It’s a busy spring - I just returned from the April 2022 Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Workshop for Department and Division Chairs in Greenville, SC. I attended with two of my Morningside colleagues from the music and business departments.
You might be surprised to find out this was my first full academic conference. I have attended the annual College Art Association’s (CAA) conference twice, but the first time was as a graduate student job seeker, so I worked as a room monitor/projectionist in order to afford the registration cost and went to the job fair and the exhibitor and trade fair. This meant I didn’t really engage with the main conference all that much, as my availability was heavily focused on those three aspects. The second time I attended the CAA, my role was exclusively being a vendor in the exhibitor and trade fair alongside Dr. John Pojman representing QuickCure Clay. I have also attended several raku ceramic workshops at Dakota Potters, but those are geared towards production rather than discourse.
At this April 2022 CIC conference, it was rewarding to get to know my own two colleagues better as well as to get to meet peers from institutions across the United States and work with them on our various session topics. One of the presenters was Morningside’s own Bill Deeds, our retired provost who hired me onboard in his last semester!
After the conference was over, I stopped by the Greenville County Museum of Art and had a great time viewing their four exhibits, which had a heavy concentration of work by Andrew Wyeth, Jasper Johns, Thomas Sills, and David Drake. I really enjoyed Wyeth’s and Johns’ work in particular.