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Series consists of annual income tax returns and related receipts for art-related expenses arising from Barbara Astman’s art practice.

Series comprises recordings of Barbara Astman’s artistic activity and other recordings made between 1990 and 2006.

Series comprises photos of Barbara Astman and family members with several leaves of textual material.

Series comprises photos of Barbara Astman’s art projects and exhibitions in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s. Accrual to series consists of installation photographs of three exhibitions of Barbara Astman’s work: “Untitled, I was thinking about you” (Sable-Castelli?), Personal/Persona (AGH), and Clementine Part I, II & III (Yukon Arts Centre).

Series consists of Barbara Astman’s address books and notebooks, including three sets of pages removed from a three-ring bound daybook. Many address books contain memoranda; the earliest volumes have covers decorated with transfer prints by the artist. Accrual consists of Astman’s address books, business card books and daily agendas, with related notebooks.

Series comprises photocopies of magazine articles on Barbara Astman and her art, including reviews. Series also includes posters for Astman’s exhibitions, and a few posters for exhibitions by her friends. Accrual contains copies of advertisements for and reviews of Astman’s exhibitions, similar material pertaining to friends of the artist, and documentation of internet searches on Astman from 2002.

Series consists of records from Barbara Astman’s career as an instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in Toronto from the 1970s until her retirement in 2021. Includes course outlines, correspondence, notes, other course material and related documents.

Accrual to series includes similar textual documents to previous transfers, as well as Astman’s teaching samples, which include graphic material such as negatives, transparencies, prints, image transfers and other experimental works of a variety of materials, such as glass, stone, and plastic. Astman used these samples in her courses and workshops as educational tools to provide students with visual examples of certain processes and techniques. Astman used a wide variety of materials to create her samples in order to demonstrate to students that regardless of budget or available materials, almost anything can be used to create a negative or other photographic artworks. Some samples were created in front of students during demonstrations, workshops or lessons, while others were made by Astman for experimentation and later repurposed for use in the classroom. Samples were often handled by students in class or workshops and passed around to allow for hands-on learning.

Series consists of photographs and related graphic materials produced as part of the preparatory material for Barbara Astman’s works.

Accrual consists of source materials and collage components relating to Barbara Astman’s works.

Series comprises photographs, chiefly slides, documenting Barbara Astman’s work in Toronto and elsewhere between 1968 and 2006.