Research Catalog
- Title
- Fine Arts Workshop collection, 1961-1986 (bulk 1961-1977).
- Author
- Fine Arts Workshop.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 484 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- .2 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The Fine Arts Workshop Collection is sparse and does not contain comprehensive documentation of the activities of this organization from its inception to its final years. The collection consists of a few Board of Directors' notices of meetings and minutes, in addition to letters of introduction for students recommended to the Fine Arts Workshop, letters of appreciation from former students and schedules of classes. There is also correspondence, printed matter including news clippings, press releases and programs, grant proposals and financial records.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Minutes.
- Note
- Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Beards, Lucille G.
- Biography (note)
- The Fine Arts Workshop was founded in 1959 by Lucille Beards and provided full scholarship art classes to children ages eight to twenty-one from New York City. The Workshop aided underprivileged children who showed talent, and provided classes without cost to the students in modern dance and ballet, drama, voice and diction, music, and the fine arts.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 484
- OCLC
- NYPW95-A125
- Author
- Fine Arts Workshop.
- Title
- Fine Arts Workshop collection, 1961-1986 (bulk 1961-1977).
- Biography
- The Fine Arts Workshop was founded in 1959 by Lucille Beards and provided full scholarship art classes to children ages eight to twenty-one from New York City. The Workshop aided underprivileged children who showed talent, and provided classes without cost to the students in modern dance and ballet, drama, voice and diction, music, and the fine arts.Hundreds of children of many ethnic backgrounds, including African American, were accepted into the program. Classes were originally held at Carnegie Hall, but the Fine Arts Workshop ceased its full operation in 1972 due to loss of revenue. Through grants and other means, scholarships were provided for children to study at independent schools. By the mid-1980's the Fine Arts Workshop ceased functioning.
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- Sc MG 484