International Artists Manifest

Archiving Project: Carlo Pittore - Public Education. This program was developed to inventory, document and preserve the life's work of Carlo Pittore, a male, Jewish, gay artist who was instrumental in the fight for artists' rights. Pittore was a significant figure in the mail art movement, an influential teacher, activist, and painter. IAM is working to ensure his life's work is properly documented and digitized, offering the public unprecedented access to his collection. Pittore maintained correspondence with hundreds of active artists during his lifetime, including Keith Haring, E.F. Higgins, Buster Cleveland, John Held, Jr., Lucy Lippard, Coco Gordon and more. This program will result in an updated appraisal of Pittore's collection, a digitized archive of his most significant artworks and correspondences, and a full inventory of the collection.

Exhibition - Josefina Auslender - Public education. This program was developed to share the work of Josefina Auslender with a public audience, including the first new body of work the artist created since the passing of her husband. IAM worked collaboratively with a local gallery to mount a solo exhibition of the artists work, inviting curators, scholars and the general public to view her work in person. The exhibit focused on a series of works created during the time of the Dirty War, in Argentina, alongside new works created this year. It received National press in the online arts publication Hyperallergic and resulted in the placement of three significant works at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Archiving Project: Josefina Auslender - Public Education. This program was developed to thoroughly document and archive the collected works of Josefina Auslender, a female, Jewish, Latin American artist currently based in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Auslender is one of the most under-known and iconic draftswomen of her time. This project will result in the creation of high resolution images of all of the works in Auslender's possession. Future efforts will include the complete description of her work and all pertinent info, and the creation of an online database.

Part III.4d: Our other program services include a documentary film project developed to educate the public about the life and work of Josefina Auslender, a female, Jewish, Latin American artist who immigrated to Cape Elizabeth, Maine from Argentina. Auslender was a significant figure in Argentina in the 80s and 90s, before relocating to the United States. This program will result in a full-length documentary film to be promoted at film festivals, on local television, and at various arts events around the world.

Online Archive: Josefina Auslender - Public Education. Our other program services include the research and development of an online archive to showcase the work of IAM artists. This program will enable curators, scholars, and other interested parties to study our collections off-site. It includes the maintenance of a website and the build-out of an online database system. The goal of this project is to create a digitally accessible archive of all of the works in IAM's collection, publicly available through our website.