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Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS). Annual Report 1973-74

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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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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.

1973-1974

New York State Council on the Arts Arts Resources Program: Arts Service Organizations

The Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS), an independent organization, is designed to serve both the artist and the public by giving assistance to individual artists for the creation of new work, and by bringing them and their work into contact with a wider audience. Fellowships are given in the fields of choreography, fiction writing, film, graphics, multimedia, music composition, painting, photography, and video. In 1973-74 CAPS also administered six fellowships in xerography, with funds provided by the Xerox Corporation.

Fellowship recipients perform community-oriented services throughout the State such as lectures, demonstrations, workshops, open rehearsals, readings, performances, or donations of finished art works. Services performed by 1973-74 fellowship recipients included an outdoor concert dedicated to Duke Ellington, given at Bronx Community College by Valerie Capers and six other musicians; construction of two outdoor sculptures at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, by Rosemarie Castoro; a series of weekly photography workshops for mental patients at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, conducted by Dorothy Glouster; and a correspondence project between playwright Ken Brown and an inmate/writer at the Eastern Correctional Facility, Napanoch, in which Brown reads and evaluates the inmate's manuscripts and offers him counseling and advice.

CAPS prolongs its service to artists beyond the term of the fellowships through a number of exposure projects-among them traveling film and video festivals, performances, circulating exhibitions, and portfolios. It also operates the Visual Arts Referral Service, a photo file of the works of winners and finalists which is made available to museums, local arts councils, architects, city planners, businesses, and others interested in the purchase and exhibition of contemporary art.

From the nearly 10,000 applications received since the program began in 1970, CAPS has awarded a total of 505 fellowships ranging from $1,500 to $5,000, with an average of $3,000. In 1973-74, 3,766 applications were submitted; 166 artists received grants. The recipients are listed on page 135.

[Excerpted listing of recipients in selected categories]

Film

Peter Barton
Anne Stagg Belle
Anthony Chauncey
Maxi Cohen
Robert Fiore
Bonnie Friedman
Nancy Graves
Leonard Horowitz
Kris Keiser
Maria Lassnig
Jonas Mekas
Andrew Noren
Mark Rappaport
M. Jonathan Rubin
David Steward
Herminia Villaverde

Multimedia

Laurie Anderson
Jim Barden
Bill Beckley
John Chong
Tina Girouard
Gerald Jackson
Ken Jacobs
Richard Landry
Angus MacLise
Jackson MacLow
Antoinette Marcus
Gordon Matta-Clark
Muriel Miguel
Max Neuhaus
Charlemagne Palestine
Robert Polidori
YoshimasaWada

Xerography

Stephen Antonakos
Joan Snyder
Joel Swartz
JackWhitten
Robert Whitman

Video

William Creston
Tom Dewitt
Ron Dubren
Bruce Alan Ferguson 
Janet Merle Goldberg
Ernest Gusella
Susan Milano
Richard Serra 
Nina Rhea Sobel
William Stephens
Wolfgang Stoerchle

Panelists for Video:

Elaine Baly
Shridhar Bapat
Beryl Korot
Nam June Paik
Alphonse Schilling
Keiko Tsuno

Consultant for Video: Steina Vasulka

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Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS). Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS). Annual Report 1973-74. Creative Artists Public Service Program. 1974.

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