Archival Alchemy®

Transformation through Remembrance

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transformation

through archives

Archival Alchemy is a mixture of professional archival skills, creativity, and the spirit of emancipation. We believe archiving is a process – letting the past inform the present in order to transform the future. We are in solidarity with communities of color who are reclaiming their narratives and redefining the archive as a collective space for reflection, healing, and liberation.

We are passionate about awakening the imagination to conjure at the intersection of art and archiving.
We look forward to supporting cultural institutions, community archives, artists, television and film companies, grant-making agencies, and private individuals and families. We provide tailored services for each project based on the specific needs of every client or collaborator.

What We Offer

• Consultations and strategic planning

• Workshops and training sessions

• Archival processing

• Cataloging

• Archival research

• Archive-related public programming

• Artistic/archival productions

Contact us about rates, availability, and additional services. We can work remotely or on-site, across the nation or around the world.

Archival Alchemy was founded in March 2017 in New York City by Joyce LeeAnn Joseph, an archivist and interdisciplinary artist. She received a master’s degree in Library and Information Science with an Archives Certificate from Pratt Institute; and holds a Digital Archives Specialist Certificate from the Society of American Archivists. She has worked for the Weeksville Heritage Center, the Associated Press Corporate Archives, and the New York Public Library. In 2011, she self-published her first archival text, somethymes grief goes for a walk. In 2013, she co-curated The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving event at the Schomburg Center. She has been a Create Change fellow with the Laundromat Project, a member of the Hemispheric Institute’s EMERGENYC cohort, and an associate artist during the Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative’s Body Ecology intensive.


Archival Alchemy will produce Joyce LeeAnn’s new work – an artistic project that unearths the embodied archive and explores the meaning of home.