Alexis Bard Johnson

Curator, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

[USGA @USGA]

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[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives Thank you! Happy #AskACurator Day to all the Curators out there and all who support us!

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives It might be #AskACurator day today but I'm happy to take questions any day of the year :p

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives On Sunday we are hosting a book talk with author Mary Ann Cherry (@oneMACherry) of “Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist: A Story of Gay Rights and Gay Wrongs.” https://t.co/baLsMs6Du7 #AskACurator A11.1

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives @InPlainSightMap I am also working on an exhibition on science fiction, the occult, and LA. This project is rooted in the ONE Archives because Jim Kepner was a key member of both the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society and the Mattachine Society. #AskACurator A10.2

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives I am working on two public programs related to the project, @InPlainSightMap. I am also excited to be featuring LBGTQ posters from our collection each week throughout the fall. #ONEOutFront #AskACurator A10.1

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives For example, one of the first objects I happened upon after I arrived exactly a year ago is Jerome Caja’s “Shroud of Curaid” (1991) which is tiny and housed in a very small box just behind my office. #AskACurator A9.2

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives Every item. I often feel like working @ONEArchives at @USCLibraries is like being a kid in a candy store. Having access to so much and being able to discover something new every day is what sparks continual joy! #AskACurator A9.1

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives I love this story because it speaks to the work sometimes required in collecting and preserving queer history and the fact that so much material is still in people’s basements and attics and it is our job to keep getting the word out and collecting. #AskACurator A8.2

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives Most recently, we received two boxes of letters and photographs from a 95 year-old man living in Ohio. The notes are between him and his lover in the 1950s. He was going to toss the collection, but at the suggestion of his nephew, he contacted @ONEArchives. #AskACurator A8.1

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@_SMoCA @ONEarchives Exactly! Important to find the silver-linings in these times and one is definitely that geographic borders don't matter in quite the same way now that everything must be virtual.

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives Haha, nice transition. Well, I don’t know if it is the most dangerous, but it definitely has caused more harm than good, and that is an electro-shock therapy machine that was used, among other things, to treat “sexual perversion.” #AskACurator A7.1

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives Yeah! In June, I wrote about this Stonewall poster from 1976 and about how safety is linked to ending racism and sexism as the poster indicates.

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives The purpose of the exhibition was to explore the rhetoric of “safer at home” through archival objects and be able to respond to the present moment. I wrote about a new object each week. https://t.co/GZVZ2fYE7z #AskACurator A6.3

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives I created an online exhibition, “Safer at Home,” where I mined our collection and also invited local LA-based queer artists to share work that resonated with and responded to the present moment. #AskACurator A6.2

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives It’s hard to be away from the collection and not put on any events or exhibitions in person but we have done some virtual programming and I am planning more for the fall. #AskACurator A6.1

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives While at Stanford, I also worked as a research assistant on the exhibition “Contact Warhol” which showcased some of the 3,500 contact sheets gifted to Stanford University from the Warhol Foundation. You can explore them here: https://t.co/FuuDLy6OeH #AskACurator A5.2

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives I completed a PhD in Art History at Stanford University. My dissertation focused on lesbian magazines, thinking about them as an exhibition space for art and artists throughout the second half of the 20th Century in the United States. 🤓 #AskACurator A5.1

[Alexis Bard Johnson @lexibard]

@ONEarchives Jim Kepner started a collection in 1942, which eventually grew into the ONE Archives collection, the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. You can learn more here: https://t.co/4chy9G9cx1 #AskACurator A4.4