Finding Aid
Finding Aid
Date
2021
Edition Size
10
Media
Letterpress, Linocut
Format
Artist Book
Dimensions
12 × 76 in
Pages
18
Collection
Black Histories / Black Futures, Booklyn Calling Podcast, Collection Development, E/AB FAIR, OCTOBER 18 – 31, 2021, Limited Edition Artists Books$ 10,200.00
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Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Grinnell College
Jepson Museum
Ohio University, Alden Library
Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)
Temple University
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
University of Delaware Library
The book is constructed with wood, cotton fabric, and metal elements.
“In 2016 I was sifting through hundreds of archival collection materials from the W.W. Law Collection, a collection dedicated to prominent Civil Rights leader Westley Wallace Law (1923–2002). I began to contemplate the challenges that patrons often encounter when conducting archival research for the first time. Finding Aid is my creative response to sharing stories and connections pertaining to local Civil Rights activists in Savannah utilizing QR code technology and digitized primary sources.
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My work currently focuses on utilizing printmaking and QR code technology as a creative non-traditional access method linking viewers to archival repositories, curated exhibitions, and aggregated data. Each work serves as a visual response to archival collection materials representative of the many stories that can be found deep within the archival landscape.”
– Sauda Mitchell, artist.