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a professional with expertise in the management of records of enduring value
The characteristic of being easily reached or used with a minimum of barriers.
The ability to locate relevant information through the use of catalogs, indexes, finding aids, or other tools.
The division within an organization responsible for maintaining the organization's records of enduring value.
Traditionally an archive is a store of documents or artifacts of a purely documentary nature
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)
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An individual responsible for oversight of a collection or an exhibition.
The repair or stabilization of materials through chemical or physical treatment to ensure that they survive in their original form as long as possible.
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.
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.
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)
A division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities.
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.
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).
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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.
Racial equity is about eliminating racism.
Equity is the outcome when race will no longer be a predictor of health, education, income, etc.
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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Finding aids are tools that help a user find information in a specific record group, collection, or series of archival materials.
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intersectionality is the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively).
Installation artworks (also sometimes described as ‘environments’) often occupy an entire room or gallery space that the spectator has to walk through in order to engage fully with the work of art.
Identity politics is the term used to describe an anti-authoritarian political and cultural movement that gained prominence in the USA and Europe in the mid-1980s, asking questions about identity, repression, inequality and injustice and often focusing on the experience of marginalized groups.
A collection of published materials, including books, magazines, sound and video recordings, and other formats.
The term “language justice” is a powerful way to describe individuals’ fundamental right to have their voices heard.
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The physical material that serves as the carrier for information.
New media defines the mass influx of media, from the CD-Rom to the mobile phone and the world wide web.
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The term public art refers to art that is in the public realm, regardless of whether it is situated on public or private property or whether it has been purchased with public or private money.
Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted.
the origin or source of something, information regarding the origins, custody, and ownership of an item or collection
A print is an impression made by any method involving transfer from one surface to another.
The term race refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics (which usually result from genetic ancestry).
Term created by curator Nicholas Bourriaud in the 1990s to describe the tendency to make art based on, or inspired by, human relations and their social context.
Racial justice is the systematic fair treatment of people of all races, resulting in equitable opportunities and outcomes for all.
Racial equity is about eliminating racism.
Equity is the outcome when race will no longer be a predictor of health, education, income, etc.
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Art which uses sound both as its medium (what it is made out of) and as its subject (what it is about).
The objective of creating a fair and equal society in which each individual matters, their rights are recognized and protected, and decisions are made in ways that are fair and honest.
Three-dimensional art made by one of four basic processes: carving, modelling, casting, constructing.
A variety of stencil printing, using a screen made from fabric (silk or synthetic) stretched tightly over a frame.
A design in paper, formed by a difference in amount of fiber, that is visible when viewed by transmitted light.