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

Join Rachel Skaggs in conversation with Jennifer Reis and Amy Whitaker as they discuss approaches, successes, and hopes for arts entrepreneurship education. Their conversation covers the What, When, Why, and How of teaching collegiate arts entrepreneurship in hopes as serving as practical guidance for CAA members and other instructors who are interested in incorporating this into students’ program of study in the arts. 

Rachel Skaggs is the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Assistant Professor of Arts Management at The Ohio State University. Rachel is a sociologist of culture and work whose research focuses on relational ecosystems in creative industries. Her recent research can be found in Poetics, Social Psychology Quarterly, and The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. www.rachelskaggs.me 
 
Amy Whitaker is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Administration at New York University. A longtime teacher of business to artists, she is an interdisciplinary researcher who publishes in law, sociology, finance, entrepreneurship, and cultural policy. Her work proposing fractional equity in art received the 2021 Edith Penrose Award from the European Academy of Management. Her third book, Economics of Visual Art: Market Practice andMarket Resistance, was published in fall 2021 by Cambridge University Press. 

Jennifer A. Reis is a creative entrepreneur, practicing and teaching artist, and former gallery director who has over twenty-five years of experience in arts business, administration, and higher education.  Currently Assistant Professor of Arts Administration at UNC-Greensboro, her research and practice focuses on empowering creative entrepreneurs with the mindsets and skills to survive and thrive. A master facilitator for the Kauffman Foundation’s FastTrac Program, she also consults for community development, trade and cultural organizations including the Tamarack Foundation, Tremaine Foundation, ArtsGreensboro, Kentucky Arts Council, Surface Design Association, and Association for Creative Industries.

Teaching Arts Entrepreneurship / Rachel Skaggs / Amy Whitaker / Jennifer A. Reis

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

Teaching Arts Entrepreneurship / Rachel Skaggs / Amy Whitaker / Jennifer A. Reis

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