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Collection Number: 20537

Collection Title: Jason Summers and Kate Fix Collection, 1992-2020

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Size 180 items
Abstract Jason Summers and Kate Fix created the film Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story (2006). The collection consists of a poster for the film, two holiday postcards created by Jason Summers and Kate Fix, and a digital sound recording, 15 February 1992, of the band Pipe performing live at Jason Summers' apartment in Chapel Hill, N.C. The addition of December 2021 contains digital images of approximately 70 paintings and other works by Bynum, N.C., folk artist Clyde Jones, taken by Jason Summers at his home in Graham, N.C. in February 2020.
Creator Summers, Jason.

Fix, Kate.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Jason Summers and Kate Fix Collection #20537, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Jason Summers and Kate Fix in November 2016 (Acc. 102981) and from Jason Summers in December 2021 (Acc. 20211207.1).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Jodi Berkowitz, March 2017

Encoded by: Jodi Berkowitz, March 2017

Updated by: Anne Wells, December 2017; Dawne Howard Lucas and Jessica Venlet, September 2022

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Jason Summers is a musician and filmmaker, and Kate Fix is a filmmaker. Together, they created Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story. They live in Graham, N.C. Jason Summers has also worked on several projects with the Chapel Hill, N.C. based musician and artist, Ron Liberti, including a limited vinyl release of a live recording of the band Pipe, of which Liberti was a member.

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The collection consists of a poster for the film Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story (2006), two holiday postcards created by Jason Summers and Kate Fix, and a digital sound recording, 15 February 1992, of the band Pipe performing live at Jason Summers' apartment in Chapel Hill, N.C. The addition of December 2021 contains digital images of approximately 70 paintings and other works by Bynum, N.C., folk artist Clyde Jones, taken by Jason Summers at his home in Graham, N.C. in February 2020.

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Contents list

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180 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Folder 1

Family holiday postcards, 2010 and undated

Digital Folder DF-20537/1

Pipe, Chapel Hill, N.C., 15 February 1992

159 digital images, 1 text file

An early live recording of the band, Pipe, recorded by Jason Summers at his apartment in Chapel Hill, N.C. The recording features Dave Alworth on bass, Chuck Garrison on drums, Mike Kenlan on guitar, and Ron Liberti on vocals. The live recording was also released on vinyl by Drunken Mortician Records in 2017 (RH PIPE LIVE A DMR-666-A).

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-20537/1

Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story poster by Ron Liberti

Digital Folder DF-20537/2

Clyde Jones, North Carolina folk artist

159 digital images, 1 text file

Addition of December 2021 (Acc. 20211207.1).

Contains 159 digital images of approximately 70 paintings and other works by Bynum, N.C., folk artist Clyde Jones, taken by Jason Summers at his home in Graham, N.C. in February 2020. There is also one text document which provides Summers' documentation on the paintings.

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