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Eating the elephant, Express & Star Photograph Archive One Bite at a Time
Artsfest / Artsfest 2021 / Eating the elephant, Express & Star Photograph Archive One Bite at a Time
Artsfest Online is pleased to present a talk with three representatives of the partnership which is digitising historic Black Country news photos for future generations: Heidi McIntosh Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton City Archives, Scott Knight Business Development Manager, University of Wolverhampton and Chris Leggett Director, Osborn Communications.
This talk will explore how a partnership of the Express & Star newspaper, the University of Wolverhampton, and Wolverhampton City Archives is approaching a project to digitise, catalogue, preserve and make publicly available a million photographs capturing daily life in the West Midlands over the course of the 20th century.
Heidi McIntosh
Heidi advised on the listing, packaging and cataloguing of the original photographs on the project, as well as overseeing the digitisation. She has been the City Archivist at Wolverhampton Archives since 2010, and has overseen the development of the service into an Accredited service. In addition to her 20 years of experience in the archives sector, she holds a Chartered Management Institute Diploma in Management. She also serves as a peer reviewer on the Archives Accreditation Scheme.
Chris Leggett
Chris represented the copyright holder, Britain's biggest selling regional newspaper the Express & Star, on the project from 2013 to 2019. An experienced journalist, he worked with the partners to maximise the community engagement around the archive which resulted in supportive public responses on digitisation. Now running his own public relations agency, he chaired the panel which delivered the photo website and supported the volunteers who gave hundreds of days in time to painstakingly sift through the photos, giving him the "bug" for archive projects..
Scott Knight
Scott is a Knowledge Transfer Professional who has worked in Higher Education Art, Culture, Humanities and Heritage sectors for over 20yrs. Scott joined the project from the very earliest visits to the Express & Star to view the collection in the mid to late noughties.
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Fine Art
International Women's Day: The Representation for Female Artists in Britain
Yam Cams: Photography in the Black Country
World IBD Day: When Art and Medicine Meet
British Art Show 9 and Socially Engaged Art
Bilston Enamels: Talk and Q&A
Yam Cams Book Launch: Picturing The Black Country
Family Planning - The Lived Experience Through Art - Panel Discussion
Why Bother? The Art of Disability: Practice Does Not Make the Perfect
How a Manchester Gallery Supports Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists
The Art of Disability History: A personal view through NDACA
It’s An Artists Life: Talk with Artist Tanya Raabe
Artsfest 2021
January 2021 Recordings:
February 2021 Recordings:
April 2021 Recordings:
- Yam Cams: Photography in the Black Country
- Blown Away Winner Elliot Walker Demonstrates Hot Glass at the University of Wolverhampton
- HoPIN Webinar: Illustrated Print for Industry and Commerce
- All the Writing Selves We Have to Be - A Discussion on Writing Careers
- Masters in Conversation - Stephen Snoddy
May 2021 Recordings:
- Intellectual Property Series: Inspiration or Imitation? Copyright & Moral Rights in Artistic Works
- HoPIN Webinar: The Rise of Photographic Illustration 1839-80
- Your Future - Fashion and Textile Careers
- Revisiting a Tonic for the Nation: Introduction to the Festival of Britain
- Lyric Writing Master Class with Xidus Pain
- World IBD Day: When Art and Medicine Meet
- Paul Cox - His Illustrated Life and Career
- The Wrenna by R.M. Francis - Book Launch
- Intellectual Property Series: Intellectual Property and Photography - Creators, Owners and Licences
June 2021 Recordings:
- Intellectual Property Series: What’s in a Name: Trade Marks and Brands – Workshop
- British Art Show 9 and Socially Engaged Art
- In Conversation - Dr Louise Fenton and Artist Paul Cox
- Intellectual Property Series: Fashion, Textiles and Intellectual Property: Patchworks, Quilts or Veils?
- Intellectual Property Series: Intellectual Property and the Music Industry: Mapping the Maze
- Bilston Enamels: Talk and Q ∓ A
August 2021 Recordings:
September 2021 Recordings:
October 2021 Recordings:
- Trans and Non-Binary Representation in Musical Theatre with Andi Lee Carter
- Creative Futures - Lynsey Harris Designer Maker
- East Asian Representation in the Broadway Musical Allegiance
- Creative Futures: Jason Fernandes, 3D Designer ∓ 3D Design Lecturer
- Cultural Appropriation in Film, Music and Fashion Creative Industries
November 2021 Recordings:
- Black Representation in Musical Theatre
- Creative Futures: David Longworth Exploring Careers at the BBC
- South Asian Representation in Musical Theatre
- Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man at Seventy
- Creative Futures: VOiD Applications Web Design
- The Top Secret Poetry Notebook of Willis the Poet
- HoPIN Webinar: Illustrating Industry
- Creative Futures: Naomi Jacques Glass Artist
- Family Planning - The Lived Experience Through Art - Panel Discussion
December 2021 Recordings:
- Creative Futures: Nick Cohen Creative Director, Writer and Maker
- Why Bother? The Art of Disability: Practice Does Not Make the Perfect (Disrupting Bodies)
- How a Manchester Gallery Supports Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists
- Simon Briercliffe in Conversation with Professor Keith Gildart
- Creative Futures: Eighty3 Design, Web Design and Branding
- Poetry on Prescription: Creative Writing & Wellbeing
- The Art of Disability History: A personal view through NDACA (the national disability arts collection and archive)
- It’s An Artists Life: Talk with Artist Tanya Raabe
We are embracing Black History Month beyond the confines of a single month. Our intention is for Black History Month to transcend seasonality and 'tokenism’ so that the original initiative itself is eventually no longer required.
UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) is an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of disabled people's struggle for equality and human rights.
LGBT+ History Month is a month-long annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,
and non-binary history, including the history of LGBT+ rights and related
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