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Michael and Monica Appleby collection of Medu Art Ensemble posters and Southern African posters and maps
Collection — Map Case: MSS 497
Identifier: MSS 497
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 9 posters and five maps from Southern Africa. Seven posters are from the Medu Art Ensemble (1 with a duplicate). Four of the Medu posters are about South African politics, one is about a MEDU artist Judy Seidman’s exhibition at the Botswana Art Museum. The remaining two focus on Culture and Resistance Symposium and accompanying art exhibit. Five are original silkscreens. The posters not affiliated with the Medu Art Ensemble cover a Namibian labor union and a rock...
Dates:
approximately 1979-1985
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 508 large
Scope and Contents
The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival records (1976-2015) contain crew guides and handbooks, maps, banners, t-shirts, programs, brochures, posters, meeting minutes, correspondence, inventories, press clippings, as well as recordings and photographs taken during the festival. The collection gives an insight of the intense effort and amount of coordination it took to make the festival possible, and how it evolved and grew more complex with each iteration.
Dates:
1976 - 2015