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March 8, 2006
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Joyce chairs session at international College Art Association conference
 
COLUMBUS, Miss. -- Dr. Beverly Joyce, assistant professor in the Art and Design department at Mississippi University for Women, recently returned from the annual international College Art Association conference, where she chaired a session, hosted a mentoring event and organized a student center. 
   
These activities were her responsibilities as a member of CAA’s Student and Emerging Professional Committee (SEPC). The College Art Association is an international organization, serving artists, art historians and museum professionals. This year’s conference was held in Boston in February.
   
Dr. Joyce chaired the roundtable session “What Can CAA Do for You?” which featured various members of CAA committees and affiliated committees and addressed issues pertinent to SEPC’s constituency.
   
She also was the primary organizer of a new event for the conference, titled “Conversations with…”  The guest speakers this year were Saralyn Reece Hardy, director of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas and formerly director of museums and visual arts at the National Endowment for the Arts, and Dr. Bruce Altshuler, director of museum studies at New York University. The speakers discussed their career paths as an alternative way to mentor young professionals. Dr. Joyce co-organized this event with David Little, director of education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
   
This event took place in the student center hosted by the SEPC.  Besides the panel sessions, the CAA conference also is the primary site for job interviews in academe for art professionals. Dr. Joyce worked with the CAA administration to develop the Center as a haven for job seekers at the conference.