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Yellow Springs Institute records

Title: Yellow Springs Institute records, 1972-2004.
Author: Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts.
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box of 8 masks (Separated materials)	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box of 8 masks (Separated materials)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 1	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 2	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 3	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 3A	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 3A	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 4	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 4	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 5	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 5	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 5A	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 5A	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 6	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 6	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 7	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 7	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 8	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 8	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 9	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 9	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 10	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 10	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 11	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 11	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 12	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 12	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 13	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 13	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 14	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 14	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 15	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 15	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 16	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 16	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 17	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 17	Offsite

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Description

22 linear feet (50 boxes)

Summary

The Yellow Springs Institute (YSI) records consist primarily of administrative and financial papers, as well as photographs documenting the history and activities of the institute from its founding to its dissolution.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Administrative records.
Black-and-white negatives.
Black-and-white slides.
Contact sheets.
Diazotypes.
Financial records.
Photographs.
Posters.
Programs.
Scrapbooks.
Technical drawings.

Note

The Yellow Springs Institute records are held by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and have been separated into four groups: paper records in the Billy Rose Theatre Division, music in the Music Division, audio materials in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound and video materials in TOFT.

Access (note)

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography (note)

The Yellow Springs Institute (YSI) was an international residency program for artists and scholars that was located in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

*T-Mss 2004-007

OCLC

NYPG05-A10085

Author

Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts.

Title

Yellow Springs Institute records, 1972-2004.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography

The Yellow Springs Institute (YSI) was an international residency program for artists and scholars that was located in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. Originally founded as the Yellow Springs Fellowship for the Arts in the mid-1970s, the organization had changed its name officially to the Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts by 1983, but it was generally known by the shorter form of its name. John A. Clauser, an architect and scenic designer, was the founding director and ran the institute for its entire existence. YSI offered residency programs from one to three weeks between mid-May and October to both performing and visual artists, as well as workshop presenters. Those individuals or groups selected received room, board, and a stipend to develop their unproduced works during the residency, culminating in a work-in-progress performance before an audience. In the late 1970s, the physical facilities were built, including a two-story performance structure with an amphitheatre. The Earthwork was an outdoor, experimental performance space. In 1990, a conference center complex was built. Notable programs included Six Saturdays: Explorations in Archetypal Themes in 1980; mythology scholar Joseph Campbell and poet Robert Bly held workshops for this program; Ages Apart (1982), which examined cultural transformation and change, also with Robert Bly; and ACCIONES (1989), a project concerned with cultural realities and concerns of Latino interdisciplinary artists from the two Americas. Clauser sold the fifteen-acre site in 1997 after cuts in government funding made the work of the institute increasingly difficult to maintain. He unsuccessfully sought a new location for the institute in Philadelphia and spent the last few years of his life before his death in 2002 compiling an archive of the institute's activities.

Indexes

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Clauser, John.

Bly, Robert.

Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987.

Research Call Number

*T-Mss 2004-007

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