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Internship, Fellowship, and Volunteer Opportunities | Archives of ...
Graduate student, predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior research fellowships at the Archives of American Art (AAA) are offered through the Smithsonian Office of Academic Appointments and Internships.These in-residence appointments for independent research and study using the facilities, collections, and staff resources of the AAA are awarded for periods of 3 to 12 months.
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The Archives of American Art is the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America. Founded in Detroit in 1954 by Edgar P. Richardson, then Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Lawrence A ...
Artists and Their Models - Archives of American Art
May 14, 2014 · Artists and Their Models. May 14, 2014 - August 26, 2014. The model has long been essential to the work of the artist. They often serve as artists’ muses—mortals who can sometimes be almost otherworldly in their ability to inspire creativity—yet a talent for holding still is often more important than beauty.
Audio Visual Internship | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian …
Audio Visual Internship. A professional and focused experience in collection management and processing tasks associated with archival sound and moving image materials found throughout the Archives’ collections. Tasks may include digitization, surveying audiovisual media in new accessions, improving housing and storage, metadata maintenance ...
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women
May 31, 2024 - January 5, 2025. This digital project is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art as a companion to the exhibition Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women. Support for this digital project has been provided by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.
Guidelines for Processing Collections with Audiovisual Material
The AV Survey is our comprehensive inventory of AV material found in collections, found on the Archives' internal shared drive. Follow instructions for generating an “AV Survey Collection Report” to see the AV in your collection. Contact the AV Archivist if you find AV in a collection that is not in the AV Survey database.
Claire Zeisler | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Claire Zeisler. Claire Zeisler appropriated off-loom knotting and wrapping techniques to create voluminous sculptures. A Celebration is a free standing and free flowing structure that declares fiber art is fine art. The artwork is made from 136 and a half balls of hemp and forty skeins of “jockey red” yarn. It took 597 hours for Zeisler and ...
André Emmerich Gallery Records and André Emmerich Papers, …
André Emmerich (1924-2007) was one of America's most noted contemporary art dealers and opened the André Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1954. The gallery showcased contemporary art, particularly Color Field painting and monumental sculpture. André Emmerich was born on October 11, 1924 in ...
Unboxed Lunch Series | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian …
Unboxed Lunch Series. By the Archives. February 2, 2023. Unboxed Lunch is a 30-minute online program that takes visitors on a behind-the-scenes journey of archival discovery. One of the Archives' staff guides viewers through the process of exploring a newly acquired collection. During each Unboxed Lunch event, we feature a different set of papers.