Things I Like

Some of my favorite archives-y things, from books to baseball caps.

Late Style is my AbeBooks storefront
XFR Collective preserves at-risk audiovisual media
One of my favorite books on archives

Archives + Legacy Resources

  • Soft Network empowers contemporary artists and those working with artist estates and archives to imagine and implement new and sustainable legacy models.

    AFELL is a co-moderated email group regarding the labor & best practices in organizing, maintaining and leading artist foundations and family collections. 

  • The Blackivists were a collective of trained Black archivists who prioritized Black cultural heritage preservation and memory work. Their excellent videos on digital preservation, grant writing, and activating archives are still available on the website of the stellar editorial/archival collective Sixty Inches from Center.

  • The Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Creating a Living Legacy program has free legacy and estate planning guides that give artists and their supporters the professional tools to strategize and enact legacy work

  • LACA is a public archive and library dedicated to contemporary art-making, collaborating with artists to build archival collections. LACA has published workbooks on Oral History and Planning For Your Artistic Death.

  • Oral History Summer School is an immersive training program to people use oral history as an ethical interview practice in their lives and work

  • Dance/USA’s Legacy Toolkit provides guidelines and tips for preserving artists’, dancers’ and choreographers’ histories. 

  • XFR Collective partners with artists, activists, and community organizations to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media – especially unseen, unheard, or marginalized works – through digitization, screenings, educational workshops, and pop-up events. Operating through a non-hierarchical model, they work to create an inclusive environment to explore practical methods for media preservation, archiving, and access.