Please join us on Wednesday at 12pm for a Brown Bag visit from the 
Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. With over 20 million items in 
its growing collections, the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art is 
the world's largest and most widely used resource dedicated to 
collecting and preserving the primary records of the visual arts in 
America. Sara Snyder and Kelly Quinn will introduce the Archives' 
ongoing digital projects, funded by the Terra Foundation for American 
Art, which have resulted in unprecedented online access to their unique 
collections. They will discuss future plans to enhance access to 
transcripts and audiovisual materials and to deepen the Archives' 
relationships with scholars, educators, and researchers in the arts and 
humanities.

Speakers: Sara Snyder and Kelly Quinn
Date: Wednesday, Feb 27th Time: 12pm
Location: Research Hall, room 470

Speaker Bios: Sara Snyder is the Webmaster at the Archives of American 
Art, where she has managed the user experience for the Archives’ web and 
new media presence since 2007. Her areas of interest include usability, 
interaction design, information architecture, web analytics, and search 
engine optimization; she also coordinates the Archives’ outreach 
projects with the Wikipedia volunteer community. She has an M.L.S. and 
an M.A. in History from the University of Maryland, and a B.A. in 
Literature from the University of California San Diego.

Kelly Quinn is the Terra Foundation Project Manager for Online Scholarly 
and Educational Initiatives at the Archives of American Art, where she 
produces educational content and facilitates connections between the 
Archives' digital projects and scholarly researchers and educators. 
Quinn taught at Miami University, University of Michigan, and University 
of Maryland where she earned a Ph.D. in American Studies and 
Certificates in Historic Preservation and Women's Studies. She is 
currently revising a book manuscript that is under contract with 
University of Minnesota Press. It is a biography of Hilyard R. Robinson, 
an African American architect who lived and worked in Washington, D.C.

Jeny Martinez
  Office Manager
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
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