Artists in the Archives: Absence in the Archive

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History and Ilsley Library

Join artists Carmen Lizardo and Ginger Sedlarova, in conversation with archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart and Jillian Hartke.

<p>Join artists Carmen Lizardo and Ginger Sedlarova, and Stewart-Swift Research Center Archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart, for a conversation about absence in the archive and the role artists can play in making archives more representative of the whole community. The panel will also include Jillian Hartke, archivist at the Albuquerque Museum's Photography Archive in New Mexico who will speak about that Museum's approach to absence, acquisition, representation. </p><p> No archive or collection is perfect and not all people of a community are well-represented in an archive. How do we make sense of these absences and how can we make archives more representative of the whole community?  On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Stewart-Swift Research Center, the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History invited an international network of collage artists to engage with historic material in the archive and to create a folio of collage prints that reflect on the idea of community in a 21st century world. A number of artists focused on what communities are absent in the archive. By projecting and photographing images of women of African American descent onto the physical storage room of the archive, Carmen Lizardo's collage draws our attention to the absence of Black people in the collection. Seeing "minimal Jewish material in the archive," Ginger Sedlarova hopes to draw attention to what material is there to "inspire the Jewish residents of Middlebury to donate archival materials." Using tools of projection, subtraction, and speculation, contemporary artists can fill gaps in the material of local history keepers in a way that invites underrepresented community members to engage and, possibly, contribute to the archive. </p>

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