[MCN-L] The VRA seeks your input!

[Betha Whitlow]

Hello,

The Visual Resources Association is seeking your input in order to learn
what aspects of its educational scope and mission may be most valuable to
you and your broader professional community. You need not be a VRA member
to provide us with this valuable feedback. Please let us know your thoughts
by filling out the below survey by February 24, 2019!

https://goo.gl/forms/aFYe5zH5CiEH5FWA2

Thank you in advance for your participation.

Sincerely,

Betha Whitlow

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[MCN-L] Announcing the 2018-2019 VRAF Regional Workshops!

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce
the host sites for the 2018-2019 VRAF Regional Workshop Program. Now in its
fourth year, and thanks to the continued and generous support from the
Samuel H. Kress Foundation, this program is allowing the VRAF to realize
its mission to promote scholarship, research, education, and outreach in
the fields of visual resources and image management.

The 2018-2019 workshops are:

*Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for Digital Capture* at
the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, to be held on November 30, 2018

*Something Mappy This Way Comes: An Introduction to Digital Mapping
Technologies* at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, to be held
on January 25, 2019.

*Exhibit, Instruct, Promote, Collaborate: An Introduction to Omeka for
Digital Scholarship* at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, to be held
on March 1, 2019.

*Metadata and Management of Cultural Heritage Digital Media: From
Fundamentals to Future Trends* at The Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler,
Washington, D.C., to be held on April 26, 2019.

With the VRAF Regional Workshop Program’s funding, host institutions will
be able to offer a workshop without the burden of developing it from
within, and provide valuable programming not only to their local
constituents, but to their broader region. For a reasonable registration
fee, the workshops provide an immersive experience on a single topic,
framed in a manner that is relevant to image management professionals,
users of cultural heritage information, and the larger information
community. The call for host sites for the 2019-2020 VRAF Regional Workshop
Program will be announced in summer 2019.

For more information about the VRAF Regional Workshop Program, including
this year’s offerings, please visit:
https://vrafoundation.com/regional-workshops/ For questions about the VRAF
Regional Workshop Program please contact Beth Haas, VRAF Director,
bwodn...@princeton.edu

For more information about the Visual Resources Association Foundation, and
its mission, projects, and giving opportunities, please visit us at
https://vrafoundation.com.



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[MCN-L] Deadline Extended: VRAF Regional Workshop Program Host Site Applications

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF
) is pleased to announce that it is continuing
to accept host applications for the VRAF Regional Workshop Program for
2018-2019. The extended deadline for application is Friday, August 31 at
11:59 p.m. PDT. Thanks to the continued generous support from the Samuel H.
Kress Foundation, this program will allow the VRAF to continue to realize
its mission to promote scholarship, research, education, and outreach in
the fields of visual resources and image management.

For the 2018-2019 program, the VRAF will support four workshops for up to
$3000 each, including an instructor stipend and travel expenses, a stipend
for the local organizer, catering, and other minor expenses incurred by the
host institution.  The VRAF will provide significant logistical support,
including locating a qualified instructor and managing registration. With
the VRAF Regional Workshop Grant, host institutions will be able to offer a
workshop without the burden of developing it from within, and provide
valuable programming not only to their local constituents, but also to
their broader region. This opportunity is open to Visual Resources
Association (VRA) Chapters, VRA affiliates, related information management
organizations, museums, libraries, and academic institutions. For a
reasonable registration fee, the workshops will provide an immersive
experience on a single topic, framed in a manner that is relevant to
digital asset management professionals, users of cultural heritage
information, and the larger information community.

Applications will be accepted to host one of the following workshops:


   - Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media
   - Collaborating across the Institution: Creating Professional
   Partnerships to Support Cultural Heritage
   - Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for Digital
   Capture
   - Exhibit, Instruct, Promote: An Introduction to Omeka for Digital
   Scholarship
   - Learning to Look and Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy
   - Managing Digital Content
   - Metadata and Management of Cultural Heritage Digital Media: From
   Fundamental to Future Trends
   - Moving Images: The Basics and Beyond
   - The International Image Interoperability Framework: What is it, and
   how can I use it?
   - Something Mappy This Way Comes: An Introduction to Digital Mapping
   Technologies
   - Python for Beginners

We will also consider applications in which the host site proposes its own
workshop topic. Please review the description of the VRAF Regional Workshop
Program as well as the VRAF Mission Statement prior to confirm that your
proposed workshop fits within both the program’s parameters and the larger
goals of the VRAF.

