Archiving Community: A Milwaukee Women’s Art Library Panel Discussion

 

“We know so little and have been taught none of our own history, so that we are mostly unable to use it.”
-Written by a woman in an anonymous paper in the Women’s Arts Library, London.

In an arts community rich with activity as well as historic divides, how do we piece together our collective records without prompting erasure? Who does the archive serve and how is it inevitably accessed? In this discussion, panelists Evelyn Patricia Terry, Artist; Nat Pyper, Artist and Researcher; and Ann Hanlon, Head of Digital Collections at UWM Libraries, come together to discuss these issues from the perspectives of an individual, the community and the institution. Moderated by MWAL Curator Ashley Janke. FREE.