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245 article two: purposes The purposes of the Association are: 1. To encourage the highest standards of creativity, scholarship, connoisseurship , and teaching in the areas of studio art, the history and criticism of the visual arts and architecture, and exhibitions; and to further these objectives in institutions of higher learning and of public service such as colleges, universities , art schools, museums, and other art organizations. 2. To encourage the inclusion among its constituencies of qualified individuals representing a diversity of race, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation , and physical disability. 3. To discourage discrimination based on race, religion, gender, national origin , sexual orientation, physical disability, and age in employment, education, exhibitions, scholarly and programmatic opportunities, the awarding of grants and prizes in the public and private art sectors, and media coverage. 4. To publish such journals as are desirable and feasible; to provide for the dissemination of the results of creative works, scholarly research, and exhibitions , the judgments of critical thought on the visual arts, and all other information valuable to the purposes set forth in this Article II. 5. To publish appropriate monographs, papers, bulletins, and reports of a scholarly, critical, or informative nature that the scope of the established journals may not permit. 6. To hold an annual conference for the purposes of presenting scholarly papers , presenting and discussing artists’ works, addressing other issues pertinent to the Association such as pedagogy, museum programs, and artistic and scholarly legal rights, and conducting the business of the Association. appendix a purposes Bylaws of the College Art Association, Inc. 246 ∏ Appendix A 7. To acknowledge and develop the fundamental mutual interests between museums and other academic institutions. 8. To encourage curators, librarians, collectors, dealers, public officials, and all others entrusted with the custody of works of art or documents associated with works of art to make these available for study to scholars, artists, and students . 9. To encourage and support those groups and activities, inside and outside of this Association, that set themselves the task of elevating the standards of teaching and curricula, of improving the materials of teaching, and of generally advancing the cause of learning in the arts at the secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. 10. To encourage professional relationships with other learned societies and with international, national, and regional organizations which serve similar purposes in the fine arts or allied areas. 11. To examine the policies of governmental agencies, corporations, foundations , and other relevant groups with regard to the arts and to lend or withhold the support of the Association wherever its basic interests are involved. 12. To encourage qualified students to enter the arts as a profession and, to this end, to seek ways and means of establishing scholarships, fellowships, and awards for academic achievement or creative ability and promise. 13. To seek support from foundations, philanthropic organizations, or individuals for specific programs or activities of merit in the arts. 14. To administer funds contributed to the Association in order to finance pertinent conferences, meetings, symposia, publications, surveys, studies, exhibitions , residencies, scholarships, and similar activities. 15. To assist members of the profession and institutions in locating and filling positions on the staffs of colleges, universities, art schools, museums, foundations , government agencies or commissions, and other organizations engaged in art activities or programs consonant with the purposes of the Association. 16. To develop, disseminate, and, where appropriate, implement standards, guidelines, and statements of policy regarding the activities of the profession(s) and the Association. ...

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