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Guide to the Jacki Apple Papers MSS.173

Jacki Apple Papers

Call Number

MSS.173

Date

1969-2023, inclusive

Creator

Apple, Jacki

Extent

26.5 Linear Feet
in 6 record cartons, 20 manuscript boxes, 2 half manuscript boxes, 5 tall manuscript boxes, 5 small flat boxes, 1 oversize flat box, and 11 media boxes

Extent

21.2 Gigabytes

Extent

1 websites
in 1 archived website.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Abstract

Jacki Apple was a professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her career has spanned a range of visual and media arts. Her radio show Soundings, of which she was the host and producer, was on KPFK-FM Los Angeles Public Radio from 1981-1995. The Jacki Apple Papers includes correspondence with artists and listeners, promotional material from artists and record labels, memos and letters pertatining to KPFK Los Angeles Public Radio business, cue sheets, and recordings of music, audio art, and interviews that were featured on the show. The collection also includes grant applications, publications, original writings, and audio recordings of proposed and completed artistic endeavors Apple pursued as an individual artist, with collaborators, and through the non-profit Cactus Foundation she was a co-founder of. The projects documented in the collection illustrate the breadth of Apple's artistic output, including public arts commissions, multimedia installations,

Biographical Note

Jacki Apple (1941-2022) was a visual, performance and media artist, writer, producer, and a professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her career spanned a range of the visual and media arts. She wrote, directed, and produced interdisciplinary performance works, worked in costume design, composed and produced soundtracks, created multimedia installations, and worked with mediums of photography, audio, radio, film, site specific works, public art, and beyond.

Raised and educated in New York, Apple relocated to Los Angeles in 1981 where she continued to develop as an artist. An innovator in radio art, she was the host and producer of Soundings, her one hour weekly live radio show on KPFK-FM Los Angeles Public Radio from 1981-1995. Additionally, she co-produced the annual Earjam avant-garde music festival 2000-2004, and was a contributing editor to High Performance magazine. She wrote for numerous other art publications, and taught at both the Art Center College of Design and the University of California, San Diego. In New York City she was a co-founder and first curator of Franklin Furnace 1976-1980. Apple's output of solo exhibitions, performance pieces, radio works, and installations appeared domestically and internationally. On June 8, 2022, Apple died in Culver City, CA.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into eleven series as follows:

Series I: KFPK Soundings
Series II: Record Label/Studios
Series III: Press/Promo/Catalogues
Series IV: Soundings- Radio Works/Spoken Word/Sound
Series V: Soundings- Music Tapes
Series VI: Radio Tapes with Jacki Apple/Audio Networks
Series VII: Radio Tapes with Jacki Apple/Soundings
Series VII: Artist Tapes
Series VIII: Soundings Miscellaneous
Series IX: Business Correspondence
Series X. Critical Writing on the Arts
Series XI. Media Works
Series XII. Archived Website

Series I-VIII are arranged alpahbetically; Series IX-XI have not been arranged by an archivist and appear in the rough alphabetical order in which they were received.

Scope and Contents

The Jacki Apple Papers (dated 1976-2012) consist of materials created and collected by Apple documenting her career as an artist, producer, and eductor. The collection includes correspondence with artists and listeners, promotional material from artists and record labels, memos and letters pertatining to KPFK Los Angeles Public Radio buisness, cue sheets, and recordings of music, audio art, and interviews that were featured on the show. Materials in this collection also include grant applications, publications, original writings, and audio recordings of proposed and completed artistic endeavors Apple pursued as an individual artist, with collaborators, and through the non-profit Cactus Foundation she was a co-founder of. The projects documented in the collection illustrate the breadth of Apple's artistic output, including public arts commissions, multimedia installations, interdisciplinary performances, and recorded sound, with her EARJAM music festival and radio art series Redefining Democracy in America particularly well-represented. The collection also documents Apple's career as a critic and theorist through her original, published writings on various aspects of modern art and performance art in the late 20th century.

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People

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Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by Jacki Apple, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Jacki Apple Papers; MSS 173; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.

To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Jacki Apple Papers; MSS 173; Wayback URL; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The Jacki Apple Papers were donated by Jacki Apple in 2005, 2017, and 2021. The accession numbers associated with these gifts are 2005.173, 2018.075, and 2021.012.

https://jackiapple.com/ was selected by curators and captured through the use of Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. The accession number associated with this website is 2023.054.

Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures

Access to audiovisual materials in this collection is available through digitized access copies. Researchers may view an item's original container, but the media themselves are not available for playback because of preservation concerns. Materials that have already been digitized are noted in the collection's finding aid and can be requested in our reading room.

Take Down Policy

Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.

If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.

Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.

Collection processed by

Abigail Rubin

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-01-03 13:08:47 -0500.
Language: Finding aid written in English

Processing Information

Decisions concerning the arrangement, description, and physical interventions taken on this collection prior to 2018 have not yet been recorded. In 2018, an accretion of materials transferred from the Archives of American Art to the Fales Library and Special Collections was accessioned and intellectually incorporated into the collection as Series IX-XI (boxes 5-20) in accordance with the existing arrangement structure and to maintain the order of materials. A further accretion received in April 2021 was rehoused in archival boxes and folders, maintaining Apple's original order. These materials were intellectually added to the collection as Series XII, and physically as Boxes 21-49.

In 2023, the archived website was added as Series XII and description was updated to reflect the death of Jacki Apple. The 2021 accession was changed to Series XIII from Series XII.

Revisions to this Guide

May 2018: Record updated by Rachel Searcy to reflect 2017 accretion
May 2021: Record updated by Rachel Searcy to reflect 2021 accretion
September 2023: Updated by Olivija Liepa to state that audio materials have been digitized and are accessible to patrons.
October 2023: Updated by Nicole Greenhouse to reflect the addition of the archived website and editing of administrative and biographical information

Repository

Fales Library and Special Collections
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
https://library.nyu.edu/locations/special-collections-center/