POPULAR ART, ARCHITECTURE, & DESIGN
The Popular Art, Architecture & Design area is concerned with the aesthetics, the history, and the theory of popular culture in the everyday world of the past, the present, and the future.
We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session. Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. Working professionals, scholars, educators, and students from a variety of methodologies including Art History, Fine Art, Museum or Curatorial Studies, Architecture, and Industrial/Interior Design are all encouraged to submit.
It is a broad area indeed, so think creatively! Papers focused on current social justice issues and issues of inclusivity in the field are especially welcome. Topics at previous conferences have included, but were not limited to, the following:
- World Fairs
- Stephen Colbert Teaching Contemporary Art
- Ceramic Work of Brendan Tang and Sing-Ying Ho
- Respecting Difficult Histories in museum exhibitions
- Integrated learning in museums
- Architecture of Tadao Ando
- Disneyland
- Edward Durell Stone
- Sandy Skoglund and Gregory Crewdson’s visions of suburbia
- Portrait miniatures
- Kara Walker’s silhouettes
- Superman and Art Deco
- Art of Howard Finster
- Art Environments
- Place-Inspired Activism
- Elizabeth Catlett
- Norman Rockwell’s lost drawings
- Cold War American Suburban Imaginary
- Nineteenth-Century Ephemera: Scrapbooks and Trompe l’Oeil Painting
- Art Nouveau’s Revival in 1960’s Popular Culture
- Restoration of Charles Lindbergh’s House
- Kitchen Design in Glass Houses
Please submit a title and an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short 50-word bio with contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and email addresses, and contact telephone number). To submit an abstract, go to http://pcaaca.org and follow the instructions for creating an account and making your submission. Please note that submissions will only be accepted through the PCA website; do not email your abstract. Be sure to proofread your name, title, and abstract closely as this text will become part of the program should your proposal be selected.
Presenters must be current, paid members to submit to the conference. Information about registering, a list of deadlines, links to submit and apply for grants, and to register for the conference can be found on the PCA website.
Any inquires should be directed to the area chair:
Dr. Jennifer Streb
Professor of Art History
Curator, Juniata College Museum of Art
Juniata College
Huntingdon, PA 16652
