Skip to Content

Stamps Community at the 109th Annual CAA Conference

January 27, 2021

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design joins art historians, artists, designers, and visual arts professionals from across the globe for the College Art Association’s 109th annual conference, taking place virtually February 10-13, 2021.

Exploring the complexities, challenges, and opportunities of the field, the 2021 virtual conference gives registrants unprecedented access to session content, with pre-recorded presentations available for view anytime between February 5-March 15. The conference will also include “Live online Q&A” with presenters and session chairs between February 10-13, 2021, an opportunity to discuss the presentations together in a live online meeting.

Stamps Assistant Professor Kelly Murdoch-Kitt serves as the Co-Chair and Discussant of the panel “Finding the Silver Linings in Creative Crisis Teaching: Global inequities, climate crisis, and COVID-19.”

As part of this panel, Stamps Professor Rebekah Modrak’s presentation, “Obstruction #1: Teach Art Within a Global Pandemic” proposes treating pandemic teaching as a creative obstruction, and an opportunity to inspire new approaches to pedagogy.

Artwork_by_Stamps_Student_Kirsten_Lam
Artwork by Stamps Student Kirsten Lam from Rebekah Modrak's Studio 2D course project, "Window Serenade." Image courtesy of Rebekah Modrak.

There will be a panel Q&A on Friday, February 12, 2021 from 6-6:30 pm.

Additionally, Professor Irina Aristarkhova is a CAA BookFair lineup participant, with a 40% exhibit discount on her book Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) using code MN87380. Code expires May 15, 2021.

Learn more about the 2021 CAA Conference.

Header image courtesy of Kelly Murdoch-Kitt.