Stella Waitzkin papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Waitzkin, Stella
label: Collection Creator
content: Mullins, Lynn S.
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content: Stella Waitzkin papers and Lynn S. Mullins research material regarding Stella Waitzkin
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-14, 32)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920s-2005, 2017-2023
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.waitstel, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged as 9 subseries.

1.1 Biographical Material, circa 1950-2000 (0.3 linear feet; Boxes 1, 32)

1.2 Correspondence, circa 1960s-2002 (0.4 linear feet; Box 1)

1.3 Writings and Sketches, circa 1950s-2000 (0.2 linear feet; Box 1)

1.4 Films, Interviews, and Radio Shows, circa 1940s-2005 (1.8 linear feet; Boxes 1-3, 32)

1.5 Exhibition Files, 1968-2003, 2018 (2.0 linear feet; Boxes 3-4, 32)

1.6 Professional Files, 1964-2003 (0.3 linear feet; Box 5)

1.7 Personal Business Records, circa 1960s-2003 (0.8 linear feet; Boxes 5-6)

1.8 Printed Material, circa 1955-2002 (0.8 linear feet; Boxes 6-7, 32)

1.9 Photographic Material, circa 1920s-20003, 2017 (6.9 linear feet; Boxes 7-14, 32)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Stella Waitzkin papers document Stella Waitzkin's life and work as an artist, filmmaker, and performance artist through biographical files; correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues; and writings and personal reflections on art, as well as sketches planning sculptural works. Waitzkin worked at a radio station, WBAI, in the 1940s, and the films, interviews, and radio shows subseries includes recordings of a memorial radio program for Tony Fruscella, with whom Waitzkin had a personal relationship, as well as radio program typescripts, and recorded panel discussion on Artists in Rebellion. Also found are video recordings of interviews with Waitzkin on national and local news stations, video recordings by others that include the Chelsea Hotel and Waitzkin's apartment, and some video recordings of early films by Waitzkin, with the original film reels donated to the Film Anthology Archives in New York. Exhibition files include documentation related to performance work and solo and group shows up to Waitzkin's death in 2003. Artist residencies, panel discussions, workshops, and teaching files are found among professional files. Materials related to art dealers, awarded and applied for grants, inventories, sales, and donations of artwork, image use requests, tax court case Waitzkin v. Commissioner (1992), and other financial materials, are found among personal business records. Printed materials include magazine and newspaper clippings about Stella Waitzkin, clippings related to Waitzkin's family and son Fred Waitzkin, as well as a few assorted publications about or signed to Waitzkin. The series also includes extensive photographs, snapshots, negatives, slides, and transparencies depicting performance art, installations, artwork, studios, and family.

Researchers should note that some typed pages were written by researcher Lynn S. Mullins to inventory and further describe some materials after Waitzkin's death and may still be found scattered among this series. The majority of Mullins' written work can be found in Series 2.