PAA at 98th CAA Conference 2010

PAA at CAA
February 10–13, 2010
Chicago, IL

Pacific Arts Association is an affiliate society of College Art Association. As a benefit of this affiliation, PAA hosts a session of papers at the annual CAA conference, this year held in Chicago, Illinois. The topic of the 2010 PAA at CAA Affiliated Society Full Session will be Views from the Continent: Art and the U.S. Pacific Diaspora; the topic of the Affiliated Society Special Session will be Visual Histories in and of Polynesia. For more information about PAA at CAA in 2010, please visit Current PAA at CAA.

To download a PDF brochure listing more than 120 sessions including the PAA session, please go to the CAA 2010 homepage.

For the first time since 2001, Chicago will host the 98th Annual Conference, taking place Wednesday, February 10–Saturday, February 13, 2010. The Hyatt Regency Chicago is the conference headquarters hotel, holding most sessions and panels, Career Services and the Book and Trade Fair, receptions and special events, and more. Other events will take place throughout the city.

The conference will commence on Wednesday evening, February 10, with Convocation and the Gala Reception. All 120 planned sessions will be presented over the following three days, Thursday, February 11 to Saturday, February 13, with the addition of extended evening hours. No sessions will take place on Wednesday.

CAA expects participation from many area schools, museums, galleries, and other art institutions. The crowning jewels in the Midwest are the comprehensive Art Institute of Chicago and the celebrated Museum of Contemporary Art. Conference attendees can satisfy their interests with other world-class institutions, including the Smart Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Renaissance Society, the Loyola University Chicago Museum of Art, the Hyde Park Art Center, and dozens of galleries in River North and the West Loop, among other neighborhoods. The Field Museum of Natural History and the International Museum of Surgical Science provide a more eclectic, well-rounded Chicago experience.

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For more information about PAA at CAA in 2010, please visit Current PAA at CAA.
To view abstracts from previous sessions, please visit Past PAA at CAA.
To view exhibition funding opportunities for 2011 sponsored by PAA at CAA, please visit PAA Exhibition Funding.
For more about CAA, including membership information and the full conference schedule, please visit their web site: www.collegeart.org.
For information about PAA’s role at CAA, contact North American Vice-President, Christina Hellmich: chellmich@famsf.org.