To conform to the guidelines of our Samuel H. Kress grant, workshops must
be held by June 2019.  For more information about the VRAF Regional
Workshop Program, visit https://vrafoundation.com/regional-workshops/. To
apply, visit https://vrafoundation.com/apply/. If you have additional
questions about the program, please contact VRAF Director Beth Haas,
bwodn...@princeton.edu. The extended deadline for application is Friday,
August 31 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

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[MCN-L] Visual Resources Association Foundation Regional Workshops: Call for host site applications

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF
) is pleased to announce that it is accepting
host applications for the VRAF Regional Workshop Program for 2018-2019.
Thanks to the continued generous support from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation, this program will allow the VRAF to continue to realize its
mission to promote scholarship, research, education, and outreach in the
fields of visual resources and image management.

For the 2018-2019 program, the VRAF will support four workshops for up to
$3000 each, including an instructor stipend and travel expenses, a stipend
for the local organizer, catering, and other minor expenses incurred by the
host institution.  The VRAF will provide significant logistical support,
including locating a qualified instructor and managing registration. With
the VRAF Regional Workshop Grant, host institutions will be able to offer a
workshop without the burden of developing it from within, and provide
valuable programming not only to their local constituents, but also to
their broader region. This opportunity is open to Visual Resources
Association (VRA) Chapters, VRA affiliates, related information management
organizations, museums, libraries, and academic institutions. For a
reasonable registration fee, the workshops will provide an immersive
experience on a single topic, framed in a manner that is relevant to
digital asset management professionals, users of cultural heritage
information, and the larger information community.

Applications will be accepted to host one of the following workshops:


   - Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media
   - Collaborating across the Institution: Creating Professional
   Partnerships to Support Cultural Heritage
   - Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for Digital
   Capture
   - Exhibit, Instruct, Promote: An Introduction to Omeka for Digital
   Scholarship
   - Learning to Look and Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy
   - Managing Digital Content
   - Metadata and Management of Cultural Heritage Digital Media: From
   Fundamental to Future Trends
   - Moving Images: The Basics and Beyond
   - The International Image Interoperability Framework: What is it, and
   how can I use it?
   - Something Mappy This Way Comes: An Introduction to Digital Mapping
   Technologies
   - Python for Beginners

We will also consider applications in which the host site proposes its own
workshop topic. Please review the description of the VRAF Regional Workshop
Program as well as the VRAF Mission Statement prior to confirm that your
proposed workshop fits within both the program’s parameters and the larger
goals of the VRAF.

To conform to the guidelines of our Samuel H. Kress grant, workshops must
be held by June 2019.  For more information about the VRAF Regional
Workshop Program, visit https://vrafoundation.com/regional-workshops/. To
apply, visit https://vrafoundation.com/apply/. If you have additional
questions about the program, please contact VRAF Director Beth Haas,
bwodn...@princeton.edu. The deadline for application is Friday, August 24th at
11:59 a.m. PDT.


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[MCN-L] Registration is live for Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for Digital Capture

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce
that registration is now live for *Documenting Cultural Heritage:
Strategies and Spaces for Digital Capture*
, to be held
on *March
16, 2018*. This workshop will be hosted by the *Knowlton School of
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City and Regional Planning, Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio*, and is open to cultural heritage
professionals, the information, museum, and educational communities, and
anyone interested in visual culture. *Documenting Cultural Heritage:
Strategies and Spaces for Digital Capture *is one of four workshops being
offered in the 2017-2018 VRAF Regional Workshop Program
. The VRAF is
grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued support of
this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and educational
institutions.



“Digital capture” encompasses a broad range of technologies and processes.
While the role of a digitization space has historically revolved around
slide and flatbed scanners, these represent just two of many possible
approaches to digital imaging. The first part of this workshop will explore
traditional methods for digital capture, including scanners, DSLR cameras,
copystands, lighting, and specialized imaging devices for specific uses.
Part two of the day will take participants beyond the basics by focusing on
emerging technologies and their impact on the capture, dissemination, and
storage of cultural materials.  All workshop content will be framed within
the important questions you should be asking when planning the present and
future directions of your digital capture project or facilities.
Participants will also receive significant supplemental material, including
equipment recommendations, buying guides, and workflow documents. When
combined with the presented information, participants will have the tools
in place to build an efficient digitization space that is as unique as
their specific resources and project needs.



Documenting Cultural Heritage will be taught by Chris Strasbaugh, Digital
Library Archivist and Curator at the Knowlton School of Architecture,
Landscape Architecture, and City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State
University.  As photographer, art historian, and digital curator, Chris has
always been driven to document and preserve cultural heritage. His
professional background is a perfect mix of his passions in preservation,
photography, emerging technology, open access, and metadata management. He
works with an archive of unique items, documenting the history of the
various programs in the Knowlton School as well as highlighting new work
that showcases each programs’ students. Chris has also served as the staff
photographer of the Greek-American Excavations at Kenchreai through Harvard
University since 2015 which provides a test case for location photography
of unique and varied materials.



