In ‘Notes From Metropolis’ by Christopher Lineberry, the artist uncovers information at the North Carolina State Archives about the 1957 Greensboro "Morals Trial."
Read moreResource: Virtual Tours and Archives
Experience the internet’s virtual tours + archives from home. We’ve gathered the most impressive Top 10 (in no particular order)
Read moreResource: Aesthetic Perspectives
A framework to enhance understanding and evaluation of creative work at the intersection of arts and civic engagement, community development, and justice. It looks at 11 artistic attributes that address the potency of creative expression to embody and motivate change.
Read moreArt: Archives & Access Films
Made 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 moreArt: Furen Dai, How Race Was Made?
Resource: What's an archives?
An 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 moreResource: Avery Research Center
From Avery Research Center: Tonight begins our Avery Digital Classroom with a screening of the film The Language You Cry In.
Click the link to join us at 6:00pm on zoom for free.
Read moreOpportunity: How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room
If you’re cooped-up and curious, use your free time to decipher handwriting, tag images, and more. - resources reposted from Atlas Obscura
Read moreCollection: NC History Museum Quilts
“Quilts speak. They reveal voices from the past—specifically women’s voices. Some of these voices have long been silenced by illiteracy, exhaustion, racial oppression, and gender inequity. But if we know how to listen, we can understand what the quilts are saying. They speak of skill and power….”
Read moreResource: NC Library Directory
Find your local libraries! The directory of North Carolina libraries lists all libraries in North Carolina, alongside options for users to search a variety of library information including names, addresses, etc. or to browse by location or type of library.
Read moreArt: Public Art Archive
The 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 moreCollection: the Museum of the Cherokee Indian
The 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.
Read moreOpportunity: African American Collecting Initiative Internship funded by the Henry Luce Foundation
Get involved with the Archives.
Be part of the Archives' team by working alongside our staff and more than 20 million archival items.
Read moreOpportunity: Alternate ROOTS Artistic Assistance
Artistic Assistance is a program of Alternate ROOTS that provides direct support to individual artists and cultural workers in the South to enhance their skills, create unique projects, and build community.
Read moreResource: #artmakingchange
(image from the “who” section of #artmakingchange - “Socially engaged artists do not act alone. Period. Even if a project is conceived and primarily executed by an artist, s/he is always working in a larger context and environment. Mapping the Landscape reminds us that this brand of artmaking takes place in a dynamic ecosystem of interrelated roles”
#artmakingchange is a platform for exploring socially engaged art, including a report highlighting the distinct features of artistic practice that works with and for the benefit of communities.
Read moreArticle: Community Archiving Profile
The 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.
Read moreArticle: "Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go"
In “Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till,” Coco Fusco wrote about Open Casket, an abstracted depiction of Emmet Till in his open casket by Dana Schutz, and the widespread criticism it received while on view at the Whitney Biennial in 2017.
Read moreOpportunity: Richland Library’s Artist in Residence Program
Richland Library’s Artist in Residence Program aims to connect the community with local working artists and to provide creative and educational opportunities to the community in a way that supports cultural and artistic exchange.
Read moreOpportunity: City of Raleigh Bus Shelters
The city is seeking ten (Triangle-based) artists to help beautify GoRaleigh's bus shelters.
Read moreArticle: Community-Based Approaches to Archives From the Black Lives Matter Movement
In recent years, the interest in community-based participatory archiving has grown enormously. This growth reflects a recognition that people and communities should be empowered to document and preserve their own histories…
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