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Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS). Annual Report 1971-72

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Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS)
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Creative Artists Public Service Program
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New York, NY
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Abstract

Listing of Awards for film and video

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.

1971-72

New York State Council on the Arts Arts Resources Program: Arts Service Organizations
Cultural Council Foundation, New York City. $400,000 for financial assistance to individual New York State artists through a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Program. Eighty-nine individuals received assistance averaging $2,700 to create new works and to perform such community services as readings and lectures, or to participate in workshops and residencies. Their projected works include neon sculpture; a video exploration of the underground slave railroad; a musical composition for computer-generated tape; and an experimental documentary film based on a Times Square resident.

The artists are: working in choreography, Margaret Beals, Pepsi Bethel, Oleg Briansky, Syvilla Fort, Mary Fulkerson, Glennis J. Green, Joan Jonas, Kenneth King, Morocco, and Louis Marie Overman; working in fiction, George B. Davis, Edward Hoagland, Donald Honig, Alison Lurie, and Lore Segal; working in film, George S. Breidenbach, Tony Conrad, Bonnie Friedman, James E. Hinton, Kenneth M. Jacobs, and Don Lenzer; working in graphics, Harvey Breverman, Nancy Dahlstrom, Agnes Denes, Seymour Drumlevitch, Eleanor Magid, and Valerie Maynard; working in multimedia, Bill Beckley, Richard Foreman, Daniela Gioseffi, John Storyck, and Robert Whitman; working in music, Susan Ain, Stephen A. Chambers, Lucia DIugoszewski, Gil Evans, Ann McMHIan, Milford Graves, Gordon Mumma, Max Roach, Frederic  Rzewski, Vladimir A. Ussachevsky, and Reginald D. Workman; working in painting, Nell Blaine, Rosemarie Castoro, Chung-Hsiang Chao, John Civitello, Miguel A. Guzman, Jim Maltese, James  Phillips, Joseph Piccillo, Barbara Pingselli, Marilyn  Reynolds, Alvin Smith, and Richard Waller; working in photography, Robert D'Alessandro, F. David  Freund, Laurence B. Fink, William Gedney, William Suttle, and Alice C. Wells; working in playwriting, Anne Burr, Maria Irene Fornes, Paul Foster, J. E. Franklin, Israel Horovitz, Ronald Tavel, and Sandra Both Williams; working in poetry, Dugan Gilman, Allan Kaplan, Frank Lima, Audre Lorde, and Kathleen Norris; working in sculpture, Stephen Antonakos, Jacqueline Ferrara, Colin Greenly, Sue Irons, Louis Lieberman, Fred Sandback, Tomiyo Sasaki, David Seccombe, and Michael Singer; working in video, Peter Campus, Cary Fisher, Davidson Gigliotti, Philip Mallory Jones, FJeinz Pierre Jouchmans, Benedict Tatti, and Keiko Tsuno. Panelists for

Video:

Wendy Appel
Grayson Mattingly
Ed Rosenfeld
Gerd Stern
Steina Vasulka
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