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Leimert Park Digital Archive

A community-based digital archive for the Queen Aminah African Art Collection in Leimert Park, combining 3D digitization, oral history, metadata design, and collection stewardship planning.

2025 - Ongoing Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA, USA We Love Leimert + UCLA
Photogrammetry documentation of a collection object for the Leimert Park Digital Archive.

Overview

My current work expands from museum-based digitization toward locally embedded digital heritage systems rooted in Leimert Park.

In collaboration with We Love Leimert and UCLA, I am developing a community-based digital archive for the Queen Aminah African Art Collection. The project combines 3D digitization, oral history, photography, metadata design, and collection stewardship planning in one locally grounded documentation workflow.

The archive is being developed through Drupal database work with UCLA collaborators for use by community volunteers and UCLA students. Its structure supports object records, photographs, interview material, and locally grounded metadata so collection knowledge can be organized, reviewed, and stewarded with the people and institutions closest to the work.

Supporting Media

Project documentation, process views, and field context

Beaded mask documented as part of the Queen Aminah African Art Collection archive work.
Beaded mask documented as part of the Queen Aminah African Art Collection archive work.
Leimert Park community archive documentation image showing local cultural and neighborhood context.
Leimert Park community archive documentation image showing local cultural and neighborhood context.
Justin Dunnavant, Queen Aminah, and Craig Stevens outside the Leimert Park collection space.
Justin Dunnavant, Queen Aminah, and Craig Stevens outside the Leimert Park collection space.
Community-centered documentation image connected to the Leimert Park Digital Archive workflow.
Community-centered documentation image connected to the Leimert Park Digital Archive workflow.
Collection object and surrounding display context documented in Leimert Park.
Collection object and surrounding display context documented in Leimert Park.
Collection objects staged for documentation during the Leimert Park field week.
Collection objects staged for documentation during the Leimert Park field week.
Scanning station setup used for object documentation in the Leimert Park archive workflow.
Scanning station setup used for object documentation in the Leimert Park archive workflow.
Archival and neighborhood documentation image supporting the Leimert Park Digital Archive project.
Archival and neighborhood documentation image supporting the Leimert Park Digital Archive project.
Field documentation image from Leimert Park connected to oral history, material culture, and archive-building work.
Field documentation image from Leimert Park connected to oral history, material culture, and archive-building work.

Related Locations

  • Los Angeles

    Community-based digital archive work in Leimert Park, Los Angeles connecting the Queen Aminah African Art Collection with oral history, 3D digitization, photography, and Drupal database development with UCLA.