Chapter Meeting: ARLIS/NA Upstate NY Fall 2014 Meeting- October 3 in Saratoga Springs – Registration is open!

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arlisna-colorARLIS/NA Upstate New York Spring 2014 Meeting

Friday, October 3, 2014 at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs

 

See our website for the full schedule and registration information:

http://arlisupstateny.org/2014/08/29/arlisna-upstate-ny-fall-2014-meeting-october-3-at-skidmore-college/

We’d love to have you join us!

 

Yvette Cortes, President, ARLIS/NA Upstate New York

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Joint Chapter Meeting: ARLIS/NA Midstates-VRA/Midwest-ARLIS/NA Twin Cities fall meeting

Posted: August 11, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Opportunities: Meetings | Tags: , , , | Comments Off on Joint Chapter Meeting: ARLIS/NA Midstates-VRA/Midwest-ARLIS/NA Twin Cities fall meeting

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Save the date! The ARLIS/NA Midstates Chapter is joining forces with ARLIS/NA Twin Cities and VRA Midwest for a joint conference in Madison, Wisconsin September 12-13, 2014.

Information and an online registration form is now available on our chapter web site for the Joint ARLIS/NA Midstates-VRA/Midwest-ARLIS/NA Twin Cities fall meeting in Madison, WI:

http://midstates.arlisna.org/home.html

 

Friday September 12

12:00-12:30 – Meet at Kohler Art Library

12:30-12:45 – Walk to Robinson Map Library http://www.geography.wisc.edu/maplib/

12:45-1:45 – Tour Map Library

1:45-2:00 – Walk to DesignLab in College Library http://designlab.wisc.edu/

2:00-2:45 – Tour DesignLab

2:45-3:00 – Walk to Chazen Museum of Art http://www.chazen.wisc.edu

3:00-4:00 – Split into two groups and tour Chazen Print Room or Object Study Room or explore the museum on your own

4:00-4:15 – Walk to Elvehjem Building for chapter business meetings

4:15-5:15 – Chapter business meetings in L166 and L170

5:15– ? – Adjourn to the Memorial Union Terrace or Rathskeller

 

Saturday September 13

8:45-9:00 – Meet at the Madison Public Library Central Branch http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/central

9:00-10:00 – Tour the Public Library

10:00-10:30 – Walk to Elvehjem Building

10:30-11:00 – Coffee Break at the Kohler Art Library

11:00-12:30 – Lightning Round Presentations (room L140)

12:30 – Adjourn for lunch (on your own) and other Madison sights

 

Leigh Gates
Director of Library Services
Harrington College of Design
200 W. Madison St.
Chicago, IL 60606

Save the Date! Fall Chapter Meeting: ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley chapter – 10/31/14

Posted: June 16, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Opportunities: Meetings | Tags: , | Comments Off on Save the Date! Fall Chapter Meeting: ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley chapter – 10/31/14

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ARLIS/NA’s Ohio Valley chapter will hold our fall meeting on Friday, October 31, 2014 in Pittsburgh, Pa at Carnegie Mellon University. There will likely be Thursday afternoon/evening events as well. Please save the date! Details to come in a few months.

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Chapter Meeting: ARLIS-CP Meeting on Community Engagement, Kansas City, 12-14 June 2014

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Dear Colleagues,

If any of you are in Kansas City, Missouri next week, please feel free to join the ARLIS-Central Plains Chapter meeting at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, 12-14 June 2014.  Our meeting theme is Community Engagement and Art Libraries.  If you can join us, please notify Tracey Boswell, ARLIS-CP Chair tboswell@nelson-atkins.org .

Cheers! Marilyn Carbonell and MJ Poehler

 

13 June 2014: Friday:  Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Art Reference Library, Reference Desk (816) 751.1216

o   8:30 – 9:45 Business meeting including reports from ARLIS/NA, convener, Tracey Boswell, ARLIS-CP chair

  • 8:35 Welcome – Catherine Futter, The Helen Jane and R. Hugh “Pat” Uhlmann Senior Curator, Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

 

o   10 – 11:30 Arts Community Engagement

Panel Presentations & Discussion:

  • Jennifer Holland, Evaluator, Interpretation Services, Education Division, Nelson-Atkins Museum on Visitor Studies, Evaluation and Visitor Motivation Research (Museums)
  • Rina Vecchiola, Library Director, Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library, Washington University on Library User research: LIbQual+ and a Washington University Libraries adaptation of a University of Virginia instrument (Academic Libraries)
  • Anne Lacey, Art and Humanities Librarian, Kansas City Kansas Public Library on the Art Exhibition Gallery program and local artists at the KCK Public Library (Public Libraries)

 

o   11:40 – 12:45 PM  -Library Practice: Artist Files / Projects and Reports

Panel to start discussion. Everyone to share updates, including cataloging practices and outreach

  • Marilyn Carbonell, Head, Library Services, Nelson-Atkins Library initiative for regional artists
  • Suzy Frechette, Head, Fine Arts Department, St. Louis Public Library, ARLIS/NA History
  • Amelia Nelson, Public Services Librarian, Nelson-Atkins, Process Outline
  • Tracey Boswell, Catalog/Reference librarian, Nelson-Atkins, Cataloging Practice
  • Janet Simpson, Executive Director, Kansas City Artists Coalition http://www.kansascityartistscoalition.org/

 

o   12:45  – 1:45 Networking Lunch at Reserved Tables, Rozzelle Court Restaurant.

