Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS). Annual Report 1970-71

The Creative Artists Public Service Program was funded by the New York State Council on the Arts to support individual artists' work in a variety of disciplines.

1970-71

A major Council grant [from the New York State Council on the Arts] for 1970-71 in the area of public service directly affected the creative artist: Cultural Council Foundation, New York City. $325,000 to provide financial assistance through the Creative Artists Public Service Program to both new and established individual artists working in fields including choreography, music composition, poetry, prose, drama, film, video, painting, sculpture, photography, graphics, and multimedia. Awards ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 were made to a total of 123 artists who would make their activities more widely available through public services such as readings, lectures, workshops, residencies, performances, exhibitions, and donations of work to public institutions. Half of the services involved were for the benefit of upstate communities. Among the activities and projects generated by the grants are the donation of six pieces of sculpture for use in such public places as a highway rest area, a public plaza in Binghamton, and a mental health facility; the production of eight new music compositions, a jazz opera, and a musical theatre production; and the creation of films on the New York State abortion law, the Hudson River, and the black life style.
-   Arthur J. Kerr.

From the New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-1971

Other artists assisted in 1970-71 by the Cultural Council Foundation include (in choreography) Arthur Bauman, Trisha Brown, James Cunningham, Judith Dunn, Louis Faico, Laura Foreman, Carole Johnson, Billie Kirpich, Phyllis Lamhut, Carla Maxwell, Charles Moore, Clyde Morgan, Jay Norman, Ronald Pratt, Barbara Roan, Gus Solomons, Jr., Julio Torres, Charles Weidman, Mel Wong; (in film) Madeline Anderson, Lloyd Birdwell, Storm DeHirsch, Ed Emshwiller, Robert Frank, Red Grooms, Samuel Holmes, Jerry Jofen, Irving Kriesberg, Elliot Landy, Leroy Lucas, Danny Lyon, James Mannas, Taylor Mead, lane Stubbs; (in literature, for prose) Frank Conroy, Edward Dahlberg, James Farrell; {for poetry) A. R. Ammons, Nikki Giovanni, Erica long, Keorpetse Kgositsile, Clarence Major, Joel Oppenheimer, Pedro Pietri, Hugh Seidman, Diane Wakoski; (for playwriting) Julie Bovasso, Peter Copani, Alfred Davis, Albert Devereaux, James Caines, Maryat Lee, Ronald Ribman, Edgar White, Robert Wilson; (in multimedia) Hazel Bryant, Jo Butler, Lloyd Cross, Norman Daly, Douglas Davis, Dermot Harvey, Robert Israel, Anthony Martin, Pbill Niblock, Peter Nicholson, Parry Teasdale, Stan VanDerBeek, Bud Wirtscnarter, LaMonte Young, Marian Zazeela; (in music) Carla Bley, William Bolcorn, Joel Chadabe, James Fulkerson, Phillip Class, Carman Moore, Sunny Murray, Samuel Rivers, Stanley Silverman, Howard Swanson, Mary Lou Williams; (in video) Lee Ferguson, Phyllis Gershuny, Juan Garcia, Elliot Glass, Beryl Korot, Kenneth Marsh, Woody Vasulka; (in visual arts, for painting and sculpture) Benny Andrews, Vincent Baldassano, Miriam Beerman, Nicholas Carone, Francesco Copello, Iris Crump, Abigail Cerd, Bradford Craves, Alan Cussow, Peter Heineman, Catherine James, Golda Lewis, Algernon Miller, Thomas O'Conner, Leah Rhodes, Faith Ringgold, Francisco Sainz, Richard Serra, Vincent Smith, Joseph Stefanelli, Sylvia Stone, Tecla, Julius Tobias; (for photography) Charles Blackwell, Donald Blumberg, David Chalk, Charles Dawson, Leonard Freed, Marda Keegan, Leslie Krims, Philip Perkis, Herbert Randall, Leonard Soned, Max Waldman, Shawn Walker.

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