ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.- Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) announces a new partnership with Art Spaces Archives Project (AS-AP). Founded in 2003 by a consortium of alternative art organizations, AS-AP is a collaborative visual arts initiative created to document the history of alternative, avant-garde, and contemporary art movements throughout the United States.

The continued mission of AS-AP at CCS Bard is to preserve, present, and protect the archival heritage of living and defunct, for- and not-for-profit alternative spaces in an effort to better understand contemporary art and the cultural and social history of the United States.

AS-AP's website—www.as-ap.org—is a virtual resource and aid for locating the places and spaces of alternative and avant-garde art activity. The site contains an online index of over 1000 alternative spaces, locations of avant-garde activity, tools to assist in archiving, and other aids for scholars interested in the alternative or avant-garde movement in the United States. To mark the launch of AS-AP's merger with CCS Bard, AS-AP's online index has been expanded and improved, and is now accessible via the Center for Curatorial Studies website at www.bard.edu/ccs/library/asap.

AS-AP is guided by a steering committee consisting of leading archive and library professionals, curators, and scholars of avant-garde and contemporary art. The AS-AP Steering Committee is: David Platzker, AS-AP project director; Linda Earle, executive director, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Milan Hughston , chief of library and museum archives, The Museum of Modern Art; Maria Lind, director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies; Elizabeth Merena, director, Visual Arts Program, New York State Council on the Arts; Andrew Perchuk, Contemporary Programs and Research, Getty Research Institute; Marvin Taylor, faculty, Collections and Research Services, Fales Library, New York University Libraries; Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archives; and revolving participants from the College Art Association.

Art Spaces Archives Project has received generous support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. AS-AP also gratefully acknowledges in-kind support from the College Art Association.