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BAVC Media received funding from the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation to support a unique, collaborative effort to digitally preserve and exhibit seminal Bay Area audiovisual works that would otherwise be lost forever. BAVC Media's Preservation department worked with graduate students in California College for the Arts' Curatorial Practice program to assess hundreds of audiovisual assets from the archives of four iconic Bay Area art institutions — Southern Exposure, Headlands Center for the Arts, SF Cinematheque, and Intersection for the Arts — selecting 40 key pieces that have now been digitally preserved. Spanning the genres of experimental film, visual arts, literature, performance, music, and educational programs, the artists and works [...]

In 2007, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) embarked on The Dance Heritage Coalition Dance Preservation and Digitization Project (DHC DPDP), an ambitious project to preserve and make accessible vital dance documentation, rare performances, and other notable works of America’s dance legacy. As the nation's sole non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and making accessible America’s dance legacy materials, the DHC encourages, initiates, and develops collaborative projects among the dance communities, library and archival fields, scholarly institutions, and individuals in four essential areas: access to materials; the continuing documentation of dance employing both [...]