The core component of BWA’s archives is the organization’s permanent collection of more than 1,400 original prints, collages, and other works of art on paper. These artworks are accompanied in the archives by photographs, video and audio recordings, publications, correspondence, and other documents relating to the 450-plus artists represented in the permanent collection. A large portion of this information is housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Also housed for posterity in the archives are papers, publications, and publicity documenting BWA’s organizational history: its governance, policies, strategic planning, and artistic and outreach programming.