Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Art Com records
- Dates:
- circa 1970-2005
- Creators:
- Art Com (Firm) and La Mamelle, Inc.
- Abstract:
- La Mamelle / Art Com was a non-profit arts organization and artist-run space in San Francisco, California active from 1975 through 1995.
- Extent:
- 300 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and content:
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Contains books, catalogues, periodicals, artwork, photography, publications, publicity, correspondence, financial documents and other material. Includes artist periodical files, the La Mamelle/Art Com library, artist books, artist files, artspaces and organizations files, events files, organizational papers, Correspondence Art book files,Performance Anthology book files, artwork, ephemera and media, and digital files captured from floppy disks and hard drives.
- Biographical / historical:
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La Mamelle / Art Com was a non-profit arts organization and artist-run space in San Francisco, California active from 1975 through 1995. The organization's first venture was publishing but it became involved in multiple activities including maintaining an artists' space and presenting exhibitions and events of mail art, performance art, conceptual photography, video art production and screenings, a library, distributing artist-produced works, and creating one of the first artists' online networks.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased, 1997. Accessions 1997-096, 2006-155, 2007-288, 2010-211, and 2015-062.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Art.
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-12-16 12:09:37 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unprocessed but open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual and born-digital materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022