ARLIS/NA 54th Annual Conference

Open to all ARLIS/NA members who lead, aspire to lead, or wish to support the evolution of our field and organization.

This year’s Institute has two parts. For the first half, we are excited to welcome Vesna Antwan, a Montreal-based professional coach, who will facilitate a workshop titled “Burnout Prevention: Navigating Stress and Building Resiliency in Challenging Times.” See below for the full workshop description. For the second half, we will focus on rethinking the structure of ARLIS/NA and brainstorming ways to make our work more sustainable for our members.

Burnout Prevention: Navigating Stress and Building Resiliency in Challenging Times

Burnout is not simply the result of working too hard, it is often the predictable outcome of chronic stress, structural constraints, and care-based professions being asked to do more with fewer resources. For those whose work sits at the intersection of service, education, and community care, burnout has become increasingly common and increasingly normalized.

This participatory 90-minute workshop invites participants to explore burnout through both an individual and systemic lens. Together, we will examine what burnout is (and what it isn’t), how it shows up emotionally and physically, and why resilience cannot rest solely on individual coping strategies. The session will combine short teaching segments, reflection, and facilitated group engagement to support shared language and collective insight.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

· Distinguish between stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout, and recognize early warning signs

· Understand the emotional, physical, and relational impacts of burnout, particularly in care-oriented and service-driven roles

· Identify how organizational culture and systemic pressures contribute to burnout

· Apply practical, realistic tools to support energy, boundaries, and resilience in the workplace and beyond

Participants will leave with greater clarity, shared language, and concrete strategies they can adapt to their own professional contexts — as well as a renewed sense that burnout is not a personal failure, but a collective challenge that deserves collective care.

Photo: Vesna Antwan, professional coach

A light snack will be provided. 
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Meet Your Divisions, Sections, SIGs, and Affiliates Ice Cream & Coffee Social

Cool off, recharge, and connect! Join us for a relaxed ice cream and coffee social where you can meet colleagues from ARLIS/NA’s Divisions, Sections, Special Interest Groups, and Affiliate organizations.

Whether you’re new to ARLIS/NA or a longtime member, this is a sweet way to discover communities that match your professional interests and get involved in collaborative projects.

All attendees welcome — come for the connections, stay for the sprinkles! 

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Reception hosted by Liv Valmestad, ARLIS/NA President, and our ARLIS/NA Membership Committee. Mix and mingle with members of the ARLIS/NA Executive Board, members at large, as well as your fellow attendees. Ribbons on badges identify attendees as speakers, moderators, board members, and more, making it easy for you to introduce yourself to new people. First-Time ARLIS/NA attendees and attendees from outside the United States are encouraged to attend.
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Reconnect with colleagues at a catered opening reception in the hotel’s elegant Montreal Ballroom. Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and hors d'oeuvres will be provided.

We extend our sincere gratitude to the following ARLIS/NA chapters whose generous contributions made the opening reception possible: Central Plains, Mid-Atlantic, Midstates, Mountain West, New England, New York, Northern California, Northwest, Southern California, and Twin Cities.
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Mingle with attendees over a hot breakfast before sessions begin for the day! Breakfast is provided free for all registered attendees and will feature a bagel bar, fresh sliced fruit, yogurt bar, cheddar plate, assorted pastries (GF and non-GF), coffee, tea, and an assortment of juices.

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Visit the Makerspace for a dose of creative and social stimulation between conference programs. Organized annually by SCIP SIG.

The ARLIS/NA Diversity & Inclusion Committee is excited to welcome Camille Larivée, who will be giving a presentation entitled Resistance is Our Only Armour: Art as Insurrection. The presentation will be in English.

Camille Larivée is an award-winning street artist, independent curator, writer, and cultural worker based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montreal, on Turtle Island (so-called Canada). Camille’s artistic and curatorial work is focused on amplifying what the dominant culture tries to suppress; from making space for invisibilized collective memories in urban public space, to reminders of the urgency of caring for local biodiversity. Camille will speak about their public art projects, exhibitions, and publications that they have brought to fruition in the past decade, and art as a force for challenging the status quo and claiming space and power.

Camille will trace persistent themes of combatting erasure and making the marginalized visible from the beginnings of their street art interruptions during the infamous 2012 Quebec Student Strike, through the foundation of their collective project, Unceded Voices: Anticolonial Street Artists Convergence, to their work with the Indigenous Curatorial Collective/Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) and their book about Francophone Indigenous art in Quebec, D’horizons et d’estuaires – Entre mémoires et créations autochtones. Camille will speak to how they prioritize the actions of diversity and accessibility in their current role as the Executive and Artistic Director at the Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI), a pioneering multidisciplinary venue in the Canadian art scene, and love and reverence in their independent artistic and curatorial practice today.

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Le comité Diversité et inclusion de l’ARLIS/NA est ravi d’accueillir Camille Larivée.

