After the artist’s death in 1980, the Clyfford Still Estate was sealed off from public and scholarly view. Still’s will stipulated that his estate be given in its entirety to an American city willing to establish a permanent museum dedicated solely to his work, ensuring its survival for exhibition and study. Denver was selected as the recipient city and in 2011, The Clyfford Still Museum was built in a visually stunning space designed by Portland, OR, based Allied Works Architecture specifically to display his work. The museum owns 95% of the artist’s creative output and the archives are home to studio records, photographic materials, personal effects, the artist’s tools and materials, his personal library, and extensive documentation pertaining to the art, career, and life of this important American artist. Join Museum Director Dean Sobel for a guided tour of the museum galleries and a behind-the-scenes look at the archives and conservation areas.
Round-trip transportation to be provided.
FEE: $25 / LIMIT: 20 / Tour capacity is full; no further sign-ups being accepted.
The Committee is responsible for:
All are welcome to attend.
MODERATOR: Meghan Musolff, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Carolyn Lucarelli and Patrick McGrady, The Pennsylvania State University
“Omeka: A Practical Solution for Small Museum Needs”
Megan Marler, ARTstor, “Built Works Registry Project”
Meghan Musolff, “Omeka @ U-M”
Discussion/Questions
Discuss the evolving roles of the visual resources profession, and share tips and strategies for becoming a more effective instructor.
The Birds of a Feather Networking Lunches provide conference attendees with an opportunity to socialize, network and casually discuss focused topics of interest over lunch. One of the attendees will guide the discussion.
Aaron is Canadian by birth, American by descent, North American by experience et Montréalais au fond. He usually just tells people he is from the Internet.
Aaron is currently Head of Engineering (Internets and the Computers) at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum.
Before that, Aaron was Senior Engineer at Flickr focusing on all things geo, machinetag and galleries related between 2004 and 2009. From 2009 to 2011 he was Design Technologist and Director of Inappropriate Project Names at Stamen Design, where he created the prettymaps and map=yes projects.
Aaron spends a lot of time thinking about archiving social software and looking glass archives, in the form the Parallel Flickr and Privatesquare projects.
Previously a member of the Near Future Laboratory, Aaron has also served on the advisory board to the Built Works Registry as well as Co-Director of Revolutionary Technologies for the Spinny Bar History Society since 2010. Once upon a time he was still a painter.
Aaron's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the NACIS Atlas of Design and 20x200.
He is a frequent speaker at the Museums and the Web conference and was a keynote speaker at both the New Zealand National Digital Forum and Access library technology conferences in 2012. He does not know how to explain the weird Rorschach circus that erupted following The New Aesthetic panel at SXSW 2012 but is proud to have been one of the speakers.
Aaron blogs at thisisaaronland, makes bold 140-character executive poetry on Twitter at @thisisaaronland and does not normally speak in the third person.
Aaron is happiest in the presence of olive oil.
Read: The Museum of the Future Is Here, The Atlantic, Jan 20, 2015
Introductory statement to be given by Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design
Explore the free 16th Street MallRide bus route, which terminates across the street from Colorado’s spectacularly-sited State Capitol building. Opened in 1894, the Capitol is surmounted by its distinctive gold dome. Its upper stories provide spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains, the city of Denver, and surrounding plains. The Capitol’s interior spaces are resplendent in Rose Onyx and other rare materials, and decorated with stained glass and other works of art. After visiting “Mr. Brown’s Attic,” an exhibition space detailing the building’s construction, tour participants can linger or return via the MallRide in time for the morning’s meetings.
FREE. No advance registration required. Meet at 7:30am.
Tour leader: Allan T. Kohl
"What do we do with all these slides?" is a question frequently encountered by VRA members during the last several years. Various case studies, representing different scenarios, stages, processes and outcomes, will address this question, offering suggestions that may include archiving, digitizing, disposing, and/or recycling of 35 mm slides, in addition to ideas for re-purposing the spaces left behind by slide collections.
Endorsed by the Education Committee
Charge: The Data Standards Committee (DSC) was established in 1993 to meet the visual resources community’s growing need to manage complex visual collections in the networked environment. Our charge from the Visual Resources Association is “To develop, advocate and promote standard descriptive practices in visual resources collections that will facilitate the management, organization, and exchange of information.”
All are welcome to attend.
To contact the DSC email datastandards@vraweb.org.
In preparation for the 2015 Conference of the Visual Resources Association, the Intellectual Property Rights Committee respectfully requests comment from the community about questions surrounding intellectual property rights issues in the visual resouces sphere. Please help by completing a quick VR Community Copyright Survey.
The survey's responses will be reviewed to reveal salient concerns or uncertainties which will be addressed in the conference session: VR Community Copyright Questions Answered.
Please note that the information in this panel is being provided for general informational purposes and should not be interpreted as formal legal advice.
A highlight of the Conference, the Members & Awards Dinner brings colleagues together for an opportunity to relax and socialize over dinner in an elegant setting. The evening's festivities include recognition of the Association’s honors and awards recipients along with the generous donors who have made these awards available.
*PLEASE NOTE: The cost of this event is included in your conference registration fee. However, prior registration for this event is required for purposes of room scheduling and catering arrangements.
Methodological approaches to teaching and applying visual literacy have evolved exponentially in recent years, with discussions around image interpretation rapidly expanding to address new and more diverse challenges, audiences, and technological innovations. The implementation of measurement tools and standards is, at best, a moving target, requiring inventive and fluid strategies. Visual literacy teaching and use practices bridge new disciplines, from Anthropology and Sociology to Physics and Biology. This rapidly changing landscape has further invigorated the dialog and generated exciting advances.
This session aims to shed light on both hurdles and innovations to visual literacy. There will be three approaches to visual literacy as it appears in very different environments, but each presentation seeks to establish meaningful ways to analyze varied components of visual materials based on specific audiences. The director of the Visual Arts Data Service at the University for the Creative Arts will present research on data management practice as applied to the visual arts. A researcher and archivist will explain how a visual information retrieval system could be implemented in archives, and how it differs from text-based searching. A collaborative team from Lewis & Clark, a small liberal arts college, will discuss case studies from a number of visual literacy workshops designed for different disciplines and levels.
Charge
To develop and maintain the VRA Core and to support and promote its use in a variety of communities.
For more information contact: vracore@vraweb.org
All are welcome to attend.
The New England Chapter of the Visual Resources Association was founded in 2003.
The chapter meets twice a year, in the spring and fall, for educational programming, chapter business, and cultural activities related to our field.
New England Chapter Chair: Jen Green, Plymouth State UniversityThe VRAF invites its donor Rockstars to attend a Party with the Stars, Friday evening from 6-8. We will announce the suite in which the event will be held at the conference. A VRAF Director will also be available by the elevator to point guests to the appropriate suite. This event is by invitation only, but all who become donors at the conference will be most welcome to rock with us. Contact any VRAF board member, or visit the VRAF Foundation website, for information on making a donation.
Kirkland Museum has one of the most important public displays of international decorative art in North America, from about 1875 to about 1990. More than 3,500 works are on view of Arts & Crafts, Aesthetic, Art Nouveau, Glasgow Style, Wiener Werkstätte, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Modern, Pop Art and Postmodern. Join curatorial staff for a tour of the museum and a viewing of the vaults including the work of Vance Kirkland and his original studio, their vast decorative arts collection, and the work of several Colorado and regional artists. Round trip transportation included in fee.
FEE: $15 / LIMIT: 15 / Tour capacity is full; no further sign-ups being accepted.
