Call for Presentations-Friends of Dard Hunter '08 Meeting

Deadline: May 1, 2008 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time (RECEIVE)

Call for Presentations 2008
Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Meeting
Kona, Hawaii
OCTOBER 23-26, 2008

PRESENTATIONS
The Friends of Dard Hunter is a national non-profit organization that promotes and encourages the practice of hand papermaking, allied paper arts, the book arts, and other arts practiced by Dard Hunter (1883-1966). The Friends seeks proposals for presentations for its Annual Meeting to be held October 23-26, 2008, in Kona, Hawaii.

Presentations will be given on Friday, October 24th and Saturday, October 25th, and should be 20-45 minutes in length. Proposals should reflect the art, craft, and scholarship that the organization promotes and that bond the members of the Friends. Members who have not presented previously are encouraged to apply. Presenters receive no meeting registration fee waiver or honorarium. Presenters need not be members of the Friends of Dard Hunter.

In your proposal, please complete the information below, specifying the format of your presentation (e.g., lecture/talk, performance, panel discussion) and a description of your presentation (50–150 words). Please include a brief biographical statement (two sentences maximum) and a resume. We encourage you to submit your proposal via e-mail to Jill Littlewood at jill@littlewoodstudios.com. The deadline is May 1, 2008, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. You may also submit your material via regular mail that should be received by the deadline. If desired, mailed materials will be returned in a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) that you provide.

FORMAT
For the 2008 meeting, we request presentations that may be given via either DVD or video projector using Microsoft PowerPoint or similar electronic presentation software. Presenters should be prepared to bring their own laptop and cables. Details on these technical arrangements will be supplied after the selection process.

SELECTION
The members of the selection committee are the Executive Committee/Board of Directors (ECBOD) of the Friends of Dard Hunter (Jeffrey Barr, Amanda Degener, Betsy Dollar, Peter Hopkins, Rudy Kovacs, and Jill Littlewood), and our Hawaii site host, Marilyn Wold.

QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions regarding the meeting, please contact the V. P. of Annual Meetings:

Jill Littlewood
435 E. Pedregosa St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103 USA
e-mail: jill@littlewoodstudios.com


Call for Presenters-Proposal Form is available here: Presenters-Proposal Form


Frank Brannon
(incoming) Executive Director
Friends of Dard Hunter, Inc.
P.O. Box 759
Dillsboro, NC 28725
http://www.friendsofdardhunter.org/