Archive-Based Creative Arts

We all should be heard, recognized, and fight for the inclusion of our voices in the histories that are about us and shape our futures. We do this through both the creation of new archives and access into existing ones. Our lives hold archives, and our ability to assemble, protect, sustain and articulate them in an artful form makes everyone an archivist. Join us on this journey of freedom to understand and express our histories with our OWN voices.

Archive-Based Creative Arts (ABCA) is a remote creative workshop, publishing platform and artist/author collective building collaborations across the wall.

ABCA artists and authors engage creatively with personal, institutional and unconventional archives, while building our own. You can access a downloadable catalog of 2022-2023 ABCA members and their work here.

Follow us on instagram for regular updates about members and events: @archivebasedcreativearts

Archive-Based Creative Arts was developed in collaboration with the Parole Preparation Project, and was funded July 2022 - July 2024 by the Creatives Rebuild NY grant. We rely on your generous donations for ABCA’s continuation and sustainability.

Image of page from ABCA zine, with the title of an essay prominently featured: "Formative Films: The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain," by La-Meik Taylor. Zine is open on brown and black background.
Image of the ABCA member catalog upright on black and brown background. Catalog cover is the logo of a cityscape next to a pyramid over the earth in a pool of black night water. Blue sky behind. Cover reads: Archive Based Creative Arts in white block
Image of ABCA reader split open to page featuring collages by Lorna Simpson on the right and a black and white image of poet Pedro Pietri on the left. Both have explanatory text wrapped around the images.
Image of ABCA Zine #1 publication upright in front of black and brown background. Zine cover has handwritten background (a letter by member Paddy Irish about surviving covid inside), the title ZINE #1 in black block letters and an image of a pink mic
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