With apologies for cross-posting. Please note the additional international
award now being offered:
We have even more awards to offer this year for attendance at the 2009
VRA conference in Toronto. Thanks to the generosity of various
individuals, sponsors, and our very own VRA, there are more funding
opportunities than ever to help you come to the 2009 conference.
The conference will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 18-22.
A preliminary conference schedule with a listing of most workshops and
sessions will be posted by Monday, October 20 at http://vraweb.org (look
for the link to the conference site). This information will be
supplemented as things are confirmed, so please check back regularly.
Basic conference costs are as follows (details will be posted on the
website):
Pre-registration: $195 for members
Registration on site: $225
Room rates at conference hotel (the Sheraton Centre Toronto): $199+tax
(Canadian $) for single or double occupancy
The deadline for receipt of applications will be November 10, 5pm Pacific
Time. The list of recipients will be announced on the VRA listserv the
first week of December.
We have more good news about the travel awards this year - we have
several new awards at all levels, and have raised the amount of many of
the awards. For 2009 we are able to offer:
- NEW! ELEVEN awards of $850 each (formerly $750): 6 Tansey fund awards,
the Gallery Systems award and the Kathe Hicks Albrecht award (for a
first-time conference attendee), plus 3 new VRA Association Travel Awards
- An international member award of $1,000 (sponsored by Saskia)
- NEW! A second international member award of $1,000
- Two "New Horizons" awards, of $850 each. These new awards are aimed at
members in the following categories: solo VR professionals, part-time VR
professionals, geographically isolated VR professionals, VR professionals
in smaller institutions, and/or first-time attendees
- The Joseph C. Taormina Memorial Travel Awards: 2 new top-up awards of
$250 each
- NEW! now we can offer up to NINE Tansey Top-Up awards of $250 to $350
each, aimed at supplementing the costs of attendees with partial
conference funding
- A "New Horizons" student travel award of $300, for a full-time student
enrolled in an accredited degree program and considering a career in
visual resources
The application form will be available in the MemberClicks section of the
VRA website by the end of next week (October 24). Before you apply,
PLEASE READ "Travel Award Rules and Guidelines", "Tips for VRA Travel
Awards Applicants", and "Types of Travel Awards", all linked here as PDFs:
http://www.vraweb.org/organization/committees/travel/index.html
Two notes about eligibility: you must be a VRA member to apply for any of
the awards, and you cannot have won a VRA Travel Award in the last three
years (2006-2008).
Stay tuned and watch VRA-L and the VRA website for further details about
the conference. Please email if you have any questions not answered by
the documents noted above.
Best wishes,
Jackie Spafford
Chair
VRA Travel Awards Committee
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Jacqueline Spafford <[log in to unmask]>
Visual Resources Curator, Department of History of Art and Architecture
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7080
Work phone: 805-893-2509 Fax: 805-893-7117
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