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Ricky Gomez
Scope and Contents
The Dumbo Arts Center records measure 19.1 linear feet and date from 1994 to 2013. The records document the Center's activities through administrative files such as board meeting minutes, strategic business plans, invoices, and workshop materials; grant award files; annual art festival documentation such as permits, schedules, sponsorship contracts, and artist lists; annual auction documentation such as permits, inventories, and invoices; exhbition files consisting of loan agreements, artist resumes, and artist work samples; exhibition announcements, exhibition catalogs, festival schedules, auction invitations, and other printed material; photographs from both the annual arts festivals and auctions; artist video submissions.
Administration materials consist of board meeting minutes, strategic business plans for the Center, board member biographies, material related to workshops hosted by the Center, and business expenses. Grant files consist of applications, correspondences, and award letters to various organizations for funding for exhibitions, annual art festivals, and annual auction events. Festival files consist of permit materials, artist applications, sponsorship contracts, local business advertising forms and correspondence for each year of the annual Arts Under the Bridge Festival between 1997 and 2011. Auction files consist of permit materials, artist applications, sponsorship contracts, inventories and item lists, and invoices related to auctions taking place between 2000 and 2009. Exhibition material consists of artist files and resumes, loan agreements, contracts, and invoices related to exhibitions held between 1998 and 2010. Printed material consists of exhibition announcements, exhibition catalogs, exhibition posters, clippings, and press releases for exhibitions, auctions, and the Arts Under the Bridge Festivals. Photographs consist of photographs and slides of artwork showcased at auction events, photographs related to some of the exhibitions hosted by the Center, and photographs of some of the annual Arts Under the Bridge Festival. Artist submission videos are primarily submissions by artists for some of the exhibitions hosted by the Center. Also included is footage from one of the Arts Under the Bridge Festivals. Unprocessed born digital consists of CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, and zip disks, of submissions by artists, as well as, festival related materials.
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Dumbo Arts Center records were donated to the Archives of American Art in 2015 by the Dumbo arts Center via Julie Martin, Board member.
Funding
Sponsor
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
Processing Information
The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Ricky Gomez in 2019.