Welcome to the official web site of the American Society for Aesthetics. The ASA sponsors an annual conference and four divisional conferences, and publishes the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and the ASA Newsletter. It also funds projects that promote the goals of the Society, through its Major Project Initiative Grants program. Download the current ASA Newsletter.

Images in our slide shows
Courtesy of the following institutes:

"Archery Contest", Chinese Qing Dynasty, 19th c., The National Gallery of Art Open Access program.
"Frederick Douglass, American, 1818 - 1895", Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Joele and Fred Michaud c. 1879
NGA Images (the National Gallery of Art): Albert Bierstadt, "Lake Lucerne", 1858; "American 19th Century: Trenton Falls, New York, c. 1870" (Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation); Edgar Degas, "The Dance Lesson", c. 1879 (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon); Luca Signorelli, "The Marriage of the Virgin", c. 1490/1491 (Samuel H. Kress Collection);
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access Program-Creative Commons Zero: John Singer Sargent, "Tommies Bathing", 1918; Paul Klee, "Winter Journey", 1921; Tsukioka Kōgyo, Illustration of Noh Dance Scene, ca. 1910; Alfred Stieglitz, "Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Horse Skull", 1931; Paul Klee, "Southern Gardens", 1919; Paul Klee, "Temple Gardens", 1920; Suzanne Valadon, "Standing Nude", 1902 (Robert Lehman Collection); Robert S. Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff, 1983.95.160. Courtesy of Creative Commons.
As well as ASA-meetings.

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3/6/2026 » 3/7/2026
ASA Pacific Meeting

4/10/2026 » 4/11/2026
ASA Eastern Meeting

7/10/2026 » 7/12/2026
ASA Rocky Mountain Division Meeting

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