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Evergreen Visual History Archive

The Evergreen Visual History Archive (EVHA) project is an initiative to develop an online archive of visual materials from the college's history. This excerpt from the original grant proposal captures the spirit of the project:

"We hope with this project to begin something that provides us a new and vitally current way to tell our story well. The institutes, and the work that follows, will bring together faculty at all stages of Evergreen career development – new and nearly new, mid-tenure, and newly and nearly newly retired – for collaboration and fellowship in the initiation of a broad memory project that will long outlast the term of this grant. ... Our hope is to create lasting friendships among young and old faculty, and to create opportunities for stories of Evergreen’s present, future, and past to take shape in quiet conversations and shared projects. We believe that building such collegial relationships, in context of meaningful work, will enrich the intellectual life and pedagogy of the college in ways that may be difficult to gauge but impossible to deny. This project has the potential to reinvigorate our faculty and staff, to revalidate our mission and core values, and to use new technologies alongside old and new friends to edify our mission and sense of self. We don’t wish to etch the “Evergreen way” in stone so much as to capture it in amber." - From Fund for Innovation Grant Proposal, Spring 2008.

EVHA was founded on June 26 & 27, 2008. The founding institute brought together faculty and staff of emeritus and current standing to begin development of a digital archive to preserve and distribute the college's visual record through electronic media.

Founding members include Susan Aurand, Sally Cloninger, Jin Darney, Llyn De Danaan, Betsy Diffendal, Anne Fischel, Kathryn Ford, Marilyn Frasca, Alley Hinkle, Laurie Meeker, Greg Mullins, Peter Randlette, Ryan Richardson, Randy Stilson, Oscar Soule, Charlie Teske, Fred Tabbutt, Jules Unsel, Ainara Wilder, Julia Zay, and Stephanie Zorn.

EVHA is supported by the Evergreen Fund for Innovation, Library Archives & Special Collections, the Friends of the Evergreen Library, the Moving Image Group, the Faculty Hiring Office, and the Academic Provost.

At the September 12 meeting an Advisory Board was formed to assist with the project during 2008-09 academic year. Members are: Sally Cloninger, Llyn De Danaan, Betsy Diffendal, Virginia Darney, Marilyn Frasca, Kathryn Ford, Rita Pougiales, Peter Randlette (ad hoc), Randy Stilson, and Jules Unsel.