Le Comité Diversité et inclusion de l'ARLIS/NA est ravi d'accueillir Camille Larivée, qui fera une présentation intitulée : « La résistance est notre seule armure : l'art comme insurrection ». La présentation sera donnée en anglais.

Camille Larivée est une artiste de rue primée, une commissaire indépendante, une écrivaine et une actrice du secteur culturel basée à Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montréal, sur l’île de la Tortue (ce qu’on appelle le Canada). Le travail artistique et curatorial de Camille vise à mettre en lumière ce que la culture dominante tente de réprimer ; qu’il s’agisse de faire une place aux mémoires collectives invisibilisées dans l’espace public urbain ou de rappeler l’urgence de préserver la biodiversité locale. Camille parlera de ses projets d’art public, de ses expositions et de ses publications réalisés au cours de la dernière décennie, ainsi que de l’art en tant que force permettant de remettre en question le statu quo et de revendiquer un espace et un pouvoir.

Camille retracera les thèmes récurrents de la lutte contre l’effacement et de la visibilité des personnes marginalisées, depuis les débuts de ses interventions d’art urbain lors de la célèbre grève étudiante de 2012 au Québec, en passant par la création de son projet collectif, Unceded Voices : Anticolonial Street Artists Convergence, jusqu’à son travail avec l’Indigenous Curatorial Collective/Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) et son livre sur l’art autochtone francophone au Québec, D’horizons et d’estuaires – Entre mémoires et créations autochtones. Camille expliquera comment elle accorde la priorité à la diversité et à l’accessibilité dans son rôle actuel de directrice générale et artistique de Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI), un lieu multidisciplinaire pionnier de la scène artistique canadienne, ainsi qu’à l’amour et au respect dans sa pratique artistique et curatoriale indépendante d’aujourd’hui.

Portrait of Camille Larivée, © Katya Konioukhova
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Come grab a cup of coffee or tea and visit with exhibitors.
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All posters have been assigned numbers, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. Please see attached PDF for more information.

The Exhibit Hall will be open for conference attendees to meet vendors and to learn more about the products and services they offer.

A catered luncheon for our BIPOC members to share a meal, experiences, and develop professional networks during a dedicated time and space.
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All posters have been assigned numbers, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. Please see attached PDF for more information.

The Exhibit Hall will be open for conference attendees to meet vendors and to learn more about the products and services they offer.

Join us for the poster opening session. Meet with poster presenters, and enjoy some light refreshments.

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All posters have been assigned numbers, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. See attachment for more information.

The Exhibitors Reception offers a unique chance to connect directly with the vendors essential to art libraries. Meet the people behind the platforms, publications, and services you rely on, and strengthen the relationships that support our field while enjoying a beverage (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and tasty food stations.
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The ARLIS/NA Society Circle is pleased to present an artist talk by Didier Morelli at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Morelli is a curator, performance and art historian, cultural critic, and visual artist.

Please note that adding this event to your Sched itinerary does NOT mean you have registered for the talk. You must register for this event when you register for the conference.
 
Transportation will not be provided. The CCA is accessible by Metro.
 
An invitation-only Society Circle reception and tour of the CCA’s vaults for members who have donated $200+ USD (or $200+ CAD for non-US based members) will follow the artist talk.

This event is generously supported by ARLIS/NA Society Circle donors. To donate or learn more about joining the ARLIS/NA Society Circle, please visit: https://www.arlisna.org/donate-now.
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Mingle with attendees over a hot breakfast before sessions begin for the day! Breakfast is provided free for all registered attendees
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Visit the Makerspace for a dose of creative and social stimulation between conference programs. Organized annually by SCIP SIG.

The Exhibit Hall will be open for conference attendees to meet vendors and to learn more about the products and services they offer.

Come grab a cup of coffee or tea and visit with exhibitors.
#coffee

All posters have been assigned numbers, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. Please see attached PDF for more information.

Rehearsal for presenters and award winners to review the Convocation and Awards Ceremony agenda and logistics.

The Exhibit Hall will be open for conference attendees to meet vendors and to learn more about the products and services they offer.

All posters have been assigned numbers, which is how you will be able to locate them in St-Laurent Rooms 1-2 on the main/lobby floor of the Hotel Bonaventure. Please see attached PDF for more information.

Come grab a cup of coffee, tea and some snacks while you visit with exhibitors.
#food

All posters must be removed by 6:00 PM.

"Please join us for the 54nd annual ARLIS/NA Convocation & Awards Ceremony. Our convocation keynote speaker will be the renowned artist Angela Graurholz.

