Me post-show. I never take pictures so this is a big deal! (And I’m wearing a dress!) #thefindingaid
Thanks for coming folks — It was awesome. I am very self-critic so I have many notes on what I could have done better, but I’m really excited that the event went well and I can get back on a regular sleeping pattern :) More to come soon!
Prepping postcards for #thefindingaid
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Langston Hughes Auditorium
THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
REGISTER—http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5834409877
Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu
The only archive event that will play Q.U.E.E.N. during interludes. #TheFindingAid
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Langston Hughes Auditorium //
THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
(Source: youtube.com)
Prepping at the Schomburg this morning for #TheFindingAid!
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Langston Hughes Auditorium //
THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
We go live in two days!
Nina Simone - Four Women (Harlem Cultural Festival, 1969)
The power of using archives to heal, mend, and build communities inspire us. #TheFindingAid
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Langston Hughes Auditorium //
THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
(Source: youtube.com)
A lot of people proclaim a need for independence, for space. And while I could attest to that, more than anything, I was a tiger dying amongst the sprawling jungle. I longed for a cage of my own. My apartment, a two bedroom overlooking the gentrification of Philadelphia, had a décor of my design. I picked out the furniture, including the Ikea futon I dubbed “death trap,” and gave every trinket and knick-knack their designated spots: high school diploma and Bachelor’s degree over my black computer desk, novelty shot-glasses along the top of my bookcase and various Buddha figurines, from flea markets in South Jersey, on my dresser and nightstands. And of course, my vinyl collection, a two hundred piece of my heart that took me to the dustiest, most allergenic music stores on the East Coast.
Longform Fiction is featuring my short story (and first ever publication) “Saturn Return,” originally published in 2008 by Up The Staircase. (via mensahdemary)
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(Source: negativepleasure, via foxxxynegrodamus)
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Langston Hughes Auditorium //
THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.Container List [Exhibition Module]
The third part of The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving will be structured around the container list section of a finding aid. During this module, each artist will exhibit fragments from her collection(s) in the atrium. We are so excited to interact with Salome Asega’s Sistah Friends Project mobile archive prototype!
Salome: I’ve been recently thinking of creative ways for the Sistah Friends Project to expand its archival practice and reach new audiences in a way that’s aligned with the personal, hands on feeling of our self-portrait/oral narrative workshops. I was reminded of a good friend Kevin Clancy’s projectPortable Utopia. Kevin created a mobile resource library and learning platform that he took to Johannesburg and also uses is Pittsburg. His project also reminds me of the Bronx Traveling Library.
I have been influenced by these precedents to create a mobile archive for the Sistah Friends Project. The mobile archive is part library, part self-portrait station, and part recording studio. The SFP Mobile Archive is an attempt to make our workshop curriculum physical and nomadic. I will be exhibiting the first prototype of the project at #TheFindingAid. Make sure to come by, take a picture, and record your thoughts on the event.
For more information on Salome Asega, please visit our artist page.
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THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
// Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Langston Hughes Auditorium //
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Scope and Content Note [Artist Presentation Module]
The second part of The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving will be structured around the scope and content note section of a finding aid. A scope and content note summarizes a collection and provides descriptive information such as what materials makeup the collection, how those materials were created and what information can be found within them. The purpose of our scope and content note module will be to introduce the audience to the participating artists’ collection(s) and archive(s).Since Ms. Ladi’Sasha Jones will be working behind the scenes during the event, take a tour of the The Ladi Jones Documentation Collection now! IV: Ladi’Sasha Jones and The Ladi Jones Documentation Collection
Ladi’Sasha G. Jones, born 1988 in Harlem, is a cultural/witness worker and oral historian. The Ladi Jones Documentation Collection span 2006 - 2013, bulk dates 2010 - 2013. The collection consist of digital-audio files, transcriptions, project proposals, journals, unpublished writings (drafts) and correspondences. The bulk of her collection highlights the narratives of Harlem residents, which includes documentation of her family life. Ladi’Sasha has interviewed Black doulas, veterans, artists, and women on the topics of race, coming-of-age, body politics, sexuality and home. Materials in this collection also cover topics of Black girlhood, identity, love, gender, healing trauma, mothering, dreaming, poverty, aging, and writing.
