If any ARLIS members will be in the Washington area on the 24th, please join us.
Kristen Regina
Joint Meeting of DC-MD-VA Chapter of the
Art Libraries Society of North America and the
Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Visual Resources Association
National Gallery of Art
October 24, 2008
M E E T I N G A G E N D A
9:15-10:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast Terrace Café
10:00-10:35 Rare Books and Images in the National Gallery of Art Library
10:45-11:20 (two concurrent sessions)
Neal Turtell, Executive Librarian and Gregory Most, Chief, Department of Image Collections, will discuss and display some of the treasures contained in the National Gallery of Art Library. In order to facilitate easier viewing and discussion of the rare books and photographs, attendees will be split into two groups and will then change rooms. Library staff will also demonstrate Oculus, the NGA Library's digital image database.
11:30-12:30 Chapter Meetings NGA Library
Elizabeth Gushee, Chair, Mid-Atlantic VRA Chapter
Kristen Regina, Chair, ARLIS/DC-MD-VA
12:30-1:50 Luncheon Terrace Café
Afternoon lectures will take place in the East Building Small Auditorium
2:00-2:45 Kenneth Fleisher, Photographer, Department of Imaging and Visual Services, National Gallery of Art
The Fundamentals of Color Management in a Digital Environment
Ken Fleisher has over 15 years experience working with digital images. He received his B.F.A. in Commercial Photography and a M.S. in Color Science, with an emphasis on Imaging Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has worked as a color management consultant and successfully implemented color management in numerous complex color reproduction workflows.
2:45-3:30 Carol C. Mattusch, Mathy Professor of Art History,
George Mason University
Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples: an overview of the exhibition.
Carol Mattusch, guest curator of the Pompeii exhibition, is a specialist in Greek and Roman art and archaeology and the rediscovery of classical antiquity. She has taught at George Mason University since 1977. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Mattusch received her Ph.D in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received the Charles Rufus Morey Award in 2006 from the College Art Association for The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection (2005).
3:30-5:00 Viewing of Pompeii & George de Forest Brush exhibitions
5:15-7:30 Cocktail Party
Join your colleagues for drinks at the nearby home of Gregory Most. Directions will be provided as you leave.
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