Jen Everett, Photographic Archive
Date: Saturday, May 13, 2023
Time: 11AM-1PM
Location: George B. Vashon Museum, 2223 St. Louis Ave, St. Louis, MO
Details:
Participants will learn and share strategies for record keeping and preservation while highlighting differences between institutional and vernacular frameworks. We will focus on the practices of informal archivists and keepers* within our own families and communities, subverting the myth of the institutional archive as the sole source of true or official knowledge. This offering will center histories that have been suppressed, omitted, or are at risk of being lost.
*Keepers: The ones in our families and communities who we rely on to preserve and hold our history. Whether this is the family tree, photographs, record collection, garden, etc.
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Guiding Questions:
Rather than focusing exclusively on distant futures, how can we appreciate and work with archival photographs in the present? How can this material help us during uncertain times?
How do we practice care for ourselves and others when working with vernacular photographs?
How do we make peace with what will inevitably decay and break down? How do we honor what resists retelling or being recorded?
