Join us for a candid conversation that explores where the professional world ends and the personal one begins!
What happens when archivists confront their own family histories?
We'll have a conversation about insights and conflicts faced by experts who apply their professional technical know-how to their most intimate, personal archives. How do you balance professional ethics with the deep emotional resonance of one’s own childhood memories and family scrapbooks? Get a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the challenges and rewards of archiving the self.
David Walker is an archivist at The Easton Foundation & Louise Bourgeois Archive in New York City. He received his MLS from CUNY Queens College in 2021 and a BA in photography from Earlham College in 2014. He is an active member of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York and serves as the Arts & Culture Editor of its online publication, the Metropolitan Archivist, where he recently contributed a piece about the intersection of professional archival work and personal family archives.
Here are some projects to browse in advance of the session:
https://www.inuuteqstorch.com/porcelain-souls/
https://artgallery.yale.edu/publication/family-picture-1958-2013
https://blackbottomarchives.omeka.net/about
This is event is free and open to the public.
Register using this link; Zoom URL will be provided upon registration.
