IAWA Board of Advisors Working Meeting: March 20, 2002

IAWA

CAUS

IAWA Board of Advisors Working Meeting

March 20, 2002
Milka Bliznakov Home

Present: Terry Clements, Donna Dunay, Marcia Feuerstein, Jennifer Gunter (for Gail McMillan), Brian Katen, and Mitzi Vernon.

Visitors: Milka Bliznakov, Dawn Bushnaq, Kay Edge, Heather Woofter.

Call to Order:

Chair Marcia Feuerstein called the meeting to order at 4:20 p.m.

Chair Feuerstein introduced Ms. Jennifer Gunter who attended for Professor McMillan.

Chair Feuerstein noted that the minutes had been approved electronically. Secretary Mitzi Vernon sent the approved minutes to Gail McMillan for distribution to the Board of Advisors.

Agenda:

Marcia Feuerstein proposed that the agenda be amended to include in "New or Other Business", a report by Jennifer Gunter on the staff addition to Special Collections. Donna Dunay moved to approve the amended agenda. Brian Katen seconded the motion and the agenda was approved unanimously.

Report from the Treasurer:

Treasurer Terry Clements reported that the current balance of the IAWA account (the Discretionary Funds Account) is $876.82, which is 68.79 % of the operating budget. She also noted two new donations since the last report: from Angela Giral Wena Dows.

A discussion about how to document donations and thank donors took place. It was decided that the Treasurer should send a thank you note to the donor including the specific amount donated (for tax reporting) and also send a copy of donation information to the Dean.

Chair Feuerstein reported that she will talk with Frank Weiner about the impact of recent budget cuts on Department of Architecture funding for the IAWA annual meeting and newsletter.

Report on Nominations:

Professor Vernon reported that we have three nominations submitted by Brinda Somaya. Submitted with the minutes is a document that organizes the ongoing status of the IAWA Board that Professor Vernon has developed. This will be periodically updated by the Secretary. Professor Kay Edge will be on the ballot to replace Brian, but will run for a full three-year term.

There will a mention on the ballot encouraging Board members to consider carefully the contributions of existing members and potentially new members when marking their votes. Ballot will include an excerpt from the By-Laws.

Ballots should go out by April 15th in order to have elections settled by the May meeting.

Professor Dunay noted that Professor Emerita Blanch Lemco van Ginkel and Dr. Annette Burr need to be added to the list of emeritae on the new membership document.

Nominations for new emeritus members should be discussed at the upcoming annual meeting.

Professor Bliznakov noted to add FAIA to Dr. Steger's name and to Professor Lemco van Ginkel's name. Professor Vernon will make a note on the ballot that states the executive decision of the Executive Board to appoint Heather Ball as an Honorary Advisor.

Newsletter

Professor Kay Edge discussed the progress of the newsletter. She reported that we are on schedule for printing. She is waiting on an article from Professor McMillan. Professor Bliznakov suggested that some donations/articles of importance could be left for next year because we do not have a major donation on the horizon.

Chair Feuerstein reminded Professor Dunay that Sarah Newbill should have IAWA information for inclusion in the ACSA newsletter.

Archivist Report

Jennifer Gunter reported that Catherine O'Brion has been hired as the Manuscripts Curator in a three-year restricted term as faculty member. She is from the state of Washington. She begins her position on April 1, 2002. She will be working on writing grants and processing collections.

Professor Emerita Milka Bliznakov Report

Professor Bliznakov gave a lecture, "The IAWA" at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C. on Friday, March 15 to the members of the NGA, some former students of CAUS, and other guests in honor of Women's Month. There is a new exhibition of American Furniture in which design will be included. Donna Kirk, a former student, is employed in this division.

Professor Bliznakov reported that the lecture included history of the formation of the archive. She said to the group that she realized upon coming to the U.S., that women were not included in any lectures on architecture, and that there were so few in the U.S. She showed slides of work in groups beginning with women architects from the U.S. She showed slides from the CAUS library and the IAWA exhibition. She spoke about the problem of women being part of collaborations, and that this is a problem for acknowledgment for women (if they were in partnerships with men). She then went on to talk about women architects of Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, and India. She ended with the exhibition of last year. She was asked "why only here?" (at the NGA). "Why not a better effort to be publish information about the IAWA?" She was encouraged to give similar lectures to other schools of architecture.

2005 Exhibit

To get an exhibition in the NGA we need to have something that is already known. Milka confessed that the newsletter had traditionally been more about attempting to collect archives than to publicize the IAWA.

Professor Vernon suggested that we make this year's annual meeting about establishing an advertising campaign. The work session that precedes the meeting should be about establishing a strategy that is then presented to the Board at the meeting. It was stated that we should be certain to invite Sarah Newbill (publicity director for CAUS). Professor Dunay suggested that we invite past advisors also.

Dawn Bushnaq passed around a document that she and Chair Feuerstein have been developing on the upcoming 20^th year IAWA exhibit. It was suggested that we have models made for this exhibit from some of the Archive's drawings

Chair Feuerstein asked Jennifer Gunter if we could share slide archives from Newman. Gunter suggested that we have a digital archive for longer preservation and diverse future use.

The document prepared by Feuerstein and Bushnaq was in preparation for grant applications for funding the exhibit. Students would be encouraged to help do archive research in preparation for the exhibit.

Meeting Schedules

Next meeting is April 15^th in the library.

Other Business

Chair Feuerstein mentioned that we have to put together a charter in order to become a part of the new official list of Departmental Centers.

Chair Feuerstein requested a motion for adjournment. Professor Vernon so moved and Professor Dunay seconded the motion. The meeting was adjourned at 6:03 P.M.

Professor Mitzi Vernon respectfully submits these minutes