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MSS 0751
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Spruce Street Forum and Fresh Sound Records
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0751
Physical Description:
1.6 Linear feet
(4 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1995-2013
Abstract: The collection consists of the records of Spruce Street Forum, an organization founded in 1995 by Bonnie Broderick Wright
as a venue for experimental and avant-garde artists, writers, theorists and scholars to present their work. It contains artist
files relating to performances and exhibitions, flyers, press clippings and administrative materials such as board meeting
minutes and financial records. It also includes records for the Fresh Sound experimental music series, which began at Spruce
Street Forum.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of the records of Spruce Street Forum, an organization founded in 1995 by Bonnie Broderick Wright
as a venue for experimental and avant-garde artists, writers, theorists and scholars to present their work. It contains artist
files relating to performances and exhibitions, flyers, press clippings, photographs, and administrative materials such as
board meeting minutes and financial records. It also includes records for the Fresh Sound experimental music series, which
began at Spruce Street Forum. The bulk of the material is from the Spruce Street Forum and ranges in date from 1995 to 2002.
The papers are arranged in three series: 1) ARTIST FILES, 2) PUBLICITY FILES and 3) ADMINISTRATIVE FILES.
The Spruce Street Forum was a non-profit organization founded in 1995 by Bonnie Broderick Wright as a venue for artists from
multiple disciplines to present their work. The organization made its home at 301 Spruce Street in the Balboa Park area of
San Diego. The goals of the Spruce Street Forum as described in their early press releases were "to provide an environment
for artistic innovation, to provide a venue for creative thought and on-going discussion, to encourage interdisciplinary and
intercultural exchange, and to foster collaboration in the arts: music, text, visual."
As the Spruce Street Forum's director, Bonnie Broderick Wright (a former board member of Sushi Performance and Visual Art)
identified a lack of gallery and performance space for San Diego area artists. She opened the venue on Spruce Street hoping
to cultivate and promote interdisciplinary and multicultural art. The Spruce Street Forum eventually closed its doors on January
31, 2002. From the Forum, Wright, executive producer of Henceforth Records, continued as curator of her Fresh Sound music
series, promoting experimental non-mainstream music at the Sushi Performance & Visual Arts space in downtown San Diego, then
at The Loft at Wright's alma mater, University of California, San Diego. In 2013 Fresh Sound moved its location to Bread &
Salt on Julian Avenue.
Acquired 2012, 2013.
Spruce Street Forum and Fresh Sound Records, MSS 751. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Photographic negatives are restricted.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Performance art -- California -- San Diego -- 21st century
Art -- California -- San Diego -- 20th century
Performance art -- California -- San Diego -- 20th century
Avant-garde (Music) -- California -- San Diego -- 21st century
Art -- California -- San Diego -- 21st century
Avant-garde (Music) -- California -- San Diego -- 20th century
Spruce Street Forum -- Archives
Fresh Sound -- Archives