ARLIS/NA Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Winter 2018 Meeting, Monday, February 26, 2018, Hilton Midtown, New York
Attendees:
Kim Lesley, Shira Eller, Roger Lawson, Jacqueline Protka, Heather Slania, Lee Viverette, Sarah Osborne Bender, Nick Curotto, Katie Monroe, Alex Reigle, Mary Louise Castaldi, Lynora Williams, Julia Wisniewski, Carla-Mae Crookendale, K. Sarah Ostrach, Gregory Most, Vada Komistra, Courtney Tkacz, Chris Needham, Sian Evans, Anne Evenhaugen, Anne Simmons, Kathy Woodrell, Mary Wassermann, Elise Tanner, Kathy Cowan
Business meeting:
- Fall (October 2017) meeting minutes approved
- Website & communications report
- Courtney Taking over from Cale McCammon
- Chapter name unified/standardized and links fixed across the website
- Directory up-to-date as of meeting
- Will be tracking web stats
- Seeking images for banner
- Listserv – 138 subscribers; less spam and junk mail coming through
- Treasurer’s report:
- Raised $745 in donations for Backlund Travel Award, but needed to supplement this with funds from savings
- Membership numbers: check treasurer’s report for more details
- Student memberships are increasing – started with 3, now have 8
- More student members joining listserv; should we be reaching out/recruiting them?
- Student memberships are increasing – started with 3, now have 8
- Question: Is it possible to seek matching grants or funds for travel awards?
- Yes, but should report these to ARLIS/NA and want to ensure we’re not soliciting nat’l-level organizations that society might reach out to for conference/society support
- We have also held fundraisers in the past
- Summer meeting at National Gallery of Art
- June 8 or 15th – will send poll to membership
- Program under development
- Fall 2018: proposed joint meeting w/ Southeast chapter
- Tentatively looking at Richmond, VA
- Chapter leaders (Kim & Stephanie) working with Southeast Pres & VP (Patricia Gimenez and Breanne Crumpton)
- Reach out to VMFA & VCU as potential site hosts
- Possibility of internal awards to support travel (given greater distance and overnight stays)?
- Looking at dates after October 8 – southeast usually meets mid-November, so will look for dates sometime in the intermediate weeks
- Tentatively looking at Richmond, VA
- Chapter archives
- Delaware Valley chapter – documents now sent to ARLIS/NA archives at UIUC
- Some paper records still in personal offices- will consolidate those and send to archives
- Need to check with Ed Deegan about archiving the DV listserv?
- Other business/updates:
- Gregg Most: WARLC dissolving and incorporating into Mid-Atlantic
- Adding as “standing committee” to ease paperwork/legal issues
- Backlund Award: Chris Needham coming onto committee
- NDSR art grant received at MICA
- Digital archiving of art & design masters’ theses: resident asked to address what happens when text isn’t primary source of documentation when archiving these works
- Moore College Library: closed for renovations
- Gregg Most: WARLC dissolving and incorporating into Mid-Atlantic