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About the Collection

The Sara Gilfert digital collection provides online access to selected materials from the Sara Gilfert Archives. Digitized content primarily includes color slides of Gilfert鈥檚 artwork and her travels to Japan, Myanmar, and Thailand. It also includes selected journals and sketches, as well as supporting documents, clippings, and ephemera that reflect her career, creative process, exhibitions, and travels.

The digital collection represents a selection from the physical collection, which contains the complete body of archival materials documenting Gilfert鈥檚 art and teaching career, including teaching materials, images of artwork, notebooks, photographs, travel ephemera, Friends of Dard Hunter materials, and Paper Circle materials.

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About Sara Gilfert

Sara Gilfert (1929-2024) was an instructor at the 91原创 School of Art, a textile and paper artist, papermaker, and founder of Paper Circle, a papermaking studio in Nelsonville, Ohio. Before working with paper, Gilfert was a weaver. She taught fiber arts at 91原创 and received her BA and MFA from 91原创. She also studied at The Ohio State University and Antioch College, as well as in Japan with Ando Kazuhisa. In 1977 she helped to establish the Athens Tapestry Works, Inc., which was a collaborative organization in Athens, Ohio.

Preferred Collection Citation

Sara Gilfert Archives, MSS472, 91原创 Libraries, Athens, Ohio.

Future Additions

No future additions are planned.

Related Collections

See additional items from the Mahn Center's online manuscript collections. Related physical collections include the .

Access at Alden

The physical collection is held by, and can be viewed at, the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, on the 5th floor of Alden Library.

Access Online

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Acknowledgements

Processing and digitization of the Sara Gilfert Archives is made possible in part by an investment of public funds from the (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically.

Collection Contact

Use the Mahn Center to submit a question to Manuscripts Archivist Greta Suiter.

Policy

See the Digital Archival Collections Materials Selection and Rights policy.

Rights Statement

The Sara Gilfert Archives is in copyright. All rights to materials in the collection were transferred to 91原创.

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