The Institute @ The College Art Association

CAA’s 113th Annual Conference will take place February 12–15, 2025 at the New York Midtown Hilton.

Current students and alumni can submit their CAA presentation information online for the next conference.

Chloë L. Courtney
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Session Co-Chair
Constructions of Indigeneity in Postwar Art of the Americas
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Madeline Murphy Turner
Harvard Art Museums
Session Chair
Drawn to Earth: Contemporary Drawing and Environment in the Americas
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Marina Kliger
Harvard Art Museums
The Genre Anecdotique and Feminine Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century France
Women Artists and the Politics of Neoclassicism
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Soyoon Ryu
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
THE PLAY’s Art and Borderland Ethics in Okinawa and Hokkaid
In Relation to Art: Community, Collaboration, and Collective Agency in Contemporary Art from East Asia
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm

Joan Pachner
Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonne
Session Co-Chair
Tony Smith and the Hollyhock House Circle 1943-45
Los Angeles during World War II: Art at the Margins
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm

Madeline Murphy Turner
Harvard Art Museums
Modernity and the Mail: Yani Pecanins’ Un viaje en Zeppelín (1988)
Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm

Reva Wolf
University of New York at New Paltz
Session Chair, Round Table
A Case Study of a Rediscovered Artist: Benjamin Wigfall, a University, a Community, and a Legacy
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Jennifer Field
Estate of David Smith
Session Co-Chair
Moving Out: David Smith & The Outdoor Migration of Sculpture
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Peter Kalb
Brandeis University
Following the New Silk Road to a History of Contemporary Art
Chinese Art Headed "South": Histories, Practices and Models in the 20th-21st Centuries
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Christopher L. Lyon
Lyon Artbooks
From Depicted to Embodied Landscape: Preparing the Ground of Smith's Fields
Moving Out: David Smith & The Outdoor Migration of Sculpture
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Chloë L. Courtney
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Stitching together: Extended possibilities of collectivity in Chilean Arpilleras
Process-Generated Networks: Craft and Sociality in Feminist Art
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Cristina Aldrich
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Embodied Devotion and Pilgrimage: The Sensorial Experience of the Virgin in Thirteenth-Century Castile and Aragon
Divine Senses: Exploring Sensorial Experiences in Religious Contexts throughout the Premodern Iberian World
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Meggie Morris
San Diego Miramar College
Session Chair
How Has Decolonizing Art History Worked for You?
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Peter D. De Staebler
Pratt Institute
Session Co-Chai
Still Defining Roman Art
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta
New York University
Session Co-Chair
Still Defining Roman Art
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Sarah Madole Lewis
CUNY-BMCC “Roman” Sarcophagi from the eastern Mediterranean and the “Art” of “Rome”
Still Defining Roman Art
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Yizhuo Li
University of Vienna
Session Co-Chair
Collective Work: Funding and Collaborating on International Projects and Research
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Rebecca Anne Rushfield
Session Chair
The Ongoing Life of Refuse in Art
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Rachel Boate
Colgate University
Session Co-Chair
What is Public Art For?
Thursday, February 13, 2:30–4:00pm  

Ksenia M. Soboleva
My Dear Lover: Sharon Hayes' Letters to an Unnamed You
Women and Letters
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Yizhuo Li
University of Vienna
Session Co-Chair
Art as Shifting Knowledge?: Histories of Science, Medicine, and Sinophone Art
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm

Chansol Park
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Painting for medicine: works created for the provisioning of healthcare in Ming China
Art as Shifting Knowledge?: Histories of Science, Medicine, and Sinophone Art
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm

Annalise Welte
TheInstitute of Fine Arts, NYU
An Armenian Library in Venice
Design and Decoration of Libraries
Friday, February 14, 2024, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Lyla Halsted
Davidson College
Session Co-Chair
Faceless Figuration: A Safavid Kilim in Munich
Emblematic Encounters: Cross-Cultural Objects and Material Agency in the Early Modern World
Friday, February 14, 2024, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Juan Gabriel Ramirez Bolivar
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Session Chair
Indigenous or Spanish? The Mexican and Colombian Pavilions at the Ibero-American Exposition of Seville, 1929
Figuring the Individual/Figuring the Group: Transnational Exchanges in Interwar Art
Friday, February 14, 2024, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Francesca Ferrari
Session Discussant
Figuring the Individual/Figuring the Group: Transnational Exchanges in Interwar Art
Friday, February 14, 2024, 9:00 am–10:30 am

Aimé Iglesias Lukin
Portuñol Newyorkaise
Brazilian & U.S. Art in Exile: Transnationalism, Migration, and the Politics of Being “Latin American” in the United States and Brazil
Friday, February 14, 2024, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Andrea M. Achi
Crossing Borders: A Curatorial Viewpoint on Making the Mediterranean Accessible
Crossing Borders: Bringing Mediterranean Studies to a Wider Audience
Friday, February 14, 2024, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Daniel Belasco
Al Held Foundation
The Art Students League: 150 Years of "American" Art
Yes, the People!: Social Realism and the Art Students League, 1948–51
Friday, February 14, 2024, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Meredith S. Martin
New York University
Collaboration, Creativity, and the Public Humanities
Collaboration as Art Historical Practice
Friday, February 14, 2024, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Marci Kwon
Stanford University Roundtable Participant
Critical Race Art History Roundtable: Doing the Work
Friday, February 14, 2024, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Alejandra Lopez-Oliveros
Rutgers University
Reframing contemporary narratives: Celeste Rojas Mugica’s Inventario Iconoclasta de la Insurrección Chilena
Dialogue and Artistry: Exploring the history, canon and critical reception of artist books Friday,
February 14, 2024, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Megan Kincaid
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
"DYN" in Mexico City: Aesthetic Possibility and Abstraction in Exile, 1939-1944
"Foreigners Everywhere!": Art and Refugee Identification
Friday, February 14, 2024, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
Session Chair
ISLAA-ALAA Encuentro for Latin American and Latinx Art at CAA
Friday, February 14, 2024, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm
Reception to Follow

Ana M. Franco
Session Discussant
ISLAA-ALAA
Encuentro for Latin American and Latinx Art at CAA
Friday, February 14, 2024, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Austen LaRocca (DePinto)
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Challenges of Teaching: What, Why, How, and Solutions for Right Now
Teaching Introduction to Global Art History I: Addressing Challenges in Course Design
Friday, February 14, 2025, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm

Jeongho Park
Seoul National University
Early Modern European Art in Korea and the Global Turn in the History of Art
Who’s Afraid of Western Art History? : Pedagogy, Research and Impact of Western Art History in Korea
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Yeon Shim Chung
Hongik University
Constructing the ‘Avant-Garde’ in Korean Art and Writings from the late 1950s to the 1980s
Who’s Afraid of Western Art History? : Pedagogy, Research and Impact of Western Art History in Korea
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

Wanda Corn
Stanford University
Grant Wood and the Iowa State Fair State Fairs and American Art
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm

Michel Greet
George Mason University
Cultural Convergence in Enrique Tábara’s Precolombinismo
Descentrar el canon: Critical Perspectives on Artistic Modernism in the Andean Region
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm

Ana M. Franco
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
Subversive Weaving: Olga de Amaral’s 1970s Textiles and the History of Postwar Abstract Art
Descentrar el canon: Critical Perspectives on Artistic Modernism in the Andean Region
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm

Eva Zak
Adelphi University
The Emotional, The Revelatory, the Intuitive: The Women Artists of Lyrical Abstraction, 1971
The Women of the Whitney Biennials: Artists In and Out of the Mainstream
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm