Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Clauser, John.
2. Bly, Robert.
3. Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987.

Description

1. 22 linear feet (50 boxes)

Summary

1. 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

1. Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987
2. Bly, Robert
3. Programs
4. Pennsylvania > Intellectual life > 20th century
5. Black-and-white negatives
6. Artist colonies > Pennsylvania
7. Scrapbooks
8. Administrative records
9. Black-and-white slides
10. Financial records
11. Yellow Springs Institute
12. Arts > United States > Management
13. Performance art > Pennsylvania
14. Diazotypes
15. Technical drawings
16. Photographs
17. Clauser, John
18. Posters
19. Contact sheets

Genre/Form

1. Administrative records.
2. Black-and-white negatives.
3. Black-and-white slides.
4. Contact sheets.
5. Diazotypes.
6. Financial records.
7. Photographs.
8. Posters.
9. Programs.
10. Scrapbooks.
11. Technical drawings.

Call number

1. *T-Mss 2004-007

Note

1. 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)

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

Biography (note)

1. 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)

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Author

1. Yellow Springs Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Arts.

Title

1. Yellow Springs Institute records, 1972-2004.

Restricted access

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

Biography

1. 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

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material
2. Finding Aid

Added author

1. Clauser, John.
2. Bly, Robert.
3. Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987.

Research call number

1. *T-Mss 2004-007