Photo courtesy of Poe Museum curator, Chris Semtner
Event Title: Virtual Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Edgar Allen Poe Museum Collections
Date/Time: Monday, December 2, 2024 at 12:30pm
Format: Webinar via Zoom
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum located in Richmond, Virginia to virtually explore the library, archives, and collections with its curator Chris Semtner. The Poe Museum is bound to have a few skeletons in its closet (and under the floorboards).
This is a free, virtual webinar hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registering for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation via email with a link to join the webinar. This webinar will be video recorded.
ABOUT
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia boasts the world's finest collection of Edgar Allan Poe artifacts and memorabilia including letters, manuscripts, furnishings from Poe's homes, and the author's clothings and other personal possessions. The Museum continues to acquire memorabilia such as movie posters, fine art, and The Museum's library consists of thousands of Poe-related volumes including biographies, criticism, anthologies, illustrated editions, comic books, pop-up books, multimedia recordings, and periodicals. Accumulated over the course of the Museum's 102-year history, the archives feature the research materials of numerous Poe biographers and collectors in addition to letters and manuscripts from Poe's friends and relatives.
The curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, Christopher P. Semtner has curated numerous critically acclaimed exhibits for the Poe Museum in addition to exhibits for the Library of Virginia, the Science Museum of Virginia, and other venues. The Webster Award-winning author has written several articles and chapters in addition to six books about Poe, visual art, and cryptography. His other publications include the “Poe in Richmond” column for the Edgar Allan Poe Review, a biographical introduction to S. S. Van Dine’s The Benson Murder Case, and chapters for Edgar Allan Poe in 20 Objects, Poe and Place, and More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe. He regularly speaks on dark and mysterious subjects in venues from the Library of Congress to the Steampunk World’s Fair and as far away as Japan. He has appeared in Poe documentaries in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan.
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The Paper Trail Dossiers: Interview with Zinesters by Ciara Xyerra, courtesy of Barnard Zine Library
Event Title: Tour of Barnard Zine Library, Archives and Special Collections
Date & Time: Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 5:15PM (Tour begins promptly at 5:30PM)
Duration: 90 minutes
Capacity: 20
Admission: Free! (ART Members and Non-Members)
Location: The Milstein Center, 2nd Floor, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Meeting location: The Milstein Center (2nd Floor Zine Library)
Join staff from the Barnard Zine Library and Archives for a behind-the-scenes tour of the zine and related ephemera collections! The tour will begin with a walkthrough of the circulating zine library space, flip through a selection of their favorite do-it-ourselves publications and talk zine culture in the open stacks. The tour will continue with a look at their special collections zines which share a climate-controlled basement with their close collaborators in the Archives department, and rifle through the doodled envelopes, copy scam tools, original zine flats and riot grrrl memorabilia of the Zinester Ephemera Collections in the Archives’ reading room. We will also have an opportunity to tour the current Surviving Barnard: Student Disorientation Guides at Barnard and Columbia reading room exhibit, alongside the zine library’s disorientation guide display, center networks of student solidarity and collective self-publishing power, and demonstrate the throughlines between the zine library collections and the Barnard Archives.
This is an in-person event limited to 20 people. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An A.R.T. staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
Directions:
When arriving at the front gates of campus on 117th and Broadway, attendees must give their name to public safety and show their ID. Then, turn right and enter the Milstein Center building immediately in front of the lawn. Turn right in the Milstein lobby to get to the elevators.
Valid identification is required for this event. Please be sure to bring this with you to be granted access to the campus.
Barnard Archives and Special Collections
The Barnard Archives and Special Collections collects and makes accessible materials that document campus and academic life at Barnard, as well as broader feminist histories.
Barnard Zine Library
Barnard's zines reflect the Barnard College student population with regard to gender. We have zines by women, nonbinary people, and trans men, with a collection emphasis on zines by women of color and a newer effort to acquire more zines by trans women. We collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on a wide range of topics, broadly addressing gender, feminisms, identities, political activism, and popular culture. Frequent topics include, for example, teenage girlhoods, punk cultures, COVID-19, riot grrrl, LGBTQIA experiences, BIPOC identities, travel, comics, physical and mental health, body image, gender nonconformity, discrimination, DIY and crafting, cooking, friendship, and much more. Our zines are at the lower end of the production level scale and typically cost $10 or less, with most of them in the $1-$5 range. We welcome visitors from everyday zine lovers to international scholars. Come by yourself or bring a friend, or bring your class in for a workshop. Contact zines@barnard.edu. We affirm that Black Lives Matter — in our zines and in our hearts.
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Photo courtesy of Mae Colburn
Title: Wool Skirts: Collection Visit with Mae Colburn
Date & Time: Saturday, December 7th, 2024 at 11:45AM (Tour begins promptly at 12:00PM)
Capacity: 12
Admission: Free! (Open to A.R.T. Members only)
Location: 4250 Richards Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Visit a collection of more than 600 second hand wool skirts amassed by Mae Colburn’s grandmother Audrey between the 1960s and the 1990s. Stored in her basement for decades, then later in Mae’s parents’ garage, the collection now lives in her weaving studio in Brooklyn, NY. Earlier this year Mae worked with her family to document and photograph each skirt. This visit will introduce the history of the collection, the documentation process to date, as well as research pathways and possibilities for this collection and others like it. Please review the objects on the project’s website and email Mae photos of any particular skirts you wish to view during the visit.
This is an in-person event limited to 12 people. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
About
Mae Colburn is a New York-based artist whose work combines archives, research, and weaving. She currently works as archivist for tapestry artist Helena Hernmarck and collaborates with Mariah Smith on Rag Rug Study Group, a research project about textiles produced using worn, surplus, and discarded materials. Read more about Mae’s project here.
How to find Mae Colburn’s Studio
Mae Colburn’s studio is located in Red Hook at 4250 Richards Street Brooklyn, NY 11231. Take the G train to Carol St. and walk West into Red Hook, or take the B61 bus to Van Brunt/Commerce St. and walk East 1 block to Richards St. Meet the Art Programming Committee Volunteers at the corner of Richards Street and Commerce Street.
Please note that the studio is up a small flight of stairs with no elevator access. It is suggested that visitors dress warmly, as the studio has limited heating.
The Archivists Round Table cordially invites you to the annual holiday party!
Please join your A.R.T. colleagues and friends on Tuesday, December 10th from 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm at Parkside Lounge, to celebrate the holidays with delicious food, drinks, and good cheer!
Don’t forget to try your luck in our cash prize holiday raffle to support A.R.T.
Raffle prize winner will be contacted via email on Sunday, December 1st.
Online Registration Required. Please note that advance registration and payment are required no later than midnight on Friday, December 6th to attend.
Parkside Lounge is a strict 21+ age venue. You must be 21 and have ID on you in order to enter the venue.
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