Chris has recently presented on the topic of digitization at the 2+3D
Photography – Practice and Prophecies – 2017 conference at the Rijksmuseum
in Amsterdam, HASTAC 2017 in Orlando, and the June 2017 Images:
Digitization and Preservation of Special Collections in Libraries, Museums,
and Archives, NISO Virtual Conference. In addition to conference
presentations, he has also produced online learning training sessions,
taught local workshops, and has actively assisted special collections in
designing and streamlining their digitization process.



To register for *Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for
Digital Capture* and to learn more about the workshop, visit
https://vrafoundation.com/documenting-cultural-heritage/.  The fee for this
day-long workshop is $125. If you have questions about registration, feel
free to contact Steven Kowalik, VRAF Director, skowa...@hunter.cuny.edu.
For questions about the program or venue, please contact Chris Strasbaugh,
strasbaug...@osu.edu.

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[MCN-L] Register for "Learning to Look and Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy" at University of Kentucky

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce
that registration is now live and filling fast for *Learning to Look,
Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy*, to be held on March 2,
2018. This workshop will be hosted by *University of Kentucky Libraries in
Lexington, KY, *and is open to cultural heritage professionals, the
information, museum, and educational communities, and to anyone interested
in visual culture. *Learning to Look, Looking* *to Learn* is one of four
workshops being offered in the 2017-2018 VRAF Regional Workshop Program.
The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued
support of this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and
educational institutions.



As our culture moves from an oral tradition to a visual one, an increasing
emphasis is being placed on developing the visual literacy skills of both
educators and students, uniquely positioning those who work with visual
media to provide necessary visual literacy training and instruction. This
workshop will provide participants with the tools to develop and implement
a visual literacy training program. Part one of this workshop will focus on
visual literacy skills and pedagogical approaches by exploring objects at
the University of Kentucky Art Museum. The afternoon session will focus on
ways for participants to apply these pedagogies to their own work and
institutions. Participants will discuss and develop ways to implement and
evaluate their own visual literacy programs as well as how digital
archives, art objects, and other primary sources can be used by staff,
students and faculty. The question of what it means to teach from
collections within a range of professional perspectives–-including from
information, museum, and education contexts—will also be explored.

*Learning to Look, Looking to Learn *will be taught by Jessica Sack, the
Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the
Yale University Art Gallery. Jessica has worked in the field of museum
education for more than fifteen years. In that time she has been developing
professional development programs in Visual Literacy for a variety of
audiences including librarian, teacher, and faculty workshops, and training
graduate students as museum educators. In addition, Jessica works with area
teachers and faculty, helping them find ways to teach from objects and hone
their own observation skills. Prior to Yale, Jessica was the Senior Museum
Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She
has contributed to publications including *The Caring Museum: New Models of
Engagement with the Ageing, Interpreting the Art Museum, * “Looking to
Learn, Learning to Teach” *Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin *and *Picturing
a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture*. Jessica
received her M.Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography from Oxford
University, England, and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York
University. She previously instructed* Learning to Look, Looking to Learn:
A Workshop on Visual Literacy* at the University of California Berkeley and
at Colorado College.



To register for *Learning to Look, Looking to Learn *and to learn more
about the workshop, visit http://www.vrafoundation.com/visual-literacy-KY.  The
fee for this day-long workshop is $125. If you have questions about
registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director,
bwhit...@wustl.edu. For questions about the venue, please contact Crystal
Heis, cnhei...@uky.edu or Karyn Hinkle, karyn.hin...@uky.edu.


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Co-Chair, Danforth Staff Council
Washington University in Saint Louis
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[MCN-L] Announcing VRAF Regional Workshop on Visual Literacy at University of Kentucky, Lexington

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce
that registration is now live for *Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A
Workshop on Visual Literacy*, to be held on March 2, 2018. This workshop
will be hosted by *University of Kentucky Libraries in Lexington, KY, *and
is open to cultural heritage professionals, the information, museum, and
educational communities, and to anyone interested in visual culture. *Learning
to Look, Looking* *to Learn* is one of four workshops being offered in the
2017-2018 VRAF Regional Workshop Program.  The VRAF is grateful to the
Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued support of this exciting
opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and educational institutions.



