As an educator who was radicalized by Black feminist and womanist literature, I have always been clear that that was my goal for SISTORIES--to provide the grounds for Black women and nonbinary femmes to adopt a politic to address the root cause of the social issues that cause them harm by seeing and writing themselves into the historical narrative of Black femmehood.
Read MoreMemorial for Queer Rhyolite, a temporary monument to dreams in the dust is a public work originally installed for the inaugural Bullfrog Biennial at the Goldwell Open Air Museum in October 2019. The piece memorializes a 1980s dream to establish “Stonewall Park,” a gay utopian effort aimed for Rhyolite, NV, a piece of deserted mining country that lies between Death Valley National Park and the Nevada Test Site.
Read MoreLatinx customs, rituals and traditions have withstood countless transformations through their assimilation to the US and back, and the undocumented history of quinceañera practice–a journey I hold quite close to me–is still just one of the many deprived of proper accreditation.
Read MoreDeveloping strong, meaningful, relationships between artists and archivists has so much potential to be fruitful for both fields. Interestingly, both art and archives have been historically undervalued in academia: artistic practice as a vehicle only for expression or reflection of issues, requiring translation by a critic or art historian to make sense of its real value (4), and archivists as “handmaidens of historians,” seen as passive intermediaries between records and the historians who interpret them (5)
Read More”As my family migrated and many others from the Diaspora did too, the camera was a way to document this broken American Dream narrative, instead, we needed to create a counter-narrative of our people, because we are not seen as American.”
Read More”Against the Best Possible Sources presents the latest chapter of my ongoing project involving extensive research of the TIME, Inc. corporate archive and an investigation of the earliest history of the first professional journalistic fact-checkers, a role created by TIME in 1923 and held exclusively by women until 1971.”
Read MoreDuring my visit to One Archives in LA last summer, I found a wide range of materials across lines of class, sexuality, gender expression, and race, however there are still gaps in representation: there is less working class material and the collection still favours big coastal cities.
Read MoreIn 2017, the Providence Public Library published a comic book called Lizard Ramone in Hot Pursuit: A Guide to Archives for Artists and Makers. Written and illustrated by Jeremy Ferris, it forms the core of a simple toolkit for archivists.
Read MoreHarold Fisk’s maps of the Mississippi River’s meanders, traces and shifts over time were produced as part of a report for the Army Corps of Engineers in 1944. But where are they now?
Read More“..we were interested in discussing the concept of custody. It was vital to articulate how, from the point of view of the institution and as subjects, we were asking ourselves about the limits between guarding and possessing a collection..”
Read MoreWhat Are Archives?
The word archives can be used in three different ways: archives, Archives, and archives. Confused? We can help.
Read MoreIn ‘Notes From Metropolis’ by Christopher Lineberry, the artist uncovers information at the North Carolina State Archives about the 1957 Greensboro "Morals Trial."
Read MoreExperience the internet’s virtual tours + archives from home. We’ve gathered the most impressive Top 10 (in no particular order)
Read MoreMade during the Archives & Access project from 2012 to 2017, these films explore the breadth of projects and people that can be inspired by archive collections.
Read MoreAn archives is a place where people can go to gather firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports, notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources.
Read MoreThe Public Art Archive is a totally free, continually growing, online and mobile database of completed public artworks. This extensive archive offers inspiration for creating your public artwork.
Read MoreThe Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, NC, Cherokee Territory, is an immensely valuable resource. The Archives has a diverse range of materials, many of which are available to be accessed online using the online catalog.
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Be part of the Archives' team by working alongside our staff and more than 20 million archival items.
Read MoreThe staff of the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library is always on the lookout for new ways to engage the public in our work.
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