Dear Friends and Supporters, 

As we approach our two year anniversary this December, we wanted to share some of the major accomplishments of 2013 and let you know what's on the horizon. The rate at which we've grown continues to astonish and inspire us, and we hope you will consider supporting our work in 2014.


 

#1: We've Physically Expanded! This summer we moved our exhibition space into a second room in our building. This extra space allows us to to take more of our collection out of boxes for easy access. We're now building shelves and making room for all our new acquisitions!
 

Print by Laurel Fish from the portfolio "Show Me Your Papers," donated to IA by Favianna Rodriguez. Linoleum Block Print, 2012. |  Poster Donations from the Guerrilla Girls.
 

#3: We've been organizing ourselves! We are happy to report that there are more people regularly volunteering than ever before, working on projects such as building our library catalog, processing new acquisitions, scanning and photographing posters and ephemera, organizing our sticker collection, and building bookshelves. If you would like to add your energy to our amazing volunteer labor force, please send an email to iavolunteers@riseup.net.

#4: More Exhibitions & Events! We've organized and hosted five incredible exhibitions and over thirty inspiring events in 2013 alone!

#5: The Students Are Coming!  We've hosted almost two dozen classes, from all over New York City and beyond. These groups range from middle school students to academics getting their doctorates.

Class visit from The Brotherhood SisterSol Summer Leadership Program (left), and Shannon Mattern's class on Archives, Libraries and Databases (center and right, photos by Michelle Gevint, courtesy of The New School for Public Engagement, School of Media Studies)
 

Lastly, we're showing histories in a way they have never been seen before. Our upcoming exhibition, "Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York" is the first charting of the history of Asian American activism, organizing, and cultural production in the 1970s in New York. 

All of this is to say that we are working hard to make Interference Archive a social movement hub like none other. But we quite literally could not do this without your generous donations of time and labor. We're committed to building the most accessible archive of international social movement history out there. Please help us by making a monetary donation today. 

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