How do you keep memories? The Hive (Spokane Public Library) artist-in-residence and community organizer Frances Mortel will share different ways to digitize and archive physical documents, photographs, and older analog media formats.

During her residency, Frances has converted her studio into an immersive experience installation with multiple videos, images, and sound recordings playing at once. She affirms that archiving can be a powerful tool to resist erasure, reclaim our stories, and build pathways to keep them alive for future generations.

During this workshop, the artist will share some of her art, you can visit her studio installation, and she will teach about different methods to digitize and store physical materials and analog media to protect our culture and collective memory. 

She will have stations for you to digitize materials that you bring. Please bring a thumb drive or be prepared to save to your own cloud account if you want to digitize materials. Feel free to attend one or the other session or both if you want more time for digitizing.

You may bring:

• Physical documents

• Photographs (positive prints and negatives)

• Cassette tapes

• Video tapes (mini-dv and VHS formats)

Date and Time (2 sessions):