Please excuse cross-postings:
For Immediate Release

The Visual Resources Association will hold their 19th Annual conference
in
Chicago, February 27 through March 3, 2001. The conference site will be
the
historic Congress Hotel, just three blocks from the College Art
Association’s
conference venue and within easy walking distance of such Michigan
Avenue
attractions as the Art Institute.

This year’s schedule boasts an exciting slate of programming and tours.
Chicago

architecture and history will be the focus of many of the tours, which
will be
conducted with Chicago Architecture Foundation docents. Conference
programming
will include discussion of Chicago area digitization projects, including
the
Cleopatra multimedia program from the Art Institute, as well as
discussions
grappling with the impact, both positive and negative, of the electronic
age on

image management, from both philosophic and pragmatic viewpoints.
Workshops on
all aspects of image management will also be offered. As always, the
annual
roster of social events will allow the membership to network, share
experiences, and welcome new colleagues to the profession.

The Visual Resources Association is the only international organization
specifically for image media management professionals. With an active
publication roster, list serve, web page, regional chapters and the
annual
conference, the Visual Resources Association provides critical
information,
opportunity for professional growth, and support for today’s visual
resources
curator.

For more information about the VRA, membership, and the Chicago
Conference,
please see the Association web page:
http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html
or contact:
Susan Jane Williams
VRA Vice President and Conference Coordinator
Yale University Arts Library
180 York Street
P.O. Box 208242
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone 203-432-2443
Fax 203-432-0549
Email <[log in to unmask]>




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Ann Whiteside
Visual Resources Librarian
President, Visual Resources Association
Harvard Design School
48 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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617-495-5674

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