IAWA Board of Advisors Working Meeting: September 3, 2002

IAWA

CAUS

IAWA Board of Advisors Working Meeting

September 3, 2002
Milka Bliznakov Home

Present: Donna Dunay, Marcia Feuerstein, Brian Katen, Gail McMillan, and Mitzi Vernon

Absent: Terry Clements, Paul Knox, Eileen Hitchingham, and Frank Weiner

Call to Order:

Chair Marcia Feuerstein called the meeting to order at 4:10 P.M. Chair Feuerstein noted that the minutes had been approved electronically. Professor McMillan noted that she was not present at the last meeting though the minutes indicated otherwise. Professor Vernon will make the correction and resend the minutes with today's meeting.

Chair Feuerstein asked for a motion to approve the agenda. Professor Katen so moved and Professor Vernon seconded. The motion was approved unanimously.

Report from the Treasurer:

Professor Terry Clements was absent. Chair Feuerstein mentioned that our state account has available balance of $276.82. In the Foundation account, the earnings of the restricted account is $1,210. The unrestricted balance is $7,520 plus a donation from the Vermont Women in Design organization. We will inquire about receiving their archives, Professor Vernon suggested we use the remaining balance in the state account to covering some of the annual meeting costs.

Newsletter

Professor McMillan reported that the newsletters were picked up yesterday and prepared for mailing. 1,328 were mailed out, and 2,500 were printed.

Archivist Report

Professor McMillan reported that the Board of Advisors mailing list needs to be reviewed and approved. She also reported that the biographical database has more than doubled since the last annual meeting. She reported finding publications about women in architecture and began entering them into the database. Publications written by Chair Feuerstein were added to the web site. Jane Hastings submitted material to the archive from the Hastings group in Seattle.10 cubic feet of materials were submitted. Claire Bonney has submitted her first report from the first Milka Bliznakov Prize. Her materials will be posted on the web site.

Professor McMillan is looking at other archive collections that are online to help us refine ours. She passed around brochures of two sites at the meeting (The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Projects [www.philadelphiabuildings.org] and Scotland's Development through its Architectural Archives from the industrialization to the Millenium [www.drawnevidence.ac.uk]).

Bliznakov Prize

Professor Dunay reported that we have received only three submissions for this year's Prize.

Annual Meeting

Chair Feuerstein noted that she had just sent out email to the whole Board explaining the continued budget crisis in Virginia and its impact on this year's annual meeting. We have a submission into the Women and Minorities Lecture series for support, but this will be awarded until after the meeting. Attendees for the upcoming meeting include: Tony Wrenn, Gerri Schaad, Despina Stratigakos, Inge Horton, Lucinda Kaukas, Wenche Findal, and Brinda Somaya. We are still in need of places for the out of town members to stay.

The exhibit is on schedule and will be in the CAUS lobby Thursday, October 3 through Sunday. We are building a new exhibit, pulling materials from the archive.

There will be a symposium on Friday, October 4 in the two conference rooms in CAUS.

The working meeting will be at Professor Bliznakov's house followed by a reception in the Cowgill Lobby. The Board meeting will be Sunday morning in the library followed by lunch. We may need to bring in lunch to the meeting due to budget difficulties.

Other Business

Marcia noted that Professor Clements had purchased the book for Dawn. The committee needs to reimburse Terry for this and for a dinner-for-two certificate for Dawn.

The working meeting can be used to revisit the protocol for collecting work in order to prepare something for the official meeting on Sunday.

Chair Feuerstein is writing a charter for the IAWA as a center for the University. Stakeholders need to be listed, and she has invited Ron Wakefield and Frank Weiner. Professor McMillan was also asked. Chair Feuerstein will talk with Paul Knox and Eileen Hitchingham. Suggestions were made for others from: Interiors, Landscape, Art and Art History. David Brugh, development officer for Library, will be invited to the annual meeting. Brugh might have something to contribute to the discussion of stakeholders.

The next meeting is 4:00, Tuesday 10 September.

Chair Feuerstein called for a motion for adjournment. Professor Vernon so moved and Professor Katen seconded the motion. The meeting was adjourned at 5:10 P.M.

Professor Mitzi Vernon respectfully submits these minutes.