Michigan State University
Department of Art & Art History
Studio Artist, Photography
POSITION: Assistant Professor of Photography, Department of Art & Art History, one-year full-time. Salary commensurate with experience. Benefits competitive. Position to begin August 16, 2010.
QUALIFICATIONS: MFA or equivalent advanced degree. Required expertise in one or more of the following areas: Color Photography Theory; Studio Lighting for Object and Portrait Photography; Historic and Contemporary Trends in Fine Art Photography; Digital Image Manipulation. Previous teaching experience and exhibit record highly desirable.
DUTIES: Teaching responsibilities will include courses in Photography within an active Studio Art Program offering BA, BFA, and MFA degrees.
APPLICATIONS: Include letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, portfolio of recent professional work in digital format (CD and/or website listing) and three letters of recommendation. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Please send materials to:
Photography Search Committee
c/o Thomas Berding, Chair
Department of Art & Art History
Michigan State University
113 Kresge Art Center
East Lansing, MI 48824-1119
ABOUT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
The Department of Art & Art History is dedicated to the creation and historical study of the visual arts through undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The department is part of the College of Arts & Letters and offers study in Studio Art, Art Education, Apparel & Textile Design, and History of Art & Visual Culture. For further information, visit http://www.art.msu.edu.
In 2011, Michigan State University will be home to the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, designed by world renowned architect Zaha Hadid. A premier venue for modern and contemporary art, the museum will serve as a laboratory for research by faculty and students in numerous fields and as a nexus for community engagement with the visual arts. Other important campus resources include The MSU Museum and Fine Arts Library.
Known internationally as a major U.S. public university with global reach, Michigan State University has been advancing knowledge and transforming lives through innovative teaching, research, and outreach for nearly 150 years. MSU is a member of the Association of American Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and the Big Ten athletic conference.
MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans and persons with disabilities.

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Los Angeles-based and artist-run company GYST Ink is proud to announce the release of Getting Your Sh*t Together (GYST) 3.0, the ultimate professional practices software for artists, designed to help artists manage their careers.

About GYST 3.0 Professional Practices Software For Artists

After 10 years of extensive research and programming, GYST Ink is proud to announce the release of GYST 3.0, marking a dramatic development in the field of professional practices for artists. Created by artists, for artists, GYST 3.0 is the most comprehensive and affordable professional practices software solution available to artists today. The easy-to-use software, available for both MAC and PC, is a powerful business tool, enabling you to:

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FEMINIST THREADS, OR, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LADIES

By Rachel Epp Buller February 22, 2010

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A few reflections from CAA 2010

During my brief stay in Chicago last week for the College Art Association annual conference, it was impossible to miss the exciting presence of feminist concerns running throughout the sessions, exhibitions, and affiliated societies.

Anna Shteynshleyger, “Father and Son,” pigment print, 2004-2009. Shteynshleyger’s works were on display at the Renaissance Society through February 14, 2010. Image: courtesy of The University of Chicago

On an organizational level, there were meetings of the standing CAA Committee on Women in the Arts, the National Women’s Caucus for Art, and The Feminist Art Project. Do these societies overlap in their concerns? Yes. Are they worthy organizationshttp://www.nationalwca.org/wordpress/wp-admin/post-new.php? Certainly. Is it entirely clear how each group differs from the other? Not exactly. All seek to promote the interests of women and gender issues in art, some from the inside (CWA) and others from the outside (WCA for years has had a separate but concurrent conference, or Confab). The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) promotes itself as a national initiative that celebrates both the Feminist Art Movement and the political, cultural, and aesthetic impact of women in art and art history.

Full story at: http://ereview.org/2010/02/22/feminist-threads-or-its-all-about-the-ladies/

Proposal:  “Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze”
Ceres Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY
May 24th through June 18th, 2011

The Women’s Caucus for Art (www.nationalwca.org), a leading supporter of women artists since 1972, is requesting art on the theme of “Men as Object: Reversing the Gaze”.  This proposal for an exhibition for Ceres Gallery is a collaboration between the Northern California, South Bay Area and Michigan WCA chapters and is open to all US women artists.

Send the following to karengutfreund@yahoo.com
Images that pertain to the theme
Image list with number, title, media, size and date for each image
Artist resume

Deadline to send images:  Wednesday April 14th

The art we receive will be given to Ceres as a proposal for an exhibition.  If we are chosen, we will have another call for art that will allow artists time to create new work.  Please also email karengutfreund@yahoo.com if you would like to be kept on the mailing list for this and other feminist projects.

Prospectus for “Reversing the Gaze”

Since the early years of Feminist Art, women artists have responded to their subjugation in art by male artists by using their own bodies as the subject matter in their work. We credit feminist art of the 1970’s with giving artists today the “permission to be personal”.

There is a difference in women’s art from the work of male counterparts. We see the nude woman from different angles. The feminist artist chooses a personal vantage point, apart from that seen in men’s portrayals of women. The thesis of woman as both surveyor and the surveyed continues.

“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of women in herself is male: the surveyed female…thus she turns herself into an object- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight”.  Ways of Seeing, by John Berger

The goal of this exhibition “Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze” is to turn the tables and to exhibit works that put the male in the position of subject and spectacle.  Not only will the male be taking on the female role, but the surveyor is now female, no longer a “masculine” part of the female, thus creating a truly Feminist stance. The male is the spectacle for a woman’s enjoyment or mere viewing.

This is effective in two ways: as the male viewer encounters the male nude, he is forced like many women before him to turn the mirror on himself and secondly to feel the powerlessness of being owned or submissive. The individualism of the artist, the thinker, the patron, the owner, and the woman is transformed. The person who is the object of their activities, the man, is treated as a thing or an abstraction.  By reversing the unequal relationship between men and women that is so deeply embedded in our culture, men will do to themselves what they have done to women for centuries.  They observe themselves and their own masculinity as women observe their own femininity.

This exhibition will explore women’s responses to a male dominated world in a different way than an exhibition of women’s images of themselves. It will mark an important development in Feminist Art which has long concentrated on images of women meant to challenge stereotypical notions of womanhood.

A gallery filled with works depicting men, created by women, comments on the prevalence of the male gaze in art and of the continued domination of male artists exhibiting in galleries and museums.
Please email or call me with any questions, 408-823-9524.  Thank you so very much in advance!
Karen Gutfreund
Vice President - Peninsula WCA
Exhibitions Chair - SBAWCA
CALL FOR ART!

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
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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.