WAAND :: Woman Artists Archives National Directory

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The Women Artists Archives National Directory (WAAND) is an online directory to U.S. archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists and women’s arts organizations in the U.S. from January 1, 1945, to present day.  WAAND consists of three linked databases: a Repository Directory, Collections, and an Entity (artist or artists’ organization) Database.  The Repository Directory is a database of organizations; it includes name, location, contact information, services provided, audiences served, and access policies for each organization.  The Collections Database, the heart of the directory, describes the primary source material on a particular woman artist or artists’ organization that is held by a particular repository.  The Entity Database includes entries for artist organizations and collectives such as artist publications, alternative spaces, and artists’ communities.

WAAND’s principal investigators are Dr. Ferris Olin, head of the Margery Somers Foster Center and curator of the Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library, RUL, and Judith K. Brodsky, Rutgers distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Visual Arts and founding director of the Brodsky Center for Print, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Grace Agnew, Rutgers Associate Librarian for Digital Library Systems, and Jane D. Johnson, project manager for the Moving Image Collections (MIC) and visiting scholar at Rutgers, are WAAND’s digital architects. Nicole Plett is project manager….(Read more)

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I believe that the issues we women were involved in were really so universal. We were trying hard to touch every part of the world; every part of thinking; and every part of what was going on here, there, and everywhere
Miriam Schapiro, 2004

Prendergast Archive & Study Center | Williams College Museum of Art

 Prendergast Archive and Study Center | Williams College Museum of ArtWebsite:  http://wcma.williams.edu/collection/prendergast/

The Williams College Museum of Art is home to the world’s largest repository of the work of artists Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924) and Charles Prendergast (1863–1948)…with a collection of about 400 works of art and 1500 related archival objects.

With support from a three year grant (2011-2014) from the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS), The Williams College Museum of Art is in the process of digitizing the entire Prendergast collection of fine art and archives, including paintings, works on paper, hand-carved frames, sketchbooks, decorative arts, letters, documents, ephemera, and carving tools, all of which are to be integrated into the WCM’s collection.  The project will create new database records and link new high-resolution images to the museum’s collection management system. The new digital images and records will be made available to the public via the museum’s web site and the Prendergast Archive and Study Center web pages.

Selected Images from the Collection

SIRIS | Smithsonian Institution Research Information System

SIRIS | Smithsonian Institution Research Information Service

Mission: “The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) is an interactive, integrated system applying established national standards to manage, describe, and provide access to research resources held primarily by the Institution’s libraries, archives, and research units in support of the Institution’s mission. SIRIS supports the Smithsonian research community by providing a gateway to and from other Institution information resources and to external information resources.”

Website:  http://siris.si.edu/

SIRIS Collection Search Center

Collections Search Center |  Smithsonian Institution Research Information Services (SIRIS)

An online catalog comprised of over 7 million records from collections from the Smithsonian’s museums, archives, libraries, and research units.

 

 

 

 

SIRIS Image Collection

About: The SIRIS Image Gallery contains a sampling of visual records that are part of the Collections Search Center. The Image Gallery includes over 530,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.
Website: http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm