Still from “San Francisco State: On Strike.” Image courtesy of Third World Newsreel
Institution: Third World Newsreel
Event Title: “Revolutionary in Spirit and Commitment”: Third World Newsreel’s Stock Footage Collection
Location: Zoom (See Event for Details)
Event Format: Virtual Lecture and Screening
Event Date: Sunday, October 25, 2026
Event Time: 1:00 PM -2:00 PM
Newsreel was founded in late 1967 after the March on the Pentagon. This collective created over 60 films from 1968-1972 documenting social justice movements across the country, including unique footage of New York chapters of the Black Panthers and Young Lords, some of the first large college campus strikes, second wave feminist demonstrations, and anti-Vietnam War protests. Stock Footage Consultant Linda Page will talk about these materials and their importance to TWN today, and will share clips of some of the films in this collection.
Accessibility Note: These are audiovisual materials that have captions, though not all captioning may be accurate.
Registration Note: Register via Zoom.
Public Contact: Linda Page, Films@twn.org
Mac's First House, East River, 1992. Courtesy of the Margaret Morton Archive.
Institution: Margaret Morton Archive
Event Title: Tour of the Margaret Morton Archive
Location: Mana Contemporary (888 Newark Avenue, Studio 364, Jersey City, NJ 07306)
Event Format: In-Person Tour
Event Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Join Stephanie Neel, Director of Archives & Operations, for a tour of the Margaret Morton Archive at Mana Contemporary. This tour will take place during Mana's Fall Open Studios, so please feel free to peruse the other artists' studios and exhibitions throughout the day.
Margaret Morton (1948-2020) was a graphic designer, photographer, author, and Professor of Art at Cooper Union. Between 1993 and 2003, Margaret produced four books of photographs and transcribed interviews of unhoused communities in New York: Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (1993); The Tunnel (1995); Fragile Dwelling (2000); and Glass House (2003). The Margaret Morton Archive was established in 2022 to promote her legacy and arrange donations of her work to public collections.
The Archive comprises over 1,000 of Margaret’s photographic exhibition prints and approximately 100 linear feet of Margaret’s personal papers; field work notes and book project files; press; exhibition ephemera; posters; artwork by other artists; and a substantial media collection related to her personal photography, oral history interviews, and book projects.
Accessibility Note: Mana Contemporary is about a 10 minute walk from the Journal Square PATH train station. You can also take a taxi or rideshare from the station to Mana. Mana has a large parking lot that attendees who are driving in can use for parking. There is a ramp or a short flight of stairs leading up to the entrance of the building, and the Margaret Morton Archive is located on the third floor, accessible by both elevators and stairs.
Registration Note: Registration required, limited to 20 registrants. People can RSVP by emailing stephanie@margaretmorton.org with their name and contact information.
Public Contact: Stephanie Neel, stephanie@margaretmorton.org
Institution: NYU's Archives Onstage
Event Title: Archives Onstage: Maria Iréne Fornés and the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project
Location: NYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012
Event Format: In-Person Exhibition Tour with an Optional Event to Follow
Archives Onstage is an annual series that aims to activate and increase access to and interest in the NYU Division of Libraries’ significant performing arts-related archival holdings in relation to contemporary art and scholarship on campus, in partnership with NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
This year’s events celebrate the work, life, and legacy of queer, Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés, often called the “greatest and least known dramatist of our time.” Her work as a playwright, director, and teacher has influenced countless theatre artists.
Please join us for a tour of this year’s Archives Onstage exhibit in the Skirball Center lobby featuring artists’ portraits from the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project and an exploration of the theoretical and practical questions around archiving queer performance.
The exhibit tour will be followed by an optional event (RSVP here) featuring a staged reading of Fornés’s play Mud and a panel of playwrights in conversation about Fornés’s legacy.
Registration Note: Registration is required for the exhibition tour. Please RSVP to Rye Gentleman at rye.gentleman@nyu.edu. Attendance at the optional afternoon event is not required.
Public Contact: Rye Gentleman, rye.gentleman@nyu.edu
Courtesy of Carnegie Hall Rose Archives, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto
Institution: Carnegie Hall Rose Archives
Event Title: Tour of Carnegie Hall Rose Archives and Museum
Location: Carnegie Hall Rose Archives, 154 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019, 8th Fl
Event Date(s): Monday, October 26, 2026
Event Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Please join the Carnegie Hall Rose Archives team for an open hours where we will feature artifacts from our collection and a guided tour of the Rose Museum.
Registration Note: Please RSVP by email to jgrunenberg@carnegiehall.org. Space is limited to 15 participants.
Public Contact: Jennifer Grunenberg, jgrunenberg@carnegiehall.org
Institution: Zohrab Information Center
Event Title: "Our Children [Are] Our Paintings": Legacies and Lessons Learned from the Collections of Vava Sarkis Khachaturian and Arshile Gorky
Event Format: Virtual Lecture
Event Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
In addition to diocesan records, the Zohrab Information Center and Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) contain a treasure trove of unique, archival materials about a broad array of Armenian artists. Archivist Linda Page is highlighting the collections of two Armenian-American painters: Vava Sarkis Khachaturian and Arshile Gorky (and his sister and nephew Vartoosh and Karlen Mooradian). Adapted from a presentation given to educators and principals at Armenian schools, this talk will highlight the educational value in these collections and the hopes of the Zohrab Information Center and diocese to increase its outreach to schools and community groups of people of all ages.
This event is part of the proceedings of the Archives Education Institute (AEI), whose aim is to pair K-12 educators with unique archival repositories in the NY metropolitan area. This event has been structured to accommodate both A.R.T. members and educators registered for AEI.
Public Contact: Linda Page, lindas@armeniandiocese.org
Photo Credit: From the sketchbook of illustrator Hilary Knight
Institution: The Jewelry Library
Event Title: Open House: The Jewelry Library
Location: 350 Seventh Avenue, Suite #2204
Event Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
View our collection of books, jewelry ephemera, original jewelry designs and recent acquisitions along with a selection of jewelry from our archive.
Registration Note: Please RSVP by emailing info@thejewelrylibrary.com
Public Contact: Karen Davidov, karen@thejewelrylibrary.com
Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic Records, Oskar Diethelm Library, Weill Cornell Medicine
Institution: Oskar Diethelm Library, Weill Cornell Medicine
Event Title: Psychic Collections Tour, Oskar Diethelm Library
Location: 525 East 68th Street New York, NY 10065
Event Format: In Person Tour
Event Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Event Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Please join us for tours focusing on the psychic collections of the Oskar Diethelm Library on October 27th at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm, with topics including palmistry, spiritualism, mesmerism and animal magnetism, seances, ESP, telepathy, and hypnosis. The Oskar Diethelm Library, part of Weill Cornell Medical College's DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, is a special collections library devoted to the history of psychiatry. Comprising approximately 35,00 titles, the collection has strengths in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, mesmerism, spiritualism, phrenology, witchcraft and related topics, with titles stretching as far back as the 15th century.
Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu. Each time slot is limited to 10 people, and directions to the library are available here.
Registration Note: Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu.
Public Contact: Nicole Topich, nrt4001@med.cornell.edu
Floto + Warner, Clear Comfort, 2015. © Floto + Warner
Institution: Alice Austen House
Event Title: Guided Tour of Alice Austen House
Location: Alice Austen House, 2 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10305
Event Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join Director of Collections Kristine Allegretti for a guided tour of the Alice Austen House. Where we will talk in depth about Alice and her work and the archival process since the repatriation of her photographic archives
Accessibility Note: Pathways are gravel and there is a 10 inch step down into one room.
Registration Note: Please RSVP via email to kristine@aliceausten.org.
Public Contact: Kristine Allegretti, kristine@aliceausten.org
LaGuardia & Wagner Archives staff cut a ceremonial ribbon at the opening of the new gallery space.
Institution: LaGuardia & Wagner Archives
Event Title: LaGuardia & Wagner Archives Tour
Location: 29-10 Thomson Avenue, Suite C760, Long Island City, Queens 11101
Event Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Join the LaGuardia & Wagner Archives’ educators and archivists on a tour of its new facility, featuring a dedicated gallery, library, climate-controlled vaults, and new classrooms designed to support hands-on learning with historical artifacts.
Founded in 1982, the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives is a unique resource among CUNY campuses. Named after two transformative New York City mayors—Fiorello LaGuardia and Robert F. Wagner—the Archives preserves and illuminates the stories that shape New York City, with an emphasis on the mayoralty and the borough of Queens. Over the years, the Archives has grown to include more than two million documents and artifacts, and 100,000 digitized photographs, chronicling the city’s governance, public policy, and civic life.
Accessibility Note: The C Building is fully accessible
Registration Note: Please RSVP by emailing Andrew Tripp at atripp@lagcc.cuny.edu with the subject line "Archives Tour"
Public Contact: Andrew Tripp, atripp@lagcc.cuny.edu
Image courtesy of La MaMa Archive
Institution: La MaMa Archive
Event Title: La MaMa Archive Tour
Location: 66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003
Event Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Established in the early 1970’s, La MaMa Archive collects, preserves, and exhibits records of permanent historical value relating to La MaMa and the Off-Off Broadway movement. La MaMa’s collections offer an intimate perspective on major social, aesthetic, and political movements of the 20th and 21st centuries that resonate with histories of peoples across the globe. Join Archive staff as we tell the story of how La MaMa was founded and the ways in which it would change the landscape of American theatre through the work of Ellen Stewart and her cohort of playwrights, directors and actors. Explore the Archive and hear the stories behind the props, costumes, posters and sets.
Accessibility Note: Accessible.
Registration Note: Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1999720399546?aff=oddtdtcreator
Public Contact: Kylie Goetz, archives@lamama.org
Institution: Wolf Kahn Foundation
Event Title: Wolf Kahn Foundation Open House
Location: 134 W 26th St., Suite 1150 New York, NY 10001
Event Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Wolf Kahn Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting the artistic achievements of Wolf Kahn (1927-2020) and to sharing them with audiences, scholars, and other artists towards a greater understanding of his work and his lasting contribution to American art of the Second Generation New York School. Please join us for an open house at the new Wolf Kahn Foundation offices, get a peek into our archives, learn more about the life of Wolf Kahn and ask our archivists and collection manager any questions you might have about the work of the foundation, or about artists' foundations and archives. Light refreshments will be served.
Accessibility Note: The 11th floor is accessible by elevator.
Registration Note: Registration not required.
Public Contact: Vince Kelley, archives@wolfkahnfoundation.org
Institution: Haiti Cultural Exchange
Event Title: Partnering Artists and Archives - "Rasin San Bout: Roots Without End: Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive" at Haiti Cultural Exchange
Location: 35 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
Event Format: In-Person Exhibition
Join us at Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) to view our current interactive exhibition, in collaboration with the Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), which stewards the archive of ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. Archivist and co-curator Micaela Walker will be on hand to discuss the exhibition, “Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End: Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive”.
About the Exhibition
The Association for Cultural Equity selected 40 essential recordings from nearly 50 hours of recordings that Alan Lomax made in Haiti in 1936-1937. HCX invited visual artists of Haitian descent through an open-call to build a conversation between the past and present by responding to these recordings through their own creative practices. The result is a vibrant, multi-sensory mix of textile art, film, photography, and visual art to be viewed while listening to the recordings they were directly inspired by, uniting them to explore Haiti’s cultural traditions and the stories, memories, and communities connected to them.
“Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End” offers a uniquely immersive way to witness the personal and creative impact that this archive inspired in the artists responding to the rare, unique recordings from their ancestral home. Our hope is for visitors to make their own connections between the recorded sounds and the presented work to inspire reflections on how cultural traditions are preserved and reimagined.
Please visit our website to learn more about the exhibition and Haiti Cultural Exchange.
Public Contact: Micaela Walker, archive@haiticulturalx.org
Image courtesy of the One Million Years Foundation
Institution: One Million Years Foundation
Event Title: One Million Years Foundation Open House
Location: 140 Greene St, 3rd Floor, New York, NY (SoHo)
Event Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Over more than five decades, On Kawara (29,771 days) developed a distinct and highly nuanced form of artistic expression that engaged with chronological time and its function as a measure of human existence. A key figure in the conceptual art movement that emerged in New York in the 1960s, the artist created a significant body of work organized into discrete series that together form a meditative examination of time and place. Join the One Million Years Foundation for a presentation of archival material that offers a deeper look into the artist’s practice.
Accessibility Note: The foundation is located on the third floor of a private building in SoHo, accessed by elevator. Please note there are a few stairs to get to the elevator. If you have questions about access, please contact us in advance of the event, and we will make every effort to accommodate you.
Registration Note: Please RSVP to cfoster@onemillionyearsfoundation.org
Public Contact: Caitlin Foster, cfoster@onemillionyearsfoundation.org
Note: There is no photography allowed in the space.
Institution: Fugitive Materials
Event Title: Tour of Fugitive Materials
Location: Fugitive Materials (686 Sterling Place, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11216)
Event Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Archivists Round Table for a tour of Fugitive Materials, a collection of archives, ephemera, and primary source documents specializing in global material cultures of resistance. Founded and operated by Daylon Orr and Maya Fell, Fugitive Materials is committed to the preservation of radical, lesser-known, and alternative histories, and to the disruption of informational privilege through archiving, publishing, and bookselling.
Fugitive Materials organizes, catalogs, and places archives and special collections, and publishes books, zines, and catalogs – oftentimes prompted by the archival materials they handle. A complete list of books and zines they have published and bookstores stocking Fugitive Materials can be found on the Publications page of their website.
Fugitive Materials is also a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA). They buy and sell books, periodicals, and ephemera, and locate rare and out-of-print publications.
This is an in-person event limited to 10 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
Accessibility Note: It's on the second floor of a residential building.
Registration Note: Yes, RSVP to daylon@fugitivematerials.com
Public Contact: Daylon Orr, daylon@fugitivematerials.com
Image courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Institution: Leslie-Lohman Museum
Event Title: Activating the Archive: Michelle Handelman Capsule Collection Launch
Location: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 26 Wooster Street, New York, New York 10013
Event Format: In-Person Exhibition and Lecture
Event Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On occasion of Michelle Handelman’s Capsule Collection Launch at The Feminist Institute's Digital Archive, join Handelman in conversation with Dr. Amber Musser, Jeanne Vaccaro, and Exx Nottage, moderated by Stamatina Gregory, on the historically marginalized work being introduced into feminist queer archives. This panel will discuss how archives can serve as interventions into dominant historical narratives within collecting institutions, the cultural record, and art history. Through their activation, archives become a form of information activism, creating new possibilities for scholarship, public memory, and more equitable futures.
This panel will bring together archivists, scholars, and cultural workers to discuss how feminist + queer archives, and specifically Michelle's Collection in the TFI Digital Archive, can be activated through research, teaching, and other forms of cultural work. We'll focus on how feminist and queer archives expand the canon by bringing into the cultural record artists whose work has been historically marginalized by collecting institutions and art history, and demonstrate how archives can serve as interventions into dominant historical narratives. Through their activation, archives become a form of information activism, creating new possibilities for scholarship, public memory, and more equitable futures.
Registration Note: Free to attend, RSVP is highly recommended. https://secure.qgiv.com/for/leslie-lohmanmuseum/event/handelmanarchive/
Public Contact: Linda Page, outreach@nycarchivists.org
Image courtesy Woodlawn Cemetery
Please note that this tour is not part of the 2026 New York Archives Week lineup.
Title: Trolley Tour of The Woodlawn Cemetery
Date & Time: Thursday, October 29 at 2:15PM (Tour begins promptly at 2:30PM)
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: 20
Admission: Members $5.00 and Non-Members $10.00
Location: Woodlawn Cemetery,3800 Jerome Ave entrance, Bronx, NY (intersection of Jerome & Bainbridge Avenues)
Join us for an autumnal trolley tour of the historic cemetery and a viewing of its historical documents. Founded in 1863 by some of New York City’s most prominent citizens, Woodlawn tells the story of New York and the nation from the Industrial Age through today. Nearly every industry, class, religion and ethnicity is represented by the veritable “Who’s Who of American History,” reflecting stories of art and engineering, industrialization, cultural and societal development.
This is an in-person event limited to 20 attendees. 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.
How to find Woodlawn Cemetery
Subway: Take the 4 train to the end of line – Woodlawn Station. From the base of the station, walk about half a block. Jerome Avenue entrance is on the right.
Meeting location
Meet at the Jerome Avenue entrance - NOT the main entrance on Webster Avenue
About
Established in 1863 and spanning 400 acres, The Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, is one of the nation’s most distinguished historic cemeteries and a certified Level II Arboretum. In 2011, Woodlawn was designated a National Historic Landmark for its singular importance in the history of the nation and New York City. Woodlawn is also an active cemetery with ongoing burials and funeral services, and more than 310,000 individuals are memorialized on its grounds. Woodlawn is one of the nation's finest examples of a 19th-century garden cemetery. Its monuments represent some of the best memorial art and architecture in the nation, including nearly 1,300 private mausoleums designed by some of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. The Woodlawn Cemetery is open to the public free of charge 365 days a year from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. Woodlawn offers a broad range of public and educational programs, including a workforce development program, Bridge to Crafts Careers, that has offered trades training for more than a decade. For more information, visit www.woodlawn.org.
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Event Title: Archives Education Institute (AEI) 2026: Resistance through Creativity
Location: Queens Public Library at Jackson Heights, 35-51 81st St, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
Event Date: Saturday, November 7, 2026
Event Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
The Archives Education Institute (AEI) brings together educators, particularly those working in K-12 education, and archivists from the New York metropolitan area to explore the educational power and potential of primary sources. This year’s AEI is a multi-part program that includes a tour of the BAM Hamm Archives and a webinar highlighting archival materials from the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center.
The culminating event of this year’s AEI will be a half-day showcase featuring a series of presentations at the Jackson Heights Library on Saturday, November 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. With a theme of Resistance through Creativity, the showcase will feature materials from the archives of Third World Newsreel, the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and Interference Archive.
Registration will be capped at 40 attendees. 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.
This event is part of the proceedings of the Archives Education Institute (AEI), whose aim is to pair K-12 educators with unique archival repositories in the NY metropolitan area. Limited tickets will be available for A.R.T. members, to accommodate teachers registered for AEI.
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Educator tickets are free, but require a registration code. If you work in education and would like to attend but do not have a code, or if you have any questions or issues with registration in general, please contact A.R.T. Director of Communications Nicole Font at communications@nycarchivists.org.
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