Image courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Institution: Leslie-Lohman Museum
Event Title: Activating the Archive: Michelle Handelman Capsule Collection Launch
Location: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 26 Wooster Street, New York, New York 10013
Event Format: In-Person Exhibition and Lecture
Event Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Event Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
On occasion of Michelle Handelman’s Capsule Collection Launch at The Feminist Institute's Digital Archive, join Handelman in conversation with Dr. Amber Musser, Jeanne Vaccaro, and Exx Nottage, moderated by Stamatina Gregory, on the historically marginalized work being introduced into feminist queer archives. This panel will discuss how archives can serve as interventions into dominant historical narratives within collecting institutions, the cultural record, and art history. Through their activation, archives become a form of information activism, creating new possibilities for scholarship, public memory, and more equitable futures.
This panel will bring together archivists, scholars, and cultural workers to discuss how feminist + queer archives, and specifically Michelle's Collection in the TFI Digital Archive, can be activated through research, teaching, and other forms of cultural work. We'll focus on how feminist and queer archives expand the canon by bringing into the cultural record artists whose work has been historically marginalized by collecting institutions and art history, and demonstrate how archives can serve as interventions into dominant historical narratives. Through their activation, archives become a form of information activism, creating new possibilities for scholarship, public memory, and more equitable futures.
Registration Note: Free to attend, RSVP is highly recommended. https://secure.qgiv.com/for/leslie-lohmanmuseum/event/handelmanarchive/
Public Contact: Linda Page, outreach@nycarchivists.org
