Waterfront Project Photographs and Sound Recordings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Butterfield, Jan
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content: Jan Butterfield papers
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content: Jan Butterfield papers / Series 3: Project Files
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976-1978
container: label: Container
content: Box 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.buttjan, Subseries 3.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Fragments of additional taped meetings are found on reels that were recycled for Butterfield's interviews.  See series 1, interviews and lectures, David Hockney interview and John Cage performance and lecture.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Jan Butterfield coordinated the waterfront project while on the faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute.  The project began in 1976 was modeled on the La Defense project in Paris, which involved local artists in urban planning of a blighted area.  Participants in the project included Butterfield, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Melinda Wortz, Eric Orr, Dr. E. Wortz, Frank Gehry, Newton and Helen Harrison, and Josh Young, as well as students at the Art Institute.  The project and was designed to take a cross-disciplinary approach to urban planning and development for the waterfront district of San Francisco, and to involve artists and local residents in decision-making.  Records relating to the project found in this series include photographs of meetings and waterfront scenes, most of which are credited to Jan Butterfield, and sound recordings of meetings, lectures, and literary readings.  The lecture by Jan Butterfield contains detailed information about the project as a whole.  Sound recordings are on five sound tape reels and 1 sound cassette.