MARBL acquires institutional documents from the Contemporary
“It is reassuring to know that MARBL’s stewardship of the papers will place the Contemporary in dialogue with other cultural, literary and historical collections.”
The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center announced that Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) has acquired its records.
Now that MARBL has the institutional papers, the work that the Contemporary has done over the past 42 years can be used as a resource by researchers, students, artists, and the general public alike. “It is reassuring to know that MARBL’s stewardship of the papers will place the Contemporary in dialogue with other cultural, literary and historical collections and the preservation of these materials will result in a resource that will certainly be mined for decades to come,” the Contemporary’s Executive Director, Julie Delliquanti, said in a statement.
Along with material from the Contemporary, MARBL’s collection consists of the records from Nexus, Inc., Nexus Art Center, and Nexus Press. One can find a plethora of information, including administrative records, exhibition files, exhibit catalogs, newsletters, promotional materials, press releases, photographs of exhibitions and events, and rare artist books produced by Nexus Press. The public can catch a glimpse of the material in MARBL’s collection by visiting the exhibit Artists’ Books and Archives from Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, and Nexus Press at Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library from Aug. 20, through May 15, 2016.