Sally brings grant writing and membership experience to the Archive from a variety of nonprofit arts organizations, and she’s excited to be an advocate for a place that she really loves. She earned her BA in Art History from Florida State University and her MA in Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans. Sally Beale, Membership and Corporate Giving Manager (she/her), loves the book as an object and has been known to cradle a paperback like a baby. He earned his BA and MNA (Master of Nonprofit Administration) from the University of San Francisco and is a Certified Fund Raising Executive ( CFRE). He has spent the last decade working in all sorts of nonprofits: big universities, small theater companies, regional public television stations. Johnny Avots-Smith, Director of Development and Operations (he/him), first fell in love with type when he picked up the photo font discs from his mother’s typesetting machine as a kid. Among Paola’s many talents are flamenco dancing and Afro-Brazilian percussion.
After earning a BA in Fine Arts, she rediscovered her love of letters and sought out a design education at San Francisco City College, where she earned certificates in Visual Media Design, Web Foundation, Illustration, and Digital Media. She was raised in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by a mother who steeped her in sustainable product design, fashion design, and tridimensional expression.
Paola Zanol, Senior Collections Associate (she/her), joined the staff after volunteering for over a year. When not spending time with the written word he’s projecting it from the stage at a reading. That’s evident not only in his care for the material at the Archive, but also his own poetry. As a writer of poetry and a bookmaker himself, Hank’s love of language is simultaneously bound in meaning and aesthetics. Hank Smith, Collections Assistant (he/him), found his passion for book arts while studying at Reed College (BA in English) and working with fellow writers, collectors, and literary archivists, including David Abel of Passages Bookshop. She relishes helping people access the things that interest them. Kate earned her MLIS through Drexel University, which will serve her well as she helps to preserve and catalog the collection. She also gained an appreciation for 20th-century graphic design while at the award-winning studio, Office. Kate Long, Librarian (she/her), has a profound interest in book arts, typography, and concrete poetry, stemming from high school where she made art with abandoned Letraset, and later as the editor of a literary magazine where she enjoyed working with designers, artists, and writers. April enjoys the engineering challenge of shooting objects with unique formats as she produces the imagery for the Archive’s books and websites. It later led to an apprenticeship where April learned 42-Line’s unique methodology for the accurate digitization of rare documents. The two met while April was working as a commissioner for Oakland Public Library. World-class collections photography is one of our top priorities, and April trained with the best: E.M.
Raised by a photojournalist and a multidisciplinary artist, and educated as a librarian, the Archive magically combines her love of history, writing, and preservation. “Allowing the public to virtually revisit the originating struggle for American freedom in the ‘Slavery and Freedom’ exhibition reminds us of the centrality of the African American journey to the American experience-a story of triumph, resilience and joy over the centuries,” Young continued.April Harper, Digitization Librarian (she/her), has art and books in her blood.
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One of the stories featured in the online exhibit is that of Nathan “Nearest” Green, the first known Black master distiller, who taught Jack Daniels how to make Whiskey. “This ongoing project provides a chance for Americans to realize our shared past, bringing the unique museum experience to their homes and on their phones,” said Kevin Young, the museum’s director said in a press release about the virtual showing. The National Museum of African American History & Culture stands illuminated in purple and gold at dusk on Augin Washington, DC. Bush.įifteen years later, the museum was officially opened and attracted more than 600,000 visitors within the first three months. Watts re-introduced the bill and it was approved by former President George W. More than 10 years later in 2001, Lewis and Representative J.
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