Chicago Archives + Artists Festival – May 19-21
A three-day festival of all things archiving and community autonomy in documentation, storytelling, and arts writing.
A three-day festival of all things archiving and community autonomy in documentation, storytelling, and arts writing.
Volunteer for the Chicago Archives + Artists Festival and learn some community archiving skills from Read/Write Library in the process.
An archivist tête-à-tête with Stacie Williams and Analú López on the significance of and strategies for artists and activists to document their work.
An interview with Washington, D.C.-born and now Chicago-based filmmaker, animator, painter, sculptor and sound artist.
A look into the latest series of publications out of Half Letter Press by Public Collectors.
The archivist behind #archivesforblacklives and A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland talks about sustainability and the individual and institution’s role in archiving difficult stories.
A deeper dive into the discussion around the hashtags #ArchivesSoWhite and one archivist’s approach to working in the field…
O+ Festival featured in a new series of ephemera-focused articles by the Sixty team based on our issue themes…
A remix of salvaged footage from the 1986 “Twentieth Century Artistic Revolutions” VHS series.
An open letter and petition for the leaders of the historic Johnson Publishing Company.
For the final installment of my search through the Chicago Artists Archive, I went looking for some personal favorites: Christina Ramberg, Tony Fitzpatrick and Roger Brown. I became a big fan of the late Christina Ramberg’s work last year while creating a body of work involving hair. To me, her work is the dark side of the Chicago Imagist. She rarely, if ever, worked with bright colors, and in her better-known pieces, her figures were bound, gagged or blindfolded by their hair. Ramberg also had a series of works inspired by quilting, which she exhibited with Rebecca Shore in the early 90s. Her file mostly consists of show postcards/reviews and obituaries. Ramberg died of Pick’s Disease in December 1995, and her file includes several obituaries and announcements for memorials around the city. One memorial announcement was from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she headed the painting and drawing department and another from the Renaissance Society, which frequently exhibited her work. Besides the postcards and rembrances, there was very little information …
Jes looks through the Chicago Artists Archive for artists groups, past and present.
Jess Strandefer searches for the members of N.A.M.E. within the Chicago Artist Archive.
I sit down with Leslie Patterson, the librarian in charge of the Chicago Artists Archive.