Professional Activities
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Grinstein, Stanley, 1927-2014
label: Collection Creator
content: Grinstein, Elyse, 1929-2016
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content: Stanley and Elyse Grinstein papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.7 Linear Feet (Boxes 1, 7, OVs 23, 26-27)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1967-2012
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.grinstan, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized. Architectural plans have not been digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series provides scattered documentation of the professional activities of the Grinsteins, including records related to Gemini G.E.L. and Elyse Grinstein's architectural career.  Included is material related to a proposal originally conceived by Elyse Grinstein and Craig Hodgetts with a formal draft proposal by Suzanne Weil, for a television series on design. Records include ideas and outlines for episodes, lists of suggested participants, and sketches of screen shots. 

There are records relating to the Artists Advisory Council to the new Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art on which Stanley Grinstein served and a possibly related folder of notes which appears to summarize a "museum architectural Program" with plans for various areas in a museum and states priorities in the "Articles of Incorporation for the Contemporary Art Museum."

Also found are articles of incorporation for a non-profit corporation with artists including Judy Chicago, Fred Eversley, and Lloyd Hamrol, to facilitate and promote art in Los Angeles County; printed material documenting UCLA extension architecture tours and symposiums in the early 1980s for which Elyse Grinstein served as a guide, facilitator, and coordinator; and items related to Gemini G.E.L. including a list of participating artists, a letter of introduction on company letterhead for Tom Garver, a 1989 advertisement, and event invitations.

Two folders of proposals are for proposals the Grinsteins were asked to provide financing for by Vito Acconi and Merril Greene. 

Elyse Grinstein's work with the firms Grinstein-Daniels, Narduli-Grinstein, and Griffin Architects is also documented here and includes correspondence, resumes, invoices, and copies of promotional material for the firms, as well as architectural plans by Grinstein-Daniels for Natoli-Ross Gallery. 

Additional scattered documentation is for board and fundraising activities that the Grinsteins were involved in including a fundraiser for a cook-off for Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley in which artists were involved.