VRA Annual Conference | March 29–31, 2022 | Baltimore, MD

Greetings from the Equitable Action Committee!

 

We would like to highlight the numerous Pre-Conference and Conference events that relate to the VRA’s equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts. We hope you are able to join us virtually and/or in person.

 

VRA 2022 Pre-Conference

 

Monday, March 21

• 10:00am – 12:00pm EDT EAC Cash Rules Everything Around Me: Salary Negotiation Workshop
• 12:30pm – 2:30pm EDT Accessibility Guidance for Digital Cultural Heritage Workshop
• 4:00pm – 5:00pm EDT Major New Initiatives of the VRA Core and CCO Subcommittees

Tuesday, March 22

• 9:00am – 12:00pm EDT Accessibility Part Two: Building in Accessibility in Your Digital Collections Workflow
• 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT Individual papers: Description Specialists and Artist’s Archive
• 2:45pm – 3:45pm EDT Balancing Acts: User Community Expectations and Art Information Transparency in a Shared Database
• 4:00pm – 5:00pm EDT Anti-Racist Work and the Solo Visual Resources Professional
   

VRA 2022 Conference

 

Tuesday, March 29

• 4:30pm – 5:30pm EDT Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice

Wednesday, March 30

• 10:00am – 11:00am EDT Community Building
• 4:30pm – 5:30pm EDT Convocation Keynote: Ashley Minner, “Repatriating the Archives: An Urban Reservation Reunion”

Thursday, March 31

• 11:15am – 12:15pm EDT Disrupting Our Teaching: Visual Literacy and Social Justice
• 12:30pm – 1:30pm EDT EAC Community Hour: Empowering Future Advocacy

Can’t attend this year? Not to worry! The EAC welcomes your suggestions for ongoing year-round initiatives; you may submit your ideas and comments here (https://tinyurl.com/2p8y6ca9), or email us at [log in to unmask].

 

Contributed by Equitable Action Committee Co-chairs:
Lael Ensor-Bennett, Johns Hopkins University
Lesley Chapman, Colgate University