Sara Gilfert Archives
About the Collection
The Sara Gilfert digital collection provides online access to selected materials from the Sara Gilfert Archives. Digitized content primarily includes color slides of Gilfert’s artwork and her travels to Japan, Myanmar, and Thailand. It also includes selected journals and sketches, as well as supporting documents, clippings, and ephemera that reflect her career, creative process, exhibitions, and travels.
The digital collection represents a selection from the physical collection, which contains the complete body of archival materials documenting Gilfert’s art and teaching career, including teaching materials, images of artwork, notebooks, photographs, travel ephemera, Friends of Dard Hunter materials, and Paper Circle materials.
Learn more about the collection by reading its collection finding aid.
About Sara Gilfert
Sara Gilfert (1929-2024) was an instructor at the Ohio University School of Art, a textile and paper artist, papermaker, and founder of Paper Circle, a papermaking studio in Nelsonville, Ohio. Before working with paper, Gilfert was a weaver. She taught fiber arts at Ohio University and received her BA and MFA from Ohio University. She also studied at The Ohio State University and Antioch College, as well as in Japan with Ando Kazuhisa. In 1977 she helped to establish the Athens Tapestry Works, Inc., which was a collaborative organization in Athens, Ohio.
Preferred Collection Citation
Sara Gilfert Archives, MSS472, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio.
Future Additions
No future additions are planned.
Related Collections
See additional items from the Mahn Center's online manuscript collections. Related physical collections include the North American Hand Papermakers (formerly Friends of Dard Hunter) records.
Access at Alden
The physical collection is held by, and can be viewed at, the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, on the 5th floor of Alden Library.
Access Online
Browse and search the collection in CONTENTdm.
Acknowledgements
Processing and digitization of the Sara Gilfert Archives is made possible in part by an investment of public funds from the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically.
Collection Contact
Use the Mahn Center Research Request Form to submit a question to Manuscripts Archivist Greta Suiter.
Policy
See the Digital Archival Collections Materials Selection and Rights policy.
Rights Statement
The Sara Gilfert Archives is in copyright. All rights to materials in the collection were transferred to Ohio University.
More information at rightsstatements.org