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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