Resources

Resources for Artistic Legacies

Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative [AEFI]: Strengthens the charitable impact of this emerging field by addressing the significant information gap facing those who create, lead, govern, and advise artist-endowed foundations.

Artist Foundations & Estate Leaders List [AFELL]: A connective community of legacy institutions and workers.

The Blackivists: Provide professional expertise on cultural heritage archiving and preservation practices to document historically underdocumented communities.

Center for Preservation of Artist Legacies [CPAL]: CPAL aims to address legacy challenges facing visual contemporary artists and their life’s work.

Creating a Living Legacy (CALL)/Joan Mitchell Foundation: (CALL) initiative provides artists with resources and instruction in the areas of career documentation, inventory management, and legacy planning.

Hauser & Wirth Institute: Their in-house archive program provides free cataloging, preservation and selective digitization for artists and art organizations that want to make their archives accessible.

Soft Network: Empowering contemporary artists and those working with artist estates and archives to imagine and implement new and sustainable legacy models.

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute: Reinventing catalogue raisonné and archival research for the digital age.