Art Libraries Society of North America 32nd Annual Conference, New York, NY

Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY—April 15-21, 2004

 

Women and Art Round Table Minutes

Monday, April 19, 2004, 8-9 a.m.

 

Agenda

 

1. The minutes of the 2003 annual meeting held in Baltimore, Maryland were approved.

 

2. Past chair Eumie Imm-Stroukoff was thanked for her dynamic leadership during the 2002-2003 year.

 

3. Meeting attendees addressed future updates and additions to the

website.  See items 4 and 5 below.

 

4. Shannon Van Kirk, Chair, shared the bibliography she compiled on the subject of Arab and Persian Women Artists.  Shannon indicated that she hoped WomArt members would submit additional bibliographies on other topics.  Suggested topics included: artist’s books by women, women artists of color, women artists’ organizations, feminist art, lesbian art, women illustrators, women designers, women patrons and collectors, and O’Keeffe and the extended Stieglitz circle.

 

5. Sara Harrington, Art Librarian at Rutgers University, was introduced as incoming moderator.

 

6. The paper session “Expanding the Canon: Women Collectors and the Arts” takes place on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at the ARLIS conference.  Its content will likely be of interest to WomArt members.

 

7. Sara Harrington, in her role as incoming moderator, opened the floor for discussion about the upcoming year’s activities.  She indicated that the WomArt webpage might benefit from expanded content.  She suggested an online subject research guide to women and the arts.  It would be composed of sites with scholarly content of sites, and treat subjects in the various areas of interests/expertise of WomArt members.  It was thought that such a contribution would be affective clearinghouse for information

related to women and the arts.  These webliographies would function as a complement to the bibliographies introduced by Shannon Van Kirk.

 

8. Sara Harrington opened a discussion about potential ideas for

conference sessions relating to women and art at the ARLIS/NA 2005

conference in Houston.  Several ideas were put ventured which can be

crafted for ARLIS 2005 proposals or used in other ways or in the future.

 

9. Other new business included the election of an incoming Vice Moderator, Sara MacDonald (University of the Arts, Philadelphia) and Update Editor Sue Nurse (Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester).  It was noted that it might be helpful to compile a list of the sessions that WomArt has already been involved with, and organize the archive of materials related to WomArt.

 

Sharon Wasserman of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in

Washington, D.C. indicated that her institution would be willing to host the materials.  We will first inventory what we have, and dealing later with technicalities of possibly digitizing or preparing such material for the web.

 

Compiled by Sara Harrington

saraharr@rci.rutgers.edu