Northern

California

Art

Historians

Introduction:

The Northern California Art Historians (NCAH) is a College Art Association (CAA) affiliated society. As an NCAH member, you will be able to:

Connect with other Northern California art historians and arts professionals;
Participate in NCAH salons;
Receive e-mail notices of local and regional events of interest to art historians;
Attend events organized exclusively for NCAH members; and
Vote for officers, plan events, select CAA session panel topics at the NCAH annual meeting.

Our members represent a wide range of specialties within the field of Art History. We are actively recruiting members from the rich Northern California pool of university and community college faculty and instructors, curators and museum professionals, recent Masters and Ph.D. graduates, and members of the community at large who have a passion for the arts. Membership is open to all Northern California residents with an interest in the history of art, and members are encouraged to hold CAA memberships for full participation in NCAH activities.

Membership:

Membership dues are $10 per year.

NCAH bylaws

NCAH special session, “ECOART: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Sustainability.”
College Art Association 98th Annual Conference, February 10-13, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010, from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m, Grand CD South of the Hyatt Regency Chicago

Session Chair:
Anthony Raynsford,
Assistant Professor, Art History and Visual Culture, San José State University

Presenters:
“Governing Geometries: Buckminster Fuller’s Sumptuary Aesthetic,”
Jonathan Massey (Syracuse University);

“The Solar House in the 1950s: Aesthetics Politics and Research in Architecture,”
Daniel Barber (Oberlin College);

“Andy Goldsworthy: An Aesthetics of Sustainability,”
Stuart Kendall.

Abstracts