As our culture moves from an oral tradition to a visual one, an increasing
emphasis is being placed on developing the visual literacy skills of both
educators and students, uniquely positioning those who work with visual
media to provide necessary visual literacy training and instruction. This
workshop will provide participants with the tools to develop and implement
a visual literacy training program. Part one of this workshop will focus on
visual literacy skills and pedagogical approaches by exploring objects at
the University of Kentucky Art Museum. The afternoon session will focus on
ways for participants to apply these pedagogies to their own work and
institutions. Participants will discuss and develop ways to implement and
evaluate their own visual literacy programs as well as how digital
archives, art objects, and other primary sources can be used by staff,
students and faculty. The question of what it means to teach from
collections within a range of professional perspectives–-including from
information, museum, and education contexts—will also be explored.

*Learning to Look, Looking to Learn *will be taught by Jessica Sack, the
Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the
Yale University Art Gallery. Jessica has worked in the field of museum
education for more than fifteen years. In that time she has been developing
professional development programs in Visual Literacy for a variety of
audiences including librarian, teacher, and faculty workshops, and training
graduate students as museum educators. In addition, Jessica works with area
teachers and faculty, helping them find ways to teach from objects and hone
their own observation skills. Prior to Yale, Jessica was the Senior Museum
Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She
has contributed to publications including *The Caring Museum: New Models of
Engagement with the Ageing, Interpreting the Art Museum, * “Looking to
Learn, Learning to Teach” *Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin *and *Picturing
a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture*. Jessica
received her M.Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography from Oxford
University, England, and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York
University. She previously instructed* Learning to Look, Looking to Learn:
A Workshop on Visual Literacy* at the University of California Berkeley and
at Colorado College.



To register for *Learning to Look, Looking to Learn *and to learn more
about the workshop, visit http://www.vrafoundation.com/visual-literacy-KY.  The
fee for this day-long workshop is $125. If you have questions about
registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director,
bwhit...@wustl.edu. For questions about the venue, please contact Crystal
Heis, cnhei...@uky.edu or Karyn Hinkle,  <karyn.hin...@uky.edu>
karyn.hin...@uky.edu.

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Washington University in Saint Louis
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[MCN-L] Can We Do That?: Registration is filling fast!

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF)
<http://vrafoundation.com/> is pleased to announce that registration is
filling fast for Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual
Media, which will be held in on Friday, December 15, 2017 at Princeton
University. This day-long workshop will be hosted by the Department of Art
History and Archaeology, Visual Resources Collection, and is open to
cultural heritage professionals, the information and educational
communities, and to anyone interested in visual culture. Can We Do That? is
one of four workshops being offered during the 2017-2018 VRAF Regional
Workshop Program.  The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
for their continued support of this exciting opportunity to partner with
cultural heritage and educational institutions.


A thorough understanding of intellectual property rights can be a challenge
for lawyers, let alone for information, academic, and cultural heritage
professionals, and the application of copyright restrictions on visual
media can induce a sense of alarm and uncertainty dependent upon specific
circumstances.  Can We Do That? will provide a clear focus on U.S.
copyright law, intellectual property rights, and fair use as they pertain
to the use of visual media (e.g., images and moving images) within the
academic, archival, library, gallery, and museum environments.  Educational
usage, securing publication rights, creative reuse, rights statements,
licensing, and the public domain will be explored within the context of
case studies, including those provided by participants in advance of the
workshop.  Participants will also be introduced to tools and resources to
help them and their constituents in making appropriate decisions regarding
appropriate use and dissemination of visual media.

Can We Do That? will be taught by Anne M. Young, Manager of Rights and
Reproductions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. In her role,
she is responsible for processing all requests for the use of visual
content, obtaining permissions for internal uses of images/videos, and
administering the institution's onsite photography policy. She also
initiates and manages all licensing agreements with artists and/or rights
holders for works in the museum’s collection. Young was formerly the
photographic archivist for the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and
has worked for the Art Gallery of Ontario and George Eastman Museum. She is
currently an Master of Jurisprudence candidate at Indiana University’s
Robert H. McKinney School of Law focusing on Intellectual Property, art,
and museum law. Young previously received an Master of Arts in photographic
preservation and collections management from Ryerson University and a
Bachelor of Arts in art history and studio art (photography) from Indiana
University. Young chaired the Rights and Reproductions Professional
Practices committee of the American Alliance of Museums (AAm) from
2012–2018 and was the editor of the 2015  AAM publication Rights &
Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions, for which she
received the Visual Resources Association’s Nancy DeLaurier Award in 2017.

