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The Legacy of Penelope Zieler
Charlotte India Eagle, Taylor Baker, Joey Vicenne, and Janna Singer-Baefsky 
2019

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INFO-661: Art Documentation: This course explores current methodologies in the documentation, description, and management of artist records and their works of art in order to gain an understanding of current trends and best practices. By investigating the complexities in documenting the artist and their works of art, students will learn the information gathering need for contextualizing artist's work through the retention, acquisition, and processing of core documents. The course will also address use patterns and reference practices of art documentation for museums, artist's studios, foundations and estates, and academic stakeholder communities. Additionally, key elements that define core concepts of documentation standards for a large body of artists' work, such as data elements that comprise an artist's catalogue raisonne, will bring to focus the necessary tools needed to document, contextualize, and implement proper documentation strategies for the artist. This class will bridge theory into practice by providing students a forum to develop their skills by researching case scenarios of audience sectors in the fine arts and incorporating those findings using software platforms for dissemination.




This was a semester-long group project for INFO-661 Art Documentation. Our group was assigned to create a fictitious sculpture artist and the definition of her estate and a preservation plan for her executors, culminating in a request for proposal (RFP). 

slide from RFP presentation

We were tasked to prepare and assess her collection and to document it to promote her artistic legacy. From these perimeters, we cataloged a collection of sculptures and archival materials from our own metadata schema. In the end, we decided to present two options for establishing a legacy plan: a general long-term preservation plan with an archival donation with an option to form an artist-endowed foundation.


slide from RFP presentation