Francine Snyder specializes in artist and museum archives, and in fostering research and scholarship on contemporary cross-disciplinary creative practices. Since 2015, as Director of Archives & Digital at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Snyder has been responsible for the leadership and management of the Foundation archives, with the goal of increasing access to and use of archival materials. Major initiatives include the Foundation’s Fair Use Policy, intended to reduce barriers to image use; the Archives Research Residency, a program that supports multi-week research intensives within the collection; and a forthcoming expanded digital archives. This fall, her publication I Don’t Think About Being Great: Select Writings by Robert Rauschenberg, co-published by the Foundation and Yale University Press, will be released, highlighting Rauschenberg’s love of words.
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