Philadelphia 1998
From "They Never Covered This in Library School ..." to "What is IBZ?": Research
Tools for Art and Architecture
The Architectural Vision; Non-Print Reference Sources on Architects, Buildings
and Landscapes in the United States.
Panelists will discuss electronic and other non-print reference sources for art and architecture librarians, visual resource curators, and archivists who are called upon to answer queries for information on local and nationally recognized architects, landscapes and buildings that are either not in books, in out-of-date sources, or inadequately covered in print publications.

Speakers will include: Tony Wrenn (American Institute of Architects archivist), Katha Rambusch (Catalog of landscape Records in the United States at Wave Hill and a founding member of NYCOPAR), C. Ford Peatross (Curator of Architecture, Engineering and Design Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress), Bruce Laverty (Architectural archivist, Athenaeum of Philadelphia). Two other speakers are pending. The speakers will address general and national sources, as well as regional and local sources. In addition lists of web sites and contact persons will be provided.

The Education of Women in the Arts: An Historic Overview
An exploration of art education for women is an important step to an understanding of where the field of Women in the Arts is now and where it has come from. Philadelphia has a very rich history of arts education. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the nation's oldest art school. In addition, Moore College of Art & Design is the oldest educational facility for women in the United States. In this session, we will explore some traditional and some non-traditional approaches to the education of women in the arts.

Speakers: Page Talbott (Ph.D., American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania and currently Project Director and Curator for the 150th anniversary programs at Moore College of Art and Design, her exhibition. The Ten Philadelphia Painters opens at Moore College of Art and Design in January 1998 and will be on view during the ARLIS conference) on the progressive group of women painters and sculptors who exhibited together between 1917 and 1945. Tara L. Tappert is an independent scholar from Roanoke Virginia who has done extensive research on Philadelphia artist, Cecilia Beaux.her book on Beaux, Out of the Background - Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture will be published in 1999. Dr. Tappert will speak on this interesting artist who became the first woman faculty member at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Virginia Fitzpatrick is the Director of Art Education Certification Program at Moore College of Art and Design. She will speak on her current project, a history of the art education/teacher training program at Moore College. A well known woman artist will also speak about her own experience as a woman in the arts from 1950 to the present.

Serving Diverse Communities, Building Diverse Collections : Recent Developments and Current Trends. From Exclusion to Inclusion: Preserving Gay and Lesbian Art History in Archives
In past ARLIS/NA meetings, the issue of diversity has most often been addressed in terms of staffing. As art documentation professionals, however, we also need to think about ways to respect and serve diversity in the way in which we build our collections, in the kinds of intellectual access we create, and in the ways we serve our users whose interests have grown to embrace a culturally diverse world of art and artists. Marginalizing certain kinds of materials, certain forms of access, or certain groups of users by the way we operate on a day-to-day basis mitigates against this kind of diversity. Our panel will explore how that cultural and linguistic diversity is being (under)served, discuss recent trends and make suggestions for future improvement.

Speakers: Claudia Hill (columbia University) - "The AAT: Termsfor All Things and Places for All Terms?"; Ray Anne Lockard (University of Pittsburgh) - "Exclcusive/Inclusive: Are We Meeting Our Clients' Information Needs with the Reference Sources We Have?"; Andras Riedlmayer (Harvard University) - 'Why Can't We find These Books?' How Titles in Non-Roman Scripts Enter Our Collections ... Only to Vanish in the OPAC;" Alfred Willis (University of California at Los Angeles)

Pink Papers and Lavender Files: Preserving Gay and Lesbian Art History in Archival Collections
 
During the session sponsored by GLIRT and the Diversity Committee at the 1997 conference in San Antonio, ARLIS members learned how challenging it is to be lesbian/gay inclusive in collection development. In 1998, we wish to continue the discussion of accessibility to materials on lesbian and gay artists by focusing on what can be found in archives collections. Many institutional archives exclude the papers of lesbians and gay men in their communities, while others include them. While lesbian and gay archives exist in all of the major cities of the country, many of them do not include information on their own artists either. Furthermore, few people, including those in the lesbian/gay community know of archival collections at all. Philadelphia hosts two excellent resources: The Lesbian and Gay Library and Archives of Philadelphia and the AIDS Information network. This panel will mark the fifth anniversary of GLIRT by addressing from a variety of perspectives how selected archives across the country collect and make accessible materials on the lesbian and gay artists in their communities.

Speakers: Patrick Moore (Estate Project for Artists with AIDS), Janet Parks (Columbia University) on a collection of architectural drawings by architects who have died of AIDS, John Smith on the Archives and Study Center at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Joe Romano (Oberlin College) on the slide registry of gay and lesbian art at Oberlin College. Stephen Nonack (Boston Athenaeum) "Visual Images Research for Public Faces / Private Lives : Boston's Lesbian and Gay History."

Shaping Future Art Librarians: Mentorship, Management, and Professional Development
The establishment of the ARLIS/NA Internship Award recognizes the importance of practical experience and professional mentorship to better prepare future art librarians and visual resources curators. In addition to providing training, mentorship can be an effective means for recruiting new professionals, for expanding the diversity of the Society's membership, and as a management tool for art libraries and visual resources collections. This Ask ARLIS will address both the successes and challenges of mentioning and mentorship programs.

Speakers: Betty Jo Irvine (Indiana University) on recruiting and managing a mentorship program; Jeffrey Horrell (Harvard University) on mentorship and professional development; Margaret Cunningham (Rutgers University) on being mentored (a personal perspective). 


Back to Fron Page