Anicka Austin is an Atlanta-based artist and archivist curious about the relationship between ephemerality, documentation and legacy. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Carolina Academic Library Associates fellowship, graduating in May 2020 with a Master of Science in Library Science. She is currently working as visiting archivist for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.

Leo Holder is a visual artist, who also serves as the family archivist in charge of preserving his parents' legacy as well as reconstructing their works.

Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Rose Library

Monet Lewis-Timmons is an English PhD candidate at the University of Delaware and an alumna of Emory University (2018), where she double majored in English and African American Studies. Her dissertation research focuses on the genealogical lifecycle of Black women’s archives through Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s personal papers. She recently interned at the Rose Library where she received curriculum support on teaching undergraduates on how to use archives for seminar research and processing the collection of Black woman writer and poet J.J. Phillips, author of the 1966 novel Mojo Hand.

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"Black Women Building Their Own Archives, A Practice" by Monet Lewis-Timmons

Digital Exhibition | “I Am an American!” The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Finding Aid for the J.J. Phillips family papers

Randy Gue, Rose Library Curator of Modern, Political, and Social Movements and host of “Rose Library Presents: Atlanta Intersections,” joins us for a cross over episode that kicks off three episodes talking with members of the bands that played that show and others who have helped shape Atlanta’s punk history. In this edition, Randy and Atlanta music writer Chad Radford talk to Greg King and Jesse Smith of The Carbonas, a legendary Atlanta band that everyone hated, according to Greg and Jesse, in the 2000s.

Listen to lots of stuff:
Carbonas

Gentleman Jesse

GG King

Check out the Finding Aid for Rose Library's Atlanta Punk Rock Collection (1980-2009).