If you're considering attending VRA, please note that early bird rates will expire after this Friday!! And, as a VRA member, you get to register at ARLIS member rates.
Karen Bouchard
Brown University
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Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:24 AM
Subject: [VRA-L] VRA 2020 Baltimore: Save $100 on Conference Registration
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Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:24 AM
Subject: [VRA-L] VRA 2020 Baltimore: Save $100 on Conference Registration
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Plate 12 of Birds of America by John James Audubon depicting Baltimore Oriole, detail
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Register by Friday, February 14 to take advantage of early bird rates and save!
Save $100 off your conference registration for members and non-members or $50 off student, retired, and unemployed rates.
Use your savings to upgrade your conference experience by adding workshops and tours.
Perhaps you want to try your hand at storyboarding or mind mapping; use tools for editing existing collections data to more responsibly address diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility; get practical know-how about travelling with copy stands, drones, and 3D scanners; or learn step-by-step how to write successful grants. We have workshops to teach you all of these skills and many more, with prices ranging from $20-$40. Act Fast: IIIF in 2020: What You Need to Know to Join the Party has already sold out, so register for your preferred workshops before it's too late!
How about a change of scenery and learning out and about in the city? The local committee has crafted some excellent tours to experience with your fellow conference attendees. Would you like to visit the stunning Enoch Pratt Free Library and George Peabody Library, embark on a curator-led tour of the Chamber of Wonders at the Walters Art Museum, or visit Homewood House Museum and the Artists' Books Collection at Eisenhower Library Special Collections, both at Johns Hopkins University? See our full listing of $10 tours. Act Fast: the American Visionary Art Museum and Hirshhorn Museum: Conservation Lab & Library Tour are nearly sold out!
Want to save even more?
Book before Tuesday, February 25 to stay in one of Baltimore's top-rated hotels for $149 per night!
The VRA will have almost exclusive use of the conference hotel, Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Baltimore, and we want to encourage you to take part in this amazing networking and community building experience. This deadline is earlier than usual, so we want to make sure that all attendees get the opportunity to reserve a room before special rates end on Tuesday, February 25.
Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Baltimore
550 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21202(410) 234-0550 / 1-800-766-3782
Block Name: Visual Resources Association 2020 Annual Conference
Group Code: 0329VSRSAS
$149 per night, single/double occupancy, plus taxes and fees
Please contact the VP for Conference Arrangements with any questions about reservations.
Why Stay at the Official Conference Hotel?
Besides being elegant, convenient, and brilliant for networking, staying at the official conference hotel helps to insure the financial health of both the conference and the association. When the VRA signs a contract with a hotel to host a conference, the cost of the meeting and event spaces is greatly reduced by our guarantee that a certain number of sleeping rooms will be booked by our attendees.
Besides being elegant, convenient, and brilliant for networking, staying at the official conference hotel helps to insure the financial health of both the conference and the association. When the VRA signs a contract with a hotel to host a conference, the cost of the meeting and event spaces is greatly reduced by our guarantee that a certain number of sleeping rooms will be booked by our attendees.
Room Sharing Encouraged
New this year! A link to a hotel room and ride sharing spreadsheet will be included with your registration confirmation, so you can easily find the perfect roommate(s) and enjoy huge savings on your accommodations. After you register for the conference at the current discounted early bird rates, find the link in your email with the subject "Form Submitted Successfully - VRA Conference Registration."
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Amy McKenna
Visual Resources Curator
Williams College Art Department
(413) 597-4786
Public Relations and Communications Officer
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Karen A. Bouchard
Arts & Humanities Librarian
Rockefeller Library, Box A
10 Prospect Street
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912 USA
Phone: (401) 863-3218
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Images at Brown blog latest entry.
Arts & Humanities Librarian
Rockefeller Library, Box A
10 Prospect Street
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912 USA
Phone: (401) 863-3218
[log in to unmask]
http://libguides.brown.edu/profile.php?uid=56435
Images at Brown blog latest entry.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero. Epistulae ad Familiares, book IX, epistle 4.