Announcing the Recipients of the 2025 vrcHost Membership Awards

Written By PR&C Officer

The VRA Awards Committee is delighted to announce that twenty information professionals have been selected as recipients of the 2025 vrcHost Membership Awards.

The vrcHost Membership Awards provide a year of individual VRA membership, and chapter memberships of the recipient’s choice. They are intended to provide VRA memberships to engage new members in the organization and to help existing members who need financial assistance retain their VRA membership.

This third round of awards are sponsored by vrcHost, a company that offers comprehensive solutions for the Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) project--installation, integration, hosting, customization, and software development--while also serving as the exclusive agent for the Archivision Research Library, which provides professional architecture and art photography with rich metadata for educational purposes. VRA is grateful for vrcHost’s continued generosity.

Congratulations to:

  • Jung Soo Bae, National Gallery of Art, DC

  • Filippia Cheilitsi, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Greece

  • Daniel Cichowlas, Wayne State University, Michigan

  • Claire Cirocco, Wayne State University, Michigan

  • Jori Dale,  Prairie View A&M University, Texas 

  • Aurora Daniel, Simmons University, Massachusetts

  • Christine Gindhart, University of Alabama, Alabama

  • Abdelmoniem Mohammed Gomaa, Fayoum University, Egypt

  • Lacey Prpić Hedtke, American Craft Council, Minnesota

  • Noah Krasman, Wayne State University, Michigan

  • Andrea Linsmeier, Recent MLIS Graduate, Wisconsin

  • Caroline Moore, Metropolitan Library System of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

  • Sruthi Nanam, Wayne State University, Michigan

  • Olivera Nastic, Belgrade City Library, Serbia

  • Wen Nie Ng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia

  • Erin Robinson, San Jose State University, California

  • Ruth Thomas, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Special Collections Research Library, New Mexico

  • Saija Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina

  • …and two anonymous awardees

Please join us in welcoming these new members to the Visual Resources Association and in thanking vrcHost for funding these awards.

With much appreciation,

VRA Awards Committee

PR&C Officer
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