Announcing the Recipients of the 2024 vrcHost Membership Awards

The VRA Awards Committee is delighted to announce that fourteen information professionals have been selected as recipients of the 2024 vrcHost Membership Awards.

The vrcHost Membership Awards provide a year of individual VRA membership, and chapter memberships of the recipient’s choice. They are intended to provide VRA memberships to engage new members in the organization and to help existing members who need financial assistance retain their VRA membership.

This second round of awards are sponsored by vrcHost, a company that offers comprehensive solutions for the Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) project--installation, integration, hosting, customization, and software development--while also serving as the exclusive agent for the Archivision Research Library, which provides professional architecture and art photography with rich metadata for educational purposes. VRA is grateful for vrcHost’s continued generosity.

Congratulations to:

• Charlie Coffey, Wesleyan University

• De'Ivyion "Ivy" Drew, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

• Madison Ferrell, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

• Diego Roberto Irigoyen, University of California, Riverside

• Ariell Lomax, California State University Sacramento

• Kaylie Longley, University of Denver

• Liz Miller, Emory University

• Meina Naeymirad, Pratt Institute

• Elisabeth Narkin, National Gallery of Art

• Sureshkrishnan Ramakrishnan, Independent

• Spencer Roberts, Emory University

• Isis A Serna, University of New Mexico

• Amanda Smith, Buffalo AKG Art Museum

• Marsha Taichman, Ontario College of Art & Design University

Please join us in welcoming these new members to the Visual Resources Association and in thanking vrcHost for funding these awards.

With much appreciation,

VRA Awards Committee