The time is now to grab one of the remaining spaces in Can We Do That? . To
register and to learn more about the workshop , visit
https://tinyurl.com/yae2poem. The fee for this day-long workshop is $125.
In the meantime, for more information about the workshop, feel free to
contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director, bwhit...@wustl.edu. For questions
about the Princeton University venue, please contact Trudy Jacoby, Director
of the Visual Resources Collection, tjac...@princton.edu.
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[MCN-L] VRAF Workshop on Copyright at Princeton University-Registration Now Live!

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce
that registration is now live for Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property
Rights and Visual Media, which will be held in on Friday, December 15, 2017
at Princeton University. This day-long workshop will be hosted by the
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Visual Resources Collection, and
is open to cultural heritage professionals, the information and educational
communities, and to anyone interested in visual culture. Can We Do That? is
one of four workshops being offered during the 2017-2018 VRAF Regional
Workshop Program.  The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
for their continued support of this exciting opportunity to partner with
cultural heritage and educational institutions.

 A thorough understanding of intellectual property rights can be a
challenge for lawyers, let alone for information, academic, and cultural
heritage professionals, and the application of copyright restrictions on
visual media can induce a sense of alarm and uncertainty dependent upon
specific circumstances.  Can We Do That? will provide a clear focus on U.S.
copyright law, intellectual property rights, and fair use as they pertain
to the use of visual media (e.g., images and moving images) within the
academic, archival, library, gallery, and museum environments.  Educational
usage, securing publication rights, creative reuse, rights statements,
licensing, and the public domain will be explored within the context of
case studies, including those provided by participants in advance of the
workshop.  Participants will also be introduced to tools and resources to
help them and their constituents in making appropriate decisions regarding
appropriate use and dissemination of visual media.

Can We Do That? will be taught by Anne M. Young, Manager of Rights and
Reproductions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. In her role,
she is responsible for processing all requests for the use of visual
content, obtaining permissions for internal uses of images/videos, and
administering the institution's onsite photography policy. She also
initiates and manages all licensing agreements with artists and/or rights
holders for works in the museum’s collection. Young was formerly the
photographic archivist for the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and
has worked for the Art Gallery of Ontario and the George Eastman Museum.
She is currently a Master of Jurisprudence candidate at Indiana
University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law focusing on Intellectual
Property, art, and museum law. Young previously received a Master of Arts
in photographic preservation and collections management from Ryerson
University and a Bachelor of Arts in art history and studio art
(photography) from Indiana University. Young chaired the Rights and
Reproductions Professional Practices committee of the American Alliance of
Museums (AAM) from 2012–2018 and was the editor of the 2015  AAM
publication Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions,
for which she received the Visual Resources Association’s Nancy DeLaurier
Award in 2017.

To register for Can We Do That?  and to learn more about the workshop ,
visit https://tinyurl.com/yae2poem. The fee for this day-long workshop is
$125. In the meantime, for more information about the workshop, feel free
to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director, bwhit...@wustl.edu. For questions
about the Princeton University venue, please contact Trudy Jacoby, Director
of the Visual Resources Collection, tjac...@princton.edu.

-- 
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Co-Chair, Danforth Staff Council
Washington University in Saint Louis
bwhit...@wustl.edu
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[MCN-L] Save the Date: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media Workshop at Princeton University

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) encourages you to save
the date for *Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual
Media*, which will be held in on Friday, December 15, 2017 at Princeton
University. This day-long workshop will be hosted by the Department of Art
History and Archaeology, Visual Resources Collection, and is open to
cultural heritage professionals, the information and educational
communities, and to anyone interested in visual culture. *Can We Do That? *is
one of four workshops being offered during the 2017-2018 VRAF Regional
Workshop Program.  The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
for their continued support of this exciting opportunity to partner with
cultural heritage and educational institutions.

 A thorough understanding of intellectual property rights can be a
challenge for lawyers, let alone for information, academic, and cultural
heritage professionals, and the application of copyright restrictions on
visual media can induce a sense of alarm and uncertainty dependent upon
specific circumstances.  *Can We Do That? *will provide a clear focus on
U.S. copyright law, intellectual property rights, and fair use as they
pertain to the use of visual media (e.g., images and moving images) within
the academic, archival, library, gallery, and museum environments.
Educational usage, securing publication rights, creative reuse, rights
statements, licensing, and the public domain will be explored within the
context of case studies, including those provided by participants in
advance of the workshop.  Participants will also be introduced to tools and
resources to help them and their constituents in making appropriate
decisions regarding appropriate use and dissemination of visual media.

