Season Three (2018–2019)

Professor Alan C. Braddock and Dr. Lindsay Garcia discuss art, pedagogy, and environmental justice. How can art history join the posthumanist conversation? How can works of art attune us to our relationships across the lines of species? Note: This conversation was recorded in autumn 2020.

Alan Braddock is the Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies at the College of William & Mary. His teaching and research explores the history of American and global art, ecology, environmental justice, and animal studies. He has authored and edited numerous books, including the landmark 2009 anthology A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History, which he co-edited with Christoph Irmscher, and the catalogue accompanying the 2018 travelling exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, which he co-curated with Karl Kusserow. Most recently, he was a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute, where he was developing a new book entitled Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History, under contract from Yale University Press.

Lindsay Garcia (she/her) is the Assistant Dean of the College for Junior/Senior Studies and Recovery/Substance-Free Student Initiatives at Brown University. She is also a socially-engaged artist, scholar, and teacher. She received her PhD in American Studies from William & Mary and her MFA in Visual Art from Purchase College, State University of New York. Her advising, research, and artwork employ a queer, feminist, and critical race approach. She is currently working on her book manuscript Infestation Identities, which explores the metaphors and materialities of the relationship between pest animals and humans in the context of race and sexuality in American visual culture. Garcia has published her research in academic and art world publications and exhibited her artwork internationally at museums, galleries, and film festivals.

Alan C. Braddock // Lindsay Garcia // A Broader Sense of Community

David R. Modler is an associate professor of Art Education in the Department of Contemporary Art at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Sam Peck currently works and studies at the University of Minnesota as a PhD student, resident artist, art educator, and researcher.

David Modler // Sam Peck // Art Education and Collaboration

Maggie Guggenheimer is Director of External Relations for Virginia Humanities (University of Virginia).

Ellen Oh is Director of Programs in the Office of the Vice President for the Arts at Stanford University.

Maggie Guggenheimer // Ellen Oh // How Arts Professionals Contribute as Contingent Faculty

Dr. David Rifkind is Associate Professor of Architecture and Interim Chair of Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design at Florida International University.

Dr. Carmenita Higginbotham is Associate Professor and Chair of the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia.

David Rifkind // Carmenita Higginbotham // Ethical Approaches to Managing Contingent Faculty

Dawn Holder is Associate Professor of Art at the University of the Ozarks, where he teaches Ceramics, Sculpture, and Art History. She has received numerous accolades for her work, and has exhibited in galleries and museums across the country, including the National Museum for Women in the Arts, where she was invited to participate in the Organic Matters: Women to Watch exhibition. She received an MFA in Ceramics from RISD and a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Georgia. 

Stephanie Lanter is currently the Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Emporia State University in Kansas, where she teaches all levels of Ceramics, 3-Dimensional Design, and Fibers. She makes clay and mixed media sculpture, drawings, and texts and has been teaching for 15 years.

Dawn Holder // Stephanie Lanter // Evading Boundaries in Making Meaning and Teaching

Part of the ongoing CAA Conversations podcast series, Contingent Talk is a series of four podcasts on precarious academic labor. It is produced by Sarah M. Dreller, PhD, a historian of modern art and architecture.

#CAAConversations #ContingentTalk

Sarah M. Dreller // Welcome to Contingent Talk

Mattie Schloetzer and Jason Vrooman come together to discuss trials and triumphs of remote and virtual museum internships during the COVID era.

Mattie Schloetzer is the administrator of internships and museum fellowships at the National Gallery of Art and a member of the CAA professional practices committee. She is co-chairing the session, "Best Practices and Lessons Learned from the Digital Shift to Prepare Students for Professional Success," at the 2021 CAA Annual Conference, February 10–13.

Jason Vrooman is a curator and educator at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. He especially enjoys letting conversations with museum-goers of all ages inform acquisitions and talking about ethics and equity with the next generation of museum professionals.

Mattie Schloetzer // Jason Vrooman // Remote and Virtual Internships

Join us for a live CAA podcast recording made for the CAA 2021 Conference! Rachel Beth Egenhoefer and Peter Dean discuss Sustainable Design: Beyond the Stuff, Towards the System
	
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Professor, Design, University of San Francisco
Peter Dean, Senior Critic, Department of Furniture Design, Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies Concentration, Rhode Island School of Design

Sarah M. Dreller // Welcome to Contingent Talk

CAA Conversations

Related tracks