Heather M. Seneff
Curriculum vitae
July 8, 2025
1851 Colony Drive Apt. 5 P
Surfside Beach, SC 29575
ya3hs3@yahoo.com
425-246-5106
Professional history
2010-2021 Director, Visual Media Center
School of Art & Art History, University of Denver, Denver, CO
2001-2009 Director of Visual Resources, Visual Resources Collection, College of
Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1992-2001 Assistant Curator, Visual Resources Collection
School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1986-1991 Assistant to the Curator of Slides & Visual Resources
Architecture
Slide Collection, School of Architecture, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
Education
MA,
Art History, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
MLS,
concentration in archives, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
BA,
Art History and English, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
Certificates
Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information (Coursera and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 2013
Image Permissions Consulting
Digital Image Specialist, providing digital image permissions support for a Virginia Commonwealth University research project sponsored through Qatar National Research Fund's National Priorities Research Program (2016-2018)
Image permissions consultant, “China’s Great History As It Can Be Told By Two 18th Century Screens,” a non-profit documentary produced by China Art Search, LLC (Cassandra Lohr, Project Administrator), 2015 (aired Jan. 3, 2016 on PBS Colorado)
Publications
Seneff, Heather (2018) "Intellectual Property Rights and New Media Art," VRA Bulletin: Vol. 45: Iss. 1, Article 8. https://online.vraweb.org/index.php/vrab/article/view/29/21
“Charles Haertling’s St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, Northglenn, Colorado (1963-1964),” chapter for Modernism and Mid 20th Century American Sacred Architecture (edited by Dr. Anat Geva), Routledge, 2019.
Seneff, Heather; Yeh, Shea-Tinn; and Reyes, Fernando (2015) "Using the Getty Vocabularies as Linked Open Data in a Cataloging Tool for an Academic Teaching Collection: Case Study at the University of Denver," VRA Bulletin: Vol. 41: Iss. 2, Article 6. https://online.vraweb.org/index.php/vrab/article/view/89/84
“Photographs from the Victor Steinbrueck Archive” by Joshua Polansky and Heather Seneff, Column 5 (Student Journal of the Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of WA), 2009 (Volume 22)
The Problem of the Galerie des machines at the 1889 Paris International Exposition: iron or steel? (Independent research), VRC News and Information, June 24, 2008 http://vrc-cbe-uw.blogspot.com/2008/06/galerie-des-machines-paris-1889-iron-or.html
Web projects (alphabetical)
Gr33n Wa6on (MLS-related blog): http://gr33nwa6on.blogspot.com/
Library Disasters (Graduate student project, Emporia State University): http://librarydisasters.omeka.net/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/heather-seneff/a/574/9b3
Portfolio (Classwork and professional projects): http://seneffportfolio.blogspot.com/
Visual Media Center News, School of Art and Art History, University of Denver: http://dusaahvmc.blogspot.com/
Visual Resources Association Flickr Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualresources/
VRC News and Information, College of Architecture and Urban Planning (now the College of the Built Environments), University of Washington: http://vrc-cbe-uw.blogspot.com/
Wikicatalog: a collaborative cataloging and image-sharing wiki for visual resources professionals: http://wikicatalog.pbworks.com/
Conference Participation
2018 Presenter, VRA Annual Conference
“Intellectual Property Rights and ‘New Media Art’”
2015 Presenter, VRA Annual Conference
“Using the Getty Vocabularies as Linked Open Data in a Cataloging Tool for an
Academic Teaching Collection: Case Study at the University of Denver”
2009 Session organizer, VRA Annual Conference
Bricks to Bamboo: Cataloging and Photographing the Materials Library
2008 Session organizer, VRA Annual Conference
Architecture and the Built Environment: Special Projects and Cataloging Issues
Service and Awards
· Co-chair,
Intellectual Property Rights Committee, Visual Resources Association (2018-2020)
· Member,
Travel Awards Committee, Visual Resources Association (2017-present)
· Secretary,
Wild West Chapter, Visual Resources Association, 2014-2018
· Merit-based
scholarship, Emporia State University (2011)