The papers of curator Philip Brookman measure 3.5 linear feet and date from 1977 to 1993. The collection documents Brookman's exhibition, writing, and filmmaking projects in the form of artist files, exhibition files, professional files, and subject and research files. Much of the material concerns the production and distribution of Brookman's 1988 video documentary about Chicano art in California, Mi Otro Yo (My Other Self), that grew out of the exhibition and conference "Califas: An Exhibition of Chicano Art and Culture in California," held at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1981 and 1982.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of curator Philip Brookman measure 3.5 linear feet and date from 1977 to 1993. The collection documents Brookman's exhibition, writing, and filmmaking projects in the form of artist files, exhibition files, professional files, and subject and research files. Much of the material concerns the production and distribution of Brookman's 1988 video documentary about Chicano art in California, Mi Otro Yo (My Other Self), that grew out of the exhibition and conference "Califas: An Exhibition of Chicano Art and Culture in California," held at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1981 and 1982.
Artist files are for David Avalos, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Louis Hock, Elizabeth Sisco, and others. Exhibition files include correspondence, notes, loan agreements, and printed material concerning Made in Aztlán, Photographing Ourselves: Contemporary Native American Photography, Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation/CARA among others. Professional files provide documentation on "El Centro Cultural de la Raza - Fifteen Years," Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts, and various projects at Washington Project for the Arts.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as five series.
Series 1: Artist Files, 1981-1991 (Box 1; 0.5 linear feet)
Series 2: Exhibition Files, 1982-1992 (Boxes 1-2; 1.0 linear feet)
Series 3: Professional Files, 1982-1991 (Boxes 2-3, OV 5; 0.8 linear feet)
Series 4: Subject and Research Files, 1977-1993 (Box 3; 0.4 linear feet)
Series 5: Califas Documentation, 1981-1993 (Boxes 3-4, OV 5; 0.8 linear feet)
Biographical / Historical:
Philip Brookman is a curator in California and Washington, D.C. He was director of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at the University of California at Santa Cruz from 1974 to 1983, a curator at El Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego from 1985 to 1986, and a curator at the Washington Project for the Arts from 1987 to 1997. Brookman was also Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and is a consulting curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Amy Brookman, co-directed the documentary Mi Otro Yo (My Other Self) about Chicano art in California which grew out of the Califas conference held at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) in 1982.
Provenance:
The papers were donated by Philip Brookman in 1999.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Occupation:
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(Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Spring 1981 Calendar; clippings; notes [for CALIFAS contributions]; TYF's notes: bibliographic info, chronology, miscellaneous; notice from the Spanish Speaking Cultural Club, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota announcing a film spanning the pre-Columbian civilizations to the present, circa 1978, and includes footage of art and architecture, as well as current events; photocopy of the first few pages of the list of recordings from CALIFAS conference; letter to TYF from gallery director of Eastern Michigan University, 04/19/1983, re. TYF's potential purchase of 2 pieces by Carlos Corte Koyokuitkatl; correspondence relating to Stanford U's purchase of the video tapes and full transcript from the conference, cost of $19,900; photocopy of index of tapes)
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 Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material is owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Collection Citation:
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material, 1965-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Collection Rights:
The Irving and Hela Norman papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Collection Citation:
Irving and Hela Norman papers, circa 1920-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The series consists of correspondence, notes, loan agreements, and printed material concerning Asco 83 (1983), held at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at the University of California at Santa Cruz; correspondence, printed material, and Brookman's draft catalog essays for the exhibitions Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation or CARA and Forty Years of California Assemblage; and correspondence, transcripts, printed material, slides, and photographs regarding the exhibition War and Memory: In the Aftermath of Vietnam (1987), held at the Washington Project for the Arts. Files for other exhibitions include Third World Artists in California (1983), Photographing Ourselves: Contemporary Native American Photography (1986), and Made in Aztlán (1985), an exhibition coinciding with the fifteenth anniversary of Centro Cultural de la Raza.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Collection Citation:
Philip Brookman papers, 1977-1993. 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.
Professional files contain manuscripts, correspondence, printed materials, and project notes concerning the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arts Fronterizo (BAW/TAF), the book Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts edited by Richard Bolton, "El Centro Cultural de la Raza - Fifteen Years," and various projects at Washington Project for the Arts. Also found is and correspondence with the director of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Rolando Castellon.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Collection Citation:
Philip Brookman papers, 1977-1993. 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.
Matter, space, balance : a fifteen year survey, 1975-1990, November 11 - December 14, 1990 / Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz
Modern art from Nigeria and Papua New Guinea from the Mbari West Collection : Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 6-December 10, 1983
The River shall never be at rest : transitions in Yoruba art : West African sculpture from University of California collections, Museum of Cultural History, UC Los Angeles, Lowie Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley : [exhibition] Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, May-June 1987
