Overview

Each year at the College Art Association Conference—the largest convening of art historians, artists, designers, curators, and visual arts professionals—SAIC community members lead brilliant academic presentations and workshops. Explore where to find SAIC connections at this year’s conference below.

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2025 CAA Conference programming, participants, and registration information can be found here.

Wednesday, February 12

Presenter: Sean Fader (MFA 2008)
Session: Processes of Memory: Digital Practices and Re-Membering Histories
Presentation: Insufficient Memory
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Trianon Ballroom

Presenter: Jennifer Lee (Associate Professor, Art History)
Session: The “Postsocialist Contemporary:” Passages in Modern-Contemporary Chinese Art
Presentation: How Maoist Anxiety Structured the Art of the Beijing Spring
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Nassau West

Chair: Maura Lucking (MA 2013)
Session: Architecture and the Donor Class: Philanthropy, Power, and Empire
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Regent

Workshop Leader: Barbara Bergstrom (BFA 2002)
Workshop: A Pedagogy Workshop: Building Your Teaching Toolkit––Collaborative Teaching and Learning
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: Concourse, Concourse B

Presenter: Rex Cassidy (MAAE 2021)
Session: Heavy Metal: The Artist and the Foundry
Presentation: Fabricators in the Foundry: A New Kind of Workshop
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Mercury Ballroom

Thursday, February 13

Presenter: Peter Makela (BFA 2008)
Session: Visions of Ancestral Spirits
Presentation: For the Benefit of all Sentient Beings
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Murray Hill East

Presenter: Rachel Middleman (MA 2004)
Session: Reading Bodies of Information: Inventive Feminist Approaches to Women Artists in the Archive
Presentation: Hiding in Plain Site: Mapping Female Agency Across the Archive
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Madison Suite

Chair: Anna R. Ogier-Bloomer (Lecturer)
Session: Redefining Success as an Artist
Time:  9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: Concourse, Concourse B

Presenter: Sandra Racek (Lecturer)
Session: Gender, Sexuality, and Non-Pristine Nature in Northern European Art and Material Culture, ca. 1350-1750 
Presentation: Vertumnus as an Old Woman in Hendrick Goltzius’s Vertumnus and Pomona (1613)
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Gramercy West

Chair: Tin Zhou (MFA 2013)
Session: Design for Health and Wellbeing: Innovative Approaches in Design Education and Practice
Presentation: Zuri: A mHealth Application with Animation and Gamification to Support Sexual Self-Efficacy among Black Adolescent Girls
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Nassau West

Presenter: Catie Burrill (BFA 2022)
Session: On Crip Time
Presentation: Madness and the Unromantic Road: a Non-Linear Artist Talk
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Nassau East

Chair: Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda (BFA 2011)
Session: Enchantments, Transmissions, Infections: A Poetics of Knowledge by Latin American Women Artists
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Gramercy East

Presenter: Jessica Bardsley (MA 2012)
Session: Envisioning Feminist Media Archaeology
Presentation: Fluid Histories: A Feminist Alternative to Media Archaeology
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Madison Suite

Chair: Chanhee Choi (MFA 2016)
Session: Art History and the Apocalypse
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Sutton North

Presenter: Laura Kina (BFA 1994)
Session: 10 Years of ADVA Journal: Hindsights, Insights, Futures Thinking
Presentation: Okinawan Diaspora Indigenous Solidarities and the Shimanchu Hajichi Tattoo Revival
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 
Location: 3rd Floor, Grand Ballroom West

Chair: Rachel Middleman (MA 2004)
Session: Artists' Legacy Stewardship: field-building efforts
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Murray Hill East

Presenter: Kate Korroch (MA 2012)
Session: Queer Listening and Sonic Arts
Presentation: Queer Recoding of Asian American Stereotypes in TT Takemoto’s Semiotics of Sab (2011)
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Gramercy West

Presenter: Caroline Picard (MFAW 2010)
Session: Complicating Perception: Re-Coding Time and Place
Presentation: The Mountain and the Mandala: Paul Pfeiffer's Fragment of a Crucifixion (After Francis Bacon) and the Chakrasamvara Mandala
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Morgan Suite

Friday, February 14

Presenter: Özge Karagöz (MA 2016)
Session: Figuring the Individual/Figuring the Group: Transnational Exchanges in Interwar Art
Presentation: Socialist Realism across Turkey and the Soviet Union: Abidin Dino, the Socialist Body, and Stalinist Happiness
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Madison Suite

Presenter: Emily Burns (MS 2011)
Session: Taking and Making: Artistic Reckonings with Cultural Property Theft in the Long Nineteenth Century
Presentation: Centering Native American Belongings in Settler Paintings, c. 1900
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m. 
Location: 3rd Floor, Petit Trianon

Presenter: Katie Giritlian (MA 2021)
Session: Learning and Unlearning Photography
Presentation: Rehearsing Views: Pedagogical Toolkits for Visual Literacy
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Regent

Presenter: Madalen Claire Benson (MA 2019)
Session: Law in Art and Art in Law: Charting a New Course for Society
Presentation: Creative Interventions into Injunctions
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: Concourse, Concourse E

Presenter: Lisa S. Wainwright (Professor, Art History)
Session: Hair Power: Culture, Materiality, Politics of Hair in Contemporary Art 
Presentation: In Relation to Whiteness: Anne Wilson's Disrupted Linens
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Grand Ballroom West

