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Carroll Parrott Blue art and storytelling collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 847
Finding aid note: Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Content Description

This collection includes photographic prints by Blue, digital media relating to digital storytelling, documentation of Houston community art projects, books featuring Blue or inspiring to her, documentation of projects such as Dawn at My Back, and materials related to her academic career and conferences attended.

Dates

  • ca 1965-2018

Conditions Governing Access

This collection will be open for research once it is processed.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center.

Biographical / Historical

Carroll Parrott Blue was a documentary filmmaker, multi-media artist, author, and community public art creator, active in Houston, Texas, and nationally. She graduated from Yates High School, and went on earn degrees from Boston University and UCLA (MFA in Motion Picture Production). During her life she was known for her community arts projects often in partnership with historic neighborhoopds suchas the Third Ward in Houston. In 2004, she created a multi-media autobiographical narrative, “The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing,” a combination book, DVD-ROM, and website. She served as Rice University’s 2018 Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning scholar-in-residence at the African American Library at the Gregory School and Fondren Library’s Woodson Research Center Special Collections and Archives. Blue passed away on December 1, 2019.

Extent

12 Linear Feet (6 cartons and 3 oversize boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

This collection includes photographic prints by Blue, digital media relating to digital storytelling, documentation of Houston community art projects, books featuring Blue or inspiring to her, documentation of projects such as Dawn at My Back, and materials related to her academic career and conferences attended.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Carroll Blue in 2019.

Subjects

Record Groups

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Carroll Parrott Blue art and storytelling collection, 1965-2018
Status
Unprocessed
Date
2019
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

https://library.rice.edu/woodson
Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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Physical Address: 6100 Main, Houston, Texas 77005-1827
Mailing Address: MS-44, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251-1892