Negatives

The Miriam Schapiro Papers spans from circa 1893 to 2019 with the bulk of material spanning from 1940 to 2008. The collection is 110 cubic feet in size and is composed of 91 records center cartons, 14 newspaper boxes, 6 high density photograph boxes, 5 map drawers, and 4 manuscript boxes. The Miriam Schapiro Papers documents the artistic career and personal life of the feminist artist Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015). The collection is arranged into 17 series. Professional and personal materials often overlap lack of division between professional and personal papers. Schapiro was often friends with artists, curators. and their work together often blended into a mixture of personal and professional.

The collection is largely paper based, but also includes: slides, photographs, negatives, ephemeral objects, audio magnetic tape, audio cassettes, floppy disks, digital files (jpgs, pdfs), artwork in various media, VHS tapes, Beta tapes, reel to reel films, and scrapbooks. Digital files from floppy disks and Schapiro's Emac were were composed largely of 1990s versions of Word, excel, jpgs, tiffs, psd, and one mp4 file. Digital files have been uploaded to the R drive, a secure drive at Special Collections and University Archives.

Significant topics include, but are not limited to: feminism, the women's art movement, second wave feminism, abstract expressionism, the Cedar Bar, the Feminist Art Program, femmage, quilts, computer art, historical women artists, and women's craft.

The Appendix contains material collected by Rutgers archivists from 2015-2019. The Appendix will continue to be developed. It serves as a continuation of the Work Documents Series. Material types include: clippings, reviews, exhibition catalogs, and ephemera.

Oversized and digital files are listed at the end of series for clarity.