Stewardship and Legacy

Clint Fluker is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator whose work activates archives, museum collections, and community memory as sites of recovery, care, and imaginative practice. As Senior Director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement at Emory University Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Fluker develops public programs, exhibitions, and partnerships that connect institutional resources with diverse communities. His work investigates how careful attention to historical and personal materials can produce clarity, wellbeing, and connection through origami, drawing, and video. Fluker’s current body of work, His Dope Materials, provides a personal account of creating and remembering as a regular meditation practice. Readers of Scholarly Editing will recognize how his approach to the archive navigates the institutional and the personal, highlighting the increasing pressures these institutions face amid technological change. At the same time, Fluker’s perspective also outlines the dynamic possibilities of engaging the public with archives, offering forward-thinking ways in which institutions can engage with their communities in the future. These opportunities, from ways of surfacing stories to innovative research tools, require 21st century archives to think carefully about the humanity at the core of their collections.