Joint Meeting: ARLIS Ohio Valley Chapter and VRA Great Lakes Chapter at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Register before October 18th
Thursday Oct. 24, 2019
5:00 – 6:00 Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright House (Free)
6:00 – 6:30 Break and drive to the restaurant, 1833 (located in the Hotel at Oberlin)
6:30 – 8:00 Dinner at 1833, Hotel at Oberlin (individual checks)
Friday Oct. 25, 2019
Morning events and lunch held in StudiOC
8:00 – 9:00 Registration & Meet and Greet
Continental breakfast compliments of the Oberlin College Libraries
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome, Alexia Hudson-Ward, MLIS
Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries, Oberlin College and Conservatory
9:05 – 9:20 Collaboration at Oberlin
Heath Patten, Visual Resources Curator
Barb Prior, Head, Clarence Ward Art Library
9:20 – 9:50 Lightning Rounds
9:50 – 10:00 Break
10:00-11:00 The Ohio Digital Network and the Digital Public Library of America.
Jen Johnson, Library Consultant, Digital Public Library of America Digitization
Introduced by Marsha McDevitt-Stredney, PhD, Public Information Officer, State Library of Ohio
11:00-Noon Chapter Business Meetings
Noon-1:15 Catered lunch
1:15 – 1:30 Walk to the Allen Memorial Art Museum (see map)
1:30 – 2:30 Allen Memorial Art Museum
1:30 – 1:45 Welcome and overview of the Allen Memorial Art Museum
Andrea Gyorody, Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
1:45 – 2:15 Gallery talk: Afterlives of the Black Atlantic
Matthew Rarey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History and
Andrea Gyorody, Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
2:15 – 3:30 Tours of Visual Resources and the Clarence Ward Art Library
Hotel Information
The Hotel at Oberlin 440-775-7001
Normal rate: $189 / night
Group rate*: $134 / night
(plus a 6.75% state tax, 3% city tax, and 3% county tax)
*supply the following code: 6466; reservations must be made by October 3rd for the group rate