Arts Rescue Mission -Aid For Aging Artists
4 Hands - 1 Purpose
Aid to Aging Artists
Provide
INSIDE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SPECEIAL LIBRARIES
With Christian Kelleher, Director of Exhibitions and External Relations.
RESTORE - SHELTER - PROVIDE - PRESERVE
A MAJOR INITIATIVE OF THE ARM PROGRAM IS BOOK PUBLISHING about the journeys our visual, performing, and literary artists have taken. While doing this in coordination with our preservation program we hold awareness events seeking to educate the community about how to document their artworks as well as explain how important an archive is when it's time for the artist to sum up their life's work. An archive is a chronological record of everything from the earliest photos of friends and family in an artist's life until the time their book gets published. Not only the headline articles about an artist exhibitions, performances, and reviews, but also the evidence of what happens in the background and in between these events. These items are called ephemerals and oftentimes only discovered after an artist's passing. We'd like to emphasize by holding Gallery talks and instruct that there's no time like now to start gathering those materials.
PRESERVE A PIECE OF TEXAS HISTORY WHILE PROVIDING FOR AN ARTIST NOW.
We believe the best way to create a book about an artist is to a start with creating their archive. An archive, as you may know, is the collection of all the ephemeral personal effects from an artist's life that tell their story. Newspaper articles, reviews, publications, including online research along with interviews with the artist, fiends, associates, and critics digitized and filed chronological order. Archive files are sorted according to date, after that a good look at the artist's journey almost writes itself.
We would like to ensure that such materials are preserved, providing a historical record of the artist and their work for future reference by appraisers, archivists, and researchers. This is a lengthy and expensive four-step process that's involves photography, scanning, tagging the photos and scanned images, and putting them together in Excel files chronologically. We are recreating a life. There are lots of judgment calls while setting up an Excel file which oftentimes will have more than 1000 entries in a professional performing or visual artist's lifetime. This is essential work as the book closes on a lifetime of accomplishment, but it's often neglected because of the expense.
With the help of volunteers, your input into our archive, and our staff we are preserving arts history one artist and one book at a time.
Donate Provide
Funded through subscriptions to oversee ARM preservation initiatives. Project Manager 16 hrs./ month
WE ACCOMPLISH THIS WITHOUT THE COST OF A PHYSICAL SITE
ARCHIVING HELPS US HELP YOU WITH:
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Store & Move Physical Art & Collectables
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Organize help during a sudden illness or accident
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Document Collections for artists & collectors
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Placing Artworks
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Gifting Artworks & Collectables
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Posting Documents For Community Use
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Raise Awareness & Recognition For Artists 50+
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Create a Website
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Wikipedia Listings
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Publish Books
We have an on line staff consisting of a Director (Fulltime), a Secretary for Bookings, Events, and Correspondence (Fulltime), a Treasurer for Bookkeeping and Reports (part time), a Grants Writer overseeing donations, & subscriptions, a Technical Support Director who acts as our Web Master and Archiving, as well as a Wikipedia writer to document our Visual and Performing artists careers. Earmark your donation to our PRESERVE program here.
Monthly subscriptions at any level receive a 50% discount on all event and table and chair reservations.
•Director (Full Time)
•Secretary / Bookings / Events / Correspondence (Full Time)
•Treasurer / Bookkeeping / Reports
•Grants, Donations, & Subscriptions:
•Technical Support: Web Master, Arching & Gifting Over-Watch
•Research: Gifting Art / Document / Resources & Assets for Artists
•Project Manager: PRESERVE
Dan M Allison
Founder Arts Rescue Mission
We are looking for a volunteer or volunteers to put in about 4 hours a week for this program. This will be a paid position as we move forward with our grant writing, and donations. If you are interested please contact us! artsrescue2025@gmail.com or signup here.