(photocopy of letter of recommendation to Bob Lever, from TYF, 04/01/91; letters to TYF from Vargas, circa 3/1991, 03/04/1992, 08/20/1990, 03/13/1993; catalogs; exhibition announcements; note to TYF from Vargas circa 08/10/1994; letters to TYF, undated and 04/28/1992, mentioning Lucy Lippard; note to TYF from Vargas, 04/20/1993; letter to TYF from Vargas, 03/15/1992, metioning Robert Buitrón and Benito Heurta; resume; clippings; ArtPace International Artist-In-Residence Program, 1997; essay by Vargas)
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material, 1965-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
(photographs of art; "poster poems" including "Will not harm the ozone" by Angela de Hoyas; symposium/exhibition announcement, keynote address by Lucy R. Lippard: "Contemporary Art By Women", 1990; class, workshop and event schedules; letter to TYF from Kathy Vargas, circa 12/1983; San Antonio Cinefestival Prospectus and Schedule; theater programs; "call for entries" posters, flyers and brochures; Tejano Conjunto Festival program; GCAC informational packet; exhibition announcements; "Friends of Folk Art," San Antonio Museum Association, flyer; catalogs; ; letter to TYF from Linda Cuellar, co-director San Antonio CineFestival 1988, 09/21/1988; San Antonio book fair flyers; membership brochures; letter to TYF from Suzanne M. Sato, Rockefeller Foundation, 05/04/1989, re. funding for GCAC and notes (not TYF's); Latino Caucus Minutes, Oklahoma City, 06/09/1990; TYF's notes [from Latino Caucus?]; note to TYF from Kathy Vargas, 09/18/1991; letter to TYF from Yvette Nieves-Cruz, 06/10/1991, re. Dialogues In Movement: A Chicano Media Arts Retrospective, with enclosures; clippings; letter to TYF from Pedro Rodgriguez, 08/26/1991, re. pre-conference meeting for the national conference of Latino arts and culture and related documents; invitations; National Association of Latino Arts and Culture - NALAC - Newsletter, vol.2, no. 1, March-April 1994; note to TYF from Pablo, 07/09/2001; Christmas cards to TYF from GCAC; GCAC newsletter: vol. 1, no. 8, October 1987; vol. 2, no. 3, January 1988-vol.4 no.6, March 1990; vol. 6, no. 5, February 1991-vol.6, no.8, May 1991; vol. 6, no. 19, July 1991; vol. 7, no. 1, October 1991-vol. 7, no. 2, Novemeber 1991; vol. 7, no. 9, June 1992-vol. 8, no. 3, March, 1993 - there are some errors in the numbering of volumes and issues; The GCAC News [continuation of the newsletter?]: vol.1, no. 1, May/June, 1993-July/August/September, 1993; vol. 2, no. 1, January/February/March 1994; vol. 2, no. 4, October/November/December 1994-vol. 3, no. 2, April/May/June 1995; vol. 4, no.1, January/February/March 1996; vol.4, no. 3, July/August/September 1996-vol. 5, no. 1, January/February/March 1997; vol. 5, no. 4, October/November/December 1997-January/February/March 1998; vol. 6, no. 1, July/August/September, 1998-October/November/December, 1988)
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility.
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The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material, 1965-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
(catalogs: The Mexican Museum Catalog of Selections from Its Collection With Introductions to Mexican and Mexican American Art, 1981; The Mexican Museum, 1983, with essay on Alfredo Arreguín by TYF; Lo Del Corazón: Heartbeat of a Culture, 1986, with text by Amalia Mesa-Bains and TYF; TYF's notes on Lo Del Corazí; From the West: Chicano Narrative Photography, 1996; Ceremony of Spirit, 1993; The Chicano Codices: Encountering Art of the Americas, 1992; Chicano Progeny: Investigative Agents, Executive Council, and Other Representatives from the Sovereign State of Aztlán., 1995; "Press Conference for design Architect" binder, 1995)
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The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility.
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Collection Citation:
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material, 1965-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material, 1965-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material, 1965-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Biographical material includes two appointment books, awards and certificates, education records for the University of Texas in San Antonio, one video recording of an interview, and written interviews. Also included is a draft of a report on the Eleanor Heard survey of Latino art in San Antonio for which Vargas was interviewed. Photographs include Vargas at exhibition and political events, and with friends; photographs of her uncle, who was also a photographer; and one photograph by Christopher Rauschenberg.
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Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes post cards, illustrated envelopes, photographs of travel to Oaxaca in Mexico, and a photographs album of Vargas's trip to New Mexico to visit Lippard.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
The series contains Kathy Vargas's correspondence with Allan D. Coleman, Jim Goldberg, Lucy Lippard, Chon A. Noriega, Jeff Perrone, May Stevens, Kay Turner, and colleagues and collectors, as well as correspondence regarding donations, exhibitions, publications, and residencies and grants.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes records for exhibitions of Vargas's work organized by Juan Bruce Novoa, Con Safo, Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA), and other exhibitions.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Writings include a commencement address, various lectures and panel talks that include three video recordings, manuscripts and drafts by Vargas and others that includes one electronic disc, five notebooks, and notes.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes a videocassette recording of a telecourse titled "The New Patronage" at the University of California in Davis.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Panels include "Lightning in a Bottle" at Texas State University and a panel in conjunction with the exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation at the Wight Art Gallery.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes manuscripts and drafts for the book Born of Resistance; an article in the journal Nueva Luz that also includes an electronic disc; a manuscript titled "A Gust of Wind Through the Mexican Apple Tree" for the Revelaciones/Revelations symposium; manuscripts, notes, and newspapers for articles published in San Antonio Light. Also included are manuscripts by Shifra M. Goldman and Amelia Malagamba-Ansotegui.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes five notebooks with notes on artwork for exhibitions, lists of artwork, writings about empowerment and mentoring, contact information, and project notes.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes notes on the preface by Vargas for the book Available Light. Also included is a published copy of the book along with sketches and other notes.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
The series consists of material for American Voices, Chicano: An American Experience, Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, and Intimate Lives: Work by Ten Contemporary Latina Artists. Also included are files for a Blue Art Space exhibition, drawings for the Guerrilla Girls Fotonovela, Vargas's research on San Antonio shrines, and 12 sound recordings for the exhibition Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes letters with Robert Buitron and artists, artist lists, meeting notes, material for a Latino book, slides of artwork, and correspondence.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes writings by hospice workers and relatives of patients, loan papers, correspondence, research material on death and hospice care, and 12 sound cassettes tapes of interviews.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes slides of artwork, correspondence with artists, and the original proposal for the exhibition.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Includes research material and notes, slides, manuscripts, and records related to Vargas's participation in the Smithsonian Folklore Summer Institute as a Community Folklore Scholar.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival records with audiovisual records with no duplicate copies requires advance notice.
Collection Citation:
Kathy Vargas papers, circa 1965-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