Presenter: Boram Kim (MAAT 2023)
Session: Reaching Out: An Other-Focused Academic Approach to the Visual Arts
Presentation: Beyond the Studio: Navigating the IRB Process in Artistic Research
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Nassau West

Presenter: Chris Reeves (Lecturer, Art History)
Session: Dialogue and Artistry: Exploring the history, canon, and critical reception of artist books
Presentation: Binding queer networks: FILE Magazine and the mass produced artist book
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Mercury Ballroom

Presenter: Candida Alvarez (Professor Emerit, Painting & Drawing)
Session: "The Space Between" The Lasting Influence of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.
Presentation: The Space Between: Candida Alvarez
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Grand Ballroom West

Panelist: Trevor Paglen (HON 2021)
Panel Discussion: Generative AI on the Dissecting Table
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Morgan Suite

Chair: Paul Catanese (MFA 2000)
Session: AI in Art: Practices, Processes, Doubts, and Revelations
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Morgan Suite

Presenter: Tamane Takehara (Graduate Student, Art History)
Session: Body As Surface (Landscape)
Presentation: The Politics of Labor, Performativity, and Cure in Hi Red Center’s Cleaning Event
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location:  2nd Floor, Gramercy West

Presenter: Barbara Jaffee (MFA 1985)
Session: Art History’s Graphic Intelligence
Presentation: Patterns of Perception
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Bryant Suite

Presenter: Tom Kalin (MFA 1988)
Session: Gran Fury: Activism, Art and Design
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Mercury Ballroom

Presenter: Mev Luna (MFA 2017)
Session: How do you throw a brick through the window...: Expanding Publics and Embodiments
Presentation: Para-Protest Practices and Restoring Affinity
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Sutton Center
 

Saturday, February 15

Workshop Leader: Suzanne Gold (MFAW 2015)
Workshop: Forms of Friendship: An Educator’s How-To For a Socially Engaged Classroom
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m. 
Location: Concourse, Concourse E

Chair: Jessica Bardsley (MA 2012)
Session: Imaging Identity: The Moving Image, Identity Politics, and the Long 1990s
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Sutton North

Discussant: Paul Catanese (MFA 2000)
Session: Artists' Roundtable hosted by Services to Artists Committee
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: Concourse, Concourse A

Presenter: Daniel Tucker (BFA 2005)
Session: Designated Assembly Points: Connecting the Dots in Art Administration
Presentation: Reflections On Teaching Social Engagement
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Bryant Suite

Discussant: Jennifer Lee (Associate Professor, Art History)
Session: Re - Opening the ’85 New Wave Movement
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Gramercy East

Chair: Chanhee Choi (MFA 2016)
Session: Poetic Explorations of Cultural Diversity: A Study of Artistic Narratives and Perspectives within Western Frameworks
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Trianon Ballroom

Presenter: Elnaz Javani (MFA 2015)
Session: Poetic Explorations of Cultural Diversity: A Study of Artistic Narratives and Perspectives within Western Frameworks
Presentation: Oddments
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Trianon Ballroom

Presenter: Cecilia Kim (BFA 2017)
Session: Poetic Explorations of Cultural Diversity: A Study of Artistic Narratives and Perspectives within Western Frameworks
Presentation: Finding Home: Layering Time and Space through Projection
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Trianon Ballroom

Presenter: Jessica Fu (MFA 2015)
Session: Poetic Explorations of Cultural Diversity: A Study of Artistic Narratives and Perspectives within Western Frameworks
Presentation: Ephemeral Tattoo - Site-specific mixed reality digital art projects for heritage sites
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Trianon Ballroom

Presenter: Sara Clugage (MA 2011)
Session: State Fairs and American Art
Presentation: Fried Jell-O: Demonstration and Concession at the Fairgrounds
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Nassau West

Chair: Özge Karagöz (MA 2016)
Session: Explosive Objects: Material Histories of Violence in Europe, 1920s-1940s
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Morgan Suite

Presenter: Noelle Mason (MFA 2005)
Session: Global Mobility and Shifting Gazes in Visual Languages: From the 1930s to the Present
Presentation: X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Petit Trianon

Chair: Lorraine Jeannette Affourtit (BFA 2004)
Session: Decolonizing Garden Ecologies: the Visual and Material Cultures of Imperial Landscape
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Gibson Suite

Presenter: Mira Dayal (MA 2024)
Session: Beyond Stories: Art Writing and Narrative
Presentation: On the Möbius strip...
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Grand Ballroom West

Workshop Leader: Hannah Jasper (BFA 2015)
Workshop: Funding Your Arts Research and Practice: Strategic Proposal Writing for Grant and Fellowship Funding
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m. 
Location: Concourse, Concourse B

Chair: Brian Leahy (MA 2015)
Session: Beyond Stories: Art Writing and Narrative
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Grand Ballroom West

Presenter: Khushmi Mehta (BA 2018)
Session: Decolonization and the Avant-Garde Art School: Rethinking the Bauhaus, VKhUTEMAS, Mezhyhirya and Beyond
Presentation: Postcolonial Pedagogies: The Development of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Gramercy East

Presenter: Irene Tsatsos (BFA 1989)
Session: Containers of a World to Come: Seeds and Global Contemporary Art
Presentation: From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments
Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor - Sutton North

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