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Special Events and Raffle Information
Fundraiser Raffle Information
Souvenir Baseball Cap
Special Events
Pre-registration is necessary for the events on this page due to limited enrollments
People who pre-register for the full conference may sign up for just one ticket to each event
listed below. People who register in the one-day category may NOT sign up for any of these events
Please see the Conference Registration page for more details on
Pre-Registration for the Special Events
Tuesday, February 27th
Tour I: Northwestern University and Block Museum---------- $25.00
Workshop 1A: Beginning Imaging---------- $30.00
Workshop 1B: Intermediate Imaging---------- $30.00 OR
Workshops 1A AND 1B (both)---------- $50.00
Tour II: Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park---------- $30.00
Workshop 2: Fundamentals for New VR Curators/---------- $40.00
Librarians
Tour III: Walking Tour: Historic Skyscrapers---------- $15.00
Thursday, March 1st
Tour IV: Newberry Library---------- $ 5.00
Tour V: Walking Tour: Modern Skyscrapers---------- $15.00
Workshop 3: Library Reference and Instruction For Non-Librarians---------- $40.00
Workshop 4: Building Relational Databases---------- $40.00
Tour VI: Roger Brown Study Collection---------- FREE
Friday March 2nd
Tour VII: Chicago Highlights by Bus---------- $35.00
Luraine Tansey Travel Award Fund-Raising Dinner---------- $40.00
( Pre-selected menu of 3 cold tapas, 4 hot tapas and dessert, coffee or tea. Cash bar.)
Saturday, March 3rd
Tour VIII: Farnsworth House and Sculpture Garden----------
(includes box lunch) $50.00
Tour IX: How Both Halves Lived: A Bus Tour of---------- $50.00
Glessner House, Prairie Avenue Historic District and
Pullman Historic District (includes lunch)
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Fundraiser Raffle Information
We will hold a raffle at this year's conference in Chicago,
with proceeds going to the new President's Fund. We
are looking for donations of small (in size) works of art and
handicrafts made by our members, or other items which
might tickle a VRA'ers fancy.
You may send the item to Rebecca Moss or bring it to the conference.
We would like to post images of all the donations on the raffle web site: .
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/slides/raffle.html
Please send a slide, photograph or digital image. We will accept donations on
an on-going basis from now until February 25, 2001. Items will be on
display at the Member's Reception prior to the final drawing.
Tickets will be only $1.00 each; you may buy as many as you like! The
raffle drawing will be held during the Member's Reception at the
conference.
Thanks in advance for all the donations and for participating in this
worthy event!
For any questions and to send items or photos, please contact:
Rebecca Moss
Director of Visual Resources
Department of Art History
University of Minnesota
338 Heller Hall
271 19th Ave. So
Minneapolis, MN 55455
mossx014@tc.umn.edu
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Souvenir Baseball Cap
Join the VRA team with a
2001 Chicago conference
Souvenir Baseball Cap
This jaunty chapeau will be
available at the conference
for $15.00
This 2001 conference souvenir
is brought to you by your hosts,
the Midwest VRA Chapter
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