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Creator:
Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, La.)  Search this
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
3 Microfilm reels
Access Note / Rights:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
Exhibitions and special activities files pertaining to visual arts. [The Center's records relating to music, theatre etc. were not microfilmed].
Files include: 1976: Mask Workshop; 1977: Opening Show, Bal Masque; Five from Lousiana; Food Show; Lecture Series: Issues in the Arts; Electronic Visions; Leif Anderson; George Dureau, Selected Works 1960-1977;Louisiana Craftsmen, 1961 to the Present; Louisiana Environments; National Womens' Film Circuit Screening; 1978: Alabama Artists Invitational; American Narrative/Story Art, 1967-1977; Animal Fantasies; Artworks Bookwords; The Art and Romance of Peasant Clothes; Contemporary Photography in Louisiana; Randy Asprodites Workshop; New Orleans Federation of Churches and N.E.A., AugustArt Escapes; Figures and Wipeouts, Peter Halley, Andrew Bascle; The Rigs, Grady Byrd; CETArts, An Exhibition; Southeastern Graphics Annual; Film: Gumbo-The Mysteries of Creole and Cajun Cooking, Stephen Duplantier;Children's classes: Ice Cream Factory and Council of the Arts for Children, Evelyn Smith Workshop; The Theo Moorman Workshop sponsored by the Loom Room; Eleventh Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition of works by Louisana Craftsmen;
Carnival '78; Personal Monuments: An Artists' Burial Ground; Frederick Trenchard; S.P.C.A. Children's Photography Contest; Contemporary Arts Center Video Night; Young Architects: Architectural Design Studies by Elementary School Students; Young Americans: Fiber/Wood/Plastic/Leather; Maria da Conceicão; Mollyne Karnofsky: Paper Environment March 1978; Festival of Women in the Arts;
Wall Mural; Five Aerial Sculptures; 1979: Carol Kapelow Brown; Photography Gallery and Workshops; Adrienne Anderson; Marc Brasz; Kimberly Paul Arp; Mary F. Chachere; Avery Crounse; Philip Core; The Drawing Show, an Invitational; Antoinette Ducrest; Rise Delmar and Michael Murphy presented by the Frame Shop and Gallery; Graphic Art in Germany Today; Eric Kronengold;Leslie Elliott, Mary Lee Eggart, Starr Sittig Exhibition; Two traveling exhibitions from French Cultural Services: A Certain Image of French Photographs and Color from France; Gary Cawood and Dean Dablow, photographs and workshops; Juried Members' Exhibition, New Orleans Art Association;Gwen Norsworthy; Interaction: A Participation Art Exhibit; Twelfth Annual Louisiana Craftsmen Show; Tom McNellis Installation; Photography Workshops, Ernst Haas, Rosamund Purcell; Push Pin Invitational; Charlotte Hooper Rosshandler; Art Patron Art Exhibition, Southeastern Center for ContemporaryArt, Winston-Salem; Tiennial; Texas: Silver, Mud, Paper; New Orleans Undergraduates Exhibition; Jay Ziegler; Jimmie Williams Installation; 1980: Innovations: Energy and Designing with the Elements Site Projects; Tommy Mew; and Texas Invitational.
Citation:
Contemporary Arts Center records, 1976-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reels 3129-3131 available for use through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Originals in: the Contemporary Arts Center.
Loan:
Loan
Biography Note:
Art organization; New Orleans, La.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1984 by the Contemporary Arts Center. Microfilmed as part of the Archives of American Art's Texas project.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Louisiana  Search this
Theme:
Art organizations  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)7502
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209661
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Theme:
Art organizations
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209661