Research Catalog

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

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