Finding Aid

Artist Sauda Mitchell (American, born 1981)

Date2021

MediumWood, book cloth, book board, Egyptian cotton, duck cotton, metal, and linoleum prints

Dimensions12 × 76 inches (30.5 × 193 cm)

Credit Line Museum purchase.

Object number2022.1

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Copyright© Sauda Mitchell. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label Text"In 2016 I was sifting through hundreds of boxes at the W.W. Law project site, a collection dedicated to prominent Civil Rights leader Westley Wallace Law (1923–2002). I began to contemplate the challenges that patrons often encounter when conducting archival research for the first time. Finding Aid was my creative response to share the stories and connections of people during the Civil Rights era in Savannah through primary documents utilizing the QR code. Originally made through SCAD Alumni Atelier, an artist ambassadorship residency program, Finding Aid evolved from a series of 10 original relief prints embedded with QR codes designed to link users to digitized archival materials from the W.W. Law Collection, The Georgia Historical Society, and Savannah State Asa H. Gordon Special Collections Library. In artist book format, Finding Aid evokes a sensory experience through format, materiality, and texture; it analyzes the past to help inform the future."

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