Getty Multicultural Internships: Visual Resources Internship at Scripps College

Getty Multicultural Internships
June 13 - August 19, 2011

Through the generosity of the Getty Grant Program, the Gallery will be offering THREE paid, full-time, 10-week summer multicultural internships. These internships are "intended for members of groups underrepresented in the professions related to museums and the visual arts, particularly individuals of African American, Asian, Latino-Hispanic, and Pacific Islander descent."

For more information about the Getty internship, please see the Getty's website.

Requirements

1. currently enrolled undergraduate student and have completed at least one semester of college by June 2011, OR will complete their undergraduate degree by September 1, 2011 
2. be a resident of OR attend college in Los Angeles County
3. be a United States citizen or a permanent resident 

Students who have already served as Getty interns at Scripps are NOT eligible.

Stipend $3,500 for 10 weeks
This is gross salary; taxes will be taken out. Interns are subject to Scripps' hiring and payroll procedures.

Description 

1. COLLECTIONS/CONSERVATION INTERN: plans for this intern include, but are not limited to:  
   • Working with an art conservator on various projects, including conservation of sculptural reliefs by John Gregory of scenes from Shakespeare's plays
   • Helping to reorganize and clean the Asian Textile collection at Scripps, (after receiving training in how to handle, fold and move textiles)
   • Assisting the collection manager with the inventorying and re-housing of prints
2. CURATORIAL INTERN: will work with gallery staff to organize an exhibition on Paul Soldner, scheduled for fall 2011. Tasks will include, but not be limited to:  
• Researching the work to be displayed  
• Writing wall text; the wall text will also be added to the gallery website
3. VISUAL RESOURCES INTERN: will work on projects within the Visual Resource Collection, supervised by John Trendler, curator of Visual Resources. The student will:  
• Receive training in digitizing the collection, including color correction, image optimization and general Photoshop skills and digital asset management, including cataloging and best practices 
• Help refine the collection of images for art history courses by scanning, cataloging into the visual resources database, checking old records for accuracy, scanning, and preparing images for forthcoming courses;  
• Assist with collection maintenance and reorganization

How to Apply
Please send the following to Mary MacNaughton, Director, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, 1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711 by 5pm, April 19, 2011:

• transcript (unofficial is acceptable) 
• resume
• names and phone numbers of 3 references
• cover letter describing the academic and work experience that qualify you for the internship
• writing sample of 1,000 words 

For more information, please call Colleen Salomon at 909-607-4690 or email her at csalomon@scrippscollege.edu.

VRA/ARLIS conference & Engaging New Technologies

What a whirlwind, just returned last night from the joint conference of the Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America, which was held in Minneapolis.It was both amazing and inspiring. Saturday afternoon I was a speaker in the Engaging New Technologies session, I've uploaded my talk to SlideShare and have embedded it here for your convenience: Presentation Technology

View more presentations from John Trendler

I will most likely continue to refine the speaker notes and add links, so check back later.

In the past I've had difficulties getting the speaker notes from PowerPoint to upload to SlideShare correctly, and after a lot of trial and error, searching and learning I believe I have a pretty good handle on it now, and since my talk covered screen casting technologies I figured I might as well create a screen cast explaining some of the things I learned...



  I'll be sure to write up more about the conference, Minneapolis and other random thoughts that are still dancing around my head soon.

Technologies for Presentation & Instruction

I'm getting ready to attend the 2nd joint conference of the Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America, March 24th to March 28th.

I'll be speaking at a session titled "Engaging New Technologies" on the topic of technologies used for presentation & instructions. 

My presentation will be posted to SlideShare after the conference.
Expect tweets, photos and updates...

The conference hashtag is: #vra_arlis2011

Engaging New Technologies:
Organizer: Meghan Musolff, University of Michigan
Moderator: Betha Whitlow, Washington University in St. Louis
Speakers: Tracy Bergstrom, University of Notre Dame; Sarah Carter, Ringling College of Art and Design; Heather Cleary, Otis College of Art and Design; Bryan Loar, Knowledge Management and Information Specialist; Meghan Musolff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Greg Reser, University of California, San Diego; John Trendler, Scripps College; Suzanne Walsh, Independent Consultant

Abstract: This fast-paced 90 minute session will demonstrate a rich variety of new technologies and provide concrete examples on how to engage with this array of contemporary products, services, and tools. Utilizing the expertise of tech-savvy presenters from both ARLIS and VRA, the session will provide a basic knowledge of new tools, demystifying them to empower session attendees to further investigate on their own.  Emphasis will be given to technologies related to teaching, learning, and research environments and their practical applications for use in the library and visual resources environments.

Call for Proposals: CaVraCon

California Visual Resource Conference
June 16th & 17th, 2011
University of California, Santa Barbara

The California Chapters of the Visual Resources Association are hosting a two day
mini-conference on digital image collections. The conference will offer educational
opportunities dealing with the many aspects of creating, managing and maintaining
digital image collections, as well as the chance to network with both emerging
professionals and veterans of the field.

https://sites.google.com/site/cavraconference/

The organizers are seeking proposals for sessions, workshops, case studies and
other program formats.

Although not limited, possible topics could include:

Metadata/Cataloging

Analog/Digital Collections

Teaching with Images: New Developments

Preservation

Digitization

Professional Issues

Copyright Issues

Digital Imaging Tools

The deadline to submit your proposal is Monday, March 28th at 5:00pm (PST).
Proposals will be reviewed and presenters will be notified of their selection no later than
April 4th, 2011.

The CaVraCon Proposal Form can be found here:

CaVraCon Proposal Form

digital cleaning

Spring cleaning the computer,

began with moving and backing up files,

then deleting everything unnecessary,

Backed up over a million files?
Deleted nearly half a million?

And rearranged files into a better hierarchical folder structure, which was needed badly.

Wallpaper Wednesday

Feel free to download & use this as a desktop wallpaper/background -
these are pixels from a digital image zoomed way in and screen-captured.
I'll try to post new wallpapers every so often.

click the image to view full size and then right-click to either "save as..." or "Set as desktop background"

Unclutter your desktop

While working on some screencasting I realized that I should hide some files on my desktop,
so as to not distract from the screencast itself. I love shoving odds and ends into a new folder on the desktop named something along the lines of "Misc" - works as a temporary fix, but it's hard to locate items later, especially if you have several "Odds & ends" folders.
This morning I came across an awesome little freeware app called Camouflage,
which basically hides all your desktop icons, you can choose to show or hide icons from your menu bar.

Here's an image of my desktop with the icons shown (file names have been blurred to protect the innocent):

and one with icons hidden:

Isn't that nice?

Even though you can double click on the desktop to show your desktop items, I found that if you create a stack of desktop items in your dock it's easier to find/open hidden items.

You can find Camouflage here.

CicLAvia: Sunday, April 10th 2011

CicLAvia