Now that our first Archiving for Artists workshop is six months gone, we’ve begun planning our next workshop in earnest, scheduled for 8 October at the Mint Museum. To help us improve upon the successes and weaknesses of the 2015 workshop, I checked in with some of our previous attendees to see how they’re processing through and applying their workshop experience. Alberto Ortega Rodas, Keanna Artis and Eric Serritella generously responded to my questions with thoughtful and revelatory answers.
I asked the artists six questions:
- Which skills or tools from the workshop have you found most useful to your studio’s organization, artistic practice or personal archive?
- How did the workshop change your attitudes towards maintaining a studio archive?
- What are you struggling with most in terms of your studio archive?
- What do you see as the primary benefit of maintaining your studio archive?
- How have you maintained contact with other artists, archivists or art historians in attendance at the workshop? Has that contact impacted the way you continue to think of your studio archive?
- Are there skills or topics you wish the workshop covered more deeply?…
[For the full article, please see the original post on the Learning from Artists’ Archives blog.]
N.B. Photo taken by Fannie Ouyang, one of the Learning from Artists’ Archives fellows at UNC.