 

o   1:45 – 2:30 Provenance Research for Nazi-Era Art at the Nelson-Atkins – Lens 2

  • Nicole Myers, Associate Curator, European Painting and Sculpture, the Nelson’s project and National initiatives
  • MacKenzie Mallon, Department Assistant, European Painting and Sculpture, on examples of resources and information searches

 

2:30 – 3:15 Travel to Johnson County Community College 12345 College Blvd. Overland Park, KS  66210. (16 miles from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, Kansas City, MO 64111, carpooling encouraged)

 

3:15 – 4:00 Nerman Museum of Art on the Johnson County Community College campus

  • Bruce Hartman, director, will welcome us with a short talk addressing the museum’s strategies for engaging with the students and faculty of JCCC.  Talk will be followed by unguided museum viewing.
  • http://www.nermanmuseum.org  | (913) 469-3000

 

o   4:00 – 5:00  Walking Tour of Johnson County Community College art on campus, with Tracey Boswell

 

o   6:30 PM —  Café Sebastienne, inside the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Missouri, 64111.  Phone: (816) 753-5784.

o    Post-Dinner – Explore the Kemper Museum, open until 9:00 PM

 

14 June 2014: Saturday –

o   9:30 AM to 11:30 AM: Public Library Engagement with Its Communities

Kansas City Public Library, Central Library, 14 West 10th, Kansas City, Missouri, Meet in the Stanley Durwood Vault.  The Kansas City Missouri Public Library was named the 2014 winner of American Library Association Excellence in Library Programming Award.  The award, supported by ALA’s Cultural Communities Fund, recognizes a library that demonstrates excellence by providing programs that have community impact and respond to community needs.

Coffee service graciously provided by the Library. KCPL has a covered garage parking across the street  http://www.kclibrary.org/central

Presenters:

  • Cheptoo Kositanny-Buckner, Deputy Executive Director, on New Digital Initiatives
  • Henry Fortunato, Director of Public Affairs, on Public Programming Challenges
  • Eli Paul, Manager, Missouri Valley Special Collections, on Regional History Initiatives, such as the Black Archives, and a behind-the-scenes tour in MVSC

 

o   Lunch afterwards, if anyone is interested downtown or Webster House (near Moshe Safdie’s bulding: the Kauffman Performing Arts Center), etc.

o   Explore the Museums, our Libraries, and Kansas City’s attractions on your own!

 

Co-Organizers:

·        M.J. Poehler, Library Director, Kansas City Art Institute mpoehler@kcai.edu

Chapter Meeting: ARLIS/NA Upstate NY Spring 2014 Meeting: June 6 at RIT

Posted: May 22, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Opportunities: Meetings | Tags: , | Comments Off on Chapter Meeting: ARLIS/NA Upstate NY Spring 2014 Meeting: June 6 at RIT

Attention all Upstate NY ArLiSNAPers!

ARLIS/NA Upstate NY Spring 2014 Meeting
Friday, June 6, 2014 at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Hosted by RIT

Spring 2014 Registration Form

 

9:00 – 9:30: Registration and Coffee
RIT, Wallace Center, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2nd floor of Library

9:30 – 10:30: Business Meeting
RIT, Wallace Center, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2nd floor of Library

10:45 am to 11:45: “RIT’s Cary Collection: Highlights from 45 Years“, presented by Steven Galbraith, Curator, Cary Graphic Arts Collection
RIT, Wallace Center, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2nd floor of Library

11:45 am to 12:45 pm: “Graphics Atlas: An Introduction“, presented by Alice Carver-Kubik, Photographic Research Scientist, Image Permanence Institute
RIT, Wallace Center, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2nd floor of Library

1:00 – 2:00: Box lunches. Location, TBD

2:15 – 3:15: Tours of Vignelli Center for Design Studies, by Jennifer Whitlock, Vignelli Archivist or Image Permanence Institute, by Alice Carver-Kubik, Photographic Research Scientist
Map will be provided along with Guides to get you to these buildings

3:15 – 4:00: Printing a Letterpress Keepsake, with Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Assistant Curator, Cary Graphic Arts Collection
RIT, Wallace Center, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2nd floor of Library

Map of RIT Campus: http://maps.rit.edu/
Library is WAL on map

Pick up visitor pass at Welcome Booth, Visitor Parking in E Lot