Read the first-hand perspectives from the staff who preserve and document the history of the visual arts in America.
Registrar and collections manager Susan Cary shares the conservation process of a group of recently digitized stock books.
Writing about the newly fully digitized Dorothy Liebes papers, archivist Stephanie Ashley contemplates color and the meaning of home during the pandemic.
In a new Conversations Across Collections entry, Liza Kirwin details an important early exhibition of Ruth Asawa's wire sculptures.
Oral Historian Ben Gillespie details the Archive's Pandemic Oral History Project, conducted during the summer of 2020. The following essay was originally published in the Spring 2021 issue (vol. 60, no. 1) of the Archives of American Art Journal.
Writer and illustrator Jessica Esch explores her love of oral history interviews and how they inspired a new art project.
You can help make digitized historical documents more findable and useful by transcribing their text.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.
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.
