SECAC 2002
Visual Resources Curators
Group
Make plans now to attend the 2002
joint Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) and Southeast
Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) annual
meeting in Mobile, Alabama, October 23-26, 2002. The University
of South Alabama (USA) will be the conference host
institution.
Visual Resources Curators Group (VRC)
The SECAC annual conference provides visual
resources curators (VRC) the opportunity to present papers and to
participate in roundtable discussions. Jenni Rodda,
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and John Taormina, Duke
University, are the VRC program co-chairs. In addition to the
following two VRC sessions, four historic period house museums
(Oakleigh House, c.1833, Greek Revival; Bragg-Mitchell House, c.1855,
Italianate; Charlotte-Conde House, c.1822, Federal; and Richards-DAR
House, c.1860, Italianate) will be available for tours that will
dovetail with the architectural theme of the Visual Resources Curators
workshop.
Visual Resources Curators Session I
Workshop: Issues in Cataloging Architecture
Leaders: Ann Baird Whiteside, University of Virginia; Linda McRae,
University of South Florida
The goal of this workshop is to discuss the
concepts behind cataloging architecture with the VRA Core in relation
to the cataloging guidelines under development by the Visual Resources
Association. Discussion will center on the use of specific
fields, the use of authority sources, providing names for unnamed
buildings, style/period, culture, geographic place names, and creator
information. Content rules and issues of specificity will also
be discussed. Architecture, by its nature, lends itself to
hierarchical structure and discussion about how to handle buildings
within larger entities will also be considered.
Visual Resources Curators Session II
Roundtable: Continuing Education in Visual Resources
Moderators: Jenni Rodda, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; John
Taormina, Duke University
The Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of
North America are collaborating on the development of an educational
program in visual resources and image management, which will culminate
in a week-long summer visual resources institute in summer 2003 at
Rice University in Houston. This round table will take as its starting
point the outline of the proposed curriculum for this educational
program. Topics to be covered will include budgets and grants
writing, space planning, collections development, general
administration, cataloging, and analog and digital image management.
Ideas will be solicited for curriculum development and presentation.
Discussion will center on the proposed curriculum in order to provide
feedback to the joint ARLIS/NA-VRA task force developing the summer
institute.
Conference City
Historic Mobile, Alabama is celebrating its 300th anniversary
during 2002 and numerous events will be available to conference
participants. Mobile served as the first capital of Louisiana
from January 1702 to December 1720, when it was the original gateway
to Louisiana. The city claims to have the oldest Mardi Gras
celebration in the United States and its motto is "Laissez les bon
temps rolleux" or "Let the good times roll."
The Mobile Museum of Art will be
celebrating the opening of its new building with the exhibition,
"Picturing French Style: 300 Years of Art and Fashion." Another
major exhibition,"American Accents, 1670-1945: Masterworks from the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, featuring the Rockefeller
Collection," will be at the Gulf Coast Explorium.
Special Conference Events
On Thursday evening at the SECAC Artist Invitational Exhibition
Opening, keynote speaker Paul Sprague will speak on the architecture
of Louis Sullivan. On Friday evening keynote joint speakers
Joyce and Max Kozloff will speak at the reception held on the
University of South Alabama campus. On Saturday evening
the traditional end-of-conference party will be held on the historic
sternwheeler riverboat, the Cotton Blossom. Please see the
conference website <http://www.furman.edu/secac/mobile.html>
for additional information.
Conference Hotel
The Adams Mark Hotel (64 S. Water Street,
Mobile, Alabama 36602; ph: 251-438-4000) will be the conference hotel
for the 2002 SECAC/SESAH conference. The room rate for the
conference is $86.00 single, $91.00 double, $95.00 triple, and $100.00
quadruple plus tax. The hotel is a modern high-rise with shops,
restaurant, pool, fitness center, bar, and other amenities. It is
located diagonally across the street from the Mobile Museum,
Explorium, and Cinemax complex. It is also across the street
from the Mobile River and the River Park and Mobile Convention Center
and the Mobile Steamboat Company, which features river rides on the
Cotton Blossom riverboat.
Conference Registration
Registration for the conference will be $90.00 in advance and
$100.00 after September 15. Student registration is $30.00 in
advance and $45.00 after October 1. The registration fee
includes all SECAC and SESAH sessions, Friday shuttle to Mobile Art
Museum, USA Campus, USA Reception, and Saturday SECAC Breakfast
Meeting.
All registrants, including program
participants, must be a member of either SECAC or SESAH with the
exception of students who are attending sessions only and who do not
wish to receive SECAC mailings. Students who are participants
are required to pay membership fees. Registration payments
should be made only if accompanied by official registration forms.
For SECAC membership information, contact SECAC, P.O. Box 508, Chapel
Hill, North Carolina 27514-0508; ph: 919-933-1777; e-mail:
[log in to unmask]; URL:
<http://www.furman.edu/secac/>.
Jenni Rodda
Co-Chair, SECAC VRC
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
ph: 212-992-5872; fax: 212-992-5807; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
John Taormina
Co-Chair, SECAC VRC
Dept. of Art and Art History, Duke University
ph: 919-684-2501, fax: 919-684-4398, e-mail:
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John J. Taormina
Curator of Visual Resources
Dept. of Art and Art History
Duke University
Box 90764
Durham NC 27708-0764
Ph: 919-684-2501
http://www.duke.edu/web/art/
Editor, Visual Resources Association
Bulletin
http://www.vraweb.org