ARLIS/UK & Ireland Annual Conference 2021 ‘Reframing Art Libraries: From Challenge to Opportunity’ Online, Wednesday July 21- Friday July 23 2021. Free to attend, but places limited: please register on the Conference website The experiences of 2020 have highlighted longstanding issues of inequality. We have experienced enormous, dramatic and global changes in our social […]
ARLIS South West event: Special Collections & Zine-making at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, 3rd March 2020 With several universities in the south-west of England supporting art and design courses, over the years many of us have discussed holding ARLIS events outside London. With encouraging support at the ARLIS conference in Glasgow, we got […]
Arlis 50: Irish Art Libraries Networking Event Hosted by the National Gallery of Ireland Library & Archives, Sir Denis Mahon Reading Room & Art Library Reading Room, National Gallery of Ireland, 11 December 2019. Aims of the event: To strengthen the network of art libraries in Ireland by inviting representatives from various art and […]
GUT HOUSE: Deptford Town Hall, 25 October-4 November 2019. ‘Now we, organs, return to fish-like times and begin to think.’ GUT HOUSE is a thirty-minute audio guide for Deptford Town Hall. It was included in the Deptford X Fringe programme 2019, 25 October – 4 November, a free artist-run community arts festival in and […]
Connecting Collections: Art Libraries in Collaboration, Leeds Central Library, 5th November 2019 LALIC (Leeds Art Libraries in Cooperation) is twenty-five years old this year and members were keen to host an event that would look back at the history of the group and its activities and generate ideas for future events and projects. We […]
Viva Las Projectionistas: ARLIS celebrates women’s art through slides and slides through women’s art Centre for Contemporary Art, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday, 30 October 2019: 4-6pm This event, organised by Althea Greenan, and Antonia Lewis from Goldsmiths Library and Special Collections, brought together practitioners and students from Goldsmiths and beyond to look back at […]
ARLIS 50th Anniversary event: MISSES EVERYTHING, August 2019 The exhibition MISSES EVERYTHING took place at Jupiter Woods in South London during August 2019. The project stemmed from a year-long conversation between artist Georgia Lucas-Going and curator Katie Simpson, in collaboration with The Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College, London, responding to the question ‘how can we thrive […]
Student delegate report, ARLIS/UK&Ireland Annual Conference 2019, Glasgow Rosaline Love, University College London I was fortunate to be the recipient of the Conference Student Award for the ARLIS/UK&Ireland 50th Anniversary Conference, 15th – 17th July 2019, held at the University of Glasgow. The commemoration of the 50th anniversary called on delegates to reflect on […]
International Delegate Report: ARLIS UK &Ireland Annual Conference 2019, Glasgow Stefanie Hilles, University of Miami This summer, I had the pleasure of both presenting at and attending ARLIS/UK & Ireland’s 50th Anniversary Conference in Glasgow on July 15th-17th as an International Delegate. Although active in ARLIS/NA, this was my first ARLIS/UK & Ireland conference and […]
Student Delegate Report, ARLIS UK & Ireland Conference 2019, Glasgow Bridget McCall, Glasgow School of Art This year’s ARLIS conference was held on the 15-17th July at the University of Glasgow and comprised talks and workshops creatively expressing themes of digitisation, accessibility and the promotion of effective information skills training. Some of the most […]