The Archive Project
The Archive Project is a collaboration between, Visual AIDS Boston (VAB), The Artists Foundation, Visual AIDS (NYC), and the Boston Public Library.
The Archive Project was founded in 1994 by Visual AIDS (NYC).
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Access to legal assistance to enable artists to draw up a will and provide for their estate |
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Services of photo documentation, giving artists free slides of their work which they can use to seek gallery representation or grants |
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A record/public archive
of all the slides taken by the Archive Project (or duplication of existing slides of the artists' work) |
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Help to artists exhibiting their work/provides exhibition opportunities |
The Archive Project is a resource for curators, historians, journalists, artists and those who are interested from the public. VAB has collaborated with Visual AIDS NYC/ the Archive Project in 1996 on the then largest display of work nationally by artists from the HIV/AIDS community at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama. Visual AIDS Boston worked with the Estate Project on the Virtual Collection, an online data base of digital images of images created by artists with HIV/AIDS. VAB was responsible to ensure that Massachusetts artists were included in the online national database which was launched in 1998. VAB is working on collecting information on the Boston HIV/AIDS community to archive at the Boston Public Library. For more info call VAB at 617-464-3559.
Some important national links:
The Estate Project for Artists wth AIDS
Key Publications from the Estate Project
Some important statewide links:
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts (for legal assistance in MA)
End of Life Commission of Massachusetts
Massachusetts HIV/AIDS Organizations
