Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 32 linear feet (69 boxes, 2 tubes)

Summary

1. Ken Dewey (1934-1972) was a performance artist, playwright, director, and arts administrator who was active in the Happenings movement of the 1960s. The Ken Dewey collection contains project files, photographs and slides, writings and audio and visual recordings that represent Dewey's creative work; files that represent Dewey's work as an arts administrator at the American Cooperative Theatre, Action Theatre, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Commission on Cultural Resources, and the Planning Corporation of the Arts; material pertaining the exhibition Action Theatre: The Happenings of Ken Dewey, a posthumous retrospective curated by Barbara Moore at Franklin Furnace in 1987; and a small amount of personal files and art by other artists.

Subject

1. Actor's Workshop (San Francisco, Calif.)
2. Promptbooks
3. Engravings
4. Riley, Terry, 1935-
5. Avant Garde Festival of New York
6. Sheet music
7. Photographs
8. Planning Corporation of the Arts
9. Moore, Barbara, 1936-
10. Sound recordings
11. Conceptual art
12. Ono, Yōko
13. Theater
14. Actor's Workshop (San Francisco)
15. Slides
16. Video recordings
17. Happenings (Art)
18. Diaries
19. Rabe, Folke, 1935-
20. Kaprow, Allan
21. New York (State) > Commission on Cultural Resources
22. New York State Council on the Arts
23. Clippings
24. American Cooperative Theatre
25. Arts, Modern > 20th century
26. Drawings
27. Performance art
28. Scripts
29. Action Theatre
30. Posters
31. Donner, Henrik Otto, 1939-

Genre/Form

1. Clippings.
2. Diaries.
3. Drawings.
4. Engravings.
5. Photographs.
6. Posters.
7. Promptbooks.
8. Scripts.
9. Sheet music.
10. Slides.
11. Sound recordings.
12. Video recordings.

Call number

1. *T-Mss 1991-010

Access (note)

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required. Inquiries regarding audio and video materials in the series may be directed to the Billy Rose Theatre Division (theatre@nypl.org). Audio/visual materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.

Terms of use (note)

1. Material may not be duplicated without written permission of the rights holder.

Location of other archival materials (note)

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

Author

1. Dewey, Ken.

Title

1. Ken Dewey collection, 1943-1987 (bulk 1959-1972).

Restricted access

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required. Inquiries regarding audio and video materials in the series may be directed to the Billy Rose Theatre Division (theatre@nypl.org). Audio/visual materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.

Terms of use

1. Material may not be duplicated without written permission of the rights holder.

Location of other archival materials

1. Dewey, Kenneth/Selma Last Year Collection; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

Connect to:

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

Research call number

1. *T-Mss 1991-010