Speaker Schedule: Saturday, February 28, 2026

12:00 PM | Collecting Queer & Trans: An Inside Look at the World of LGBTQ+ Rare Books, Archives & Ephemera   Co-sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society

• Moderated by Tony Bravo, Arts and Culture Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle (Bio)
• Gerard Koskovich | Historian & Book Dealer (Bio)
• Ms. Bob Davis | Founder & Director, Louise Lawrence Transgender Archives (Bio)
• Joey Cain | Historian & Collector (Bio) 

Join this discussion on LGBTQ+ archives, books, periodicals, posters and ephemera. Learn about the importance of such materials in advancing understanding of queer and trans history—and hear stories about each speaker’s remarkable finds, view materials from their personal holdings, and get tips for starting or enriching your own personal or institutional collection.

1:30 PM | The Creative Vision of Alice Millard (1873-1938), Innovative Antiquarian Bookseller   Co-sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America 

• Michèle Cloonan | Dean and Professor Emeritus, Simmons University (Bio)

Alice Millard is best known as an antiquarian bookseller who championed the work of William Morris and T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, and sold books to many prominent 20th-century book collectors. She is also known for La Miniatura, the Pasadena house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for her. Less known is her association with several important women social reformers. This talk will reveal Millard's many facets.

3:00 PM | Student Paper: Legacies of Artistic Experimentation and Social Change from the San Francisco Art Institute Archives   Co-sponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

• David Senior | Director of Library, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Bio)
• Becky Alexander | Librarian and Archivist, SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive (Bio) 

Librarians Becky Alexander and David Senior discuss experiments in art publishing from the collections of the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archive and SFMOMA Library. Alexander and Senior recently collaborated on the current exhibition at SFMOMA: People Make This Place: SFAI Stories and will introduce some archival content and artists' publications presented in the exhibition. These materials in the exhibition were chosen to reflect the ways that generations of San Francisco Art Institute students and faculty engaged with conditions of social and political change throughout the 20th century and transformed the cultural landscape of San Francisco. Student newspapers, artists' books and magazines along with other types of printed matter form part of this history and Alexander and Senior will dive deeper into the broad networks of art, design and literary publishing in San Francisco that connect to SFAI’s history.

4:30 PM | Data-Graphic Masterpieces

• RJ Andrews | Data Storyteller (Headshot | Bio)

Join data storyteller RJ Andrews for an exuberant show-and-tell of rare charts and maps from his Andrews Collection of Information Graphics. On screen and in person, we’ll leaf through works from Enlightenment experiments to monumental statistical atlases, seeing how they turn numbers into vivid narratives. We’ll look closely at extravagant color, lettering, and visual metaphor. Along the way, you’ll hear the human stories behind these works and the feats of craft required to make them. You’ll leave seeing them differently, ready to revel in data graphics as true works of art.