Dear ARLIS members, We are very happy that Ann Whiteside, current President of ARLIS/NA, has graciously offered to host the New England chapter's fall meeting at the MIT Museum . We will discuss the important chapter affiliation agreement at our business meeting in the morning (among other topics), and we will have a guest speaker from Mass Moca for a discussion on collection development of contemporary art materials in the afternoon. The day will end with a tour of outdoor public sculpture on the MIT campus. We hope that many of you will join us. Plese rsvp by September 28 to Anne Reid (contact information below). Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you there. ARLIS/NE Fall Meeting Friday, October 6, 2006 MIT Museum , Cambridge , MA Program: 10:00 - 10:30 am - Registration and coffee MIT Museum (265 Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square and the MIT Campus--see below for directions link). 10:30 - 11:30 am - Tour of museum by Gary Van Zante, Curator, Architecture and Design 11:30 - 1:00 pm - ARLIS/NE Business meeting 1:00 - 2:00 pm - Lunch on your own (a list of suggested restaurants will be sent out shortly). 2:00 - 3:00 pm - Rachelle Jones, Retail Manager at Mass Moca will lead us in a discussion on collection development for contemporary art materials MIT Musuem 3:15 - 4:00 pm Tour of outdoor public sculpture on MIT campus by Bill Arning, Curator, List Gallery Registration: Please rsvp to Anne Reid by Thursday, September 28. [log in to unmask] or 617-521-2805 For directions and parking for the MIT Museum , please see: http://web.mit.edu/museum/visiting/directions.html There will be no fee for this meeting, but lunch is on your own. It is very important that we get an accurate count of how many are coming so we can plan for enough coffee and pastries and for the logistics of the room set up. Thanks in advance for your prompt rsvps! Rachel Beckwith Brooke Henderson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]