Title: Foundations of Web Archiving: Tools, Techniques, & Practice
Date & Time: May 8th and May 15th, From 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: CUNY Hunter College, Hunter West Building, Room 206, 904 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10065
Capacity: 30
Admission:
A.R.T. Members: $20
Non-members: $30
Students (Members and Non-members): $10
The web isn’t forever, but it doesn’t forget. Understanding the basics and practical realities of web archiving is more important than ever in our digital lives. While theoretical frameworks for web archiving provide critical insight into preservation, provenance and access, the web itself is a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment. Without direct engagement in archiving practice, theory alone risks becoming disconnected from current technical and methodological realities.
This is web archiving 101 and the workshop will be structured in two parts:
The first part provides an overview of web archiving, addressing what web archiving is (and is not!) along with its purposes, limitations, and expectations. This section traces the evolution of the web - how it started, how it changed over time, and why that history matters for web archiving practice. It also breaks down the anatomy of a webpage so archivists know what to look for, what to watch out for when selecting sites for their collections, and how to adjust their tools to achieve a quality capture.
The second part focuses on applied practice. Participants will engage in hands-on web archiving activities, including site selection and analysis; organizational strategies aligned with research or institutional workflows; and methods for identifying and responding to common technical failures. Emphasis will be placed on critical evaluation, problem-solving, and practical decision-making in web archiving processes. The techniques learned in this part will be applied with available web archiving tools such Save the Page from Internet Archive, archive.ph, Archiveweb.page from webrecorder, as well as access to the subscription tool, Browsertrix thanks to the webrecorder team.
Participants MUST bring laptops to this workshop
This is an in-person event limited to 30 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event. Admission is a $20 donation to the museum per person (this donation includes the ability to play the pinball machines!).
In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.
Speaker Bio:
Lorena Ramirez-Lopez (aka xopixiexo of early 2000s AOL) is a digital preservation specialist and AV archivist trained in NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. She has been part of the web archiving community since 2013, where she began to collaborate with artists and institutions on keeping born-digital works alive and accessible.
Lorena worked on the web archiving project at New York University Libraries and had managed the web archives for the NYU Special Collections before she moved to Washington D.C. for her National Digital Stewardship Residency at Howard University. She has contributed to Archiving the Black Web, the Webrecorder team, and UNAM's Library and Information Research Institute, where she has led workshops on web archiving fundamentals.
She is an active consultant in digital preservation, collection assessment, and digitization, and serves as Digital Librarian for En Foco, a nonprofit supporting contemporary fine art and documentary photographers.
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Image credit: Info-Cult.
Title: Documenting Belief: A Virtual Tour of Info-Cult’s Unique Collection
Date & Time: Monday, May 18th, 2026 at 3:00PM
Duration: 1 hour
Capacity:100
Admission: Free! (open to A.R.T. Members & Non-Members)
Format: Webinar via Zoom
This virtual tour will offer a brief history of Info-Cult and its documentation centre, as well as an overview of its current status, challenges, and opportunities. It will present its collection of thousands of donated resources on cult-related phenomena and highlight how the centre supports research, education, and collaboration across academic, professional, and public communities.
This is a free, virtual webinar hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registering for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation via email with a link to join the webinar. This webinar will be video recorded. Please note that registration caps at 100 attendees.
About
Founded in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) in 1980, Info-Cult: Centre for Assistance and for the Study of Cultic Phenomena is a nonprofit charitable organization. Financed by the Quebec government’s Ministry of Health and Social Services as well as by contributions from individual donors, the organization provides help and information about groups, their ideologies and their structures. It houses one of the most important documentation centres specialized in this area. Being the only organization of its kind in Canada, Info-Cult also offers support and guidance services to former members of groups or their loved ones.
Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum
Title: Tour of the American Folk Art Museum Archives and Special Collections
Date & Time: Tuesday, May 19th, 2026, at 5:45 PM (Tour begins promptly at 6: 00 PM)
Capacity: 12
Admission: Free! (ART Members only)
Location: 47-29 32nd Place Long Island City, NY 11101
Event attendees are invited to visit the American Folk Art Museum Archives reading room for an overview of the AFAM's institutional archives, special collections, and archive projects. Featured in this tour will be exhibition history, artist papers, gravestone documentation collections, and the Healing Arts Initiative grant project.
This is an in-person event limited to 12 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.
How to find the American Folk Art Museum Archives
The American Folk Art Museum Archives are located at 47-29 32nd Place, Long Island City, NY 11101.
Meeting location
Please ring the buzzer to be let in upon arrival at the archives in Long Island City. Archival staff will meet attendees by the entry way on floor 2. Be advised that the archives are located on the second floor which requires climbing stairs. If an accessible entrance is required, please reach out to coordinate where to meet staff for assistance.
The American Folk Art Museum Archives collects, preserves, and makes accessible primary source materials that document the history and field of folk art, self-taught art, and art brut. The Archives include AFAM institutional archives that document the development and activities of the Museum, as well as distinctive special collections related to the founding and development of the field, folk artists and networks, and how artists, collectors, curators, and scholars have shaped the field. Archival materials include audio, video, photographs, ephemera, clippings, manuscripts, correspondence, and expansive artist and subject files. Read more about the AFAMA here
Staff Bios
Maylyn Iglesias is the HAI Project Assistant Archivist at the American Folk Art Museum. Maylyn is also a photographer and educator at the International Center for Photography and the Josephine Herrick Project.
Noa Ryan is the CLIR Processing Archivist & Project Manager at the American Folk Art Museum. She processes the Healing Arts Initiative, Inc. collection in the museum's archives under a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Kailee Faber is the archivist for the American Folk Art Museum. She oversees all administrative and service aspects of the archives with the support of Noa and Maylyn.
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