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SECAC 2002
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 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;
tel: 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; tel:
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: [log in to unmask]
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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
http://www.duke.edu/web/art/
Editor, Visual Resources Association
Bulletin
http://www.vraweb.org