Austin Skyline

Registration should be postmarked by October 7 and sent to Craig Bunch (registration form is found at the bottom of this page).

Hotel Information

A special rate has been procured for meeting attendees at the following hotels:

October 19-20

• Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin
• $139 single/double/triple/quad occupancy (plus local occupancy taxes, currently 15% [as of May 2006])
• Call 800-333-3333 to make your reservation.
• Please note: All reservations must be guaranteed with a major credit card prior to the cut-off date of September 28, 2006.

October 21

• Emily Morgan Hotel
• $159 single or double occupancy (plus local occupancy taxes, currently 16.75% [as of May 2006])
• Call 210-225-5100 or 800-824-6674 to make your reservation.
• Please note: All reservations must be guaranteed with a major credit card prior to the cut-off date of September 28, 2006.

Agenda

Thursday, October 19

• transit to Austin

Friday, October 20

• 8-8:30: Complimentary breakfast sponsored by The University of Texas Libraries
  Dean's Conference Room, School of Architecture, Goldsmith Hall Room 2.308
• 8:30-9:45: Thomson Gale resource presentation
  Dean's Conference Room
  This presentation will focus on key products that may be beneficial to the art community, specifically their Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Corbis Images for Education, and the Sabin Collection.
• 10-11:30: Harry Ransom Center visual materials presentation
  "One of the world's finest cultural archives, the Harry Ransom Center houses 36 million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and over 100,000 works of art."
• 11:30-1:15: Complimentary lunch sponsored by The University of Texas Libraries
• 1:30-4: Blanton Art Museum collection presentation and gallery tour
  "The Blanton’s permanent collection is composed of over 17,000 works of art from Europe, the United States and Latin America. The museum also features a dynamic changing exhibition schedule that allows visitors to experience a broad range of artistic expression and history."
• 6-9: Catered Texas BBQ dinner hosted by Beth Dodd and Greg Smith

Saturday, October 21

• 8:30-9: transit to San Marcos
• 9-9:30: Complimentary breakfast sponsored by the Wittliff Gallery
• 9:30-10:30: Wittliff Gallery tour
  "The Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography at Texas State University-San Marcos is a creative center and archives devoted to the photographic cultures of Mexico and the Southwestern United States."
• 10:30-11:30: Southwestern Writers Collection tour
  "Founded by Bill and Sally Wittliff at Texas State University-San Marcos in 1986, the Southwestern Writers Collection has become a distinguished and steadily-growing archive, charged with preserving, exhibiting, and providing access to the papers and artifacts of principal writers, filmmakers, and musicians of the Southwest."
• 11:45-1:15: Lunch at Palmer’s
• 1:30-2:30: transit to San Antonio
• 2:30: check into hotel
• 3:30-4: transit to Magic Lantern Castle Museum
• 4-6: Magic Lantern Castle Museum lecture and tour provided by Jack Judson, CEO, Director, Curator, Historian (technology), Owner.
  "The Magic Lantern Castle Museum contains exhibits of many hundreds of items of equipment, glass slides, illustrations, prints, and other items that relate to the history of the magic lantern (lantern slide projector) and scientific optic projection apparatus from the 1700s to 1900s…. There is a fairly extensive library of original catalogues, books, prints, illustrations, etc. from the 19th century, plus extensive files of information on the subject of magic lantern equipment and usage from the 1600s to present."
• 6-9 Chapter dinner at Silo

Sunday, October 22

• 8-8:30: Breakfast at the Emily Morgan Hotel (included with meeting registration)
• 8:30-11:30: Chapter business meeting

2006 Annual Meeting Registration Form