We are very sorry to announce that the Caucus lunch-time session and business meeting have not been listed in CAA’s preliminary conference program. Ray Anne Lockard offers sincere and humble apologies for this omission. She is working hard to repair the situation and will send a special flyer to each Caucus member announcing dates, times, and locations of these two critically important events. Please watch your mailboxes carefully!!
Topics for the business meeting include: policies and procedures (report and proposed procedures were printed on the first page of the September issue); by-laws (inserted in the September issue); possibility of changing the name of the caucus to be more inclusive; plans for furture conferences. The agenda for the business meeting will be included with the flyer to be mailed at the end of January. We trust that each of you has studied these issues and will be prepared to discuss them efficiently at our business meeting in New York City. Remember, if you have items to add to the agenda, please send them to us by February 1, 2000.
The Caucus will need to elect three new officers at the NYC business meeting: two co-chairs (one man and one woman) and a treasurer. Please send names of people you wish to nominate to one of us and we will put them on a slate of candidates. We will also accept nominations from the floor of the business meeting. If you are interested in serving as a co-chair or treasurer, please let us know!
We Co-Chairs would like to offer kudos to the following Caucus members for the hard work they have done to make the CAA 2000 meeting a special one for our Caucus members: Elizabeth Milroy and Jonathan Weinberg for putting a lunch time session together entitled Queer Sites / Queer Sights; Jim Saslow and Noreen Dresser for curating the Caucus art exhibition entitled Queer 2000: a Members’ Millennium; and, again, Jim Saslow for hosting a Caucus cocktail party in his home (conveniently located only twenty minutes from the conference hotel)!
Remember! Watch your mailboxes carefully for details about Caucus events at the CAA 2000 conference in New York City! We look forward to seeing each of you at the events and we are eager to cover important business at our Caucus membership meeting.
Ray Anne Lockard (Frick Fine Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh) and Dr. Joe Thomas (Chairperson, Art Department, Clarion University)
Section II: Membership. Add: Annual dues will be determined and any changes voted on by the membership at the annual meeting.
Section IV. Voting. Add second sub-section: b. Voting procedures will follow the written guidelines of the policies and procedures committee, which will be approved by a majority vote of the membership. [editorial comment: does this committee then need to be mentioned in Section VI on committees?]
Section V.a. Officers. Add to all sections a length of term.
Add to a. 1. (co-chairs): The co-chairs, with the help of the other officers and the membership, shall serve as administrators for the annual meeting and generally oversee the functions and activities of the Caucus.
Add to a. 2. (secretary): In the absence of the secretary, a termporary secretary may be appointed from among those present at the annual business meeting.
Section V.b. Board. Comments: It seems to me that a board should have meetings and duties clearly outlined. In most groups, boards get or give financial support for the group. I’ve never seen a list of who is on the “board of directors,” although I know the co-chairs have often relied on the advice of previous co-chairs. In my view, this section needs either to be eliminated (along with the board) or completely re-written in a much more specific way so that the board takes an active and directed role in the administration of the Caucus. Some ideas from last year: the board could be the three previous sets of co-chairs; there should be an executive committee consisting of every current officer; the CAA may have some requirement that affiliated societies have a board.]
Section VI. Committees. Revise sub-section a: The co-chairs shall have the power to appoint members to ad hoc or standing committees with the approval of the membership at the annual meeting.
Section VIII Revise to: All matters not covered by these By-laws shall be governed by vote of the membership at the annual business meeting in accordance with the approved voting procedures.
Please bring your copy of the by-laws to the annual meeting in February (additional copies will be available at the meeting).
Here’s the introductory paragraph from the mailing:
The Gay and Lesbian Caucus of CAA will be presenting a group exhibition “Queer 2000: A Members’ Millennium” from February 12 to March 7 on the Center’s entrance floor. The artworks and videos will provide a wide-ranging and informative survey of active gay and lesbian professional artists from across North America, who are defining gay art for a new generation. The opening reception, with many artists present, will be held on Thursday, February 24, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Center. (For information on how to get to the Center and hours the show may be viewed, call the Center at 212-620-7310 or check out their web page at http://www.gaycenter.org)
2) Noreen Dean Dresser is preparing a “hot list” of places and examples/history of queer and queer-related galleries. This listing will be available at the annual business meeting during the conference.
There are a number of galleries which often feature gay/lesbian art, e.g. Wessel + O’Connor (242 W. 26th St., Chelsea), Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation (127-B Prince St., SoHo), Richard Anderson Fine Arts (453 W. 17th St., Chelsea), Andrew Kreps Gallery (520 W. 20th St., Chelsea), Debs & Co. (520 W. 20th St., Chelsea), and AIR Gallery (40 Wooster St., SoHo), as well as the New Museum of Contemporary Art (583 Broadway, SoHo). The calendar in this issue includes some shows which will be on view during the conference. The Chelsea gallery district is mostly West of Tenth Avenue, between 14th and 26th streets with the greatest concentration of galleries from 20th to 26th. The SoHo galleries will mostly be found South of Houston Street, between Broadway and West Broadway. Gallery listings for February can of course be found in such magazines as Art news and Art in America and in such newspapers as the New York times. If you are unfamiliar with NYC public transit, ask a New Yorker at the business meeting or check in with the concierge at the Hilton or your hotel. Almost any area of Manhattan is relatively easy to get to by public transit.
3) Events will climax with a Caucus cocktail party on Saturday, February 26, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (or later, if people want to hang around; but we’re calling it a cocktail hour so people who also want to go elsewhere that night can come by first and then move on). The party, open to all Caucus members and their friends, will be at the home of Jim Saslow: 119 West 71st Street #6B, just a 20-minute walk from the conference hotel or a quick hop by cab/bus/subway (#1 and #9 trains from 50th St. and Broadway to 72nd St.; bus #5 or #7 on Sixth Avenue, to 72nd/Broadway; walk one block east). If lost, call 212-873-3096.
For further information about these events, contact the co-chairs of the local Host Committee: Noreen Dean Dresser, 212-477-9060 and Jim Saslow, 212-873-3096.
Apology: for those of you worried that I was wasting either paper or your membership dollars, the blank sheet at the back of the September issue was how they got copied at Kinko’s. When I noted the problem, the cashier gave us a $50 discount. (sc)
Please send items for the next issue to either of the editors:
Elizabeth Milroy
Dept. of Art and Art History
Wesleyan University
Zilkha Gallery Building, CFA
Washington Terrace
Middletown, CT 06459-0442
phone 860-685-3148
email EMILROY@WESLEYAN.EDU
Sherman Clarke
Bobst Library - Cataloging
New York University Libraries
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
phone 212-998-2462
fax 212-995-4366
email SHERMAN.CLARKE@NYU.EDU
We thank you heartily for your announcements of shows, lectures, performances, publications, etc.