jan. / Feb. 2011
6)   Open……March, 2011
6) Chicago      Judith Roth        judithroth@sbcglobal.net  —-April/  May  2011
7) Boston        Karen  Frostig     karenfrostig@comcast.net …..June/ July 2011
8)  Open ……August / September 2011
9)  MI   Yueh-mei  Cheng     yueh-mei.cheng@finlandia.edu …….October/ 2011
!0)   Portland,OR  
Madeline Meza Janovec   mmjanovec.com   …….November 2011
10)   Dayton, Ohio Jeanne Philipp chimaeramedia@hotmail.com ….. December 2011 /Jan. 2012
11)    Open …….
Feb./March 2012
 12) Dubai                 Jenny Barrow        jennybarrow1@yahoo.de ……..April/May 2012
13)  India                  
Meena Mangalvedhekar         meenanew@gmail.com …….. June/July 2012
14)  Japan   
Yumiko Inomata    Yumiko.Inomata@artsmidwest.org ……… August/September/October/2012
15) Mexico City           Jenette Lever                  j_lever@msn.com …….. Nov./Dec. 2012
16) MN           Liz Dodson          lizartist@me.com ……. Return

Contact Liz Dodson, lizartist@me.com or  612 333 8150



“Human Rights” at Componere Gallery

Posted January 17th, 2010 by admin
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Gallery Owner/Director, Eleanor Ruder

721-1181 (gallery)
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Exhibit opens:    February 1, 2010 and continues through February 27 2010
Title of exhibit:    “Human Rights”
At:                     Componere Gallery
Public reception:    Sunday, February 7, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Featured artist:     Phyllis MacLaren, mixed media college

Phyllis MacLaren’s mixed media collages relate the stories of
individuals around the world whose human rights have been violated.
The artist and her subjects encourage us to pause, and listen again,
to those forgotten after a few days in the news.
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For more information visit www.componere.com

COMPONERE
GALLERY  OF ART AND FASHION
6505 - 6509 Delmar Blvd.
St. Louis, MO  63130
314-721-1181
11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday
11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday
and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.  Sunday

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Assistant Professor (tenure-track)

Posted January 13th, 2010 by admin
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Art/Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies:  Assistant Professor (tenure-track) to teach undergraduate students and work in the areas of web-based art/design, computer-generated images, computer animation, virtual environments, three-dimensional modeling and other virtual forms; maintain an active agenda of research/creative achievement; provide service to the university.   Require:  Terminal degree in art, digital media or related field; expertise in digital technology, theory and practice; ability and desire to work at both undergraduate and graduate levels in an interdisciplinary context.  Desire:  Professional experience in interactive media; teaching experience at the college level.  Send letter of interest including contact information with email; cv including contact information for three references; examples of recent work and examples of student work (in a digital format); statement of teaching philosophy to:  Peg Faimon, Co-Director,  Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH  45056.  Contact email is peg.faimon@muohio.edu.   Screening of applications begins January 31, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled. Miami University is an EOE/AA employer with smoke-free campuses.  For information regarding campus crime and safety, visit www.muohio.edu/righttoknow <http://www.muohio.edu/righttoknow> .  Hard copy upon request.

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I’m trying to forward a message to the members of WCA and NCWCA about an artist-in-residence program on the coast of southern Oregon. The director Angela Pozzi is struggling to keep the program afloat and is looking for visual artists, writers, musicians, composers and so forth to attend the program.  It’s an amazing and very inspiring location in Bandon, Oregon.  I attended last spring as a painter and had a remarkably productive time there.  If anyone might be interested they can visit the website for more information about the program at www.Artula.org…..click <http://www.Artula.org…..click/>  on “artist-in-residence” at the top of the page.

If I need to forward this to someone else, please let me know.  Thanks for your help and to everyone else for their support!

Cheers,
Karen Purdy

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