Series II: Andrea Callard Artist Files

This series contains materials related to Andrea Callard's art career. The series is divided into seven subseries. Time and place figure strongly in the organization of this series because they were organizing principles in Callard's organization of her papers.

Subseries A includes materials dated before 1973 such as items relating to her undergraduate work at San Francisco Art Institute. Subseries B reflects Callard's early years in New York city at 150 Chambers St. Artists Daisy Youngblood, Joe Haske, Robert Israel and Cara Perlman also lived in this building. Materials with specific years appear at the beginning of this subseries in chronological order. Materials designated "150 Chambers St" or "1973-1976" but without a specific date are grouped at the end of the subseries. Subseries C includes art works from Callard's first three years in her loft on the top floor of 40 Lispenard Street. Callard, Cara Perlman and Bernice Rubin secured a net lease for the top three floors of this guilding in 1976 and renovated the building. This subseries also includes work related to Callard's 1978 residency at the Cummington, Massachusetts Community for the Arts, her Ailanthus project, as well as her contributions to Colab's Dog Show and the Batman show. Subseries D includes materials relating to Callard's art career such as her contributions to the Custom and Culture II show, Colab's Animals Living in the City and the Times' Square Show as well as Callard's work with Bonnie O'Neill at Site, Cite, Sight in San Francisco. Subseries E again contains art files related to Andrea Callard's professional career including her contribution in the NYC Wildlife Museum, Inside/out garden signs at the Bronx River Art Center and Colab's Talk is Cheap street posters. Subseries F includes materials relating to Callard's art career particularly her collaboration with Sam Sue on the installation "The Tenement: Place of Survival, Object of Reform." This work appeared at the Chinatown History Project in 1988 and as part of the DIA Art Foundation "If you lived here" exhibition. Subseries G contains materials relating to Callard's art career. Most notably, the series includes work relating to her "Home Turf" window at Art in General and her storefront exhibit at Art and Architecture. The subseries also includes black and white contact sheets and negatives as well as materials relating to collaborative works during this timeperiod. Subseries H contains materials relating to Callard's work as an art teacher such as student letters, photographs and press clippings from artist in residency programs as well as teaching opportunities in New York City. Subseries I includes undated materials. Contact sheets and negatives taken by Andrea Callard compose the majority of this subseries.