Reminder to submit your ideas by end of day Tuesday, August 15!

The Architecture + Planning Section co-moderators invite you to submit your proposals to participate in a pre-coordinated panel (up to 4 presenters with a moderator) addressing the conference theme POP!

The conference call mentions street artist Jordan Wong, muralist Keith Haring, and public artist Jenny Holzer. Pittsburgh is the birthplace of Andy Warhol whose New York City studio, The Factory, was a social epicenter for artists and musicians. Jean-Michel Basquiat rented space from Warhol, and Angelina Jolie is now using that space to launch a fashion venture; in the current exhibition, “King Pleasure,” visitors walk through Basquiat’s Los Angeles studio as a means of better understanding the artist.

From these artists and others of the Pop movement, we ask: How do artists use space to inspire, create, and perform? How has architecture, the built environment, and urban planning influenced visual culture? And how have we, as art librarians, employed architecture + environment in our teaching, collections, and space planning? 

Possible topics to address within the theme include information + visual literacy instruction, collection development, and archives in relation to:

• Architecture + planning

• Street art, public art, and murals

• The artist studio  

• Gentrification

• Historic preservation 

• Adaptive reuse

If you are interested in participating in our panel discussion, please respond to this Google Form before August 16 at 2pm EDT. Please direct any questions to Shannon Robinson ([log in to unmask]) or Callie Cherry ([log in to unmask]).