*Can We Do That?* will be taught by Anne M. Young, Manager of Rights and
Reproductions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. In her role,
she is responsible for processing all requests for the use of visual
content, obtaining permissions for internal uses of images/videos, and
administering the institution's onsite photography policy. She also
initiates and manages all licensing agreements with artists and/or rights
holders for works in the museum’s collection. Young was formerly the
photographic archivist for the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and
has worked for the Art Gallery of Ontario and George Eastman Museum. She is
currently a Master of Jurisprudence candidate at Indiana University’s
Robert H. McKinney School of Law focusing on Intellectual Property, art,
and museum law. Young previously received an Master of Arts in photographic
preservation and collections management from Ryerson University and a
Bachelor of Arts in art history and studio art (photography) from Indiana
University. Young chaired the Rights and Reproductions Professional
Practices committee of the American Alliance of Museums from 2012–2018 and
was the editor of the 2015 publication Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook
for Cultural Institutions, for which she received the Visual Resources
Association’s Nancy DeLaurier Award in 2017.

The fee for this workshop is $125, and registration will go live in
mid-October, 2017. In the meantime, for more information about the
workshop, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director,
bwhit...@wustl.edu. For questions about the Princeton University venue,
please contact Trudy Jacoby, Director of the Visual Resources Collection,
tjac...@princton.edu.
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[MCN-L] Visual Resources Association Foundation Regional Workshop Program--Accepting Host Site Applications

[Betha Whitlow]

 The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF)
<http://vrafoundation.com> is pleased to announce that it is accepting host
applications for the VRAF Regional Workshop Program for 2017-2018. Thanks
to the generous support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, this program
will allow the VRAF to continue to realize its mission to promote
scholarship, research, education, and outreach in the fields of visual
resources and image management.

For the 2017-2018 program, four grants of up to $3000 each are available to
support an instructor stipend and travel expenses, a stipend for the local
organizer, catering, and other minor expenses incurred by the host
institution.  The VRAF will provide significant logistical support,
including locating a qualified instructor and managing registration. With
the VRAF Regional Workshop Grant, host institutions will be able to offer a
workshop without the burden of developing it from within, and provide
valuable programming not only to their local constituents, but to their
broader region. This opportunity is open to Visual Resources Association
(VRA) Chapters, VRA affiliates, related information management
organizations, museums, libraries, and academic institutions. For a
reasonable registration fee, the workshops will provide an immersive
experience on a single topic, framed in a manner that is relevant to image
management professionals, users of cultural heritage information, and the
larger information community.

For the 2017-18 program, applications will be accepted to host one of the
following workshops:


·  Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media

·  Collaborating across the Institution: Creating Professional
Partnerships to Support Cultural  Heritage

·  Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for Digital
Capture

·  Exhibit, Instruct, Promote: An Introduction to Omeka for Digital
Scholarship

·  Learning to Look and Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy

·  Managing Digital Content

·  Metadata and Management of Cultural Heritage Digital Media: From
Fundamental to FutureTrends

·  Moving Images: The Basics and Beyond

·  The International Image Interoperability Framework: What is it, and
how can I use it?

 We will also consider applications in which the host site proposes its own
workshop topic. Please review the description of the VRAF Regional Workshop
Program as well as the VRAF Mission Statement prior to confirm that your
proposed workshop fits within both the program’s parameters and the larger
goals of the VRAF.

To conform to the guidelines of our Samuel H. Kress grant, workshops must
be held by June 2018.  For more information about the VRAF Regional
Workshop Program, visit https://vrafoundation.com/regional-workshops/. To
apply, visit https://vrafoundation.com/apply/. If you have additional
questions about the program, please contact VRAF Director Betha Whitlow,
bwhit...@wustl.edu. The deadline for application is August 15, 2017.

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Washington University in Saint Louis
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[MCN-L] Announcing the VRAF Professional Development Grant

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce
that it is accepting applications for its *VRAF* *Professional Development
Grant* program. This program offers two $850 grants yearly, one with a fall
deadline and another in the spring. The purpose of the Grant is *to support
professional development in the field of visual resources and cultural
heritage information management*. Grant funds can be used to participate in
a professional development opportunity of the grantee’s choosing (e.g.,
conference, symposium, workshop, online education), or to enroll in
relevant research activities (e.g., hands-on field work or a site visit for
scholarly purposes). For consideration, please submit your spring grant
application at https://tinyurl.com/k6ylket *no later than April 14, 2017*.


If you have any questions about the VRAF Professional Development Grant or
the application process, please contact Betha Whitlow bwhit...@wustl.edu,
VRAF Board of Directors.

