Artists in the Archive

Artists in the Archive showcases the work resulting from awardee's research during fellowships for creative and performing artists and writers. 

Visual artists, fiction writers, non-fiction writers, poets, playwrights, performance artists, musicians and composers, as well as film and media makers have come to the society seeking to create original works based on American history to present to non-academic audiences and readers since the program's inception in 1995. These fellows have added immensely to the intellectual mix under the dome of Antiquarian Hall and contributed to lively conversations with AAS staff, academic fellows, other scholars, and the general public over the past quarter century. Many have also created powerful, imaginative, and beautiful works. 

The Artist in the Archive Lecture Series of virtual and hybrid programs features researchers who held Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowships.

Initially, the fellowships were funded by the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund, Sigety Family Foundation, and Jay and Deborah Last. They are now supported by endowments created by Hearst Foundations and Robert and Charlotte Baron. ​To learn more about fellowship opportunities at the American Antiquarian Society, visit our fellowships page.

The following is an alphabetical list of artist fellows' works, each resulting from research conducted at AAS.

 

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Title Date Format
Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England 2025 Books
The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life: A Novel 1999 Books
The Afflicted Girls 2004 Books
After Mistic 2020 Books
The Age of Phillis 2020 Books
The Alternate Encyclopedia 2004 Books
Anthro(A)pology, an artist book Projects
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Bass Viol and Violin in 19th-Century New England 2022 Projects
Begin with Trouble: Poems Inspired by the 1727 New-England Primer 2017 Books
Beheld 2020 Books
A Bird to Overhear Projects
Blue Colonial 2006 Books
A Bridge Dead in the Water 2007 Books
Bright Advent 2017 Books
Complex Harmony: Music, Walt Whitman, and the Railroads Projects
The Conjurer's Apprentice, an artist book Books
Contraband
The Counterfeiter Projects
A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon 2021 Books
Dangerous Goods 2014 Books
The Diaries and Artwork of Ruth Henshaw Bascom Projects
Florence Rice Hitchcock and the Theory of The Soft Earth 2017 Projects
The Forage House 2013 Books
Good Fellows: The Walpole Society Projects
Granite Sofa Projects
Grief Ephemeral Projects
Holystone Projects
Hope is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds 2001 Books
I am a Stranger Here Myself 2019 Books
Inventing Niagara 2006 Books
Island of the Innocent: A Consideration on the Book of Job 2020 Books
Jarretsville 2009 Books
The Kashmiri Shawl 2015 Books
Laying Cable
The Making, an illustrated novel Books
Masterpiece Comics 2009 Books
Missing Persons 2017 Books
More than Scenery: Yellowstone, an American Love Story 2023 Books
The Movement of the Stars: A Novel 2013 Books
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation 2008 Books
Nightbirds in the Age of Light Books
Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed 2004 Books
Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems 2017 Books
Rags Wanted Projects
Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House 2005 Books
The River 1833 Projects
Two performers on stage Sanctuary & Centuries in the Hours: A series of small works for the violin and voice 2019 Projects
The Second City, TV pilot script Projects
Silver Wire 2017 Books
Sister Séance 2021 Books
Slavery and the Birth of the United States Projects
A Slight Headache (2009) Projects
Sockdology Projects
Solo Performance Based on Frances Slocum Projects
Suck on the Marrow 2010 Books
The Suicide's Son 2019 Books
The Sweet By and By 2001 Books
Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism 2005 Books
Travelogos, and To Reclaim Humanness Projects
True Witness: A Civil Rights Cantata Projects
Voices Bright Flags 2014 Books
What is Visible 2014 Books
Writing Ada 2007 Projects
“Almanack” series of prints Projects