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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.
Read the first-hand perspectives from the staff who preserve and document the history of the visual arts in America.
In the latest entry in our Conversations Across Collections series, national collector Josh T Franco chronicles the art and activism of Juan Sánchez.
Processing archivist Rihoko Ueno highlights the Toshiko Takaezu Papers, recently acquired by the Archives. The following essay was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue (vol. 59, no. 2) of the Archives of American Art Journal.
Guest author Marina Pacini examines what can be gleaned from an interview with an artist who does not like to talk about herself in Conversations Across Collections.
Matthew Simms, the Gerald and Bente Buck West Coast Collector, highlights the Ronald Davis Papers, recently acquired by the Archives. The following essay was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue (vol. 59, no. 2) of the Archives of American Art Journal.
Interim director Liza Kirwin looks closely at Oscar Bluemner's 1933 painting diary and self-portrait in the latest installment of Conversations Across Collections.
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You can help make digitized historical documents more findable and useful by transcribing their text.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.