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Texas Association of Museums Conference
Chief Library Curator of ART | library deco, Keeton, wins 2nd Place in TAM 2024 Doctoral Art Academic Showcase for a poster presentation on a future virtual autoethnographic case study, Case Study Notes In Progress, A Post-Painterly Autoethnography: Parsing an African American Virtual Art Library Gallery. The utilization of information work using an autoethnographic perspective serves as a valuable tool in comprehending the essential requirements of users for an African American virtual art library, gallery, and repository. Data collection will begin in 2025, beginning with the art library user survey.
The Creative CoLab Debuts: Relational Possibilities
The Creative CoLab, kYmberly Keeton, and Dana Reijerkerk of ART | library deco are 2023 LEADING Fellow Alumni of Drexel University and Temple University Libraries. They developed “Relational Possibilities,” a digital community archive project exploring community relations and futurist realities of Indigeneity and Blackness in Philadelphia through art, writing, and public art. The project includes original datasets, AI imagery, video games, a podcast, and virtual museums. Their work has been showcased at the 2024 Bit Curator’s Forum and the University of North Texas Scholarly Research Series.
POWRR Institutes
Since its inception in 2012, the Preserving digital Objects With Restricted Resources (Digital POWRR) Project has endeavored to make digital preservation more accessible to a wider range of cultural heritage professionals.
Digital POWRR was recently awarded funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to put on five 2.5 day professional training institutes. ART | library deco has been accepted into the June 5-7, 2024 cohort at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. The library received travel funds from the DPOE Network at Pratt University to attend the institute.
Internet Archive
ART | library deco has been awarded funding from the Internet Archive’s Vault Grant to preserve collections of digital materials. They will be using their newly established repository, VAULT, for this purpose. The art library plans to transition its OMEKA repository platform to VAULT starting in the summer of 2024.
Community Webs
ART | library deco has been selected as a 2021-2025 Community Webs Partner, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The library’s web archiving collection focuses on the Texas Black Artists Collective, helping preserve online materials that reflect on Black artists and their contributions to society.
People Change Museums Podcast
Dr. Sophie Frost from the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies discusses the role of museums in shaping human values in the new decade with kYmberly Keeton from ART | library deco. The podcast features interviews with museum experts and explores the impact of technology on this mission.
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