Ask Me Anything: Preserving Your Artistic Legacy Through an Artist Archive
Date: January 23, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm CST
Location: Zoom Meeting
Price: Free
Category: Workshop
This program will be held on Zoom. It will not be recorded, but Zoom automated captions will be available.
“Ask Me Anything” events are panel discussions on a variety of topics with Springboard’s Artist Career Consultants (ACCs) or staff and guest artists/presenters. These events are held virtually, on Zoom.
Ask Me Anything: Preserving Your Artistic Legacy Through an Artist Archive
Date/Time: Thursday, January 23, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Central Time
Building an archive of your artistic work is a vital step in documenting your creative legacy and ensuring its ongoing impact. This discussion will explore existing resources for developing and managing artist archives, highlight practical archiving techniques artists can easily implement in their studios, and examine the role of preservation in career development and legacy planning. Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski and Alexandra Nicome will share insights from their work creating an archive for artist Seitu Ken Jones, whose legacy will be preserved through his newly established organization, The Black Gate. This program will be moderated by Anniessa Antar, Artist Career Consultant at Springboard.
Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski (she/Ego) is an artist and archivist currently completing a PhD at Chelsea College of Arts and Tate, UK. She is author of Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life (Thames & Hudson, 2024), co-editor of Mirror Reflecting Darkly: The Rita Keegan Archive (Goldsmiths Press, 2021) and contributing author to The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024). Alongside art historian Alexandra Nicome she is currently part of the archival and curatorial team for The Black Gate, a radical archival legacy project founded by Saint Paul based multidisciplinary artist Seitu K. Jones. Grounded in Black feminisms and DIY Queer culture/s, her research explores the synergy between (self)archiving as a curatorial method and artistic practice.
Alexandra Nicome (she/her) is an archivist and arts administrator currently based in Western Massachusetts. She is passionate about preserving artists’ legacies through archival practices and connecting communities to documents from the past. Since 2021, she has partnered with archivist-curator Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski to build an archive with the papers, books, and ephemera of artist Seitu Ken Jones. Alexandra holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College, an M.A. in art history from Williams College, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in library and information science. @alexandranicome on Instagram!
Anniessa Antar (she/they) is a software engineer, educator, and cultural organizer. She has worked at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Saint Catherine University, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and with organizations such as Mizna, Confluence: An East Lake Studio for Community Design, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum and the School for Poetic Computation. Her practices center on the power of creative, playful, and collective work to confront and heal systemic oppression.