For immediate use: Tuesday, April 15, 2014
A grant will help a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill prepare future librarians and archivists to identify, organize and care for the complex records of visual artists in North Carolina.
The three-year, $491,908 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services is called “Learning from Artists’ Archives: Preparing Next Generation Art Information Professionals through Partnerships with North Carolina’s Artists’ Archives.” It will support a comprehensive training program for six fellows enrolled in the dual master’s degree offered by UNC’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and the art department’s art history program.
The grant will also fund two free training events on personal archiving for up to 50 North Carolina artists, to take place at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte. The grant program will culminate in a major symposium about collecting and preserving artists’ archives in the South.
The principal investigator will be Heather Gendron, head of UNC’s Sloane Art Library and adjunct professor at SILS. Co-investigators for the collaborative effort are Carol Magee, associate professor and director of graduate studies for art history, and JJ Bauer, visual resources curator and lecturer, both in the art department, College of Arts and Sciences; and Richard Marciano, professor, SILS.
Potential fellowship candidates or artists who would like to participate should contact Heather Gendron at hgendron@email.unc.edu or (919) 962-2397.
Sloane Art Library contact: Heather Gendron, (919) 962-2397, hgendron@email.unc.edu
School of Information and Library Science contact: Richard Marciano, (919) 962-0033, richard_marciano@unc.edu
Art department contact: Carol Magee, (919) 962-2015, cmagee@email.unc.edu