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Greetings,
The Feminist Art Project and the Institute for Women and Art would like to invite College Art Association members to submit proposals for panel, poster and open forum sessions for the CAA Conference 2011 in New York City. We encourage you to propose sessions that address the theme of: Feminism, Diversity and Globalism.  That theme is one of several selected by CAA for their Centennial celebration . It was originally proposed by a coalition of groups including ArtTable, The Feminist Art Project, and Women’s Caucus for Art , along with several CAA committees. The Feminist Art Project will be presenting TFAP@CAA, an extraordinary day of feminist art panels and performances on Saturday, February 12 organized by Johanna Burton and Julia Bryan-Wilson.

More information below.

Thank you,
Ferris Olin and Judith Brodsky
Directors, Institute for Women and Art
Connie Tell
Project Manager, The Feminist Art Project
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Beginning June 26, individual CAA members may submit a session proposal for the centennial Annual Conference, taking place February 12, 2011, in New York. Proposals should 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.

The Annual Conference Committee welcomes session proposals that include the work of established artists and scholars, along with that of younger scholars, emerging and mid-career artists, and graduate students. Particularly welcome are those sessions that highlight interdisciplinary work. Artists are especially encouraged to propose sessions appropriate to dialogue and information exchange relevant to artists.

Session proposals are only taken online; paper forms and postal mailings are not accepted. To set up an account, please email Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs,< lstark@collegeart.org > who will register your email address and provide you with a password. For full details on the process, please visit Chair a Conference Session < http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2011 > <http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2011> . Deadline: September 1, 2009; no late applications are accepted.

Or visit the CAA main website and click on “Conference” then “Proposals”: http://www.collegeart.org/

Act Now! Ask Your Senators to Join the Senate Appropriations Letter Supporting the Office of Museum Services

Great News! In conjunction with Museums Advocacy Day, Senator Gillibrand (D-NY) is circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter in the Senate encouraging her fellow Senators to join her letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee urging $50 million for the Office of Museum Services (OMS) at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This is similar to a separate effort in the House of Representatives – championed by Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY), Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ) – that we alerted you to last week.  This is another great opportunity, and we need your help once again!

CLICK HERE to ask your Senator to SIGN THE GILLIBRAND APPROPRIATIONS LETTER Today!

“The strength of this letter will be determined by how many Senators sign on to it, and they are most likely to do so when asked by a constituent,” said AAM President Ford W. Bell.  ”If enough Senators sign on, it could lead to increased funding for the IMLS Office of Museum Services, which has been level-funded for several years.  I applaud the leadership of Senator Gillibrand on this issue.”

The letter highlights the many educational and other vital services museums provide to their communities and asks the Appropriations Committee to support $50 million for FY11 (a $14.8 million increase over FY10) for OMS. These funds will help to protect collections nationwide and to help museums continue to meet the increasing demands for their unique programs and services.

P.S. – If you haven’t done so already, don’t forget to ask your Representative to Sign-on to the Tonko/Slaughter/Lance museum letter today!

To get involved in more advocacy for museums visit www.speakupformuseums.org today

NEWS RELEASE

AUTHOR TACKLES “GALLERIST” IN NEW EDITION OF
HOW TO SURVIVE & PROSPER AS AN ARTIST: SELLING YOURSELF WITHOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL

“Somewhere between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s, art dealers in New York reinvented themselves and changed the title of their occupation to ‘gallerist’,” writes Caroll Michels in the 6th edition of HOW TO SURVIVE AND PROSPER AS AN ARTIST: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, published in 2009 by Henry Holt and Company. “The new title arrived with a set of rules regarding who can use the title and who cannot . . . Although the new title is pretentious and a less-than-subtle embellishment of the occupation of ’sales person,’ it can also be interpreted that the ‘ist’ at the end of ‘galler-ist’ symbolically represents yet another encroachment into an ‘art-ists’s’ territory. It can be compared to the 50 percent sales commissions art dealers receive, an implication that they are major contributors to the creation of artwork!”

