SAH Commons | Amy Furness | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/furnessa/activity/ Activity feed for Amy Furness. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:07:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 17c44c76901d33d515d22299ad4a4bdc Amy Furness replied to the topic Conference Proposal Idea for Management SIG in the forum ARLIS/NA Management Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/management-special-interest-group/forum/topic/conference-proposal-idea-for-management-sig/#post-7057 Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:21:03 -0400 Hi Courtney – I like your idea! Time is pretty tight but I’d be interested. It might make sense to reach out to some prospective participants directly if you have a few people in mind?

]]> 0 33bbd733851e20a464004828fcf4289d Amy Furness's profile was updated https://arlisna.hcommons.org/activity/p/1929198/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:15:43 -0400 0 9ce5252531fce177436321abea136e45 Amy Furness's profile was updated https://arlisna.hcommons.org/activity/p/1923220/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:34:59 -0400 0 1535034c5e648505e8bcde8c5acabda0 Amy Furness changed their profile picture https://arlisna.hcommons.org/activity/p/1921538/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:53:10 -0400 0 d59268386a97eb6385ef34942c4d91a7 Amy Furness started the topic Save the date - and - Call for SIG co-coordinators in the forum ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-artist-files-special-interest-group/forum/topic/save-the-date-and-call-for-sig-co-coordinators/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:00:32 -0400 Please save the date for the Artist Files SIG annual meeting, which has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 6 at 10am Pacific / 11am Mountain / 12pm Central / 1pm Eastern / 2pm Atlantic. All interested ARLIS/NA members and prospective members are welcome to attend!

Also: the SIG has an opening for a new coordinator or co-coordinators. Kathleen and I…[Read more]

]]> 0 581f0a90a05f43bfc8f45ba581a70262 Amy Furness started the topic New blog post: Artists Files in Action No. 6 – The Artists in Canada Database in the forum ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-artist-files-special-interest-group/forum/topic/new-blog-post-artists-files-in-action-no-6-the-artists-in-canada-database/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:57:43 -0500 Our excellent SIG co-coordinator Kathleen O’Reilly has just authored a blog post about the National Gallery of Canada’s work on the Artists in Canada database, a national discovery tool built on their collection of artist files. Read the blog post here, with a link out to a longer article in the National Gallery of Canada Magazine by Kathleen.

]]> 0 03b5b1e92fac10131d21c081aacddaf0 Amy Furness replied to the topic Summer Lightning Talks in the discussion ARLIS/NA Museum Division https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-museum-division/forum/topic/summer-lightning-talks/#post-5995 Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:42:06 -0400 Jennifer, this sounds great! Sorry to miss it – I will be on vacation then – but happy to join the conversation if there’s a future round.

]]> 0 bba2e47b6cf65d4f8be26d69276e6f8a Amy Furness started the topic ARLIS/NA Ontario Toronto meetup - May 29 in the discussion ARLIS/NA Ontario https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-ontario/forum/topic/arlis-na-ontario-toronto-meetup-may-29/ Tue, 14 May 2024 13:33:19 -0400 For those of you in Toronto, please join chapter members on Wednesday, May 29, 5:30-7pm at the Victory Cafe (440 Bloor St W, between Spadina and Bathurst TTC stations). We’ll be on the (covered) patio.This is a chance to meet up informally, get acquainted and talk about what we’d like to see happening with our chapter.I realize there are lots of…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a09738e281f6fee00be835c54f0fdbc Amy Furness edited the post Chapter update in the group ARLIS/NA Ontario https://ontario.arlisna.hcommons.org/2024/05/11/chapter-update/ Sat, 11 May 2024 19:48:03 -0400 The ARLIS/NA Ontario Chapter is going through a dormant phase, with our Chair and Vice-Chair roles currently empty. We have a small but solid membership base representing arts information institutions across […]

