Josely Carvalho papers
name: label: Creator
content: Carvalho, Josely
topic: label: Occupation
content: Multimedia artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Multimedia artists -- Brazil
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content: Mail art
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content: Latino and Latin American artists
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content: Women artists
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content: Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated in 2022 and 2023 by Josely Carvalho.
creator: label: Creator
content: Carvalho, Josely
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content: Josely Carvalho papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of Josely Carvalho measure 9.8 linear feet and date from 1960 to 2021. The papers document her career as a multimedia artist through correspondence, writings, professional activity files, exhibition records, printed material, artwork, photographic material, and born-digital material.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Josely Carvalho (1942- ) is a multimedia artist in New York and Rio de Janeiro. Carvalho's mixed-media practice includes silkscreen, video, performance, installation, poetry, book making, internet art, and, most recently, olfactory art. She considers these works as chapters in an ongoing series, Diary of Images, which addresses issues of
memory, the body, and the shelter and shelterless. Political activism has also been a large part of Carvalho's practice since the 1970s. As the founder of the Silkscreen Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, she produced silkscreen materials for political rallies and demonstrations. In the 1980s, in addition to her work at the Silkscreen Project, she participated in Artists' Call against US Intervention in Central America and the Women's Action Coalition. Carvalho co-organized Choice Works (1985), an exhibition on reproductive rights, and Connections Project / Conexus (1987), a collaboration between women artists from Brazil and the United States.

Carvalho has received numerous grants, including awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Time, Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In 2019, she received the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Scent from the Institute of Art and Olfaction. Carvalho's work has also been presented in solo and group exhibitions at venues including the 2nd Havana Biennial; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela. Her most recent exhibition, Diary of Smells: Glass Ceiling, took place at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de São Paulo in 2018. Carvalho's work is held by numerous public collections, notably the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Brooklyn Museum; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9.8 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-2021
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.carvjose
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Drawings
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content: Video recordings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into nine series.

Series 1: Correspondence, 1961-2003 (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 2: Writings, 1964-2020 (0.6 linear feet; Box 1)

Series 3: Professional Activity Files, 1969-2019 (2.4 linear feet; Boxes 1-3, 9 OV 7)

Series 4: Exhibition Files, 1962-2016 (1.8 linear feet; Boxes 3-4, Rolled Documents 15, 17)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1960-2021 (2.2 linear feet; Boxes 4-5, 7, OV 11, 14)

Series 6: Artwork, 1966-1983 (1.2 linear feet; Boxes 5-8, OV 10, Rolled Document 16)

Series 7: Photographic Material, circa 1970-2008 (1.0 linear feet; Box 6, 7, OV 12-13)

Series 8: Unprocessed Born Digital Material, undated (0.1 linear feet; Box 6)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Ricky Gomez in 2023.
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content: Drawings
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content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of Josely Carvalho measure 9.8 linear feet and date from 1960 to 2021. The papers document her career as a multimedia artist through correspondence, writings, professional activity files, exhibition records, printed material, artwork, photographic material, and born-digital material.

Correspondence primarily consists of letters between Carvalho and institutions in regards to her works of art and potential exhibitions. There is one file of material related to her husband, Ernest Chanes.

Writings consist of manuscripts, lectures, poetry, and draft texts of writings used in her works. Also included are writings on Carvalho by others. Some of her writings include: "Florence and the Medieval Point of View," "Teaching as an Erotic Form of Art," "Does Culture Have Color," and "From the Memory Books of Underdevelopment."

Professional activity files consist of Artists-in-Residency programs Carvalho participated in, video logs, inventory and price lists, interviews, grants, and art proposals. Also included are a number of video recordings of interviews related to her "Memorial Armenia" work. Programs and grants include: Silkscreen Project residency, Creative Capital Foundation grants from "Book of Roofs" project, and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.

Exhibition files consist of correspondence, forms, and printed material related to some of Carvalho's exhibitions in Brazil and the United States. Some of the notable exhibitions include "Book of Roofs," "Diary of Images," "Diary of Smells," "2003.Shards" and "Reflections and Digressions."

Printed material consists of clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, booklets written by Carvalho's mother and illustrated by Carvalho, books by Carvalho, and books by other artists.

Artwork consists of sketches, mail art related to "Artists Call Against Intervention in Central America" Exhibition from Carvalho and other artists, artist proofs, some sketches, and a model for an early version of the "Memorial Armenia" sculpture. Material in 2023 addition consisted of collection of Josely Carvalho's Mail art, "Solidarity by Mail Art, circa 1982-1984". The Mail art became a collaborative project with Fatima Bercht.

Photographic material consists of photographs of Carvalho, her studios in the United States and Brazil, and of her artwork. Also included are some slides of her artwork and artwork installations, and kodaliths of artwork and texts used in exhibitions

Unprocessed born-digital material consists of one unmarked hard drive.