MAS Annual Section Meeting 2022

Please join us for our annual section business meeting along with four guest speakers focused on cooperative projects (outlined below).

This free event is open to all. Registration required for Zoom security.

Presentations

“The Power of Partnerships”

Julie Varee, Community Outreach Archivist, Anchorage Museum, Alaska

This presentation will highlight the discovery of how one museum’s archives benefited from an exhibition and related public programs.

"An Artist Archive Supports an International Exhibition"

Malia Van Heukelem, Art Archivist Librarian and Liane Na'auao, Paper Conservator, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii

An archivist and a paper conservator will share their experience supporting two international exhibitions from a research library with help from students and temporary hires. (slides)

“Digitizing museum archives for online access: Why it’s (not) always a good idea”

Molly Stothert-Maurer, Associate Librarian (Archivist) Head of Library & Archives, Arizona State Museum | University of Arizona; and Peter Botticelli, Associate Professor, Simmons University School of Library and Information Science

This presentation will report on two case studies that are being preparing on digitized archival collections, one at the Arizona State Museum, and another at the Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

“The Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA)”

Lori Donovan, Senior Program Manager and Madeline Carruthers, Program Officer, Internet Archive; and Amelia Nelson, Director, Library and Archives, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

CARTA is a collaborative project developed from a partnership between the Internet Archive and the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) aimed at capturing and preserving at-risk web-based art materials. The project utilizes the resources and professional expertise of a growing collaborative entity of 35+ arts and cultural heritage institutions to build collections of archived web-based content related to art history and contemporary art practice. Lori Donovan and Madeline Carruthers will give a general overview with information about current and future CARTA activities, joined by Amelia Nelson, who will share their perspective as a CARTA member.