Women Artists Archive Miami

WAAM began in 2017 as a research project to understand how a community archive can serve women artists in the documentation of their creative legacies in truly accessible and equitable ways. WAAM documents and preserves artists' archives by organizing physical exhibitions, digitizing artists' studio archives, and crowdsourcing collections.

WAAM uses a digital platform powered by Omeka to preserve and share artists' collections for future generations of Miamians and wide audiences. The project is a response to a growing need to build a collaborative archival presence in Miami to record the artistic production that has taken place here since the 1970s and beyond.

We believe in the importance of repositioning archives that have traditionally operated as sites of privilege, to record the creative contributions of communities who have been left out of the historical record.