What is one of the most time-consuming tasks in scholarly publications, especially when compiling a catalogue raisonné? Copyediting!

After reading through endless books and articles while writing hundreds of catalogue entries, I needed a fresh pair of eyes to review everything with a fine-toothed comb. Have you lived this experience? Do you still see this part of the process on the horizon? I hope you’ll join us for this program, because Phil Freshman has volunteered to speak all things editorial for the second online program of the CRSA summer series. As the President of the Association of Art Editors and an important contributor to the David Smith sculpture catalogue raisonné in its final stages, Phil has wide-ranging experience with editing for art books and perspective on the field. He will also guide us through the resources available on the AAE website.

Do you have questions about editing issues, ones for which you could use a second opinion? Let’s talk about it!

Tracee Ng

CRSA Programs

Phil Freshman has been an editor, mainly of art books and exhibitions, since 1980. He worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1980–84) and the J. Paul Getty Museum (1984–88) before moving to Minneapolis to become the Walker Art Center’s first-ever editor in 1988. He moved on to the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 1995 and took up full-time freelancing four years later. Clients have included Hudson Hills Press, Yale University Press, the University of California Press, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Pomegranate, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. In 2021 he assisted in the final stages of editing David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932–1965. Phil has been president of the Association of Art Editors since 2000.

Registration is free for all CRSA members

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

4 pm ET