CAA Conversations

"Professors Alex Dika Seggerman (Rutgers University-Newark) and Emily Neumeier (Temple University) discuss their experience incorporating Wikipedia in the classroom, suggesting different types of assignments, the feminist origins of the “edit-a-thon” and how teaching students about the reliability and structure of online knowledge is perhaps one of the most pressing issues of our day. For more inf...

Professor Alan C. Braddock and Dr. Lindsay Garcia discuss art, pedagogy, and environmental justice. How can art history join the posthumanist conversation? How can works of art attune us to our relationships across the lines of species? Note: This conversation was recorded in autumn 2020. Alan Braddock is the Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies at the College of W...

Rachel Skaggs // Molly Jo Burke // Erin Hoppe // Measuring Artists’ Challenges in COVID-19 by CAA

Courtney Puckett // Alexis Granwell // Experiences of Contingent Faculty in Teaching Studio Art by CAA

Jay Buchanan, Holly Gabelmann, Caroline Giddis, and Clarissa Chevalier: "Collaboration, finding purpose, occupying intermediate space and making noise together!" In this conversation, Jay Buchanan and Holly Gabelmann, co-creators of Idiosynchrony, talk to Caroline Giddis and Clarissa Chevalier, founders and co-editors of Tesserae Press. They discuss "Collaboration, finding purpose, occupying inter...

Join us for a conversation with Sean Nash, a visual artist and food fermentation experimentalist, and Stephanie Maroney, a feminist science and food studies scholar, as they discuss “Microbial Teachers and Fermentive Pedagogies.” Sean Nash is a visual artist and food fermentation experimentalist. His multidisciplinary work integrates fermented foods with sculptures as edible, time-based, and socia...

In this conversation, the pair discuss Schwartz’s new book Walker Evans: No Politics. The first book to take seriously Evans’s refusal to act or work politically, Walker Evans offers a sweeping reassessment of American documentary and its histories. Opening with a discussion of Evans’s place in the canon as well as Schwartz’s efforts to problematise canonical histories of documentary, the podcast...

In this conversation, educator, artist, and technologist Chris Carruth and Ph. D. candidate Kristina M. Stamatis discuss pedagogy, empathy, and structural racism in higher ed. Chris Carruth is an educator, artist, and technologist who is currently splitting teaching/making engagements between Boulder, CO and Vancouver, BC. He is an interdisciplinary creative artist who weaves philosophical inquiry...

This podcast explores key concepts of decolonization, settler responsibility, and treaty principles. Join Dr. Julie Hollenbach in conversation with Dr. Carla Taunton in a dynamic dialogue that considers key ideas and concepts of decolonization. Hollenbach and Taunton discuss the potential roles and responsibilities of white-settler scholars in decolonizing and unsettling initiatives within museums...

Join us for a conversation between Thanavi Chotpradit, a modern and contemporary Thai art historian, and Chanon Kenji Praepipatomongkol, curator at Singapore Art Museum, as they discuss “The Iconography of Protest in Bangkok." Thanavi Chotpradit is a lecturer in modern and contemporary Thai art history at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and a member of the editorial collective of Southea...

Lorne M. Buchman, President of ArtCenter College of Design and host of Change Lab podcast, speaks with Beyond the Studio co-hosts Nicole Mueller and Amanda Adams about the shifts happening in higher education, how art and design colleges are responding to the financial challenges of the pandemic, rethinking the model in order to increase sustainability, access, and affordability, what organization...

Join us for a live CAA podcast recording made for the CAA 2021 Conference! Rachel Beth Egenhoefer and Peter Dean discuss Sustainable Design: Beyond the Stuff, Towards the System Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Professor, Design, University of San Francisco Peter Dean, Senior Critic, Department of Furniture Design, Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies Concentration, Rhode Island School of Design

Mattie Schloetzer and Jason Vrooman come together to discuss trials and triumphs of remote and virtual museum internships during the COVID era. Mattie Schloetzer is the administrator of internships and museum fellowships at the National Gallery of Art and a member of the CAA professional practices committee. She is co-chairing the session, "Best Practices and Lessons Learned from the Digital Shift...

Warren Cariou is a photographer, filmmaker, writer, and interdisciplinary scholar whose work often explores links between environment, culture, and storytelling, with a particular focus on Indigenous communities in western Canada. He directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture at the University of Manitoba, where he teaches in the Department of English, Theatre, Film and Media. His pe...

Alicia Grullón is an artist, author, curator, and activist based in New York City. She is an organizer of the People’s Cultural Plan and the legislative art project Percent for Green. She is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts and Queens College, City University of New York. Chloë Bass is an artist and public practitioner based in New York City. She is an assistant professor of art a...

Roland Betancourt is a Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, whose forthcoming book with Princeton University Press is entitled, Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages. Bryan C. Keene is assistant professor of art history at Riverside City College and formerly associate curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum; his 2019 edited volu...

Naomi J. Falk’s work considers our relationships with manufactured and natural landscapes, exploring the current climate, socially, environmentally, and politically. Facing swiftly changing classroom environments, this spring, she and Stacy Isenbarger began a new project share platform for art educators called, www. WhatDoWeDoNow.art. Falk is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art in 3D Studies at t...

In this special summer podcast, our guests discuss preparing to teach quality online art history courses. Parme Giuntini has a PhD from UCLA. Her initial focus on 18th century through modern domestic ideology has broadened to include fashion and design history. After 20 years at Otis College of Art and Design where she was the Director of Art History and Assistant Chair of Liberal Arts and Science...

Joni Boyd Acuff, PhD is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, whose work centers the intersections of race and gender in arts education research, pedagogy, and practice. Amelia Kraehe, who more often goes by Amy, is currently an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Arizona. Her research, teaching and community engagement focus on how the arts and arts education can c...

This week, our guests discuss art and community engagement. Melanie La Rosa is a professor of media production at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. She is also an award winning independent filmmaker and her latest film, “How To Power A City” is currently in post production, with short excerpts screening at festivals worldwide. Jules Rochielle Sievert is an artist and the Creative Directo...

After a short hiatus, we're happy to share a new episode on decolonizing college art curriculum with Shylah Pacheco Hamilton and Vreni Michelini-Castillo. Shylah Pacheco Hamilton is an Afro-Surrealist filmmaker whose creative research interests meet at the crossroads of experimental video, Black and Chicana feminist theory, and ritual performance. Her most recent work consists of experimental vide...

Amber C. Coleman is a doctoral student in Art and Visual Culture Education at the University of Arizona and Graduate Assistant at the Tucson Museum of Art. Amber Delgado recently completed her undergraduate studies at East Carolina University where she double majored in film and art history, and currently serves as exhibitions intern and documentary diversity project program associate at The Cente...

Carmen Neely is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Drawing & Painting at Oklahoma State University. She maintains an ongoing practice of exploring identity and memory through abstraction. Her work is represented by Jane Lombard Gallery in New York. Jovonna Jones is a writer and teacher of race, gender, and cultural production. She is currently working on her PhD in African & African Ameri...

Ariana Chaivaranon is an artist and an interpretive planner at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Her art investigates the interface between humans and the digital, examining the consequences of virtual representation for human bodies. Elizabeth Keto is currently a Marshall Scholar studying art history and curating at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Her research focuses on Ame...

Susanna Crum is an artist and educator in Louisville, Kentucky, where she teaches printmaking as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Southeast and at Calliope Arts, a shared print media workspace she cofounded in 2015. She is President of the Mid America Print Council, and just spent a month fishing and conducting a research-based mapping project in the small town of Alvik, Norway. Julia...