Boston Visual Artists Union Records
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content: Boston Visual Artists Union
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content: Boston Visual Artists Union records
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content: 0.6 Linear Feet (Box 1, OVs 2-3)
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content: circa 1970-1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.bostvisu, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Five exhibition catalogs and multiple announcements and posters are for exhibitions and a few events held by the Boston Visual Artists Union from circa 1972-1978. Founding and organizational records include copy of the Union's by-laws in addition to chronologies, an outline of the organization and its activities, a statement of purpose, and the Union's first membership list. Also found is a published brochure about the organization, brochures and informational sheets about services provided to members, and a proposal for, and information about, the organization's gallery which opened in 1974.

Member testimonials consist of drafts and finished statements by artists about when and why they joined the Boston Visual Artists Union and it's continued importance to them. Press releases announce exhibitions and some include exhibition lists. Newsletters provide detailed information about the operation and activities of the organization from 1972 to 1978, including awards, exhibitions and other events, committee activity, and by-law and other organizational changes. Records of the Second American Artists Congress include correspondence, memoranda, registrant lists, and announcements for the event, as well as photographs of congress proceedings taken primarily by Roswell Angier. Also found are news clippings about the Union and an untranscribed 1973 sound recording of a Boston Visual Artists Union panel discussion, "The Artist: Class Realities, Collective Remedies."