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The following initiatives are designed
to identify, survey, and plan for the collection of historical records
that represent the documentary heritage of Latino visual arts.
*Portions of this research first appeared in a UCLA Chicano Studies
Research Center Report (No.6,
April 2005) by Tracy Grimm
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| Institution | Project | Funder | Description | Survey | Training | Oral History | Acquisition | Digitization | Scholarship |
| Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame | Archives of Latino Arts in Chicago: A Survey | Internal | A project to identify and survey archival materials of Latino artists and organizations in the Chicago region. Includes a survey of related primary source materials existing in repositories and the creation of a 'location register' to these publicly accessible materials. In consultation with members of the arts community, uncollected materials held by artists and arts organizations will be identified and surveyed. Preservation information will be provided to those surveyed. Transfer of materials to archival settings for preservation and access will be arranged when appropriate. | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Museum of Fine Arts Houston | Documents of Twentieth Century Latin American and Latino Art. A Digital Archive and Publications Project, 2003-2013 | Getty Grant Program, initial three year phase | Project will identify, translate into English, and publish both digital and print formats of selected primary source materials on key artists and movements in modern and contemporary Latin American/Latino art. Information gathered will be published in a multi-volume series oriented toward specialists, general audiences, and college-level students. A custom-designed digital archive and bibliographic database will be created to provide direct access to images of primary source documents, printed materials, and art work images through the web. | Yes | Monographs | ||||
| Museum of Modern Art Library | METRO-MoMA Survey of Archives of Latino Art, 2003-2005 | Metropolitan New York Library Council through monies received through the New York State Archives' Documentary Heritage Program | Identification and survey of the archival collections of
galleries, museums, grassroots organizations, and archives that document
Latino visual arts. Goals include establishing a network of Latino art
archives, increasing awareness about archival practices and the importance
of preservation to safeguarding arts heritage, and increasing accessibility
to collections by publishing survey findings on website. Project does
not include element for collection of archival materials. Instead, second
year will incorporate care of historical records training elements for
institutions surveyed. See the survey at: http://www.moma.org/research/library/ latinosurvey/ |
Yes |
Yes | ||||
| Smithsonian Archives of American Art | Latino Documentation Project in South Florida, 1996 | Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Fund | Nine-month project to identify, survey, and plan for collection of art-related primary source material in South Florida. Information gathered from artists, art critics, curators, collectors, art historians, archivists, and librarians. Project developed key contacts and brought new collections to the AAA | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Smithsonian Archives of American Art | Puerto Rican Art Documentation Project, 1997, 1998 | Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Fund | Project to identify, survey, and plan for collection of undocumented art-related primary source material in Puerto Rico (6 months) and New York City (9 months). Project provided information on potential gifts and loans to the AAA and alerted artists to the value of preserving their papers. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center | A Ver: Revisioning Art History, 2001-ongoing | Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, UC-MEXUS | A research project to produce a series of scholarly texts on the cultural, aesthetic, and historical contributions of Chicano, Cuban American, Puerto Rican, and other U.S. -based Latino artists. Includes archival and oral history components to support research for the texts. Primary source materials of artists will be identified and oral histories generated. First phase will produce monographs and oral histories on ten individual Latina/o artists. | Yes | NA | Monographs | |||
| UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center | Latino Arts Survey, 2004-2005 | Getty Grant Program | Project will identify and inventory materials related to Southern California Latino arts groups and collectives, community-based arts organizations, alternative arts publications, and individual artists. Will create a 'roadmap' for the collection development of Latino arts primary sources existing in Southern California. Survey results including inventories of institutional and individual holdings will be produced and available through web site. Transfer of materials to archival settings for preservation and access will be arranged when appropriate. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center | Serving the Community, Preserving Cultural Heritage--Self-Help Graphics and Art, Inc., 2003-2004 | UCLA Center for Community Partnerships | Inventory of collections, survey of preservation environment, and collections management systems of Self-Help Graphics, an East L.A. visual arts center. Goals include strengthening the management and preservation of its on-site art and archives collections. On-site technical assistance to improve preservation and access infrastructure through an archival internship program coordinated with the UCLA Department of Information Studies as well as funds for collections storage upgrade. A community partnership element established a forum of L.A. arts organizations that convenes regularly to address preservation and access issues. Project established foundation for subsequent documentation project, Latino Arts Survey, 2004-2005. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Collection in Context guide | ||
| UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center & UCLA Film and Television Archive | Chicano Cinema Recovery Project, 2003-ongoing | Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, UC-MEXUS | Collaborative initiative to identify, survey, and plan for the collection of the independent productions of Chicano and Latino filmmakers. Includes a pilot study to survey 8 mm home movie collections in Chicano-dominant communities and an acquisitions program for film/video collections. In addition to film restoration, project includes filmmaker oral history component and reformatting to DVD for broader access. | Yes | Yes | Collection in Context guide | |||
| Evergreen State College | Chicano Cultural Expression in the Pacific Northwest | NEH | Primarily focused on field research and planning for a touring exhibition. Project resulted in the acquisition of a significant body of culturally expressive materials, which have been organized into the archive. | ||||||
| Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame | The Midwest Latino Arts Documentary Heritage Project, 2007-2010 | The Getty Foundation | A three year initiative to advance the preservation of and increase access to primary source materials that document twentieth- and twenty-first century Latin American and Latino arts in the Midwestern United States including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Project locates, surveys, and describes archival materials in private and public collections. Components include field surveys and records management training for artists workshops. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Monograph |
ฉ 2007 Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame Comments & Suggestions?
