Paige Laino

Work Title and Work Place

• Archivist for Robert Wilson and the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Center

• Archive and Alumni Manager at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for over a decade

Courses Being Taught Presently and/or in the Past

• LBSCI 790.3: Time Based Media Preservation

Academic Statement

Laino is a graduate of the Queens College MLS and the Advanced Certificate in Archives programs. She is the Archivist for Robert Wilson and the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Center, after working as the Archive and Alumni Manager at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for over a decade. She specializes in time-based media preservation projects and has worked with artists such as Daniel Bozhkov, and the estates of John Giorno and Chris Marker. In 2016, they co-curated Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo Bay with Erin Thompson at John Jay College, featuring artwork sent from detainees at the controversial military prison, and wrote a related piece in The Paris Review. She co-founded and currently publishes The Tomorrow Archive with Cameron A. Granger and Rebecca Shippee, a periodic zine featuring previously unseen art and writing that fundraises for families evacuating Gaza.