Art, Advocacy, and Justice in the Archives
REACH students in collaboration with the project supervisor will have the opportunity to select and work from a variety of collections, such as the Looking At Art Records, a non-profit organization whose mission was to foster dialogue on the contemporary art scene in Texas; the Marvin Zindler Papers, Houston media personality and consumer advocate, whose files contain the famed Rat and Roach reports in which he would investigate and report on area businesses and coin the catchphrase "Slime in the Ice Machine"; or the incarcerated women and artists that created a variety of works and drawings from the Women For Justice Records.
REACH students will learn and engage in how to do primary source research, performing the processes of archival arrangement and description, conducting historical research and writing on the selected collection or topic, and curating a physical and/or digital exhibit based on the archival items selected during the project. Work on the project will be performed onsite within Special Collections located in the M.D. Anderson Library.
Contacts
- Vince Lee: velee@uh.edu