You might want to turn the slides over to
Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., the first and oldest school of higher
education for the deaf in the U.S. They have actively sought material on
deaf artists for their library and have a special collection relating to deaf
artists and writers. I'm sure they would appreciate such a collection and
it would be more useful (and used) there than at RIT because of its
concentration on deaf studies. Unless you were developing a program
in this area and had other archival material to back up such a collection,
I think it would be lost at RIT.
I don't know what artists
are represented in the collection, but there have been a number of deaf artists
which Gallaudet has sought to identify, some quite well-known, and others quite
obscure.
Raymond Smith
R.W.
Smith Bookseller
New Haven
A faculty member would like to place a collection of 35mm
slides she has
amassed (about 100) in the archives. They are slides of
artwork by deaf
artists, and may be the only collection that anyone could
find in one
place. As an archivist I hesitate, because after all, they are
copies,
and not the original artwork. But, they do relegate to the
faculty
member's scholarship, and might be of interest to researchers now
and
into the future. I can see them increasing in uniqueness and value
as
time goes on. I am going to take them, but was looking for
additional
input/suggestions/comments from others who may have experience
with the
same sort of scenario.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Becky
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Becky Simmons
RIT Archivist
RIT Libraries
Rochester
Institute of Technology
90 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
(585) 475-2557
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