VRA Conference Minneapolis 2024

Current members of the Education Committee, as well as those interested in joining, are invited to join Committee Chairs Amy McKenna and Otto Luna for a discussion about the upcoming year. Over the past year, the Education Committee has taken on a leading role in developing programming for the VRA Conference. This meeting will focus on how the Committee can continue to pursue this objective, as well as brainstorm additional ideas to advance the Committee's mission of developing a wide range of educational resources and opportunities for VRA members.

A gathering of consortial partners and any VRA members interested in learning more about the Society of Architectural Historians' Color Film Emergency Project, Sonja Sekely-Rowland (PI) at the University of California at Riverside along with Jackie Spafford and Maureen Burns (project managers) welcome your participation in this informal opportunity to discuss the CFEP project and answer your questions. Please join us in Minneapolis or online for this hybrid SIG.

The SAH's Color Film Emergency Project is Addressing At-risk 35mm Architectural Slides Through a Consortium Work Model after being awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant 2024-2027. This NEH implementation grant expands on the previous work of identifying, processing, and making select SAH members’ 35mm slide collections digitally accessible. Amassed in the 1960-90s, these SAH member slides are threatened with loss, destruction, or environmental damage. They are valuable for documenting noteworthy contemporary and historic architecture, cultural heritage that is changing, and in some cases vanishing. Processing tasks will be completed through a consortium of partners at more than a dozen institutions across the US: archivists, visual resources professionals, librarians, and faculty. For the next three years, these partners will take on collection subsets for a number of tasks: assessing, organizing, cataloging, digitizing, and ultimately publishing in SAHARA on JSTOR. A large portion of the grant funds will be used for undergraduate student internships and graduate student fellowships, which provide valuable educational training and work experience.

For more details, please see: https://www.sah.org/about-sah/news/news-detail/2024/06/14/color-film-emergency-project-awarded-an-neh-implementation-grant

The Intellectual Property Rights Committee charge is to study and monitor intellectual property and copyright issues; and to develop and promote the Association's position on intellectual property rights issues and educate the membership on these issues. All are welcome to attend!