Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Fall 2016 Meeting

On December 14, 2016 we had a great virtual meeting of our Northern California chapter. You can view the meeting minutes here.

We had some interesting presentations from our chapter members on current projects, including:

Carl Schmitz, Diebenkorn Foundation
Carl spoke about his work on the recently published Richard Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonné
http://diebenkorn.org/catalogue-raisonne/about/

Lynn Cunningham, Visual Resources Center, UC Berkeley
Lynn presented a demo of a project in process by the VRC and Professor Elizabeth Honig called OpenArt. OpenArt (in Beta stage) is an open-source, Drupal-based cataloging and online publishing tool for creating online catalog raisonnés.
http://arthistory.berkeley.edu/about/projects/project/openart

Jason Hosford, Visual Resources Center, UC Berkeley
Jason presented on the digitizing and cataloging of a collection of images gifted to the UCB VRC in 2014 from the late James Cahill, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and a preeminent scholar of Chinese painting.