Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal Community,

Jennifer Martinez Wormser has generously offered to host an artists’ books event at Denison Library in Claremont this summer. It should be a fabulous event!

If you’re interested in joining, please complete this Doodle poll to indicate your timing preferences. Once we determine the date of the visit, we can…[Read more]

ArtCenter College of Design Library is searching for an experienced Digital Services Specialist to join our team.

Job title:        Digital Services Specialist
Reports to:       Director, Collections and Systems
Supervises:       Student Workers
FLSA status:      Non-exempt
Salary grade:     7
Salary range:     $43,368-$50,000

Re…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS/NA Nor Cal Chapter,

Please save Friday, May 19 for our in-person chapter business meeting.* The meeting is hosted by San Francisco Public Library and the morning/afternoon will include business meeting, tours, exhibits, lecture and more! Start time is 9:30am and end time is early afternoon-ish.

We’ll have the business meeting as…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS/NA Southern California Community,

If you’re planning to attend the conference in CDMX, we hope you’ll join us for an ARLIS/NA SC happy hour! We’ll be gathering for cocktails, mocktails, and snacks at La Azotea, a rooftop bar close to the conference hotel, on Wednesday, 4/19, at 6pm.

I’ll send a reminder next week, but I’ll also share…[Read more]

The Stewart Program for Modern Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has published a beautiful new website for the project Designed By Women.

“It presents the design contributions of women from around the world. Works date from 1900 to the present and are drawn from the Stewart Collection, formed under the leadership of philanthropist…[Read more]

Hello museum library colleagues! I am working with our curatorial department to assess and learn more about artists’ book collection in both our museum and library collections. I would love to find out a bit more about the logistics of your collections. I’ve created a short survey (less than 5 minutes) I kindly ask for those in museum libraries to…[Read more]

Hi all!

I’d like to announce our Annual Meeting, to be held Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 10am PST/11am MST/12pm CST/1pm EST. Zoom information to follow. (Conference schedule link here.)

Join us for discussion of upcoming chapter plans, group updates, and calls for a new Vice Moderator and participants in a working group to kick off our updated…[Read more]

Hello everyone, I just received the following email from Rachel Resnik.  I will not be able to attend, but a different person from our group is welcome.  Let me know if you’d like to do this.

Best, Marsha

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You are invited to attend the Leadership Institute taking place at the 51st annual conference at the H…[Read more]

Hello everyone, I just received the following message from Sarah Carter.  It will be an agenda topic at our business meeting.

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Dear Marsha,I’m writing to you in your role as coordinator of the ARLIS/NA Retirement SIG.  As the close of the current governance year approaches, I invite you to deposit your section’s records in th…[Read more]

The minutes from the Winter 2023 SIG meeting and the Book Share List compiled at that meeting are now posted and available on the SIG website:

Winter 2023 SIG Meeting Minutes

Winter 2023 Book Share List

*Save the Date*

The Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG Annual Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, April 27 at 2:00pm Central time.…[Read more]

Hello everyone, the annual Business Meeting of the Retirement SIG is now scheduled for:

Friday, April 28

1:00 – 2:00 Central Time

Here is the Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/<wbr />87486624876?pwd=<wbr />TW9HTzVCUjRYdjN5ekNlZ1BJK2xIdz<wbr />09

Meeting ID: 874 8662 4876

Thanks to Carol Terry for continuing to host the Zoom…[Read more]

I want to share this information about a series of courses on craft history offered at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.  “Taught by craft historian Rachael Schwabe, the course is presented in three modules, each composed of two online lectures with discussion and one field trip.”
What is Craft History?

• Crafting Modernism, April…

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Dear ARLIS/NA Southern California Chapter members,

Our annual Spring Business Meeting will be held virtually on Thursday, April 27th, from 11am-12pm PST. Please save the date!

Zoom info will be shared closer to the meeting date.

My best,

Sam Regal

ARLIS/NA SC Chair