Artist/photographer and graphic designer Angela Grauerholz has been living and working in Montreal since 1976. She was a founding member of ARTEXTE and has worked as a designer for art magazines, museums and artists throughout the 80s. As Full Professor at the École de design Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)—where she also directed the Centre de design (2008 to 2012)—she taught typography and photography from 1988 to 2017. In 2019, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver awarded her an Honorary Doctorate of Letters, and more recently, UQAM bestowed upon her the title of Professor Emerita.
Her artistic work has been exhibited and collected widely in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She has participated in many international events of distinction including the Sydney Biennale (1990), Documenta IX (1992), the Carnegie International (1995) and the Montréal Biennale (2004). She was awarded a number of prestigious prizes for her accomplishments in the arts, such as Québec’s Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (2006), the Canada Council’s Governor General Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014), and in 2015, the distinguished Scotiabank Photography Award (Toronto).
Amongst a selection of many solo exhibitions, her work was shown at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, (Münster, 1991), the MIT List Visual Arts Center, (Cambridge, MA, 1993), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, 1999), the Power Plant (Toronto, 1999), the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College (Chicago, 1999), the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (2004), VOX, Contemporary Image Centre, Montreal (2006), and the Vancouver Public Library (2008). Angela Grauerholz (photographies 1990 – 1995), a survey exhibition organized by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 1995, travelled to several institutions in Canada, Germany, Swizerland, and France (1995-96). In 2010, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa mounted a retrospective exhibition of her work, consequently shown at the University of Toronto Art Center in 2011. In conjunction with the Scotiabank Photography Award, the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto also put together another important survey exhibition (2016).

L'artiste/photographe et graphiste Angela Grauerholz vit et travaille à Montréal depuis 1976. Elle a été membre fondatrice d'ARTEXTE et a travaillé comme graphiste pour des magazines d'art, des musées et des artistes tout au long des années 80. Professeure titulaire à l'École de design de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), où elle a également dirigé le Centre de design (de 2008 à 2012), elle a enseigné la typographie et la photographie de 1988 à 2017. En 2019, l'Université d'art et de design Emily Carr lui a décerné un doctorat honorifique en lettres, et plus récemment, l'UQAM lui a conféré le titre d'émérite.

Son travail artistique a été largement exposé et collectionné au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe. Elle a participé à de nombreux événements internationaux prestigieux, notamment la Biennale de Sydney (1990), la Documenta IX (1992), la Carnegie International (1995) et la Biennale de Montréal (2004). Elle a reçu plusieurs prix prestigieux pour ses réalisations dans le domaine des arts, tels que le Prix Paul-Émile Borduas du Québec (2006), le Prix du Gouverneur général en arts visuels et médiatiques du Conseil des Arts du Canada (2014) et, en 2015, le prestigieux Prix Scotiabank de la photographie (Toronto)."

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Celebrate Convocation at the Société des arts technologiques (SAT) with a reception unlike any other. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience the SAT’s iconic 360-degree immersive dome, animated by VJ Bunbun and accompanied by striking, large-scale visuals—an unforgettable convergence of sound, image, and shared experience.

Founded in 1996, the SAT is a non-profit creative hub dedicated to the development and celebration of digital culture. It uniquely brings together immersive experiences, research, training, performances, exhibitions, and social spaces under one roof, making it a renowned destination for cutting-edge art, technology, and community engagement in the heart of Montreal.

Drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Directions for getting to the SAT from the Hotel : 

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Mingle with attendees over a hot breakfast before sessions begin for the day! Breakfast is provided free for all registered attendees and will feature fresh sliced fruit, eggs, breakfast pork and sausage, chef’s choice of potatoes, individual yogurts, assorted pastries (GF and non-GF), coffee, tea, and an assortment of juices.
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Visit the Makerspace for a dose of creative and social stimulation between conference programs. Organized annually by SCIP SIG.

Hosted by the Executive Board and open to all ARLIS/NA members, please join your colleagues at the ARLIS/NA Annual Membership and Business Meeting to show your support as the new members of the Executive Board take office. The meeting will feature updates on society activities, remembrances, a preview of the 2027 conference, time for your questions, and much more.  Coffee, tea, muffins and donuts will be provided.
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Join us on May 6th from 17h-19h for the launch of ARLIS/NA very own vitrine at Artexte: Petits actes de résistance / Small Acts of resistance. Artexte has gathered small artists’ publications from ARLIS members (present, past and even future) or affiliates on the theme of resistance. This display of artworks from our own community will create a conversation amongst ourselves on the meaning of resistance, especially in our current political climate, as well as on its material interpretations through different mediums. It will also create a window for publics less familiar with our field to engage with the kinds of reflections that live with us as information professionals, artists and humans.

Join us in a relaxed setting to celebrate our creative spirit and discover Artexte as a vital documentation centre for contemporary art among your peers. Bar service will be available.

This event is free and open to the public.

Transportation : not provided.
The recommended transportation arrangements are to walk (25 minutes) or use public transit as a group from the Hotel (Métro Bonaventure to Métro Saint-Laurent).

Destination addess : Artexte Information Centre, 2 Rue Sainte-Catherine E #301, Montreal, Quebec H2X 1K4

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