]]> d495c75849993c37f0005097bb685ff1 Amy Furness started the topic Upcoming conference sessions related to artist files in the discussion ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-artist-files-special-interest-group/forum/topic/upcoming-conference-sessions-related-to-artist-files/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:40:10 -0400 Greetings, everyone! For those attending next week’s conference (or still considering virtual attendance), there is at least one in-person and one virtual session related to artist files that I wanted to flag for this group. Elevating an Ephemeral Collection: Expanding and Discovering Artist Files (Regan Brumagen and Allie Shanafelter) is part of…[Read more]

]]> 0 1aa3a5552edc1591bdd33938113cd51b Amy Furness started the topic Our new co-coordinator, Kathleen O'Reilly in the discussion ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-artist-files-special-interest-group/forum/topic/our-new-co-coordinator-kathleen-oreilly/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:14:58 -0500 Please join me in welcoming Kathleen O’Reilly, Cataloguer at the National Gallery of Canada, as the new co-coordinator for the Artist Files SIG. Kathleen brings a wealth of cataloguing expertise and her enthusiasm for artist files to the role, and I am excited for our collaboration!

]]> 0 e5785ea00a183566420c3b88c6413f77 Amy Furness replied to the topic Artist Collectives in the discussion ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-artist-files-special-interest-group/forum/topic/artist-collectives/?view=all#post-5504 Sat, 27 Jan 2024 22:42:32 -0500 At AGO we create a new artist file if there are 3 or more items to go into it (lone items are filed in a general file for each letter of the alphabet so they have a chance to accumulate). In some cases the creation of an artist file would be the occasion for creating a new authority record, i.e. we have nothing else pertaining to that artist -…[Read more]

]]> 0 1963dac6bcca4465969c17c8b27d5b38 Amy Furness replied to the topic Deeds of Gift in the discussion ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-artist-files-special-interest-group/forum/topic/deeds-of-gift/?view=all#post-5433 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:30:18 -0500 Commons seems to be cutting off your post after the first sentence or so, Amelia. I’m intrigued to hear more – we have not used a deed of gift at AGO even when inviting artist contributions, maybe because we discourage the inclusion of unique material. What is the scale of your collection, particularly the local artist component?

]]> 0 fc8e7125660ea2c66bdbb35f1acd8a4e Amy Furness edited the post Are paper files obsolete? in the group ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://artistfiles.arlisna.hcommons.org/2023/12/10/are-paper-files-obsolete/ Sun, 10 Dec 2023 22:11:31 -0500 The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative (CWAHI) grew out of Concordia University Visual Arts librarian Melinda Reinhart’s intention to create an online bio/bibliography of women artists in Canada. C […]

]]> 8c24099fcf3ebe6a21f114747df5a4f7 Amy Furness started the topic Artist Files SIG meeting in the discussion ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-artist-files-special-interest-group/forum/topic/artist-files-sig-meeting/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:01:19 -0400 We are having a meeting of the Artist Files SIG on Thursday, October 26 at 10am PDT/ 11am MDT/12pm CDT/1pm EDT/2pm ADT. All are welcome to join!

Meet your new SIG co-coordinators (myself and Freyja Catton) and join in an informal conversation to share updates on all things related to artist files, and make some plans for the year ahead.

This is…[Read more]

]]> 0 ded6a8fe0fd464e112c0f4a47cbb0a0d Amy Furness started the topic Welcome! in the discussion ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-artist-files-special-interest-group/forum/topic/welcome-4/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:04:02 -0400 This is the new Commons group for the Artist Files SIG. Freyja and I are just getting our bearings, working out some details of the website migration, wondering about new blog posts and starting to think about a SIG event for Fall – maybe an informal meeting to hear what kind of artist files thoughts are on everyone’s minds, and make some plans.…[Read more]

