SAIC at CAA 2025

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.

Join us in New York City at our SAIC at CAA Reception on Friday, February 14 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Click here for more details. Please note that registration to the 2025 CAA Conference is not required to attend the event. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chair: Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda (BFA 2011)
Presentation: 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)
Presentation: Fluid Histories: A Feminist Alternative to Media Archaeology
Session: Envisioning Feminist Media Archaeology
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 
Location: 2nd Floor, Madison Suite

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

Presenter: Madalen Claire Benson (MAAH 2019)
Presentation: Law in Art and Art in Law: Charting a New Course for Society
Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m.
Location: Concourse, Concourse E

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

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

Chair: Paul Catanese (MFA 2000)
Presentation: 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)
Presentation: The Politics of Labor, Performativity, and Cure in Hi Red Center’s Cleaning Event
Session: Body As Surface (Landscape)
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Gramercy West

Chair: Jessica Bardsley (MA 2012)
Presentation: 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)
Presentation: Artists' Roundtable hosted by Services to Artists Committee
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Location: Concourse, Concourse A

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

Presenter: Cecilia Kim (BFA 2017)
Presentation: Poetic Explorations of Cultural Diversity: A Study of Artistic Narratives and Perspectives within Western Frameworks
Session: 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)
Presentation: Poetic Explorations of Cultural Diversity: A Study of Artistic Narratives and Perspectives within Western Frameworks
Session: 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)
Presentation: Fried Jell-O: Demonstration and Concession at the Fairgrounds
Session: State Fairs and American Art
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd Floor, Nassau West

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

Chair: Lorraine Jeannette Affourtit (BFA 2004)
Presentation: 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)
Presentation: Beyond Stories: Art Writing and Narrative
Session: On the Möbius strip...
Time: 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd Floor, Grand Ballroom West

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