Chapter Officers for 2004:

Kelley Wolfe, Chair

Nancy Norris, Vice Chair/Chair Elect

Trish Rose, Treasurer

Micki Breitenstein, Secretary

Rina Vecchiola, Past Chair

Incoming Chapter Officers for 2005:

Nancy Norris, Chair

Trish Rose, Vice Chair/Chair Elect

Lynda Bunting, Treasurer

Micki Breitenstein, Secretary

Kelley Wolfe, Past Chair

Chapter Meetings:

ARLIS/NA annual conference, NYC
April 19, 2004, 6:00pm
15 ARLIS/SC chapter members attended the NYC chapter meeting. Alyssa Resnick was presented the ARLIS/SC Travel Award. Plans were announced for a spring gathering in downtown Los Angeles, where a tour of the Cathedral and MoCA will be offered. Members will also be invited to the VRA Summer Summit in July at UCSD. The chapter is also planning a 30^th anniversary party for sometime in the Fall.

Fall Business Meeting
October 29, 2004
Getty Research Institute

38 members and guests were in attendance of the Fall Business Meeting, which focused primarily on the Artists’ Book Conference Los Angeles that the chapter is planning for May 21-24 next year. Following the meeting was a roundtable discussion on collection development policies for artists’ books. Joyce Pellerano Ludmer, GRI Curator of Artists’ Books, presented a selection of artists’ books to the group.

Activities:

Keith Smith and Scott McCarney Lecture

March 11, 2003

Otis School of Design

ARLIS/SC, the Los Angeles Book Arts Center, and the Otis Laboratory Press sponsored a talk by book artists Keith Smith and Scott McCarney. 140 people were in attendance.

UCSD Summer Summit on Images

July 21, 2004

ARLIS/SC member met for lunch at the UCSD Faculty Club. During the summit, image providers, such as ARTstor and RLG Cultural Materials spoke about their products and plans for the future.

Tour of the Los Angeles Cathedral, Our Lady of the Angeles and
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) visit

June 7, 2004

20 members and friends attended the cathedral tour and MoCA visit. In addition to the guide from Our Lady of Angeles, Simon Toparovsky spoke to the group about his work Red Crucifix, one of the works commissioned by the Cathedral.

30^th Anniversary Party

October 30, 2004

ARLIS Southern California members, both past and present gathered in Santa Monica at the art-filled home of Joan Benedetti to celebrate its 30-something anniversary and to recognize its founder—and long-time Southern California resident--Judith A. Hoffberg by naming the travel award in her honor.

Other notables:

The ARLIS/SC webpage was redone and the domain name of http://www.arlis-sc.org/ was registered.
The paper version of the chapter newsletter Canvas was reinstated and two issues were published (May and October 2004)
The chapter applied for and received $500 ARLIS/NA Special Funding for the artists’ book event in 2005 (which is now called ABC LA).

ARLIS/SC Travel Award:
This year’s ARLIS/SC Travel Award to attend the ARLIS/NA meeting went to Alyssa G. Resnick. The award was given in recognition of her contributions to the Chapter.

Membership Statistics

Total Members 52

New Members 14

Treasurer’s Report

Beginning Balance 1/1/04 $2253

Income $1954

Expenses $1793

Ending Balance 12/31/04 $2416