On Friday, May 9, 2003 there will be a joint meeting
Of ARLIS New England with the Western New York chapter
of ARLIS and the Upstate NY chapter of VRA. The
program for this meeting
is included in this message, and additional
information about
directions, parking, and registration will be
available(if it isn't
there already) on the New England webpage at
http://www.amherst.edu/arlisne/home.html
If you are not able to access the
webpage, please send an email to Rachel Beckwith, at
[log in to unmask] to
sign up. We do need a headcount by April 30, for the
caterers of our morning
coffee,so please sign up as soon as possible!
The price of registration will be $20, which will
cover lunch as well as the
meeting. We will collect the registration fee at the
meeting. Hope to see you there!
The Program:
ARLIS/NE, ARLIS/WNY, and VRA/WNY Joint Meeting, May 9,
2003
Program
9:30 to 10:00
Coffee hour
Student lounge (Hillyer Hall, L12) adjacent to
Oresman Gallery and Graham Hall
10:00 to 10:45
Business Meetings (Hillyer Hall)
ARLIS/NE in Graham Hall (Hillyer L13)
ARLIS/WNY in Seminar Room (Hillyer 109)
VRA/WNY in Image Study Room (Hillyer 119)
11:00 to 12:00
Program: Brown Fine Arts Center Renovation
(An online press kit for the Brown Fine Arts Center is
available at
http://www.smith.edu/bfac/)
Welcome
John Davis, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art and
Chair, Department of Art
Christopher Loring, Director of Libraries
Renovation project history and overview
Suzannah Fabing, Director and Chief Curator, Smith
College
Museum of Art
Art library and image collections facilities
Barbara Polowy, Art Librarian
Elisa Lanzi, Director of Image Collections
12:15 to 1:15 Lunch
Green Street Café (5 minute walk from the BFAC)
A special menu for our group will offer a choice of a
soup
or salad, three entrées (one or two will vegetarian),
beverage, and a light dessert (members will make their
choices at the restaurant)
1:30 to 4:00
Programs: Explore the Brown Fine Arts Center
1:30 to 3:00
Teaching with digital images, overview of Luna Insight
software
and the Smith College digital image collections
including an
opportunity for hands-on exploration of the database
(Visual Communications Resource Center, 218 Hillyer)
1:30 to 3:00
Smith College Museum of Art galleries and print room
tour
3:00 to 4:00
Light refreshments (location tba)
Informal tours of Hillyer Hall (Hillyer Art Library,
Smith College
Department of Art Imaging Center, art history and
studio teaching
facilities)
Free time to explore the Smith College Museum of Art
and exhibitions presented
in the Department of Art’s Hillyer Hall galleries
(Jannotta Gallery, Oresman
Gallery), the Mortimer Rare Book Room galleries
(Neilson Library), and the
Sophia Smith Collection and College Archives (Alumnae Gymnasium)
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