Environmental Projects
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Ryan, Paul, 1943-
- See more items in
- Paul Ryan papers
- Paul Ryan papers / Series 5: Project Files
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' Hidden Collections grant program.
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.ryanpaul, Subseries 5.1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Paul Ryan papers, 1931-2009. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement
- Note that the "Nature in New York City" videocassettes are arranged chronologically, which resulted in tape numbers listed being slightly out of sequence. The publication Talking Wood is found in series 7, Printed Materials.
- Collection Rights
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- Scope and Contents
- Series includes documentation from Ryan's environmentally-focused projects including "Nature in New York City," "New York City Eco-channel for a Sustainable Tomorrow (NEST)," the publication Talking Wood, the video project Tapping on Water, other unidentified projects involving the Earthscore Notational System, and many proposals for similar projects. Video recordings found in this series for "Nature in New York City," all U-matic videocassettes, include nine camera original videocassettes documenting the Bronx River waterfall, one videocassette documenting views of NYC shot from the World Trade Center, and one videocassette containing an early edited version of the piece. Notebooks for this project contain shotlists for video shot at Staten Island Clay Pit Ponds State Park, the Bronx River waterfall, the World Trade Center tapes, and saplings at Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan. Although most of the other environmental projects documented in this series involved the use of video, apart from "Nature in New York City," their documentation does not include video recordings. Records for NEST include correspondence, notes, a petition, and other records documenting an advocacy movement to dedicate a cable access channel to the environment. Records for Talking Wood include notes and photographs used in the publication. Tapping on Water is documented with a proposal, an artist statement, and a shotlist.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers and archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513299790-1503513299843-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0