Adventures in Archiving: Preserving the Career Work of LGBTQ+ Artists

Artists from the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project discuss creating their individual archives and leaving records of their career work. Pick Up Performance Co. Director Ain Gordon moderates a conversation with Ishmael Houston-Jones, John Kelly, and Richard Move about their participation in the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project. They will discuss their current process of creating their individual archives, finding the context for leaving their career work on permanent record. They will also talk about the overall concept of the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project, bringing together a multifaceted perspective on a rich and highly influential era, one that blossomed during what some regard as the last gasp of physical bohemia and later coincided with the AIDS epidemic that devastated their generation’s collective voice. Photo Credit: LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Check-in line forms 45 minutes before the advertised start time. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. Five minutes before the advertised start time, all seats are released, regardless of registration, to our patrons in the stand-by line. If you arrive after the program starts, you will be seated at the discretion of our front-of-house staff. STANDBY LINE | If registration is sold out or has ended, do not fret! We welcome you to come to the Library regardless of registration status and wait in our standby line, which forms 45 minutes before the advertised start time. Five minutes before the program starts, all remaining seats are released. While this is not guaranteed, we will do our best to get you into any of our programs. ASSISTIVE LISTENING AND ASL | ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing [email protected]. BRUNO WALTER POLICY | Please note that any unoccupied seat will be released five minutes before the show begins and holding seats for anyone beyond that is prohibited. There is no food or drink allowed inside the venue. AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING | Programs may be photographed and recorded by and at the discretion of the Library for the Performing Arts and will post signs indicating as such. If you would prefer your image not be captured, please let us know and we can seat you accordingly. Attending any program indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any and all purposes of the New York Public Library. PRESS | Please send all press inquiries to Alex Teplitzky at [email protected]. Please note that all recording, including professional video recordings, are prohibited without expressed consent from the Library.