Project Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Antonakos, Stephen, 1926-2013
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content: Stephen Antonakos papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 4-11, 24, OVs 25-40)
label: Extent
content: 0.275 Gigabytes (ER02-ER04)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965-2014
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.antostep, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series is arranged as 3 subseries.

4.1: Projects Completed, 1965-2012

4.2: Projects Not Done, 1971-2013

4.3: Package Projects, 1970s-2014
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Project files span the course of Antonakos's career from 1965 on, documenting private commissions and small scale neons from the 1960s, to large-scale permanent installations including over 50 Public Works for airports, metro stations, federal buildings, museums, theaters, arenas, hotels, and shopping centers in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Project files include extensive documentation of Antonakos's creative process which began on paper and was then translated into specifications for industrial fabricators. Many of Antonakos's original drawings with subsequent plans and blueprints, as well as instructions to fabricators, can be found here. Additionally, project files typically contain artist statements, correspondence, proposals, contracts, insurance records, printed material comprising press about his projects, digital photographs and video, and scattered photographs of Antonakos and/or his artwork.

Antonakos's Packages are also documented here. Records include the contents of a Package mailed to the Archives of American Art in 1975, detailed lists and other data for individual projects, and sample images of Packages. 

A list, with images, of all of Antonakos's Public Works, distinguishing between permanent commissions and temporary large public works, can be found in Series 7: Photographs.

Series includes 1 microflm reel (35mm).