Date: 14–17 February 2024
Where: Hilton Chicago

The CAA Annual Conference is the largest convening of art historians, artists, designers, curators, and visual art professionals. The 112th program boasts over 275 sessions, workshops, and events with content representing the breadth of their constituent fields of scholarship, approaches to pedagogy, and social justice issues. Early bird registration rates end 15 December 2023.

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2024 CAA Annual Conference Benefits:

• Reconnecting with colleagues and expanding your network at sessions, receptions, and affiliated society business meetings.
• Engaging with CAA leadership and committees who work to advocate for their members, create progressive standards and guidelines for the arts, and steer the future of CAA.
• Engaging with CAA staff to learn more about their grant, fellowship, scholarship, and award programs, events, international outreach, journals, resources, and more! 
• Making the most of Professional Development opportunities such as sessions on publishing, pedagogy, and copyright and intellectual property. 
• Browsing the Book and Trade Fair, meeting press representatives, browsing the newest books in art and art history, art supplies, educational tools, and more! 
• Enjoying food, drink, and amenities at the Chicago Hilton including Wi-Fi throughout the building.   

All-Access Paid Registration for the CAA Annual Conference Includes:   

• All session access February 14–17 (in-person and hybrid sessions).   
• CAA special events and conversations.
• All No-cost registration events.  
• Book and Trade Fair (in person and online).
• Immediate access to session abstracts, as well as a downloadable version of Abstracts2024.pdf in the weeks leading up to the conference.
• All recorded content (viewable to AC2024 registrants until April 17, 2024).

2024 CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE FORMAT

The 112th CAA Annual Conference will take place at the Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL, 14–17 February 2024 with in-person and hybrid sessions, the CAA Book and Trade Fair, and special events. Most sessions and events, including Convocation, Annual Artist Interviews, Distinguished Scholar Session, and Committee Meetings will be held live and in person. Most will be held on location in Chicago only, while a portion of the program will be hybrid. You may attend the hybrid sessions remotely via the conference schedule or by taking a seat in one of the special hybrid rooms on location. Post-conference, conference recordings will be accessible to registrants until April 17, 2024.

NO-COST REGISTRATION FOR THE CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

No-cost registration includes access to conference key events (Convocation, Annual Artist Interviews, Distinguished Scholar Session), CAA Committee and Affiliated Society Business Meetings, Workshops, Services to Artists Committee (SAC) programming and Student and Emerging Professionals Committee (SEPC) programming. Please note this no-cost registration permits access to only these programs and events. 

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