Meet the Maintenance Culture Regional Coordinators
One of the primary goals of our Maintenance Culture project is to cultivate communities around preserving born-digital art. We aim to bring together diverse groups of people—both artists and other creatives who work in the digital sphere as well as the professionals who are committed to exhibiting and preserving these works—in six locations across the country: Seattle, Baltimore, Houston, Detroit, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. In order to best develop these communities, we have partnered with an amazing team of regional coordinators. As our spring in-person events are fast approaching (applications are open, sign up below!), we are so excited to introduce our wonderful regional coordinators in Seattle, Baltimore, and Houston. You can read a bit about them here.
Libby Hopfauf (she/her), Seattle
Libby Savage Hopfauf is the Program Manager/Audiovisual Archivist at Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and Project Audiovisual Archivist at Seattle Municipal Archives (SMA) in Seattle, Washington. She is passionate about creating resources that provide intuitive use of open-source tools, making the digitizing process accessible to archivists (with a wide variety of skill-levels) to ensure the sustainability of institutions to preserve their videotape and conquer the magnetic media crisis.
Siobhan Hagan (she/her), Baltimore
Siobhan C. Hagan was born and raised in Baltimore and holds her M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) from NYU. Siobhan is currently the Coordinator for the Smithsonian Institute's Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative. She is also the founder, President, and CEO of the Baltimore-based nonprofit, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA).
Joana Stillwell (she/her), Baltimore
Joana Stillwell is an artist and archivist based between Washington DC, and Baltimore, MD. She has worked on projects with the National Gallery of Art, Filipino American Community Archive, and the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Joana is currently the AV Archivist for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA) and she is interested in artist and community archives.
Emily Vinson (she/her), Houston
Emily Vinson is an Audiovisual Archivist at the University of Houston Libraries. Since 2015, Emily has established the Libraries’ AV preservation, digitization, and access program and overseen several grant-funded projects. Her work has been published in The American Archivist, VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, and the Journal of Digital Media Management.
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