In my Community-Engaged ePortfolio (CP-eP) I analyze existing communication and information responses to Feminist Theory and Black Archival Practice for Black Women Artist, Cultural Workers and Organizers at Build Your Archive located in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Greater Metro Atlanta as part of my work for the CIS 675 course (Community-Engaged Scholarship) during fall 2024. On this page, I provide the information about the organization Sixty Inches from Center located in Chicago, IL.
Sixty Inches From Center
Website:https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
Sixty Inches From Center is a worker-led organization and publishing platform that produces collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest. We are a collective of arts workers, writers, editors, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who promote and prioritize the preservation of culture within Indigenous, diasporic, queer, and disability communities of our region.
Communication with diverse populations
Their most active social media is Instagram with a following of 10.6k followers. There content distrubted is related to the editorial schedule featuring literature, poetry, art, exhibitions and showcases of artists located in the midwest. The current bio reflects their orginization mission as it states: "Supporting the art, archives + writing of diasporic, Indigenous, queer, trans, and disability communities in Chicago + the Midwest since 2010."
URL: https://www.instagram.com/sixtyinchesfromcenter/
Projects
Sixty’s team has produced projects involving archives, editorial work, curation, exhibitions, panels, residencies, writers meet-ups, critique groups, festivals, and more. View a selection of our projects below and visit our Partnerships page if you’re interested in collaborating with us.
URL: https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/projects/
Events
Sixty Inches From Center and The Blackivists present Make It Last Forever: A Digital Preservation Workshop with Zakiya Collier.
This course will help participants understand the various digital preservation tools/services that can perform different functions within the digital curation lifecycle and will teach methods for investigating and selecting potential tools/services. The focus will be on low-cost and free tools and services. Collier will cover how to build daily workflows that incorporate accessioning digital materials (both born-digital and previously digitized), processing them, and planning for their long-term storage and preservation.
The focus of this course is on preservation and not on access or digitization of materials. We will not be addressing the “why” of digital preservation; rather, we are preparing for the “how” of making informed decisions regarding tool selection and demonstrating some tools in action. Introductory knowledge of digital preservation issues, such as those outlined in the Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Curriculum, is useful but not required.
URL: https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/category/sixty-offline/