Archiving with Scissors

May 31-August 9th
Opening May 31, 6–8PM

LACA presents Archiving with Scissors, an exhibition of scrapbooks pulled from Feminist Center for Creative Work’s archive. For this archive exhibition we invite you to flip through scrapbooks packed with FCCW’s facsimiles and duplicates from its archive.

Over the past two years, LACA has been cataloguing and creating an online inventory of FCCW's saved ephemera. You will find items such as Riso printed toolkits, monthly bulletins, space maintenance checklists, photographs, artist books, recipes, illustrated menus, and other artistic materials. These items contain mementos from generations of feminists working together in creative practice and trace many of the complex lives of the people who have contributed to FCCW.

The scrapbooks provide another way of researching archival holdings or interpreting an archive’s Finding Aid — a kind of visual inventory. These scrapbooks splice, salvage, and gather intersectional feminist histories. We embed newspaper clippings layered over internet screenshots to further contextualize how and why our communities gathered during shifting socio/political circumstances between 2013-2025. The exhibit proposes that this archival work can help us to recover what matters to us and resist any single metanarrative about artist life.

Photographed by Brica Wilcox.