The Community Archives Workshop will provide tools and training that will help artists, community art organizations and individuals with ways to archive and preserve their documents, photos and artifacts. This skill-sharing workshop is offered as part of JHU-UB Community Archives Program, Inheritance Baltimore, a community archives, outreach initiative to preserve cultural arts history by ensuring that the local art community’s documents and artifacts are processed and stored correctly.
The workshops are dedicated to the exploration of issues related to artists and cultural arts community records in all forms. It is inclusive in nature, welcoming discussion between individuals and community groups engaged in this area. We encourage an expansive, creative, and inclusive interpretation of how the community would like their own stories to be told.
The workshops will share successful tools including strategies for elevating awareness including the following.
Discuss methods for cultural arts advocacy that can be used to build a stronger sense of agency; develop and advance ideas through clear communication, and foster more equitable, respectful, and supportive relationships with all generations.
Incorporate participatory elements that engage attendees and provide actionable knowledge to empower individuals to adapt their practices to be more inclusive, effective, and transparent.
Examine the development, maintenance, and implementation of archival processing standards.
Highlight work being done to address the archival silences of African American art and history, especially regarding materials related to communities and in the areas of social justice.
Focus on the rich histories of Eubie Blake's cultural arts community, local artists and community art members.
