Exhibitions
CAA sponsors exhibitions that are on view, and whose openings take place, during the Annual Conference.
The CAA Annual Exhibition for the Chicago conference in 2010 will take place, and CAA is still planning for an exhibition to coincide with the centennial conference in New York in 2011. There is no current call for proposals for the CAA Annual Exhibition.
CAA Annual Exhibition
The CAA Annual Exhibition is a group show organized by a guest curator, chosen annually from an open call, at a gallery space in the conference city. CAA provides support for the exhibition with a grant of up to $10,000. An additional grant of $5,000 is available for an exhibition catalogue to be printed in sufficient numbers for distribution to all conference attendees. Preference is given to those proposals that include both an open call and some CAA members among the exhibiting artists.
Curated by Mary Nooter Roberts, Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa was the 2009 CAA Annual Exhibition, held at the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles. Opening on February 22, Continental Rifts was presented in the Getty Gallery, the Fowler Museum’s largest space for temporary exhibitions. The show continues to June 14, 2009.
Regional MFA Exhibition
Representatives from colleges, universities, or art schools in the conference city organize an annual group exhibition of student work from MFA programs in the region around the conference city.
For the 2009 Annual Conference, the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Fine Arts hosted the CAA Regional MFA Exhibition, which showcased the unique, diverse community of young artists in the Southern California region. The exhibition was open to the public from Tuesday, February 24, to Saturday, February 28, 2009.
