In This Issue

A Special Holiday Greeting

Meet the New ICADS Board Members

Our Next Deco Dialogue:

Using Social Media to Your Society's Advantage

World Art Deco Day 2024

A HOLIDAY GREETING FROM ICADS PRESIDENT ROBERTA NUSIM

Dear ICADS Friends,

On behalf of the Board of ICADS, I want to send you warm holiday greetings and all good wishes for a happy and fulfilling New Year.

Thank you for your support and participation, which made this past year so successful. We appreciate that so many of you took time out of your busy schedules to attend our quarterly Deco Dialogues, meeting and sharing your experiences and ideas with fellow ICADS leaders. ICADS board members enjoyed meeting many of you at the April World Congress, and we are grateful for the creative ideas you shared celebrating World Art Deco Day 2023. We are happy to welcome two new societies to ICADS: Art Deco Tehran and Modernidad Rioplatense. All in all, it was a wonderful ICADS year.

We thank you, too, for your support in the recent ICADS elections and look forward to serving you over the next two years of our term of office. Your input and your participation are always welcome, and we look forward to ushering in the new year with you at our next Deco Dialogue on January 20th.

Again, all good wishes for a happy holiday season.

Roberta Nusim

THE NEW ICADS BOARD MEMBERS

On November 10th we announced the new ICADS Board began its 2-year term on December 1st. The 8-member board membership is as follows:

Roberta Nusim, President (Art Deco Society of New York) 

Robin Grow, Vice-President (Art Deco and Modernism Society of Australia)

Rita Shiang, Treasurer (Art Deco Society of Virginia)

Steve Knight, From Ordinary Board Member to Secretary (Art Deco Society of Washington)

 
The board also includes returning members Atul Kumar (Art Deco Mumbai) and Pascal Laurent (Paris Art Deco Society) and two newly elected members, Margot Gerber (Art Deco Society of Los Angeles) and Fabio Grementieri (Modernidad Rioplatense). Please join us in welcoming Margot and Fabio to the Board.

OUR NEXT DECO DIALOGUE:

USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO YOUR SOCIETY'S ADVANTAGE

We are pleased to invite you to join with leaders of other ICADS societies for our next Deco Dialogue via Zoom on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 11:30 AM Eastern Time. 

These quarterly Deco Dialogues address common issues facing leaders of ICADS societies everywhere. The January Deco Dialogue topic will be Using Social Media to Your Society's Advantage.  During our ZOOM meeting we will explore ways ICADS member societies can leverage social media to promote their organizations, events, preservation campaigns, and other activities.

This is an opportunity to hear from those members with knowledge of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. Additionally, this will be a chance to ask questions and brainstorm on how to creatively use social media for your organization's benefit.

If you have attended one of our past Deco Dialogues, you know that they are valuable opportunities to meet and exchange ideas with leaders of other ICADS organizations.

Please RSVP to contact@icadsartdeco.org by Thursday, January 18th and we will send you the link the day before the Dialogue. We look forward to seeing you there!

WORLD ART DECO DAY 2024: SPORTS!

In our last newsletter we announced Sports as the theme for World Art Deco Day 2024. It is an especially appropriate choice because the 2024 Olympic Games will take place in Paris, the year prior to the 2025 World Congress, forming back-to-back centennial celebrations of the 1924 Paris Games and the 1925 Paris Exposition. As with last year's theme, Sports is broad enough to allow all societies to develop a program of interest, and we hope each society will start organizing a program or activity around this theme. Better yet, we hope some of you will again develop a virtual program that can be made available to other ICADS member societies around the world. Some ideas to consider include:

• A visit to a local Art Deco era sporting venue

• A fun social gathering with period-appropriate sports attire and activities

• A speaker program or film screening with ties to Art Deco-era sports

World Art Deco Day is an annual month-long celebration of Art Deco that takes place in April. Throughout the month, ICADS Member Organizations offer programs and activities highlighting the unique Art Deco heritage of their city and region. World Art Deco Day is now in its fourth year, and we are happy to see it growing in popularity and appeal. It is a great way to continue to strengthen our global community dedicated to the preservation, education, and celebration of Art Deco. We introduced the idea of a specific theme last year to help member societies focus on the development of a program or activity of mutual interest to other ICADS members. Last year's theme, Egyptomania, proved very popular with in-person events as well as several virtual programs available to a wide audience. Events may include walking tours, illustrated lectures, and social get-togethers at local places of preservation interest.

THE ICADS GLOBAL EVENTS CALENDAR

Please don't forget about the Global Events Calendar on the ICADS website. It is a great resource for boosting participation in your society’s virtual events and alerting travelers to your city's in-person events as well. Submitting an entry is easy, with clear step-by-step instructions provided on the website. The Calendar Committee will review and approve events and post them to the calendar within a few days. To learn more, use this link to access the Global Events Calendar Page on the ICADS website.

The calendar will only be useful if our member societies participate and share their events. Please make submission to the calendar part of your regular event promotion routine. Most importantly, please share the calendar with your members.

ICADS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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