VRA 2020 Baltimore: Registration Opens this Friday, December 6

Early Bird Registration for VRA 2020 Baltimore, March 24-27, opens this Friday, December 6, 2019The annual Visual Resources Association conference provides the opportunity for colleagues from diverse workplaces, including higher education, the corporate sector, museums, and archives to engage and collaborate at an ideally-sized conference of around 200 attendees.  Participants enjoy the long-standing association and conference culture of generous knowledge sharing while exploring digital asset management, intellectual property rights, digital humanities, metadata standards, coding, imaging best practices and so much more.The VRA will have almost exclusive use of the conference hotel, Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Baltimore, and we want to encourage you to take part in this amazing networking and community building experience.  This year’s program includes workshops on IIIF, visual communication, critical cataloging, digitization on the road, and grant writing, as well as sessions delving into topics such as diversity in the workplace, online exhibition platforms, managing rights data, community building, 3D digitization, accessibility, visual literacy, oral histories, and international intellectual property rights.  During registration, you will have the opportunity to sign up for tours at the American Visionary Art Museum, Enoch Pratt Free Library, George Peabody Library, the Walters Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, and Homewood Museum and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University.During the conference, explore Charm City! The hotel is right on the Inner Harbor with the Maryland Science Center, complete with IMAX theater, directly across the street. You’ll be able to walk to all of the harbor attractions, including the National Aquarium and the above mentioned American Visionary Art Museum, as well as many restaurants and shops. Wanting to venture slightly farther afield (really, slightly!)? You’ll be able to visit Fort McHenry, the Baltimore Museum of Industry, the Edgar Allan Poe House, the B & O Railroad Museum, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History & Culture, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, M&T Bank Stadium (home of the Ravens who just happen to be at the time of this post first in the AFC North), as well as all of these historic neighborhoods that will delight foodies everywhere (Fell Point, Canton, Federal Hill, and Mt. Vernon). We’ve got breweries and distilleries, art house movie theaters in Station North (Charles Theater and the Parkway), and so many theater companies! For more about visiting Baltimore, click here.Register early to get your first pick of workshops and tours and save $100 off regular registration rates!The VRA Executive Board and the VRA 2020 Baltimore Local Planning Committee look forward to seeing you soon in Charm City!Lael Ensor-BennettVice President for Conference Arrangements, VRA Executive BoardAssistant Curator, Visual Resources Collection, Johns Hopkins UniversityAmy McKennaPublic Relations and Communications Officer, VRA Executive BoardVisual Resources Curator, Williams College