Are you an artist or curator who has worked with WPA in the past and have materials you’d like to contribute to the archive for inclusion on this site? Or maybe you are a collector and arts enthusiast and have materials you think would be great to include as well.
We have partnered with The People’s Archive at MLK Library to accept print materials and other ephemera for public research. Select print materials held at The People’s Archive will be digitized and uploaded to this website as our capacity and resources permit.
Here’s a step-by-step guide for how to contribute:
- Fill out this form. This will help us flag your donation for future processing and assist with any necessary followup.
- Make an appointment at The People’s Archive—or just drop by—to donate your materials. (901 G St. NW, 4th Floor East, Washington, D.C. Call 202-727-1213 or email peoples.archive@dc.gov)
- Artists and curators will create an Artist File to hold any materials related to your work with WPA (and anywhere else in the District, too).
- Let The People’s Archive staff know you would like to crossfile your WPA-related materials to our Org File. They will add a note in WPA’s intake folder to ensure cross-referencing.
- Please make copies of materials that you are crossfiling into our Org Folder and make a note on the back to indicate that the originals are in your Artist File. If multiple pages, you may include the most relevant page(s) and make a note of how many pages total are in the original document. (You can also put originals in our Org Intake Folder if you like).
- When you’ve completed Step 2, send an email to archives@wpadc.org to let us know your materials have been deposited.
- We’ll review materials, digitize, and upload those materials to this site as our capacity and resources permit.