CAA Conversations

Janis Chakars is associate professor of communication and digital media, Neumann University. Martha Lucy is deputy director for research, interpretation and education at the Barnes Foundation.

Amy K. Hamlin is Associate Professor of Art History at St. Catherine University. Karen J. Leader is Associate Professor of Art History at Florida Atlantic University. They are the co-founders of Art History That, and are co-authoring the book Art History That: Initiatives for the Future of a Discipline. https://sites.google.com/site/arthistorythat/

Elaine Grogan Luttrull outlines five basics steps to help individual artists with managing their finances. Feel free to download and use the example budget as you listen to the podcast: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/ExampleBudgetforArtists.pdf Elaine Grogan Luttrull is a certified public accountant and the founding owner of Minerva Financial Arts, a company devoted to improving financial literacy...

This podcast explores various issues artists may consider when pondering and operating within administrative roles, including how administrative assignments can both borrow from and complement one’s studio activity. Thomas Berding is associate professor of studio art at Michigan State University in East Lansing, where he is currently in his eighth year as chair of the Department of Art, Art Histor...

This podcast offers a condensed set of mentorship strategies that will help arts professionals, especially those in academe, to become more effective and confident advocates for their students and colleagues, as well as for the practices and disciplines that they represent. Amy Broderick uses the processes of drawing and paper construction to explore the methods we humans use to locate ourselves r...

A traveling exhibition is an excellent way to get more out of your promotional efforts. Based on her experience as an artist and curator, Reni Gower offers a six-point checklist for taking your show on the road. Reni Gower is a painter, curator, and professor in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where she teaches painting, drawing, and profess...

Many working artists today define a creative path by not just limiting it to what gets made in a studio. Dahlia Elsayed discusses enlarging the scope of your practice and how your day job makes you a more expansive artist. Dahlia Elsayed is a visual artist and assistant professor of humanities at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. Her work is exhibited widely and was the sub...

Michael Aurbach provides practical tips and reminders to visual artists seeking jobs in higher education. This podcast can be followed by a second clip, “Researching the Job,” below. Michael Aurbach is a sculptor, professor of art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and former president of the CAA Board of Directors. The Wichita Art Museum in Kansas hosted a recent exhibition, The Se...

In a second podcast on the academic job search, Michael Aurbach offers helpful information on how to investigate institutions and learn more about their context. Michael Aurbach is a sculptor, professor of art at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and former president of the CAA Board of Directors. The Wichita Art Museum in Kansas hosted a recent exhibition, The Secrecy Series: Selecte...

Your artist statement represents a vital line of communication between you and the rest of the world. Jackie Battenfield offers tips to help you write a concise and insightful statement about your work. Jackie Battenfield is a painter, printmaker, and the author of The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love (Philadelphia: Da Capo, 2009). She teaches professional practices in the...

Melissa Potter discusses the art of researching and writing successful grants to fund your art practice. Melissa Potter is a multimedia artist and assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago in Illinois. Her most recent solo exhibition was held at Zvono Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2010.

Amber Hawk Swanson outlines the necessary steps for artists to successfully market themselves and their work in a competitive environment. She includes excerpts from four interviews with artists who market themselves successfully: Sean Fader, Dorothy (Dotty) Fitzgerald, Leslie Parke, and Jules Rosskam. Amber Hawk Swanson is a Brooklyn-based video and performance artist and a consultant for profess...

Kelly Murdoch-Kitt is an assistant professor at University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art and Design. Denielle Emans is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's campus in Qatar

Eileen MacAvery Kane is a full-time instructor in the Art Dept. at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY as well as the author of "Ethics: A Graphic Designer's Field Guide" and blog ethicsingraphicdesign.org Herman Botes serves as Head of the Department of Visual Communication at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in Pretoria, South Africa. He has a forthcoming co-authored book “Educating...

Paul Soulellis is an assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he teaches experimental publishing, typography, and graphic design. He is the founder of Library of the Printed Web, which was recently acquired by MoMA Library. http://printedweb.org/ Joe Potts is a graphic designer, educator, artist, and writer working with found and synthesized images, sound, typography, and la...

Kevin Curry is an Associate Teaching Professor at Florida State University where he teaches digital foundations and sculpture. He's currently in London teaching a photo for non-majors class. Christopher McNulty is Professor of Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Auburn University in Alabama and teaches sculpture to undergraduates at all levels. He is a dual citizen of France and the Unit...

Justin Lincoln is Associate Professor in New Genres and Digital Art at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington where he is bringing the Indie/DIY ethos to get his students involved with new media. Amy Alexander is an Associate Professor in Visual Arts at UC San Diego. Her teaching bounces around the overlaps of tech art, public art, expanded cinema, and performance and is sprinkled with occasion...

Robert Howsare is an Assistant Professor of Art teaching printmaking and foundation courses at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Zach Fitchner is a printmaking artist and Assistant Professor of Art at West Virginia State University.

Meg Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Digital Media/Foundations at University of Wisconsin-Madison teaching courses on digital foundations, interactive art, code based art and digital fabrication. Joelle Dietrick is a MacDowell fellow and Fulbright scholar who makes large temporary paintings, animations and games about global trade and human logistics. She's an Assistant Professor of Art and D...

Rebecca Easby is program chair of Fine Arts and Associate Professor of Art History at Trinity Washington University in Washington DC. Colleen Denney is Professor of Art History/Gender and Women’s Studies, in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Wyoming.

Elizabeth Moran is an artist and lecturer in the Art, Media, and Technology program at Parsons School of Design. Her work investigates how varying belief systems that inform our understanding of recorded evidence. Erica Molesworth is an artist and lecturer in photography at California College of the Arts and at San Francisco Art Institute; she is interested in the expanded field of photography and...

Sarah G. Sharp is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County where she coordinates the foundations program and teaches graduate courses. She is also regular faculty in the Art Practice MFA Program at SVA in New York where she teaches time-based media courses. Kara Hearn is the Assistant Chair of Film and Video at Pratt Institute. She is a video artist, who often performs in...

Amanda (Mandy) Horton is an associate professor at the University of Central Oklahoma whose specialty is in design history, she has developed multiple courses on this subject, including an award-winning History of Graphic Design online course and is director of the new Design History minor at UCO. Breuna Baine is an Associate Professor of graphic design at Auburn University Montgomery.

Jolene Powell is McCoy Professor of Art and Director of Gallery 310 at Marietta College teaching courses in all levels studio art in drawing, painting, printmaking, and occasional special topics classes. Her favorite learning opportunities happen when she can take students to actual artwork and add an experiential components to her classes. Richard Danford is Vice-President for Student Life at Mar...

Kelly Boehmer lives in Pooler, GA and teaches as a Lecturer at Georgia Southern University. She makes large-scale, soft sculpture installations (often depicting unicorns) and is a member of the performance art band, Glitter Chariot. Matt Toole lives in Savannah, GA and was a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design from 2006 to 2016. He is a sculptor who works with a variety of material...