From The Green Room

In the first of their blogs, Benja considers the particular needs, challenges, and gifts of an archive of multimedia, community-based, personal and artistic materials.

Isabel’s first blog post discusses how the Dianne Walker collection can reflect her career, honor the legacy of her mentors, and educate future generations about tap history.

Amy’s first blog post explores NIF’s history, deep familial and community connections, and her own relationship to flamenco and this unique archive.

Lacy shares her learnings and questions from the first couple weeks working on the digital collections of Cashion Cultural Legacy, a Mexican folkloric nonprofit, and reflects on the need to “simply begin” the work.

Abidel shares their experience traveling with SQFC’s performing company, 2Q, as they performed for and engaged with their community through Puerto Rican music and dance lecture demonstrations.

Abdiel details the warm welcome they received into the movements, rhythms, sounds, and community of SQFC and their performance company 2Q.

In her third blog post, Blair Black compares the pros, cons, and use scenarios of Airtable and Archivists’ Toolkit (AT), two database options she has considered for JazzAntiqua’s archive project.

In their second post, Abdiel outlines the materials they encountered creating the SQFC inventory and shares highlights and photos of special materials they found.

In her final blog post, Laila Franklin discusses the somewhat untraditional development of the inventory and AirTable database system for Jennifer Harge’s archive.

Blair Black reflects on JazzAntiqua’s early days, first as The Dance Collective, in L.A.’s Leimert Park neighborhood, and how to ensure the archive tells the history of this Afrodiasporic artistic organization and community.