From The Green Room

In her last blog post about her Archiving Fellowship with DanceATL, Yvette offers lessons and guidelines for managing a small-scale community-based oral history project.

In her fourth blog post, Archiving Fellow Sumi Matsumoto reflects on her second summer working with World Arts West and the lessons she learned about the collaborative nature of archiving projects.

In her second blog post about her Fellowship, Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Yvette Ramírez details the considerations that go into a dance-specific, community-based oral history project.

In her first blog post, Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Yvette Ramirez writes about conducting research in the archives of Spelman College to support her work on an Atlanta-based oral history project.

In her third blog post, Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Sumi Matsumoto writes about the uses of archival metadata and her work on developing a customized metadata schema for World Arts West.

In her final blog post, Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Sasha Jelan reflects on attending her first Society of American Archivists conference and describes conference sessions on anti-racist archival description and tools for processing archival collections remotely.

Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Sasha Jelan reflects on the unexpected silver lining from the extension and redesign of her Archiving Fellowship due to COVID-19, and describes the goals she tackled in her second summer with Viver Brasil.

Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Sumi Matsumoto reflects on her second summer working with World Arts West and breaks down the research and considerations that go into selecting an archival database software.