Artwork by Tanja Hollander ‘24.
The Ephemera Project is a crowd sourced archive of the people we love and the objects that hold us together. It is evolving into a powerful collaboration based in memory, self-reflection, and vulnerability. There are notes from loved ones and objects that signify time passing - moments in history, mementos of a vacation and a subway ride. Simple reminders of people we love and homages to life experience. The Ephemera Project seeks crowd participation in order to be inclusive. It welcomes stories and objects as diverse as we are, from all ages and around the world.
My original idea for collaboration with Maine MILL was to work with their collection to add historical context to the ephemera that I had already collected. Following the October 25, 2023 Lewiston shootings, the show expanded to include ephemera from the memorials that we are working together to archive and preserve at the MILL.