A division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities.
Read moreGlossary: Diaspora
In relation to art, the term diaspora is used to discuss artists who have migrated from one part of the world to another, (or whose families have), and who express their diverse experiences of culture and identity in the work they make; often expressing alternative narratives, and challenging the ideas and structures of the established art world.
Read moreGlossary: Provenance
the origin or source of something, information regarding the origins, custody, and ownership of an item or collection
Read moreGlossary: Curator
An individual responsible for oversight of a collection or an exhibition.
Read moreGlossary: Conservation
The repair or stabilization of materials through chemical or physical treatment to ensure that they survive in their original form as long as possible.
Read moreGlossary: Community-based archives
Community-based archives are defined as collections of materials gathered, collected, and shared primarily by members of a marginalized community to document their collective histories.
Read moreGlossary: Boolean search modifiers
"quotations" and / or / not "quotations" + * or for "everything”
Read moreGlossary: Archives
The division within an organization responsible for maintaining the organization's records of enduring value.
Read moreGlossary: Edition
All copies of a work that are produced at the same time using the same process, with the result that each copy is essentially identical. - 2. A particular instance of a serial work; a version.
Read moreGlossary: Archive
Traditionally an archive is a store of documents or artifacts of a purely documentary nature
Read moreGlossary: Print
A print is an impression made by any method involving transfer from one surface to another.
Read moreGlossary: Medium
The physical material that serves as the carrier for information.
Read moreGlossary: Craft
Craft is a form of making which generally produces an object that has a function: such as something you can wear, or eat or drink from.
Read moreGlossary: Decolonization
Decolonising the art institution usually means reviewing the canon and questioning its ability to include different voices or perspectives (remembering that decolonisation is not the same as diversity).
Read moreGlossary: Art Collection
An accumulation of works of art by a private individual or a public institution. Art collecting has a long history, and most of the world’s art museums grew out of great private collections formed by royalty, the aristocracy, or the wealthy. (source: https://www.britannica.com/art/art-collection)
Read moreGlossary: Collection
1. A group of materials with some unifying characteristic.
2. Materials assembled by a person, organization, or repository from a variety of sources; an artificial collection.
- collections, pl. ~ 3. The holdings of a repository. (source: archivists.org)
Glossary: Racial Equity
Racial equity is about eliminating racism.
Equity is the outcome when race will no longer be a predictor of health, education, income, etc.
Read moreGlossary: Equity
Equity is a proactive, strategic approach that accounts for structural differences in opportunities, burdens, and needs in order to advance targeted solutions that fulfill the promise of true equality for all.
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