[1] The CAA published the Catholic Art Quarterly, sponsored annual conventions, and hosted workshops until the organization dwindled and eventually dissolved in 1970.

She drew up an initial proposal for a Catholic College Art Association that year but did not find much support at that time.

There she and other interested parties founded the Catholic College Art Association and planned for its first general meeting that October on the campus of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana.

[3] Newport enlisted art critic and philosopher Graham Carey to provide an underlying foundation for the CAA.

Carey was already known for his "Catholic Philosophy of Art" and agreed to be an advisor to the organization and to speak at its first general meeting.