Expanding the Conversation: Improving Access to 150 Years of Archival Collections at the San Francisco Art Institute
FAIN: PW-285208-22
San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA 94133-2206)
Jeff Gunderson (Project Director: July 2021 to October 2023)
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Award transferred to PW-296183-23
The arrangement, description, and rehousing of 544 linear feet, which constitute the institutional archives for the San Francisco Art Institute, founded in 1871. Approximately 41 finding aids would be posted to the organization website and Online Archive of California, and 23 hours of at-risk audiovisual materials would be digitized and made available on the Internet Archive.
The institutional archives of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is an unparalleled resource, chronicling the 150-year history of the school and its vital role—as hub, incubator and repository—in the development of 19th, 20th, and 21st century art and culture. While this rich archival resource has always been open to researchers and has informed dozens of books, articles, exhibitions, films, lectures and college courses, it has never been as accessible or discoverable as its historical value demands. The project will significantly increase access to and preservation of this unparalleled resource through comprehensive arrangement and archival rehousing of the collections, digitization of at-risk audio-visual recordings, and the creation of detailed finding aids, which will be made available to a global audience online.