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ART SPACES ARCHIVES PROJECT MERGES WITH CCS AT BARD COLLEGE

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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) has announced a new partnership with Art Spaces Archives Project (AS-AP). Founded in 2003 by a consortium of alternative art organizations, AS-AP is a collaborative visual arts initiative created to document the history of alternative, avant-garde, and contemporary art movements throughout the United States.

The continued mission of  AS-AP at CCS Bard is to preserve, present and protect the archival heritage of living and defunct, for- and not-for-profit alternative spaces in an effort to better understand contemporary art and the cultural and social history of the United States.

AS-AP’s website — www.as-ap.org — is a virtual resource and aid for locating the places and spaces of alternative and avant-garde art activity. The site contains an online index of more than 1,000 alternative spaces, locations of avant-garde activity, tools to assist in archiving and other aids for scholars interested in the alternative or avant-garde movement in the United States.

To mark the launch of AS-AP’s merger with CCS Bard, AS-AP’s online index has been expanded and improved, and is now accessible via the Center for Curatorial Studies website at www.bard.edu/ccs/ library/asap.

AS-AP is guided by a steering committee consisting of leading archive and library professionals, curators, and scholars of avant-garde and contemporary.

For general information, www.bard.edu/ccs/library/asap or 845-758-7598.