#ARCSchat January 11, Getty Survey, & Renew your ARCS Membership! ARCS Update Vol 7 | Update 1
January 10, 2022 | ARCS News#ARCSchat January 2022: The Trials and Ethics of Rapid Response Collecting
In April of 2020, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History launched a task force charged with collecting and documenting the impact of COVID-19 on history and culture. At a moment's notice they had to formulate a collecting strategy and begin the acquisition of objects and archives that documented a crisis that even now, almost 2 years later, continues to unfold. On the next #ARCSchat, we will speak with our guests Alexandra Lord, Chair of the Division of Medicine and Science, and Joshua Gorman, Head of Collections Management, about how they devised and implemented a collections strategy and went about the task of documenting a crisis while in the crisis.
To join the conversation, tune in to the ARCS YouTube channel on January 11 at 1:00 p.m. ET. Sign in to your YouTube/Google/Gmail account to ask the panel your questions.
Getty Conservation Institution Neon Survey
Have you ever dealt with artworks containing neon or fluorescent tubes? If so, the Getty Conservation Institute invites you to participate in a short (under 10 minutes!), needs-assessment survey to help shape our future projects on the conservation of gas-filled tubes: GCI Neon Survey
Renew your ARCS Membership for 2022!
ARCS Members can now renew their memberships for 2022! Log onto ARCSinfo.org with your username and password, and if you see “Make A Payment” in the upper right corner, you can renew your membership. Have a question about the status of your membership? Contact us at info@arcsinfo.org
