Mebane-based poet Jaki Shelton Green challenges us to think about community legacies, lineage, land, and ancestors in her 2019 poem, 'who will be the messenger of this land.'
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My experience navigating the world of digital collections… A few tips to navigating archives:
Start off with no assumptions
Harold 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?
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It's a little past eleven in the evening on a Monday night & I guess this felt like the best time to lay out some of my thought process so far in this residency. I am not going to sit here and talk fluff, I want to be honest. I had no idea how challenging this would feel exploring this unknown world of digital archives with a trained mind that tells me I need to envision my end goal and work backwards.
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Explore “Freedom Road Sites” related to Black Liberation across North Carolina through the African American Heritage Commission’s digital archives, or make plans to view these historic sites for when life goes back to semi-normal, like the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony in the Outer Banks, Orange Street Landing in Wilmington, or the Mendenhall Plantation in Jamestown.
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Need resources on archive preservation, conservation, and collections care? Is your archive, library, or special collection prepared for a natural disaster? Do you have digital documentation of your collection… or need tips where/how to start?
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Greensboro, NC based Scrapmettle Entertainment Group took a breast cancer awareness event in a historically Black neighborhood as an opportunity to explore this subject on stage.
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“..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..”
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“Through a process that begins with the artist exposing himself to the footage from body cameras, public surveillance tapes and pedestrian iphone footage, Watts experiments with creating visual representations of suspended historicity and trauma.”
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I want you take a moment and find a physical image or bring up an image in your head of your parents or grandparent. Now I want you to think about a story you were told about your family or those that came before you.
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What Are Archives?
The word archives can be used in three different ways: archives, Archives, and archives. Confused? We can help.
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In ‘Notes From Metropolis’ by Christopher Lineberry, the artist uncovers information at the North Carolina State Archives about the 1957 Greensboro "Morals Trial."
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Experience the internet’s virtual tours + archives from home. We’ve gathered the most impressive Top 10 (in no particular order)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you’re cooped-up and curious, use your free time to decipher handwriting, tag images, and more. - resources reposted from Atlas Obscura
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“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….”
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