With apologies for cross-posting, a last reminder to apply for a VRA (Visual
Resources Association) travel award to attend next March's conference in
Toronto. To highlight, there are two international awards (for anyone
outside the USA) of $1,000 each up for grabs, so well worth having. This is
a great conference for anyone working in Art & Architecture libraries which
have holdings of visual material.
Vicky Brown,
Visual Resources Curator
University of Oxford
History of Art Department
Suite 9, Littlegate House
St Ebbes
Oxford OX1 1PT
T:(01865) 286839
F:(01865) 286831
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There are four days left to apply for a VRA travel award to attend 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 is now available <http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/index.html>;
there is also information on conference costs and the conference hotel.
The deadline for receipt of applications will be next Monday, November 10,
5pm Pacific Time. The list of recipients will be announced on the VRA
listserv the first week of December.
For 2009 we have several new awards at all levels, and have raised the
amount of many of the awards:
- 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
Links to the application form are on the main VRA website page and the
conference page. 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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For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits
please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2008 at
http://www.arlis.org.uk/
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