The recipient of the spring 2017 VRAF Professional Development Grant will
be announced no later than May 1, 2017, and the award money must be used within
one year of that date.

Please visit the VRAF’s website
<http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.php/grants/professional_development_grant/>
for
a full description of the grant, including eligibility, acceptable uses of
funds, and a complete list of past recipients.  Feel free to share this
announcement with other interested parties.

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Washington University in Saint Louis
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[MCN-L] Register for "Can We Do That?" before the workshop fills!

[Betha Whitlow]

Registration is filling fast for *Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property
Rights and Visual Media*, a Visual Resources Association Foundation
Regional Workshop . Can We Do That? will be held on Thursday, March 30,
2017 at this Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) and co-hosted by the
University of Oregon Libraries.  We are fortunate to have as our workshop
instructor Cara Hirsch, former Associate General Counsel at the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Foundation and former Deputy General Counsel at ArtStor. Cara
brings vast experience to her instructor role, having supervised the rights
review and clearance process for media collections in the Artstor Digital
Library, a digital image resource that makes available to nonprofit
institutions over 1.7 million digital images in the arts, architecture,
humanities, and sciences.  We are certain that cultural heritage
professionals, the information and educational communities, and anyone
interested in visual culture will benefit from this experience, and for
those of you who also plan to attend Online Northwest (
http://onlinenorthwest.org/) on Friday, March 31, joining us for Can We Do
That? represents a unique opportunity to make a long weekend packed with
high-level programming!



We encourage you to share this announcement broadly with your colleagues.
To learn more about and register for *Can We Do That? *visit
http://tinyurl.com/j4slq32. The fee for this day-long workshop is $125.
For more information, or if you have questions about registration, feel
free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director, bwhit...@wustl.edu. For
questions about the Pacific Northwest College of Art venue, please contact
Serenity Ibsen, Interim Director of Library Services at PNCA,
sib...@pnca.edu.

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Washington University in Saint Louis
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[MCN-L] 2017 Visual Resources Association Foundation Project Grant Program

[Betha Whitlow]

*2017 VRA Foundation Project Grant Program*



Deadline:  February 24, 2017



The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) announces that its next
Project Grant application period is now open. This program provides support
for a significant project which reflects the VRA Foundation’s mission to
advance education, research, and outreach in the field of visual resources
and image management.

A single grant is available during the spring 2017 cycle with up to $3000
to be awarded. This funding may be used for a stand-alone project, a pilot
or start-up financing for a larger project, or for a significant
component of a larger project.  In general, collaborative projects and
those proposed by groups, whether or not affiliated with an organization or
institution, are encouraged.  In addition, innovative projects with results
that can have broad impact and be shared throughout the global community
are of particular interest.  Categories to be considered for funding
include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:

   - Metadata for Visual Media
   - Visual Media Cataloguing Standards
   - Visual Media Data Standards
   - Digitization Projects of special or unique collections (Educational
   Institutions, Libraries, Museums)
   - Visual Literacy
   - Technology Development for Visual Media Management and Pedagogy
   - Intellectual Property Rights

More information about the Project Grants, including the application form,
can be found on the Visual Resources Association Foundation website at:
http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.
php/grants/project_grants/



For consideration, please submit your application by Friday, February 24,
2017, 11:59pm Pacific Time.  The recipient of the VRAF Project Grant will
be announced by March 10, 2017.

The VRA Foundation has United States Internal Revenue Service status as a
501c3 non-profit entity. All elements of a proposed project must be
performed within the legal parameters of United States local, regional, and
federal government requirements. International applications are welcome
from institutions or individuals provided applicant institutions have the
equivalent of US non-profit status, and applicant individuals have a
similar non-profit, educational purpose.

If you have further questions about the Project Grant Program or the
application process, please contact: Steven Kowalik, VRA Foundation
Board of Directors, skowa...@hunter.cuny.edu , phone: 212-772-5054
.

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[MCN-L] Registration for "Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media" is live!

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF)
<http://www.vrafoundation.org/> is pleased to announce that registration is
now live for Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media
<http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.php/regional_workshops/intellectual_property_at_pacific_northwest_college_of_art/>,
which will be held in on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at this Pacific Northwest
College of Art (PNCA). This workshop will be co-hosted by the PNCA and the
University of Oregon Libraries, and is open to cultural heritage
professionals, the information and educational communities, and to anyone
interested in visual culture. For those of you who also plan to attend
Online Northwest (http://onlinenorthwest.org/) on Friday, March 31 2017,
this represents a unique opportunity to make a long weekend packed with
high-level programming! Can We Do That? is one of four workshops being
offered in the second year of the VRAF Regional Workshop Program.  The VRAF
is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued support
of this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and
educational institutions, and to Emporia University’s School of Library and
Information Management for their additional sponsorship of this workshop.

