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

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)