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MP+D receives nea/art works grant for captured live: Fifty years of bay area dance photography
The Museum of Performance and Design received support from the NEA to digitize, catalog, and provide open access to 2,500 images of live dance performances.
MP+D is all over sound...
All Over Sound explores sound in performance and features the work of Latifa Medjdoud, Haco, and warren-crow+warren-crow in collaboration with local artists.
Archive live: the collected works
We've worked with theater collective The Collected Works to develop a site-responsive dramatic performance based on archived texts, images, and recordings..
Preserving San Francisco's 20th c. musical landscape
Preserving San Francisco's 20th c. Musical Landscape is an archival/engagement project that preserves and makes accessible for broad public access 234 linear feet of materials from five major 20th c. musical archives in our collection.
Preserving the threads to our past
We were able to survey our extensive costume collection with a conservator's help and the Institute of Museum and Library Services' financial assistance.