2005

Spring Meeting, June 10th, 2005
Academy of Art University Library
(formerly Academy of Art College)
Please join us for our spring chapter meeting which will convene at the Academy of Art for our business meeting and a tour of the Academy’s library collections and spring student show featuring BA/MA student work from 8 majors showcased on 8 floors. From there we will proceed to the California Historical Society for an overview of their collections and research resources as well as a self-guided tour of their exhibition “Alice Burr: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered and Eadweard Muybridge: San Francisco in Panorama.”  After a break for lunch, we will reconvene at SFMOMA for a curatorial led walk-thru of “Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection.”

Spring Meeting
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Friday, April 25, 2003
Hosted by: John Stucky, Librarian, Asian Art Museum
Location: the new Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Summer
Meeting & Tour of Oliver Ranch, Geyserville, CA. Friday, July 20, 2001 10 - 2
The Oliver Ranch  is one of the country's premium private reserves for site-specific art. There are more than 17 outdoor installations among which are the works of Terry Allen, Miroslaw Balka, Roger Berry, Ellen Driscoll, Bill Fontana, Kristin Jones, Andrew Ginzel, Andy Goldsworthy, Jim Jennings, Dennis Leon, Jim Melchert, Bruce Nauman, Martin Puryear, David Rabinowitch, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Judith Shea, Robert Stackhouse, and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

Steven and Nancy Oliver have been art patrons and collectors for decades. Mr. Oliver sees the ranch as a role model for philanthropy, and funding the arts has been a life-long passion. The Oliver Ranch project started in 1985 when Mr. Oliver commissioned a site-specific work by the New York sculptor Judith Shea. Ever since the Olivers continued commissioning contemporary artists whose work they liked. Currently, Mr. Oliver serves as a Past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the California College of Arts and Crafts. Among other posts he served as a President of the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and on the National Endowment for the Arts. The chapter would like to thank Nensi Braillo for organizing this meeting and to Mr. Oliver for hosting our group.

Spring
Anderson Art Collection Tour, Menlo Park, April 12, 2001,  9:30 – 3:00
The Anderson Collection is one of the outstanding private collections of twentieth century American art in the United States.  More than two thirds of the collection, which includes over 800 works, is on view at the Quadrus office complex in Menlo Park.

Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson have been collecting art since the late 1960s.  The Anderson's like to think of their collection as "a collection of collections" in that it includes groups of artworks representing a variety of time periods and media.  Aside from a selection of works by twentieth century European artists, the Anderson's have primarily collected twentieth century American art with an emphasis on works created after World War II, anchored in the work of Abstract Expressionists.  Additional major post-war movements represented in The Anderson Collection are Color Field Painting, Post-Minimalism, California Funk Art, Bay Area Figurative Art, and contemporary abstract painting.  Other "collections" include a group of works by early twentieth century American artists (the circle of Alfred Stieglitz) and a survey of American and European sculpture.
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2000
Arlis/NC held 2 meetings in 2000
Fall - Berkeley Art Museum, Thursday, November 2, 2000 (9:00 - 2:30)
meeting minutes
Please join us at the Berkeley Art Museum for a very informative and provocative session. BAM director, Mr. Kevin Consey will speak to us about fundraising, collection development, exhibit development and of course, the new and exciting construction project for the new museum. After lunch we will have a guided tour of the Environmental Design Archives, which contains plans, letter, photos by famous architects such as Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan.

Spring
Thomas F. Schwarz Bookseller, Mill Valley, Tuesday, April 25th, 2000, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
meeting minutes
Stuart Bennett was educated in California, England and South Carolina, the last resulting in a law degree awarded cum laude. In 1974 he joined Sotheby Park Bernet as a book cataloguer and has been in the antiquarian book trade ever since. He specializes in English books printed before 1850, children's books, poetry, satire, philosophy and related topics.

There is no cost -- wine and cheese are included.
Thomas F. Schwarz web site: http://www.abebooks.com/home/orlando/
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Spring
San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, April 26, 1999.
Business meeting highlights: Discussions included chapter fundraising and financial planning, membership and guidelines for joint meetings. Members also discussed a chapter brochure to advertise the advantages of being local and national members of ARLIS. Future meeting sites were debated. 
Special thanks to SFPL Librarian Jim Van Buskirk for all his help.

Summer
Stanford University, Cantor Art Center, Aug. 6, 1999.
Speaker: Assunta Pisani, Associate Director of Stanford University Libraries.
Topic: Villa I Tatti, one of the foremost cultural and historical reference libraries in Italy.
Business meeting highlights: Members voted to assist VRA with their Annual Conference which will take place in San Francisco in April 2000. Maia Jin and Nancy Bennett were elected as the chapter nominating committee. Reports on the upcoming Fall chapter meeting and the Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.
The chapter is grateful to (then) Stanford Librarian Peter Blank for making this meeting possible.

Fall
Research Libraries Group, Nov. 5, 1999.
Demonstrations: BHA, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Index to 19th Century American Architectural Periodicals, Archival Resources, Amico.
RLG Presenters: Lorna Corbetta-Noyes (User Documentation Writer), Ricky Erway (Product Manager, AMICO), Tony Gill (Program Officer for Cultural Heritage), Wes Taoka (Product Market Manager), Sharon Vaughn-Lahman (Manager, Citation Services), Bruce Washburn (Information Architect), Greg Whitfield (Senior Account Manager).
Tour: Sunset Magazine gardens.
Attendance: 43 (joint meeting with local VRA chapter)
Business meeting highlights: Election of new officers, Kathryn Wayne reported the upcoming ARLIS annual conference, discussion of the upcoming VRA conference, and the joint VRA/ARLIS conference scheduled for 2002. Introduction of new member Thomas Schwarz Booksellers, represented by Laurie Thompson.

The Chapter would like to thank Lorna Corbetta-Noyes all of her great ideas and hard work for this meeting and throughout the year.