Francine Snyder

Francine Snyder specializes in artist and museum archives, digital systems, and in fostering research and scholarship on contemporary cross-disciplinary creative practices. Since 2015, as Director of Archives and Digital at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Snyder has been responsible for the Foundation archives, with the goal of increasing access to and use of archival materials. Major initiatives include the Foundation’s Fair Use Policy, intended to reduce barriers to image use; the Archives Research Residency, a program that supports multi-week research intensives within the collection; and forthcoming expanded digital archives, with an emphasis on open-source software solutions and metadata standards. Snyder has written and presented widely on archives and technology. This fall, her publication I Don’t Think About Being Great: Selected Writings by Robert Rauschenberg, copublished by the Foundation and Yale University Press, will be released, highlighting Rauschenberg’s love of words.