Olivia Gude, recorder
Present: Dan Barney, Joyce Centofanti, William Chandler, Alison Colman, David Darts, Mike Emme, Nerit Cohen Evron, Clayton Funk, Olivia Gude, jan jagodzinski, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Pam McLaughlin, P. Rain Glanneschi-McNichols, Bill Neal, Alice Pennisi, John Ploof, Therese Quinn, Pat Quizzentti, Jim Sanders, Amy Brook Snider, Bill Wightman, Sara Wilson McKay
Coordinator, Jim Sanders called the meeting to order at 6:05 p.m., welcoming all to the annual membership meeting of the Caucus on Social Theory & Art Education. Self-introductions followed by all present.
Minutes for 2003 were posted at the CSTAE website (http://explorations.sva.psu.edu/cstae/) for the past year. Joyce Centofanti moved and Bill Wightman seconded acceptance of the minutes. All voted in favor, and the motion passed.
Sara Wilson McKay, Treasurer, reported that CSTAE includes 52 current members and a total cash balance from last year of $3100. After expenses for the printing of the journal, the current cash balance as of 4/109/04 is $1300. Sara noted that it was more expensive to publish the journal this year because of the number of articles and size of the journal. Mike Emme moved and jan jagodzinski seconded the acceptance of the Treasurer's report. All voted to accept the report and the motion passed without dissent. Sara was then thanked for continuing to manage the group's books.
Discussion of proposals for journal themes for 2005 were reviewed from a list brainstormed at the prior day's CSTAE executive board meeting. By consensus, the group approved unbecoming as the 2005 theme, with punctuation left to the discretion of editors, jan jagodzinski and Bill Wightman.
Reviewers. List in the journal of current reviewers needs to be changed. jan jagodzinski will review the reviewers and ask new people to participate in the review process.
Assistant editors/final proofers of galleys were subsequently recommended, with Karen Keifer-Boyd, Olivia Gude, Wanda Knight, and Robert Bersson offering to assist.
Jim Sanders thanked Bill and jan for their fine work, and those present applauded jan jagodzinski and Bill Wightman for a great job as editors and publishers of the 2004 journal.
Amy Snider and Kevin Tavin co-wrote the column this year. Amy reported that it was a great model of dialogue presented by the Social Theory Caucus. The group extended their thanks to Amy and Kevin for a year of high quality columns.
Mike stated a decision had been made to assign each region responsibility for particular areas, i.e.: The Pacific Region has taken on responsibility of making suggestions for Communication. As a member of that region, Mike was able to bring to their attention that interest groups cannot vote and was able to explain that we are not allowed to sell journals through NAEA. Another of the conversations concerned the NAEA website and the request that the policy manual be made available as a pdf file on the site (which is currently slated for redesign).
A number of people mentioned that it is important to continue to bring up the history of the lack of representation of the Interest groups. Karen mentioned that even though documents have been created that request representation, these have not been effectively passed on and shared. It is important to document that this is an issue that has been raised by many of the interest groups for several years. Karen offered to locate prior reports created in New York, Minneapolis, and Denver and place them on the CSTAE website.
Jim Sanders thanked outgoing co-coordinator Mike Emme, and past coordinator Karen Keifer-Boyd for their leadership. Applause followed.
Joyce Centofanti was thanked for arranging the LGBTIC and Social Theory Caucus event for this year, which was held Sunday evening at Rialto Cafe. By consensus the social event was requested to be announced in advance of the Boston conference in 2005. Formalizing executive leaders' decision to split the cost of the social event with LGBTIC, by consensus the group authorized the $115 hospitality expenditure from CSTAE.
General Meeting in Boston Catalogue Description [From executive committee meeting]
There was discussion to rewrite the catalogue description announcing the annual meeting to welcome all interested to attend. Some people did not know they could attend as they had not joined CSTAE yet, but wanted to find out about the group. The coordinator will follow up on writing a 2005 description that clarifies all CSTAE business meetings are open to any interested NAEA member.
David Darts moved and Dan Barney seconded and the membership accepted the slate of officers and committee appointees for the coming year. The motion passed unanimously.
Past Coordinator, 2003-05 Michael J. Emme memme@ualberta.ca
Coordinator, 2003-2005 James H. Sanders III sanders-iii.1@osu.edu
Coordinator Elect 2003-2005 Pam McLaughlin persianjacket@yahoo.com
Delegate Assembly Representative Dan Barney
Journal Co-Editors 2004-06 (25/26) jan jagodzinski jan.jagodzinski@ualberta.ca
William Wightman wightmwh@jmu.edu
Treasurer, 2000-2005 Sara Wilson McKay swilsonmckay@uh.edu
Assistant Treasurer, 2004-2005 Carrie Markello cmarkello@uh.edu
Meeting recorder 2004 Olivia Gude gude@uic.edu
Online Newsletter Editor, 2000-2002 Marjorie Manifold mmanifold@indiana.edu
Website Coordinator (2003-05) Karen Keifer-Boyd kk-b@psu.edu
Website Gallery (2004) Debbie Smith-Shank debatart@niu.edu with a grad student web designer at U of Alberta
Social Theory Resources (2004) Joyce Centofanti jcentofanti@adams.edu
NAEA News Columnist, 2004-2006 Jodi Kushins: kushins.1@osu.edu
Stephanie Springgay springgay@bigfoot.com
Nadine Kalin
Archives Pennsylvania State University Media Center
The newsletter will be written by Marjorie Manifold and then passed to Karen Keifer-Boyd to post on the CSTAE website. M. Manifold's university (Indiana) will send out a postcard to members announcing the posting of the on-line newsletter. Through the newsletter, we will solicit other archival caucus material, including copies of the columns from past NAEA News.
Karen will continue to coordinate the website. Debbie Smith-Shank will collect and prepare digital images of members' artwork for the members' gallery. jan will check on the possibility of a grad assistant at U of Alberta to design the members' gallery with the images and information that Debbie collects. Joyce Centofanti will collect member website URLs and social theory URLs to add to a resource section of the website. A project for this year is to get the editorials and table of contents for all years of the Social Theory Journal posted on the Caucus website. Jim Sanders volunteered to assist in getting earlier publication information transferred to a digital format upon receipt of the photocopied data from Karen.
Delegates Assembly Representative
After a discussion regarding the time commitment required of the CSTAE delegate assembly representative (about 1/3 of the conference), by consensus the Caucus approved covering the cost of basic registration for delegate's registration fee.
With no other business, the meeting was adjourned at 6:50 p.m.