Washington, D.C., February 3 - 06, 2016 Deadline: May 8, 2015 CAA 2016 Museums devoted primarily to presenting and promoting the arts, cultures, values, and histories of particular communities are constantly negotiating between the communities they serve and their contexts. They act as mediators between the local and the international, challenging entrenched assumptions about the cultures and the heritage they represent and reinterpreting their collections to make sense of artworks and artifacts in an evolving environment. They are also engaged in a vibrant dialogue between past and present, rewriting traditional narratives in light of contemporary events and thinking about the present while considering their particular heritage. As essential actors in a local and cosmopolitan context, community-based museums question the status quo of Eurocentric cultural institutions and their political and social roles. These roles become even more important when considering the current immigration challenges in the United States and elsewhere. We invite participants to address the institutional, educational, and artistic challenges that such community-based museums face. Please send proposals to: Remei Capdevila-Werning, El Museo del Barrio; and Joy Liu, Mu seum of Chinese in America. Email: rcapdevila@elmuseo.org and jliu@mocanyc.org