]]> 0 c69c2bec79dda90d358f9a5b815650d1 Amy Furness created the group ARLIS/NA Artist Files Special Interest Group https://arlisna.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852808/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:04:19 -0400 0 467e45301ef10863632d1e52606c9f3e Amy Furness deposited Report of the ARLIS/NA Presidential Task Force on Art Libraries and COVID-19 https://arlisna.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821208/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:19:47 -0500 The Presidential Task Force on Art Libraries and COVID-19 was established in May 2020, with
the charge “to assess and respond to ARLIS/NA members’ need for data about the impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic on art information professionals by identifying and compiling existing
sources of information and conducting survey(s) of the membership to fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3f0b4f1eb0ebf6ddb5adcdd5c62ef1c Amy Furness started the topic The Sioux Project—Tatanka Oyate | lauréat Melva J. Dwyer Award winner 2022 in the discussion ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter https://arlisna.hcommons.org/groups/arlis-na-canada-chapter/forum/topic/the-sioux-project-tatanka-oyate-laureat-melva-j-dwyer-award-winner-2022/ Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:08:03 -0400

The Sioux Project—Tatanka Oyate | 2022 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner / lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer 2022

]]> 0 8447fa59ce68f97ae7312dc64a1a5b00 Amy Furness wrote a new post The Sioux Project—Tatanka Oyate | 2022 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner / lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer 2022 in the group ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/2022/04/19/the-sioux-project-tatanka-oyate-2022-melva-j-dwyer-award-winner-laureat-du-prix-melva-j-dwyer-2022/ Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:53:08 -0400 The Sioux Project—Tatanka Oyate, a groundbreaking examination of contemporary Sioux aesthetics in relation to the work of Dana Claxton, was presented with the 31st annual Melva J. Dwyer Award by the C […]

]]> c38fc143bfc1117d2a840305513f9df3 Amy Furness created the group ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter https://arlisna.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775774/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:43:09 -0400 0 e64ba3f471870e04b36535000a956abc Amy Furness changed their profile picture https://arlisna.hcommons.org/activity/p/1773964/ Sat, 05 Mar 2022 21:15:53 -0500 0 1c8114f9fe6ab16f26e5b55eee510925 Amy Furness wrote a new post, Call for Nominations – Prix Melva J. Dwyer Award 2022 – Appel de candidatures, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=284 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 17:51:30 -0400 The Melva J. Dwyer Award was established in recognition of the contribution made to the field of art librarianship by Melva Dwyer, former head of the Fine Arts Library, University of British Columbia. It is giv […]

]]> 0 7be18d44143c59bcd929d40ff28d037d Amy Furness wrote a new post, Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence | 2021 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner / lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=275 Thu, 13 May 2021 16:20:33 -0400 Itee Pootoogook: Hymns to the Silence, an original examination of the work of a groundbreaking Inuit artist, was presented with the 30th annual Melva J. Dwyer Award by the Art Libraries Society of North […]

]]> 0 0374ddd052efad416cbc9a740054efa1 Amy Furness wrote a new post, Call for Nominations – Prix Melva J. Dwyer Award 2021 – Appel de candidatures, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=245 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:29:24 -0400 The Melva J. Dwyer Award was established in recognition of the contribution made to the field of art librarianship by Melva Dwyer, former head of the Fine Arts Library, University of British Columbia. It is giv […]

]]> 0 798df540ffbf80fbe8329aa22600171b Amy Furness wrote a new post, ARLIS Canada executive meeting, May 12, 2020, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=266 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 01:39:15 -0400 The cancellation of the in-person 2020 ARLIS/NA conference due to COVID-19 meant that Canadian members had no opportunity to meet in person this spring.  ARLIS Canada executive members met virtually on May 12 to […]

]]> 0 e9b8424b6dee2559bd052799273b216d Amy Furness wrote a new post, Tear Gas Epiphanies | 2020 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner / lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=238 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:39:07 -0400 Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums by Kirsty Robertson, an original scholarly examination of the phenomenon of protest within and against Canadian museums, was presented with the 29th annual Melva J. […]

]]> 0 8fb1f7572c58ea5fff3cc61aebc621c8 Amy Furness wrote a new post, Call for Nominations – Prix Melva J. Dwyer Award 2020 – Appel de candidatures, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=234 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:00:23 -0400 The Melva J. Dwyer Award was established in recognition of the contribution made to the field of art librarianship by Melva Dwyer, former head of the Fine Arts Library, University of British Columbia. It is giv […]

