Announcing the Recipients of the vrcHost Membership Awards

The vrcHost Membership Awards provide a year of individual VRA membership, and chapter memberships of the recipient’s choice, with the full benefits of being a VRA member, including but not limited to: access to the VRA Listserv; opportunities to publish in the open access VRA Bulletin; discounted registration for the annual national VRA conference; continuing education opportunities; and other mentoring and networking opportunities. They are intended to provide VRA memberships to engage new members in the organization and to help existing members, who might need financial assistance to retain their VRA membership.

These new 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 this generous subvention.

The VRA Awards Committee is delighted to announce that twelve information professionals have been selected as recipients of the 2023 vrcHost Membership Awards. Congratulations to:

• Ezekiel Amari McGee, University of California, Davis

• Gina Caprari, San Francisco State University

• Charlie P. Coffey, Wesleyan University

• Jennifer Galipo, MLIS, SJSU

• Joan Jocson-Singh, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

• Peter Kaiser, Student, Pratt Institute

• Gina Palumbo, Independent

• Mimosa Shah, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

• Molly Schoen, Fashion Institute of Technology

• Michelle Schweickart, University of Dayton

• Warner West, University of Richmond

• and those still processing membership or wishing to remain anonymous.

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

With much appreciation,

VRA Awards Committee

Sarah Beck (Lafayette University)

Maureen Burns (IMAGinED Consulting & Archivision Associate)

Linda Callahan (Mount Holyoke College, retired)

Dawn Feavyour (Independent)

Marcia Focht (Binghamton University, retired)

Ann McShane (Emory University)

Summer Shetenhelm (Yale University)

Margaret Webster (Cornell University, retired)

and with special thanks to Alexandra Scholten (University of Chicago) from VREPS for providing valuable assistance on the planning subcommittee