Visual Studies Workshop Collection Preservation Assessment

FAIN: PG-280726-21

Visual Studies Workshop, INC (Rochester, NY 14607-1405)
Jessica Johnston (Project Director: January 2021 to September 2023)

A preservation assessment for a multimedia collection that includes 6,000 twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists’ books; 15,000 original photographic or photo-mechanical prints made by 2,200 photographers; 40,000 news agency photographs covering the 1920s and 1930s; thousands of audiovisual materials including educational, industrial, animation, and documentary film; and 60,000 nineteenth- and early twentieth-century glass lantern slides. Since 1969, the Visual Studies Workshop has produced hundreds of exhibitions, provided residencies for researchers, and educated students through workshops in the areas of media and photography studies.

Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) seeks $7200 to fund a preservation assessment of our photography, moving image, audio and book collections.