The Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Chapters are joining together for a meetup at the Mexico City Conference! If you are a member of either chapter and are here in CDMX, join us at the Hilton Reforma Hotel Bar on Wednesday, April 19 at 6pm as we make a plan for a drink (or more) and an opportunity to bring our chapters together again.

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Hello, ARLIS Mid-Atlantic!

The big annual conference is approaching fast and we’re getting excited. In
that spirit we’ve prepared the list of conference highlights
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EREL3Q-5KRoS53WSokRh09evnBqhF8gK/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118177468942916901270&rtpof=true&sd=true&gt;.
Check it out to see which members of our cha…[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 wanted to share an upcoming event that I am hosting on Friday, April 14 from 12-2, The Textile Museum’s annual Textile Research Day. It brings together university students from across disciplines to share their textile-related projects with the public. This year’s event will introduce the work of eight students whose topics range from t…[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, colleagues!

Please join us for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter’s spring business meeting on Tuesday, May 2 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. EDT following the ARLIS/NA annual conference. The Chapter includes members from Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our meetings are open to anyone interested in attending. An…[Read more]

Sharing an RFQ!

This Request for Quote (RFQ) is issued by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI), for technical professional, non-personal services to provide to 2,000 hours of professional, technical, non-personal research and writing services to research, write, and review a minimum of-but not limited to- 30 fully…[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]

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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Hi all,

NPG has extended the period they are looking for a project-based contractor to assess a research collection! The CAP is an amazing collection.

This is ideal for someone with knowledge of art/historical research, so art historians or art-concentrated library experience is great. The term is more flexible than described—it does not r…[Read more]