立即发布:2022年3月17日
辛辛那提博物馆中心增加了新的摄影馆长, 打印 和 媒体
Arabeth Balasko will care for 和 cultivate collection of over one million objects
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) announced today the hiring of its new Curator of Photographs, 打印 & 媒体. Arabeth Balasko brings 18 years of experience to CMC’s collections of more than one million photographs, 电影, 录音和印刷品. Balasko will take the lead on new 和 ongoing research projects while also working to digitize CMC’s photography 和 audiovisual collections that date back nearly 180 years.
在她的角色中, Balasko将在创造包容性方面发挥重要作用, up-to-date strategies for collecting 和 preserving visual culture that can help accurately, 包容性地讲述和说明我们地区的历史. 她曾在大型和小型组织工作过, 包括与部落国家的合作伙伴, to organize archives 和 address out-of-date language used to describe 和 name photograph subjects, a skill that will help CMC update its own archives to acknowledge how the process of history continues to evolve. Balasko will also play a key role in ongoing exhibit 和 program development as part of CMC’s curatorial team. Her experience in digital asset management systems will allow CMC to better organize its photography 和 visual media collections 和 make them more accessible to others. 
“I am truly looking forward to helping Cincinnati Museum Center usher this collection into the present day,巴拉斯科说. “My goal is to ensure that all users feel seen 和 represented in our collection scope. 多角度问题. 作为以社区为基础的收藏, 至关重要的是，人们感到有能力参与其中, 投资和收集过程的一部分. 通过鼓舞和鼓励分享故事, 声音和各种社区观点, 我们都是赢家. I am honored to be joining a team of dedicated people striving to make the humanities a more inclusive place.”
Balasko joins CMC after six years as an archival 和 historical consultant, 她专注于建立最佳实践的地方, setting up 和 developing collection spaces 和 cataloging archival accession, 包括数字和实体收藏. 她也花时间在 安克雷奇博物馆 在阿拉斯加，她监督了超过100万份档案图像，并与 阿灵顿公共图书馆 in 维吉尼亚州 where, as the county’s first digital archivist, she managed over 30.5tb的数字化内容. Balasko has experience in several historical 和 preservation institutions, including the 新港县保护协会, 绿蔷薇历史学会 和北屋博物馆 马萨诸塞大学 和 伊莎贝拉·斯图尔特·加德纳博物馆.
Balasko is a graduate of West 维吉尼亚州 University with degrees in international studies, history 和 Russian culture 和 language 和 earned a master’s degree in history 和 archives from the 马萨诸塞大学 Boston.
“阿拉贝思的渊博知识, skill in caring for archives 和 collections 和 experience working with a broad range of partners 和 institutions will add critical strength to our collections 和 research team,惠特尼·欧文斯说, 辛辛那提博物馆中心的首席学习官. “从历史中学习有助于我们走向正义, 和 Arabeth’s leadership will help us explore how images of our past 和 present can broaden our perspectives. 我们期待着阿拉贝丝的帮助.”
Balasko is a member of the Society of American Archivists 和 Board of Directors for the Poe Museum in Richmond, 维吉尼亚州. She has been involved in several trade 和 historical publications, including 档案大转移的开端, 妇女的工作:坚持和影响的故事, 19th 世纪水坑:从医务室到社交行程 和 The Memory Keeper: Analyzing the Importance of Collecting 和 Preserving Oral Histories in a Twenty-First Century University Archival Repository.
CMC’s photographs, prints 和 media collections encompass more than one million pieces, including:
- 600万英尺的8毫米、16毫米和25毫米电影胶片
- 80万张照片，最早的可以追溯到19世纪40年代. 藏品中只有不到1%的照片是彩色的
- 30万盘录像带，其中近一半是黑白的
- 400,000个录音, 包括16英寸的无线电转录光盘, 45和33 1/3 RPM记录, 磁模拟磁带和光盘
- 6000年明信片
- 5,000年印, 包括石版画, 一战和二战的海报, 马戏团广告及更多
Among the collection highlights are news footage from local TV 和 radio stations, 来自19个国家的300多张图片th20世纪非裔美国摄影师J.P. 球, 6人以上,摄影师保罗·布里奥尔的000张底片和照片, 30,000年印 和 negatives from photographer Daniel Ransohoff on social conditions 和 relief agencies in Cincinnati between 1930 和 1980 和 Felix J. 科赫集合.
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