March 22, 2019
This one-day symposium brought together artists, scholars, archivists, collectors, estate and foundations managers and the public to address current issues and best practices in the field of artists’ archives.
Welcome
Jennifer Gross, Executive Director, Hauser & Wirth Institute
Defining the Field: What is at Stake in the Care of Artist Archives?
Kate Haw, Director, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
David Platzker, Specific Object
Colin Post, Artists’ Studio Archives Program, UNC
How Archive Management Preserves and Expands Artist Legacy, Produces Knowledge, and Creates History
Irene Small, Assistant Professor Contemporary Art and Criticism, Princeton University
Francine Snyder, Director of Archives, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Sur Rodney (Sur), Independent Archivist
The Fine Line: Process Document or Art?
Clifford Allen, Director of Archives, The Watermill Center
Janine St. Germain, Independent Archivist
Timothy Young, Curator, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Approaches to Accessibility: Assessing Capacities
Ben Fino-Radin, Founder and lead conservator at Small Data Industries
Leah Levy, Executive Director, The Jay DeFeo Foundation
Marvin Taylor, Head, Curator Food Studies and the Arts. Fales Library, NYU