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Jennifer Whitlock

Archivist

Dean’s Office
College of Art and Design

585-475-2839
Office Mailing Address
73 Lomb Memorial Drive, Vignelli Center for Design Studies, Rochester, NY 14623

Jennifer Whitlock

Archivist

Dean’s Office
College of Art and Design

Education

BA, Webster University; MLS, Emporia State University

Bio

Since 2013, Jennifer Whitlock has been the first and only archivist for the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Before arriving at RIT, Jennifer initiated an archives program for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, served as a project archivist and interim acting curator at the Architecture & Design Collection at University of California Santa Barbara, and also worked as an Assistant Librarian at the Portland Art Museum. She holds a Master of Library Science with an Archives Certificate from Emporia State University and a BA in Photography from Webster University. She is also a Certified Archivist through the Academy of Certified Archivists and (formerly) a Digital Archives Specialist through the Society of American Archivists.

 

Jennifer has taught numerous archives sessions to faculty and students throughout the College of Art and Design, as well as to other colleges and departments around RIT, and for faculty and students throughout the region and beyond. In addition to these archives sessions, she is also responsible for all aspects of managing the archives. She is inventorying and cataloging the artifacts; digitizing the collections and providing images for publication; preserving, stabilizing, and repairing artifacts including digital items; answering all researchers’ questions; and curating the Vignelli Center social media accounts.

 

As a self-proclaimed “design preserver,” Jennifer works relentlessly to promote archives to designers and design to archivists. While her inevitable design archives manifesto is still under construction, you can read “All Archives are Design Archives: Prelude to a Manifesto” in Acid Free magazine of the Los Angeles Archivist Collective. laacollective.org

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