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Dear ARLIS Members,

A last reminder that the VRA affiliate panel, “Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice” will take place online this Friday, February 18, 2022, from 11:00am–12:30pm CST where we hope to have a lively discussion about this pertinent topic. A summary of the session is below.

Please visit CAA’s conference page at https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/conference2022 for more information or contact us directly.

We also have an exciting update. Due to popular demand and the enthusiasm of our wonderful presenters, the Visual Resources Association planners have managed to fit a repeat of this session into the 2022 VRA conference taking place the last week of March in Baltimore.

Hope you can join us!

Maureen Burns, VRA CAA Affiliate Liaison, [log in to unmask]

Bridget Madden, Session Chair, [log in to unmask]

Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice

This session seeks to explore the ways in which increased access to digitized materials coincides with increasingly urgent conversations about social justice, cultural humility, and ethical stewardship. What are the ethical implications inherent in metadata, cataloging, classification standards, practice, and infrastructure in archives, libraries, museums, and visual resources collections? How have the fields of art history, museum practice, and studio practice as well as associated current curricula in these fields and in library science responded to the necessity for critical cataloging when describing visual art? The speakers explore ways to mitigate hierarchies of oppression in descriptive metadata through a variety of perspectives on critical and radical cataloging, including: assessments of these fields of study; curricular opportunities in the arts and library science; special topics of outsider art, race, gender, and sexuality; and adapting to non-Western knowledge systems. The goal is to raise awareness about critical cataloging issues, to incorporate marginalized communities’ language in order to give voice to the historically underrepresented, and to discuss successful learning opportunities, projects, and workflows for change.

Describing Art on the Street: The Graffiti Art Community Voice 

Ann M. Graf, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Simmons University

Queer Work / Queer Archives

Jenn Sichel, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, University of Louisville
Miriam Kienle, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Kentucky

Pattern and Representation: Critical Cataloging for a New Perspective on Campus History
Megan Macken, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University
Louise Siddons, Professor of Art History, Oklahoma State University

Adapting to non-Western information workflows and protocols with Critical, Relational Metadata

Devon Murphy, Metadata Librarian for Latin American Resources at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries