{"id":1506,"date":"2022-12-05T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/parting-with-your-art\/parting-with-the-archives-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T04:22:11","slug":"womens-art-register","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/parting-with-your-art\/womens-art-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Art Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since starting this blog on Parting With Your Art, I have had news of difficulties faced by legatees in finding homes for art photographer\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n

Libraries are carrying the highest load of action, bless them,  but sometimes lateral thinking produces specialist niches that welcome material. I recently donated a lot of small catalogues and monographs on women photographers  plus a file of ephemera on the women\u2019s movement since the 1970s to the Women:s Art Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The organisation was founded in 1975 and still going strong and is located in Richmond Library 415 Church Street, Richmond VIC<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I was very pleased to think women photographers reference material was enriched by my donation. Most of my usual recipient art museum libraries already held many of the catalogues and Lifeline Book Fair would have been the only remaining option.<\/p>\n

The W.A.R website<\/a> is worth taking time to read and subscribe.<\/p>\n

On International Women\u2019s Day 12 March 2022 sixteen editors assembled for the annual  Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon hosted by the  Richmond branch of Yarra Libraries, contributed 78.8K<\/span> words including 40 new articles 439 edited articles, 874 total edits and 234 additional references. (Drum roll please<\/em>)<\/p>\n

There is a role for anyone to assist or donate \u2014  Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a workshop page<\/a> with helpful information on archiving  your practice.<\/p>\n

Very relevant to our topics is the newly published Leaving Your Legacy:<\/em> A Guide for Australian Artists<\/em> that has grown out of a seminar of the same title held in June 2022.<\/p>\n

Leaving Your Legacy<\/a>:<\/em> comes in print and digital editions<\/p>\n

It is very thorough, practical and readable with helpful checklists for artists and\/or their executors. References and links to other organisations are at the end. There are strategies for how to keep your work in the public eye.<\/p>\n

Many issues I have already raised are covered in greater detail but some points are:<\/p>\n