Imagine thousands of art focused individuals from scholars, students and artists to curators, critics and collectors gathering in one city at the same time and you have the College Art Association’s 100th Annual Conference going on now at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
The conference, begun Feb. 22 and ending Feb. 25, has more than 200 sessions on art trends, history and culture, guest speakers and career workshops.
Of course Chicago and the Midwest are well represented. At the Feb. 25 session of Luminous Currents: Homo Sapiens Technologica and the Return of Post-painterly Abstraction Northwestern University’s Lane Relyea will speak on “Modernizing Mediums Today” and Paul Hertz of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will present on “Cycles of No Return: A Post-Avant-Garde Investigation of Postpainterly Abstraction.”
At Feb. 23’s “Restaging the Readymade” ArtSpace, Nathaniel Stern of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee chaired the session and School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Jon Cates presented “alwaysalreadymade.” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee’s Nicole Ridgway and Jennifer Johung also presented during the session.
These are just a few of the many art educators attending the conference from the Midwest. To find out if your university participated go to conference college art and type in the school in the search box.
The New York based College Art Association promotes the visual arts. For more information visit CAA
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