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Questions and Answers (revised for the third round of consultancies 2007-2008)

1. Q: What information should be included in the school's application?
   • Start with a preliminary list of the basic types of Asian art and items of visual culture held by your institution, and the numbers within each category.
   • When possible, applications should provide some mention of provenance for objects: i.e., the history of the objects; who the donors were; how the donors got to Asia and how they acquired the objects.
   • Photographs of items will be helpful, but not required for an application.
   • The name and contact information (address, telephone and e-mail) for the on-campus coordinator.
   • Information about the academic background of the on-campus coordinator.
   • Comment on your access to digital camera of 3 1/2 mega pixels or higher, and a brief description of how prepared your institution will be to photograph selected objects.
   • A commitment from your institution to bear the on-campus costs of the consultancy.
   • A statement that your institution will grant copyright permission and waive fees for use of its materials selected for inclusion in the book and DVD.


2. What kinds of art and items of visual culture will an institution need to have in its collection to think of applying for a consultancy?
   • Artwork of aesthetic and pedagogic value from India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Tibet, countries of the Himalayan region, China, Korea, and Japan is sought.
   • Items of visual culture are also sought. Such items include objects used in everyday life that also have aesthetic and pedagogic value: e.g., items of clothing; shoes; other objects of personal adornment (such as combs, jewelry, or inryo and netsuke); tools, utensils, and writing equipment; paper and printed materials; weapons; furniture; ceramics, etc. This includes items that have entered college collections through ties with missionaries. This is not an inclusive listing of visual culture items. If in doubt, contact the Project Administrator at the address below.
   • Works of art do not always need to be of the very highest aesthetic quality, pedagogical considerations are also very important. When possible, mention of the history of the objects, information about the donors, and description of their relationship to Asia will be very helpful in judging pedagogical issues.
   • The project is about art, but it is also about connections to Asia. A large part of the value of an item might be in the narrative about its arrival in America.


3. Q: What are the benefits to my institution for participating?
   • Your institution will receive help in organizing and cataloguing the institution's holdings in Asian art and items of visual culture. Quality photographs of some of the institution's collection will be created as part of the process. In addition, the institution will become better known for the quality of its Asian art holdings.
   • Inclusion of heretofore little known works of Asian art on the DVD that accompanies the book will help bring about positive recognition for pieces in an institution's collection. Inclusion of those works will make image resources more widely available for the study of Asian art and culture.


4. Q: How will the products of this project (book and DVD) help my teaching?
   • The book and DVD will contain clearly described and indexed items of Asian art and everyday visual culture that can be easily and accurately plugged into a course. The DVD will be a valuable source for images of Asian art to be used in the classroom.
   • The scope, i.e. the geographical and historical regions covered in the book, will be as wide as possible, to meet the needs of as many AN schools as possible. This is important because Asian art is an area of art history still badly underserved by commercial suppliers of images needed for teaching.
   • We plan that the book will include specific pedagogical features such as topic summaries, questions for debate and discussion, guidelines for teachers and students, and so on.


5. Q: What is the deadline for an application?
   • January 8, 2007 will be the deadline for the third round of consultancies, which will be carried out in 2007-2008.


6. Q: How and when will consultancies be scheduled?
   • Successful applications for the second round of consultancies will be selected in mid-February 2007. At that time possible consultants will be matched with schools. The school's on-campus coordinator and the consultant will work together to set the time for the consultancy during the coming 2007-2008 school year.


7. Q: Will the on-campus coordinator receive a stipend?
   • The coordinator will receive a stipend of $1500. The stipend will be paid upon receipt of the agreed upon digitized images and a final two-three page report on the consultation from the on-campus coordinator.


8. Q: What is the typical scenario for a consultancy visit?
   • The answer to this question is that it will be up to the consultant and the institution to arrange the specific details for a two to three-day scenario of the consultant coming in one evening, having a full day on campus to examine the school's collection before leaving in the evening of day 2 or the morning of day 3. Schools are also encouraged to take advantage of the consultant's presence to offer an honorarium for the consultant to give a talk and/or meet with a class or two in addition to doing the consulting work. The advantage of this option to the institution will be that costs for the lecture will be limited to the amount of the honorarium; travel expenses will already be covered through the consultancy. On-campus accommodations and meals are also already being covered for the consultancy visit by the college, and will therefore not be an additional expense.


9. Q: What is the Special Grant Opportunity?
   • A small number of schools have both a substantial collection of Asian art and items of visual culture as well as staff who are experts in those materials. To support such colleges in analyzing and cataloguing objects in storage or not previously studied, the project will offer amounts up to $1500 to facilitate research, documentation, and digitization of works from their collections for use in the book that will be an end-product of this project.


10. Q: Must the applicant school be a member of the ASIANetwork consortium?
    • Yes. If your institution is not currently an ASIANetwork member, you must apply for membership before your application for a consultancy can be considered.


11. Q: Whom should I contact for answers to further questions?
    • Stan Mickel, Project Administrator at smickel@wittenberg.edu or (937) 327-6354


12. Q: Where should the application be sent?
    • Stan Mickel/ 200 W. Ward St./Wittenberg University/ Springfield, OH 45501