Conservation
MLIS Work
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Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library
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Conservation
MLIS Work
Legacy Building
Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library
My Moms Mail
Things I Like...
Links
Stan and Art
Chelsea Spengemann, Sara VanDerBeek
2019-2021
Chelsea Spengemann, Sara VanDerBeek
2019-2021
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My work with the Stan VanDerBeek estate started in 2019. I began by cataloging works of art. Over the pandemic my job expanded into digitizing rare and fragile materials, creating housing and storage systems for long-term preservation, sunsetting the studio space, and helping support the Museum of Modern Art’s acquisition of the Move-Drome work. I aided the executive director in editing the installation manual for the project in addition to finding lost transparencies within the archive to complete the project.
“Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) studied visual art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York and then at Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, receiving honorary doctorates from both schools in 1957 and 1972, respectively. He began his artistic career as a painter but soon moved on to create award-winning experimental films and videos as well as numerous multimedia installations. VanDerBeek’s research into developing visual languages as ways of communication led him to seek out collaborations with pioneers in the fields of film technology, television broadcast, digital media, and computers. He served as an artist-in-residence and instructor at a number of organizations and research universities during his artistic career. He was a professor of art and film at University of Maryland, Baltimore County from 1975 until his death in 1984.” - The Stan VanDerBeek Archive