1. Her Own Version of History
A Case Study of the Guerrilla Girls Oral Histories at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Introduction
Vague problem statement from abstract
Erin Dickey
UNC-Chapel Hill
MS Information Science/MA Art History, 2018

2. Questions with changing answers:
Anonymous participants + privacy?
Clear copyright vs. ethics?
Transcript review?
Web access?
Introduction
Vague problem statement from abstract

3. Study Participants Artifacts
Jennifer Snyder, AAA Oral History Archivist (then Archives Technician)
Liza Kirwin, AAA Deputy Director (then Acting Director)
Emily Terrell, then AAA curatorial staff member
Anna C. Chave, Professor Emerita, CUNY Graduate Center
Justin Brancato, then staff member at AAA’s New York research Center
Oral History Collections Processing Form
Procedures for Oral History Interviewers: A Summary (2016)
Oral History Interview Procedures (2011)
Current and past Consent & Gift forms
Introduction
Vague problem statement from abstract

4. Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? 1989
Cover, Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film
Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?
1989
Guerrilla Girls
Collection of Smith College Museum of Art
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Larger issues + who are Guerrilla Girls

5. AAA records Guerrilla Girls interviews
1985
Guerrilla Girls form
Formation of Guerrilla Girls on Tour; formation of Guerrilla Girls BroadBand
Fall 2011
Letters to the Editor of Art Journal published
AAA records Guerrilla Girls interviews
Summer 2011 Chave’s Art Journal article published
October 2010
“Kahlo” and “Kollwitz” interview goes online
October 2011 Transcript revised and replaced
March 2012 Transcript with addenda published
2003
Lawsuit against splinter groups
1999
Incorporation of Guerrilla Girls, Inc. by “Frida Kahlo” and “Käthe Kollwitz”
Detailed description of case

6. Letters. (2011). Anna C. Chave Art Journal 70 (3): 113–14.
Guerrilla Girls at
Cal Arts Valencia, Ca.
1987
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Frida Kahlo and
Kathe Kollwitz
method

7. Explanatory text added by AAA in March, 2012
Analysis

8. Lessons Learned
Implement deadlines, clearer communication for transcript review
Show changes in transcript versions
Make changes apparent (if permitted) in online transcripts
Encourage verbatim transcripts
Continually review procedures as well as associated documentation and access technologies
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9. Acknowledgements Soon accessible via: Justin Brancato Anna C. Chave
Liza Kirwin
Ryan Shaw
Jennifer Snyder
Emily Terrell
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
“Learning from Artists’ Archives” Program
From What’s New and Happening at the Guggenheim?
Collection of Bucknell University, Samek Art Museum
Image via ARTStor
Soon accessible via:
cdr.lib.unc.edu
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Contact: @edickey