FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Yellow Springs Institute records
- Title
- Yellow Springs Institute records, 1972-2004.
- Format
- Archival mix
- Author
Collection information
Finding aid
The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections may require an appointment to view and use on-site.
Items in the library and off-site
Displaying 1-20 of 50 items
| Status | Container | Access | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 46 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 46 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 45 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 45 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 44 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 44 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 43 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 43 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 42 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 42 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 41 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 41 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 40 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 40 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 39 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 39 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 38 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 38 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 37 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 37 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 36 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 36 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 35 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 35 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 34 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 34 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 33 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 33 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 32 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 32 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 31 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 31 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 30 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 30 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 29 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 29 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 28 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 28 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 27 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 2004-007 Box 27 | Item locationOffsite |
Details
- Additional authors
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Administrative records.
- Black-and-white negatives.
- Black-and-white slides.
- Contact sheets.
- Diazotypes.
- Financial records.
- Photographs.
- Posters.
- Programs.
- Scrapbooks.
- Technical drawings.
- Call number
- *T-Mss 2004-007
- Language
- English
- 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.
- Author
- Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts.
- 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.
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