Drawing on more than three decades of experience as a career coach and artist-advocate, Michels shares insights for navigating the complicated, often political, art world. In the chapter “Launching or Relaunching Your Career: Overcoming Career Blocks,” she pinpoints specific danger zones for artists - including an unwillingness to confront money issues, an awe of New York and self-imposed “regionalism,” the quest for external validation, and adolescent career goals.

Other chapters present advice and guidance on presentation tools, pricing work, art marketing and the Internet; public relations; exhibition and sales opportunities; dealing with art dealers; the mysterious world of grants; and handling rationalization, paranoia, competition, rejection, and the “overwhelm factor.”

Caroll Michels is on the faculty of the Continuing Studies and Special Programs division of the Ringling College of Art and Design, in Sarasota, Florida. She will be a keynote speaker at “Sweet Rewards. 2010 Next Step Career Conference” on March 19 and 20, sponsored by the College.

She served as chairperson of the Fine Arts Advisory Board of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She was also on the faculty of the New School for Social Research. Her artwork has been exhibited in museums and cultural centers in the United States and abroad, including the Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; and Exit Art and the Institute for Contemporary Art/The Clocktower in New York City. Michels has received numerous grants, including those awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts; the New York Council for the Humanities; and the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture/UNESCO. She was a fellow at the Alden B. Dow Creativity Center, Northwood University, in Midland, Michigan. She is the founder of the Artist Help Network (www.artisthelpnetwork.com), a launching pad to help fine artists mine resources on career development and career challenges.

HOW TO SURVIVE AND PROSPER AS AN ARTIST:
Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
By Caroll Michels
Published by Henry Holt and Company
6th Edition, 2009/ISBN: 978-0-8050-8848-9/ $20

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Press Contacts:
Julia Howe, Henry Holt & Company. 646-307-5237. julia.howe@hholt.com
Caroll Michels. 941-922-5277
carollmichels@verizon.net
www.carollmichels.com

Dear Friends of the Rutgers Insititute for Women and Art,

The bounty of women’s art history events continues throughout March here at Rutgers and nearby. We will continue to announce programs of interest planned for the remainder of the Spring.

This week, we are sending you announcements of two events– one in New Brunswick, NJ and the other in Brooklyn, NY. There are many other events in and beyond this geographical region also listed on The Feminist Art Project website calendar of events: http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/home/ . Do take time to visit the site to find ones near your home.

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Juried Competition

Third Annual CameraWorks Exhibition
June 6 –27, 2010
THE JUROR:
Harvey Stein, Artist, Author, Curator, Educator
Harvey Stein is the Director of Photography at Umbrella Arts Gallery in Manhattan.  He teaches at the International Center of Photography and The School of Visual Arts and has been on the faculty of the New School University, Drew University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Bridgeport.  Stein has lectured extensively on the subject of photography in the United States and abroad; his latest book, Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life, was published in 2006 by Gangemi Editore (Rome).  A recipient of a Creative Arts Public Service (CAPS) fellowship and numerous artist-in-residency grants, Stein’s work is represented by the Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Throckmorton Fine Art, and June Bateman Fine Art, New York City.

FOR PROSPECTUS
Go to: www.rgoa.org <http://www.rgoa.org/>

 Women’s Caucus for Art

 congratulates its

 2011 Lifetime Achievement Awardees

Beverly Buchanan
Diane Burko
Ofelia Garcia
Joan Marter
Carolee Schneemann
Sylvia Sleigh

Save the date for the awards events:
Saturday evening, February 12, 2011. 

Call for Entries!  The Pacific Region Women’s Caucus for Art is sponsoring “Blue Planet” a fine arts exhibition accompanying “Elements: An Eco-Art Conference”.   Eco-art often carries a layered meaning that aids in the understanding and appreciation of the environment, addresses community values, and/or inspires activism on behalf of the ecological systems of which humans and their cultures are a part. For the Blue Planet Exhibition, we seek work that examines and explores the social, political and economic issues related to water. All media including installation, video and collaborative projects that fit within the gallery space may be submitted.  This show is open to all artists living in California and all national WCA members.

This show will be at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco from June 19 to June 26th and is juried by Eco-Artist Kim Abeles.  The deadline for entries is April 24th, 2010.

Please email KarenGutfreund@yahoo.com for the prospectus or download from www.sbawca.org