Dear colleagues,I hope that some of you who are working with materials in our nation’s collections (e.g. Smithsonian Institution, the NGA, Library of Congress, National Archives, other DC/MD/VA museums, etc.) will consider submitting proposals to a College Art Association conference panel I am co-organizing with my National Gallery of Art colleagues. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.Note that the proposal deadline is July 23.---Women in the Nation's CollectionsUpon the centennial of women’s suffrage, museums nationwide are marking the anniversary with a wide range of initiatives. This panel focuses on collections in Washington, DC, both as the city where the historic legislation passed in 1920 as well as the site of a continued push for progress for all women. Inspired by the National Gallery of Art’s forthcoming Women 20/20 installations and the Smithsonian Institution’s Because of Her Story project, this session seeks to explore methods of telling alternate histories of art in museum collections that have a significantly low proportion of works by women artists, and an even lower proportion of works by women of color. How might we emphasize other roles, such as patrons, subjects, donors, and dealers of art? Can an increased focus on cataloguing, provenance research, and digital tagging or mapping reveal hidden or anonymous women who are part of a work’s story? Can we foreground mediums other than oil painting, such as sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts, and time-based media? How might we rethink collecting practices (and priorities) in order to build more diverse national collections? How do we bridge the gap between institutional traditions and our aspirations for greater inclusivity? We welcome contributions from archivists, academics, and curators who are working to decenter traditional paradigms, develop alternative parameters of taste and quality, and who seek to forge a new model of producing an expansive history of art in the nation’s collections.Chairs: Catherine Southwick, National Gallery of Art - c-southwick@nga.gov, Anjuli J. Lebowitz, National Gallery of Art – a-lebowitz@nga.gov and Emily Ann Francisco, National Gallery of Art – e-francisco@nga.govhttps://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session5070.htmlInstructions for submission:https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html---Best,--EmilyEmily Ann FranciscoDepartment of Modern ArtNational Gallery of ArtE: e-francisco@nga.gov
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