 A thorough understanding of intellectual property rights can be a
challenge for lawyers, let alone for information, academic, and cultural
heritage professionals, and the application of copyright restrictions on
visual media can induce a sense of alarm and uncertainty dependent upon
specific circumstances.  This workshop will provide a clear focus on U.S.
copyright law, intellectual property rights, and fair use as they pertain
to the use of visual media (e.g., images and moving images) within the
academic, archival, library, gallery, and museum environments.  Educational
usage, securing publication rights, creative reuse, rights statements,
licensing, and the public domain will be explored within the context of
case studies, including those provided by participants in advance of the
workshop.  Participants will also be introduced to tools and resources to
help them and their constituents in making appropriate decisions regarding
appropriate use and dissemination of visual media.

Can We Do That? will be taught by Cara Hirsch, Associate General Counsel at
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which owns and operates the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection in Venice.  Cara supports the Guggenheim’s legal affairs in a
wide variety of areas including intellectual property.  Prior to the
Guggenheim, Cara was Deputy General Counsel for Artstor, a nonprofit
organization whose mission is to use digital technology to enhance
scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts, humanities and other
fields. Among her duties at Artstor, Cara collaborated in refining
Artstor's intellectual property and other legal strategies for the
organization.  She also supervised the rights review and clearance process
for media collections in the Artstor Digital Library, a digital image
resource that makes available to nonprofit institutions over 1.7 million
digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Prior
to her work at Artstor, Cara worked as an Associate at the law firms of
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Andrews Kurth LLP, where she practiced in
the field of intellectual property.  She served as Co-Chair of the
Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the Visual Resources Association
from 2011-2014.  Cara received her J.D. from Fordham University School of
Law and her B.A., with distinction, from the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor.

To register for Can We Do That? visit http://tinyurl.com/j4slq32. The fee
for this day-long workshop is $125.  For more information, or if you have
questions about registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF
Director, bwhit...@wustl.edu. For questions about the Pacific Northwest
College of Art venue, please contact Serenity Ibsen, Interim Director of
Library Services at PNCA, sib...@pnca.edu.

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[MCN-L] Registration Deadline Approaching for Learning to Look and Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy

[Betha Whitlow]

Visual Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn


VRAF Regional Workshop
University of California Berkeley

February 26th, 2016
Session 1:  10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Berkeley Art Museum
Session 2:  2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m., Visual Resources Center, 308A Doe Library

Registration deadline: February 12, 2016



The Visual Resources Association Foundation is pleased to announce
that registration for *Visual Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to
Learn* is filling up fast! If you are planning on attending the workshop,
now is the time to secure your registration. If you’re unsure about the
significance of developing visual literacy skills, consider that we are
increasingly surrounded by images in our daily lives. Learning to look and
articulate our observations about the visual world helps us to better think
critically about what we see, and to impart that knowledge to others. This
workshop is open to image management professionals, image users, and the
broader information and educational community, and is designed to both
develop visual literacy skills and empower the participants to help develop
those skills in their students and patrons. It is an opportunity not to be
missed!



*Visual Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn* will be held at
University of California Berkeley on February 26th, 2016, one of two
workshops being offered in the first year of the VRAF Regional Workshop
Program.  The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their
generous support of this new opportunity.

Part one of this workshop will focus on visual literacy skills and
pedagogical approaches by exploring objects at the new Berkeley Art Museum.
In part two of the workshop, participants will discuss and develop ways to
implement their own visual literacy program at their institutions, and
learn how staff, students and faculty can use digital archives, art
objects, and other primary sources in developing visual literacy skills.



Instructor

*Visual Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn* will be taught by
Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of
Public Education at the Yale University Art Gallery. During her fifteen
years in the field of museum education, Jessica has developed training
programs in visual literacy for information professionals, teachers,
faculty, and students.



Registration

The fee for the workshop is $75 for either the morning or afternoon
session, or $125 for the full day.  To register or learn more about *Visual
Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn*, visit
*http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.php/projects/visual_literacy_regional_workshop/
<http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.php/projects/visual_literacy_regional_workshop/>*



If you have questions about registration, feel free to contact Betha
Whitlow, VRAF Director, *bwhit...@wustl.edu <bwhit...@wustl.edu>* For
questions about the University of California Berkeley venue, please contact
Lynn Cunningham, Curator of Visual Resources, *lynncunning...@berkeley.edu
<lynncunning...@berkeley.edu>*.





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