Southeastern College Art Conference Speeches
This introduction and three speeches were presented at the Reflections on Sixty Years of SECAC session of the October 29, 2001 Southeastern College Art Conference in Columbia, South Carolina. The event was organized and chaired by William R. Levin. The speeches themselves are entitled Visual Resources Curators Affiliate Organization: 24 Years of Active Involvement in SECAC by Christina B. Updike of James Madison University, Fifty Years and Counting by SECAC administrator Ann Wall Thomas, and 45 Years Later by Martha Belle Caldwell.
Dates
- 2001 October 29
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This introduction and three speeches were presented at the Reflections on Sixty Years of SECAC session of the October 29, 2001 Southeastern College Art Conference in Columbia, South Carolina. The event was organized and chaired by William R. Levin. The speeches themselves are entitled Visual Resources Curators Affiliate Organization: 24 Years of Active Involvement in SECAC by Christina B. Updike of James Madison University, Fifty Years and Counting by SECAC administrator Ann Wall Thomas, and 45 Years Later by Martha Belle Caldwell.
Biographical/Historical Note
The Southeastern College Art Conference evolved out of the Southeastern Arts Association. According to a speech given at the SECAC banquet on October 15, 1982, between 1939 and 1942 College Art Association Directors, art professors, art historians, and artists discussed holding a regional conference to exchange views and share common concerns and to separate from the Southeastern Arts Association, which had until then encompassed college art associations in the region. Their visions were put on hold with the outbreak of war and did not come to fruition until the 1948 meeting of the Southeastern Arts Association in Columbia when the name Southeastern College Art Conference was chosen. Their 1968 constitution states that SECAC aims topromote art in higher education through facilitating cooperation and administrators in universities and colleges, professional art schools and museums who are concerned with the development of art schools and museums who are concerned with the development of art in their respective institutions and the community served by their institutions ...
Arrangement
This collection consists of a single folder.
Acquisition Note
William R. Levin donated these materials to the University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Special Collections in December of 2002.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository