Archiving Fellowships Blog: Cashion Cultural Legacy, Part 3
In her third post, Lacy addresses the symbolic dance between archival “best practices” and the “good practices” that are appropriate for Cashion’s materials and organization.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: National Institute of Flamenco, Part 2
Amy’s second blog explores the issues with the archival system she inherited, her process of organizing and categorizing NIF’s new inventory, and the magic of looking at archives with their creators.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: Dianne Walker, Part 2
In her second blog post, Isabel reflects on how the importance of legacy and lineage informed the way she approached inventorying Dianne Walker’s archives of the tap community.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: LEIMAY, Part 2
Benja’s second blog illuminates how a unique, robust naming and metadata system can allow the LEIMAY archive to represent their multiplicity and flexibility.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: Cashion Cultural Legacy, Part 2
In her second blog post, Lacy shares how she contented with being an information professional without a dance background, and the methods she used to learn about dance while implementing archival processes.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: LEIMAY, Part 1
In the first of their blogs, Benja considers the particular needs, challenges, and gifts of an archive of multimedia, community-based, personal and artistic materials.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: Dianne Walker, Part 1
Isabel’s first blog post discusses how the Dianne Walker collection can reflect her career, honor the legacy of her mentors, and educate future generations about tap history.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: National Institute of Flamenco, Part 1
Amy’s first blog post explores NIF’s history, deep familial and community connections, and her own relationship to flamenco and this unique archive.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: Cashion Cultural Legacy, Part 1
Lacy shares her learnings and questions from the first couple weeks working on the digital collections of Cashion Cultural Legacy, a Mexican folkloric nonprofit, and reflects on the need to “simply begin” the work.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: Segunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center, Part 4
Abidel shares their experience traveling with SQFC’s performing company, 2Q, as they performed for and engaged with their community through Puerto Rican music and dance lecture demonstrations.