Read the first-hand perspectives from the staff who preserve and document the history of the visual arts in America.
Elizabeth Hamilton chronicles an assignment created for the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop that had students look at artists with histories at HBCUs to find connections with their own experiences.
Nathan Rees shares how an assignment using the Archives' Pandemic Oral History Project created connections for his students with contemporary artists and their work.
Michaela Rife writes about using the Chiura Obata papers to create an assignment as part of the Teaching with Primary Sources workshop.
Elizabeth Lamont explores the relationship between Cecilia Beaux and her nephews through their letters.
Matthew Simms, the Gerald and Bente Buck West Coast Collector, highlights the Consuelo Jiménez Underwood Papers, recently acquired by the Archives. The following essay was originally published in the Fall 2021 issue (vol. 60, no. 2) of the Archives of American Art Journal.
Internship, fellowship, and volunteer opportunities provide students and lifelong learners with the ability to contribute to the study and preservation of visual arts records in America.
You can help make digitized historical documents more findable and useful by transcribing their text.
Visit the Archives of American Art project page in the Smithsonian Transcription Center now.
