MARMIA has grown so much in the last 3 years--we had our first paid staff join us (more than one!) and now thanks to the Mellon Foundation we have the film scanner of our dreams! While we loved our previous office companions at Impact Hub Baltimore, you can see from the below photo that we … Continue reading MARMIA Has Moved to Motor House!
Project Interface: 2 FREE Events in July
Thanks to funding from the Mellon Foundation, MARMIA is offering two FREE events in July as part of our project Interface: Expanding Personal and Community Archiving in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. Event # 1: July 19, 2024 The first is a Community Archiving Workshop held at the Baltimore City Archives! Where: Baltimore City Archives (2615 Mathews St Baltimore, … Continue reading Project Interface: 2 FREE Events in July
MARMIA Receives Mellon Grant
Mellon Awards $300,000 to Support Preservation of Community Audiovisual Collections in Mid-Atlantic Region [Baltimore, MD, 5/9/2024] – The Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA) is pleased to announce that we recently received $300,000 from the Mellon Foundation. Mellon’s support will fund a two-year project, Interface: Expanding Personal and Community Archiving in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, aimed … Continue reading MARMIA Receives Mellon Grant
Community Archiving Builds Community
This summer I spent much of my time outside of my day job working on MARMIA community archiving projects, both here in Baltimore and in Eastern Serbia. In Baltimore, I assisted MARMIA's AMIA Pathways Artist-Archivist In Residence SHAN Wallace to promote a celebration of home movie preservation, with SHAN providing free video digitization to local … Continue reading Community Archiving Builds Community
Crystal Memories (Kristalne Uspomene)
Like many US Mid-Atlantic cities, Serbian city Zaječar was an industrial giant in the 20th century. The factory Krystal-Zaječar opened in 1974 to produce crystal that was exported to the US and all around the world. With the breakdown of the socialist system in the early 1990s, along with years of wars, inflation, bombardment, and … Continue reading Crystal Memories (Kristalne Uspomene)
AV Training Resources: Local Television Production Glossary
This blog post is a double follow-up of two previous posts: our efforts to create AV training resources to share with the wider community and the other is continuing research on "What Is a Baltimorean?" Our digitization efforts for "What Is a Baltimorean?" helps in understanding the history of television production. MARMIA does not actually … Continue reading AV Training Resources: Local Television Production Glossary
Focus on: Helen Delich Bentley
Photo of Helen Delich Bentley courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Industry As mentioned in a previous blog post, one of my favorite Baltimoreans is Helen Delich Bentley. Bentley was a politician, journalist, and most importantly to me, a big fan of industry and television: she was a broadcasting pioneer, having produced and hosted the … Continue reading Focus on: Helen Delich Bentley
Fragile Histories: From Baltimore to Zaječar
In graduate school I studied the state of audiovisual archiving in the US, and I didn’t fit in. My family and much of my personal identity hails from industrial cities in the US Mid-Atlantic region: Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre, Carteret, Baltimore. Lots of steel, coal, railroads, and bootlegging. I didn’t see these places’ stories represented in the … Continue reading Fragile Histories: From Baltimore to Zaječar
Capturing & Describing History: Baltimore Bands on Film
In December MARMIA’s AV Archivist, Joana Stillwell, finished her last semester in the MLIS program at the University of Maryland as well as a graduate certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture. To finish her requirements, she processed the Melissa Shatto Collection which consisted of eleven silent Super 8mm films of Baltimore bands performing music. … Continue reading Capturing & Describing History: Baltimore Bands on Film
MARMIA Receives SHARP Funding
In closing out MARMIA's 2021 Fiscal Year, one of the things that we are the most grateful for is receiving a SHARP grant this fall. This funding will be used for general operating support of our growing organization, much needed to continue our humanities-based mission due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 public Health … Continue reading MARMIA Receives SHARP Funding
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