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Collaborative Agreement Reached Between Timothy W. Drescher and ARTstor Timothy W. Drescher, Ph.D., and ARTstor announced today that they had reached an agreement to collaborate on the digitization and distribution through ARTstor of several thousand high quality digital images from Drescher’s unique archive of photographs of community murals. As an independent mural historian and photographer, Timothy Drescher has been professionally studying, documenting, and campaigning for the conservation of community murals throughout the United States – in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere- for many years. His own publications range from the standard study of San Francisco Bay Area Murals: Communities Create their Muses, 1904-1997 (3rd ed., 1998) to a thoughtful analysis of “Priorities in Conserving Community Murals” (a paper presented at a 2003 conference at the Getty Conservation Institute). His slides and photographs of Chicano and other community murals have been widely published in works by a wide range of scholars. Through this collaboration, ARTstor will digitize several thousand slides from Timothy Drescher’s archive, as well as selected materials from the archives of many muralists and other students of community murals, including especially that of the late Eva Sperling Cockroft, co-author (with John Pitman Weber and James Cockcroft) of Toward A People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement (1977) (for the 1998 revision of which Drescher wrote the Afterword update) and (with Holly Barnet-Sanchez), Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals (1990). Timothy Drescher is curating the selection of images for digitization, stressing documentation of entire murals as well as details, contextual establishing photographs, and selected documentation of mural processes. In reaching this agreement, Timothy Drescher and Max Marmor, ARTstor’s Director of Collection Development, expressed their shared enthusiasm in collaborating to use digital technologies to make these high quality images of community mural sites more broadly available for noncommercial educational and scholarly purposes. “I’m delighted that ARTstor is making these important images available to a large group of students and scholars using the same usage criteria that muralists have used interpersonally for over three decades,” comments Drescher. “Our new collaboration with Timothy Drescher represents an important milestone in ARTstor's ongoing effort to provide teachers, scholars and students with high-quality digital images of contemporary art in all its richness and diversity. Tim Drescher’s images have been widely consulted by scholars through a range of publications on community murals, and we are delighted to help make them available now online for non-commercial use in education and research, in the same spirit in which muralists themselves have exchanged images over many years,” adds Marmor. Timothy W. Drescher has, for many years, played a key role in the documentation, study and conservation of community murals, including co- editing Community Murals Magazine from 1976-1987. He works closely with other scholars and photographers in this field. ARTstor (www.artstor.org) was created in 2001 as a nonprofit initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is now an independent non-profit organization dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the arts and the humanities. Currently, more than 520 non-profit institutions in the U.S. and Canada are participating in ARTstor. A pilot distribution is underway in the UK and Australia/New Zealand, and further international availability is being actively explored. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]