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This post is originally from e-flux, I'm sure the Art Spaces Archives Project will be of interest to those on this list. Please take a look at their website:
http://www.as-ap.org

	--- e-Flux <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
	
	> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:43 -0400
	> From: e-Flux <[log in to unmask]>
	> Subject: Archiving the Alternative / Avant-Garde in
	> the United States
	> To: [log in to unmask]
	>
	> Art Spaces Archives Project [AS-AP]
	>
	>
	>
	>
	> Art Spaces Archives Project [AS-AP]
	>
	> Launches a New National Initiative to Document
	>
	> and Preserve Endangered Archives
	>
	> Get Paid to be Preserved
	>
	> http://www.as-ap.org
	>
	>
	> Recently a consortium of American visual arts
	> organizations met to discuss documenting and
	> preserving the history of the avant-garde and
	> alternative movement in the United States. This
	> history is now increasingly recognized for its
	> importance to the worldwide community of artists,
	> scholars, art historians, educators and aficionados.
	>
	> If your organization was founded in the United
	> States between 1950 and 2000 please help us by going
	> to the AS-AP website https://www.as-ap.org and
	> adding your organization, or checking to see if
	> AS-AP has already  indexed it, and then completing
	> our archival survey.
	>
	> AS-AP is not currently investigating organizations
	> founded after 2000.
	>
	> AS-AP is interested in all aspects of art
	> presentation -- including for-profit, non-profit and
	> unincorporated organizations. We also wish that
	> institutions holding of archives related to the
	> alternative / avant-garde movement also register
	> individual holding with us.
	>
	> We will collect and analyze information from
	> thousands of organizations in order to quantify the
	> need for archival services to the field.
	>
	> The survey may be completed on-line or on paper by
	> downloading a RTF or PDF version of this survey from
	> AS-AP's website at http://as-ap.org/as-ap_survey.pdf
	> However, we hope organizations or their
	> representatives will complete it online.
	>
	> This survey is an ongoing effort -- our database is
	> already open for scholars to review, but also for
	> new data to be inserted and changes to be made to
	> existing records. Unlike a frozen, printed document,
	> the AS-AP database will be living. Your
	> participation is vital in relaying history to future
	> scholars!
	>
	> This survey will take approximately 20 minutes to
	> complete. The first 1,000 organizations to complete
	> this form will receive $50, which is made possible
	> through a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for
	> the Visual Arts.
	>
	> In the future we would like to financially assist
	> your organization with your archival needs. All
	> organizations that complete this survey will become
	> eligible for future funding when it becomes
	> available.
	>
	> Please email us at [log in to unmask] or call us at
	> (212) 330-7688 if you have any questions whatsoever
	> regarding AS-AP or this survey.
	>
	> More information about AS-AP can be found on our
	> website:
	>
	> http://www.as-ap.org
	>
	> David Platzker, Project Director / [log in to unmask]
	>
	> STEERING COMMITTEE
	> Rebecca Cederholm, College Art Association
	> Linda Earle, Skowhegan School of Painting and
	> Sculpture
	> Milan R. Hughston,The Museum of Modern Art
	> Elizabeth Merena, New York State Council on the Arts
	> Betsy Sussler, Bomb Magazine
	> Marvin Taylor, New York University, Fales Library,
	> Downtown Collection
	> Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive
	>
	> FUNDING CREDITS
	> Art Spaces Archives Project [AS-AP] has received
	> generous support
	> from The New York State Council on the Arts [NYSCA],
	> The National
	> Endowment for the Arts [NEA], and the Andy Warhol
	> Foundation for the
	> Visual Arts. AS-AP also gratefully acknowledges
	> operating assistance
	> from the College Art Association.
	>
	> [log in to unmask]
	>
	> Art Spaces Archives Project [AS-AP]
	> PO Box 20261
	> New York, NY 10011
	>
	> 212 330 7688 tel.
	>
	> http://www.as-ap.org
	>
	>
	>
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