The California Folklore Digital Collection features 42 volumes from the California Folklore Miscellany Collection. These volumes document various aspects of North Bay history, with a focus on beliefs, customs & folkways; place names & folk speech; historical characters, outlaws, miners & lumbermen; legends, tales & anecdotes; pioneer stories & personal reminiscences; and children’s lore & folklore in the schools. The majority of the materials were gathered or created by Dr. Hector Lee’s students in the American and California folklore classes at Sonoma State University.
Jordi Ferreiro (Barcelona, Spain) is an artist and educator whose projects use strategies based on institutional mediation, performative participation and play and experimental education movements, to interfere in the relations between institutions, art and audiences with an aim of creating new strategies can be used on a macro scale outside the art world.
drawing the space was an action created by artist Jordi Ferreiro, working together with a children’s group to explore the idea of activating the ‘white cube’ using tape in different colors.
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In the Fall Semester of 1971, Sim Van der Ryn and Jim Campe offered a studio course that brought students to a wooded site in northern Marin County for three consecutive days every week. The design/build experiment involved the construction of a commune premised upon ecological integrity. According to one student's journal, the studio provided an opportunity to “build a house in which my physical self could exist and a consciousness in which my spiritual self could exist.”
The “living-learning experience” began with a crash course in foraging for mushrooms, collecting mussels at a nearby beach, and scavenging redwood from disused Petaluma chicken coops. With the recycled building material, students built sleeping platforms and tree houses, a kitchen, a collective meeting and drafting studio, and a shower and composting toilet. Outlaw Building News, their underground press publication, sold almost as fast as it could be printed, providing cash for new “outlaw building” ventures.
aino marsio-aalto’s travel diary
Aino Marsio-Aalto’s travel Diary
The first half of the diary traces Marsio’s trip to Germany, Austria, and Italy in 1921, following her graduation from the Polytechnic Institute of Helsinki. The second half of the sketchbook follows Marsio’s travels in Ostrobothnia, a region in western Finland.
Gerrit Rietveld - chair models - Het Nieuwe Instituut
Wharton Esherick Papers
two sets of chairs by Wharton Esherick (via Henry Varnum poor papers)
Wharton Esherick and Henry Varnum Poor met through the E. Weyhe Book Store which also served as a gallery for up-and-coming progressive artists. The bookstore had commissioned Poor to make decorative tiles for its storefront in 1923; Esherick began exhibiting there — paintings, woodcuts, a chess set — by 1925.
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ARTPOOL : the experimental art archive of east-central Europe - history of an active archive for producing, networking, curating and researching art since 1970
Bob thompson papers, archives of american art.
organized by Carol Plenda Thompson, Bob thompson’s wife and donated between 2006-2012 by the artist’s sister, Elaine Plenda.
•• exhibition announcement for thompson’s first one man show @ Red grooms’ Delancy street museum, new york, feb.12 - mar. 13, 1960.
•••allen ginsberg, survey comments regarding bob thompson - read larger HERE
derelict sculpture in San Francisco
"for over a year now residents of the san francisco bay area have been treated to strange ephemeral but continuing manifestations of the creative urge. Hundreds of forms, ranging from the whimsical and playful to the evocative and absorbing, have appeared on the tidal flats bordering the east shore freeway at berkeley. Constructed between flood tides out of tin cans, tires, driftwood, structures that outlast the next high tide are rare. but like a frequent and aquatic phoenix a new sculpture appears where the old has fallen."
- arts & architecture - july, 1964
arch teaching slides usc
kid stuff found in the USC architectural teaching slide collection (via @andrew_romano_)
•children's playroom - cohen residence, san francisco, ca 1950. designed by Joseph esherick
•children's playroom - tremaine residence, montecito, ca 1949. designed by richard neutra
•bunk beds in a children's room - channel heights housing project, san pedro, ca 1943. designed by richard neutra
•kindergarten classroom - dolores elementary school, carmel, ca 1949. designed by ernest j. kump
•classroom shelf - experimental garden school, bell, ca 1935. designed by richard neutra
typography from Ant Farm's Inflatocookbook
typography from Ant Farm's Inflatocookbook.
the original Inflatacookbook was printed in January, 1971. The book was an attempt to gather information and skills learned in process and present it in an easily accessible format. The first edition of 2000 was printed on loose leaf paper in a vinyl binder in Sausalito, CA.
full PDF here
works by Jeffrey Shaw & Eventstructure Research Group
works by Jeffrey Shaw, co-founder of the Eventstructure Research Group (1969–1979)
a full catalog of Shaw's previous and most recent work is available here
• CORPOCINEMA - 1967, Amsterdam *
• SUPERTUBE - 1968, Amsterdam *
• PNEUTUBE - 1968, Amsterdam *
• HOMAGE TO BLADEN - 1971, Arnhem, Netherlands *
• CUSION - 1969, Amsterdam *
• WATER TOTEMS - 1969, Amsterdam *
• AQUA AIRGROUND - 1972, Amsterdam *
• WATERWALK - 1969, Amsterdam *
• WATERWALK TUBE - 1970 Hannover, Germany *
* produced in collaboration with theo botschuijver and sean wellesley-miller
related: Working big: a teacher's guide to environmental sculpture
United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information
Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
Most of these images have been available for years through the Library of Congress online catalog - but until now have not been this thoroughly organized (and sans LOC watermark).
via kottke
955,000
Index cards which made up the exhibition catalog for 955,000, an exhibition organized by Lucy Lippard at the Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970.
The index cards, sent in by the artists for the exhibition catalogue, give instructions for the construction and installation of works as there was no budget to either fly the artists in or to ship all artworks to Vancouver. The objects and installations were executed by Lucy Lippard herself, by Vancouver artists and other volunteers.
exhibition site here
more images/info here and here
previously: Ruins in Process - Vancouver art in the sixties
Dwelling: On Making Your Own
Dwelling: On Making Your Own, 1974
Freestone Publishing Co. Albion, CA 95410
Dwelling is by River a 38-year-old mother of three, a former suburban Maryland housewife, now a 'fiercely free' country woman living on the coastline of Mendecino County, California.
River, and Dwelling illustrator Leona Walden are also both former Salmon Creek Farm communards.
culture breakers alternatives & other numbers by ken isaacs
ken isaacs' beach matrix on the sands of Westport, Connecticut
full project and text: culture breakers alternatives & other numbers
roger capron's home
roger capron's home, mercantour national park
263 route des launes, 06470 beuil france
architect: georges buzzi
more info here
kym maxwell's research material for her participatory arts project goodwill
kym maxwell's research material for her participatory arts project goodwill.
inspired by Palle Nielsen’s Model for a Qualitative Societyand and participatory art of the 60’s and 70’s, goodwill explores notions of spatial and social politics and questions about the importance and (decline) of kinesthetic play in everyday life. the research material is closely based on David Cashman and Roger Faginʼs work from the late 70’s.