Carvalho, Josely, 1942-
Activist, Artist
Size: 9.8 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of Josely Carvalho measure 9.8 linear feet and date from 1960 to 2021. The papers document her career as a multimedia artist through correspondence, writings, professional activity files, exhibition records, printed material, artwork, photographic material, and born-digital material.
Josely Carvalho (1942- ) is a multimedia artist in New York and Rio de Janeiro. Carvalho's mixed-media practice includes silkscreen, video, performance, installation, poetry, book making, internet art, and, most recently, olfactory art. She considers these works as chapters in an ongoing series, Diary of Images, which addresses issues of memory, the body, and the shelter and shelterless. Political activism has also been a large part of Carvalho's practice since the 1970s. As the founder of the Silkscreen Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, she produced silkscreen materials for political rallies and demonstrations. In the 1980s, in addition to her work at the Silkscreen Project, she participated in Artists' Call against US Intervention in Central America and the Women's Action Coalition. Carvalho co-organized Choice Works (1985), an exhibition on reproductive rights, and Connections Project / Conexus (1987), a collaboration between women artists from Brazil and the United States. Read More
Donated in 2022 and 2023 by Josely Carvalho.
Material is in English, Portuguese, and Spanish
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