Registration for VRA LA 2019 Opens this Friday, December 7

Early Bird Registration for VRA LA 2019, March 26-29, opens this Friday, December 7, 2018 and will run through February 15, 2019. The annual Visual Resources Association conference provides the opportunity for colleagues from diverse workplaces, including higher education, the corporate sector, and museums to engage and collaborate in the areas of digital asset management, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, metadata standards, coding, imaging best practices, and more.This year’s program includes workshops on fair use, visual literacy, linked open data, embedded metadata, GIS, Python coding, and public speaking, as well as sessions delving into topics such as copyright and archival film footage and the history, digitization, and presentation of the Ed Ruscha collection at the Getty Research Institute. During registration, you will have the opportunity to sign up for behind-the-scenes tours at the Japanese American National Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens. Aside from the conference workshops, sessions, and tours, Los Angeles is brimming with attractions and world-class institutions. There’s the MOCA Geffen Contemporary, the Broad Museum, The Last Bookstore, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Grand Central Market, The Underground Museum, Hauser & Wirth, A + D Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hennessey + Ingalls, J. Paul Getty Museum--Getty Center and the Getty Villa, FIDM Museum and Galleries, the Main Museum, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (LACDA), California African American Museum, the California Science Center, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USC Fisher Museum of Art, LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts, Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, the USC Pacific Asia Museum, and the Torrance Art Museum–just to name a small selection! You can even try out Skyspace LA, a slide on the exterior of a skyscraper, to get a view from 1000 feet above downtown.Register early as workshops and tours will be filling up fast!  On behalf of the VRA Executive Board and the VRA LA 2019 Local Planning Committee, we hope to see you soon in sunny LA.Contributors:Krystal BoehlertLocal Planning Coordinator, VRA LA 2019Visual Resources Specialist, University of California RiversideLael Ensor-BennettVice President for Conference Arrangements, VRA Executive BoardAssistant Curator, Visual Resources Collection, Johns Hopkins UniversityJennifer FaistLocal Planning Committee Member, VRA LA 2019Library Systems & Digital Collections Administrator, ArtCenter College of Design Library