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VRA Silver Anniversary Conference - Travel Awards

2007 Kansas City, Missouri

March 27th-April 1, 2007

The travel awards committee is happy to announce the Travel Awards for the Silver Jubilee conference of the Visual Resources Association in Kansas City.  This year, we are announcing the 2007 awards earlier than usual, with an earlier deadline for submission.  We hope that by doing this we can inform the recipients much sooner, who in turn can register and get in to workshops and other events that may fill up early.  The deadline for receipt of applications is Tuesday, November 7, 2006.

A preliminary conference schedule with a listing of most workshops and sessions is posted on the VRA website. This information will be supplemented as things are confirmed, so please check back regularly: http://www.vraweb.org/conferences.html    In addition, here is some basic information for budgeting purposes:

Dates: March 27 - April 1, 2007

Pre-registration costs: $175 for members, $325 for non-members.  Room rates (at conference hotel): $149 for single or double room

We have very good news about the Travel Awards.  There will be nine (9) awards of $750 available (6 Tansey Fund awards, 2 corporate awards from Gallery Systems and Archivision, plus the brand-new Kathe Albrecht award).  In addition, there are two (2) corporate awards of $1,000 each for international members (from Davis Art Images and Saskia, Ltd.).  We also have a new form of funding assistance to offer for 2007: 

Top-Up Awards.  These are for applicants with some institutional support but who need to supplement it - the awards range from $250 to $500.  A big thank-you goes out to all our Corporate Sponsors and to Kathe Albrecht for their support of this program!

The application form will be available (very soon) in the MemberClicks section of the VRA website.  Before you apply, please read the document "Tips for VRA Travel Awards Applicants", which will be linked at the top of the form as well as the main website.  Two notes about eligibility: you must be a VRA member to apply, and you cannot have won a VRA Travel Award in the last three years (2004-2006)

Stay tuned and watch the VRA website for further details about the conference and posting of related documents.

Best wishes,

Jackie Spafford

Co-Chair

VRA Travel Awards Committee

About The Visual Resources Association:  VRA is a multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments. The Association is committed to providing leadership in the visual resources field, developing and advocating standards, and offering educational tools and opportunities for the benefit of the community at large. The VRA implements these goals through publication programs and educational activities.

The Association offers a forum for issues of vital concern to the field, including: preservation of and access to digital and analog images of visual culture; cataloging and classification standards and practices; integration of technology-based instruction and research; intellectual property policy; and other topics of interest to the field.

Through collaboration, partnership, and outreach with the broader information management and educational communities, the Association actively supports the primacy of visual information in documenting and understanding humanity's shared cultural experience.

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  Jacqueline Spafford  <[log in to unmask]>

  Visual Resources Curator, Department of History of Art and Architecture

  University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7080

  Work phone: 805-893-2509  Fax: 805-893-7117

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