Video Link to Conversations on Race & Racism: Documenting Black Girlhood
Audio Link to Interview with Curator and Historian, Christopher Moore](http://24.media.tumblr.com/76385c0ae033c1cb08c93590e1f8d8cd/tumblr_mmw2trRdMe1splloqo1_500.jpg)
THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
// Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Langston Hughes Auditorium //
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Scope and Content Note [Artist Presentation Module]
The second part of The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving will be structured around the scope and content note section of a finding aid. A scope and content note summarizes a collection and provides descriptive information such as what materials makeup the collection, how those materials were created and what information can be found within them. The purpose of our scope and content note module will be to introduce the audience to the participating artists’ collection(s) and archive(s).Since Ms. Ladi’Sasha Jones will be working behind the scenes during the event, take a tour of the The Ladi Jones Documentation Collection now!IV: Ladi’Sasha Jones and The Ladi Jones Documentation CollectionLadi’Sasha G. Jones, born 1988 in Harlem, is a cultural/witness worker and oral historian. The Ladi Jones Documentation Collection span 2006 - 2013, bulk dates 2010 - 2013. The collection consist of digital-audio files, transcriptions, project proposals, journals, unpublished writings (drafts) and correspondences. The bulk of her collection highlights the narratives of Harlem residents, which includes documentation of her family life. Ladi’Sasha has interviewed Black doulas, veterans, artists, and women on the topics of race, coming-of-age, body politics, sexuality and home. Materials in this collection also cover topics of Black girlhood, identity, love, gender, healing trauma, mothering, dreaming, poverty, aging, and writing.
Audio Link to Interview with Curator and Historian, Christopher Moore
Image: From the Archive of Kameelah Janan Rasheed // www.kameelahr.com
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Co-Curating this experience has been a labor of love for the past few months. We want to fill this space with intentional minds and bodies. Please join us!
THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
// Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Langston Hughes Auditorium //
THE FINDING AID: BLACK WOMEN AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ARCHIVING is an interactive, multi-media dialogue that explores the intersection of experimental art practices and community-based archiving.
// Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:30pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Langston Hughes Auditorium //
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Historical Note [Panel Module]
The first part of The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving will be structured around the historical note* section of a finding aid.
Our historical note will be a panel discussion between traditional archivists, archivists/artists and artists who enlists archival traditions. The purpose of this module is to contextualize our ideas and will ground our audience for the rest of the event. The panelists will engage in a dialogue around that artistic sweet spot – that intersection of something that is seemingly functional and pedagogical while also being beautiful.
We will answer such questions as: Who “counts” as an archivist? and What tools can we use to democratize archives and the role of an archivist?
We are looking forward to engaging with Miranda Mims around her work preserving the histories of Black women/Black women artists/etc.
Miranda-Tarisa Mims is an archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. She was trained in archival practice at the Library for the Department of Semitic & Egyptian Languages & Literatures and its Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) at Catholic University, where she also received her MS in Library and Information Science. Miranda also holds a master’s from Howard University in African Studies and International Relations.
Other panelists include: Arianne Edmonds, Joyce-LeeAnn Joseph, Kameelah Rasheed and Shawn(ta) Smith. For more information on them, please visit ourartists page.
*The biographical/historical note of a finding aid contextualizes the collection. It provides an overview of an individual(s) or organization and details that are useful for a researcher’s engagement with the rest of the finding aid and the actual collection.
Happy Mother’s Day!
From the Archive of Kameelah Janan Rasheed // www.kameelahr.com
The baby brother — Nadeem.
© Kameelah Janan Rasheed, 2013 // www.kameelahr.com