]]> 0 fe9b3cba908bc25b2fcbe46627f843cb Amy Furness wrote a new post, The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert | 2019 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner / lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=220 Tue, 14 May 2019 19:23:31 -0400 Joane Cardinal-Schubert Title Honored with the ARLIS/NA 2019 Melva J. Dwyer Award

The Writing on the Wall: The work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert, the first comprehensive examination of the artist’s life and work, w […]

]]> 0 f4984c97994cfd7f1b261ca699a67b98 Amy Furness wrote a new post, Call for Nominations - Prix Melva J. Dwyer Award - Appel de candidatures, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=194 Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:33:57 -0400 The Melva J. Dwyer Award was established in recognition of the contribution made to the field of art librarianship by Melva Dwyer, former head of the Fine Arts Library, University of British Columbia. It is giv […]

]]> 0 da87219d151f84a1ff39cf7e80124e37 Amy Furness wrote a new post, Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena | 2017 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner / lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=153 Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:51:53 -0500 Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena, researched and written by Howard Shubert and published by McGill-Queens University Press (2016), has been awarded the 2017 Melva J. Dwyer Award. The award was p […]

]]> 0 32cb79a8b05323572383fc0a45d8f0d1 Amy Furness wrote a new post, 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group | 2016 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner / lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=159 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:40:56 -0400 The 2016 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner is 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group, published in 2015 through a partnership of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Black Dog Publishing in both an English […]

]]> 0 367abadb3d982121ebb7e44a2284c052 Amy Furness wrote a new post, 2015 Melva J. Dwyer Award Winner / lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=162 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:16:07 -0400 The 2015 Melva J. Dwyer Award winner is Landscape Architecture in Canada, written by Ron Williams, published in 2014, in English by the McGill-Queens University Press and in French by les Presses de […]

]]> 0 e10601af52dd73f585eb8f2727e5a625 Amy Furness wrote a new post, 2014 Melva J. Dwyer Award Winner/ lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=167 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:36:40 -0400  

The Melva J. Dwyer Award committee received 11 nominations: each publication presented such uniquely valuable contributions to Canadian art, design, architecture and visual culture studies that it made for a c […]

]]> 0 017463f204cc47c94d2e1e8adcc214e3 Amy Furness wrote a new post, 2013 Melva J. Dwyer Award Winner/ lauréat du prix Melva J. Dwyer, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=175 Tue, 14 May 2013 18:43:40 -0400 The Melva J. Dwyer Award committee received 15 nominations this year representing a diverse range of subjects on Canadian art, architecture and design; we were all pleased to view such a dynamic array of p […]

]]> 0 2bb0a0bffb5f183a987a5f10d430cc9c Amy Furness wrote a new post, 2012 Melva Dwyer Award Winner, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=179 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:45:56 -0500 The 2012 Melva J. Dwyer Award goes to Francois-Marc Gagnon, Nancy Senior, and Réal Ouellet, for The Codex Canadensis, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2011.

The Melva J. Dwyer Award was esta […]

]]> 0 a7b71a6fa937e5cd084144d397cf683d Amy Furness wrote a new post, 2011 Melva Dwyer Award Winner, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=181 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:46:48 -0400 The 2011 Melva J. Dwyer Award goes to the Ontario Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre (co-publishers), and Gerald McMaster (editor), for Inuit Modern: Art from the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection, published […]

]]> 0 ba28f6683fe3f2962425c57a6d5b325b Amy Furness wrote a new post, 2010 Melva J. Dwyer Award Winner, on the site Canada Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America https://canada.arlisna.hcommons.org/?p=183 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:48:25 -0400 This year’s winner of the Melva J. Dwyer Award is Dr. Oliver Botar for Andor Weininger: A Bauhausler in Canada, published by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery,  2009.   This book, which accompanied the exhibit […]

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