A Houston Timeline 1972-1985
Detailed chronologies in the publications Lawndale Live: A Retrospective, DiverseWorks ArtSpace 1983-1993, Art and Activism: The Projects of John and Dominique de Menil, No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston, and Finders Keepers provided inspiration and a starting point for this timeline. Information for additional entries was sourced from various personal and institutional archives and websites as well as such publications as Texas Monthly, Houston ArtScene, the Rice Thresher, the Daily Cougar, Public News, and the Houston Post and Chronicle.
Houston’s Art-Related Archival Materials
The Art Guys
Collection Title: The Art Guys Records
Collection Number: 08/2013-001
Inclusive Dates: 1986 - 2013
Repository: Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
https://archon.lib.uh.edu/?p=collections/controlcard&id=528
The Art Guys
Collection Title: The Art Guys, The Clothes Make the Man
Collection Number: MS 37
Inclusive Dates: 1997 - 2000
Repository: Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
http://fa.mfah.org/main.asp?target=eadidlist&action=1&id=29
Barnstone, Gertrude (1925 - )
Collection Title: Gertrude Barnstone Papers
Collection Number: MS 587
Inclusive Dates: 1956 - 2015
Repository: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00719/rice-00719.html
Camfield, William A.
Collection Title: William “Bill” Camfield Papers
Collection Number: MS 495
Inclusive Dates: 1925 – 1997 [bulk 1982-1990]
Repository: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00102/rice-00102.html
Camfield, William A.
Collection Title: William A. Camfield Papers
Collection Number: MS 48
Inclusive Dates: 1966 - 2002
Repository: Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Desoto, Ben
Collection Title: Ben Desoto Papers
Collection Number: 08/2017-009
Inclusive Dates:
Repository: Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
https://archon.lib.uh.edu/?p=collections/controlcard&id=643
John, Grace Spaulding (1890 - 1972)
Collection Title: Grace Spaulding John Papers
Collection Number: MS 383
Inclusive Dates: 1890 - 1977
Repository: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00138/rice-00138.html
Bert L. Long, Jr. (1940-2013)
Collection Title: Bert L. Long, Jr. Papers
Collection Number: 08/2014-016
Inclusive Dates: 1940 - 2013
Repository: Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
https://archon.lib.uh.edu/?p=collections/controlcard&id=564
Andy Mann (1949-2001)
Collection Title: Andy Mann Archive
Inclusive Dates: 1960s - 2001
Repository: Aurora Picture Show
http://aurorapictureshow.org/pages/andy_mann_archive_556.asp
Randolph, Lynn (1938 - )
Collection Title: Lynn Randolph Papers
Collection Number: 02/2007-015
Inclusive Dates: 1967 -
Repository: Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
https://archon.lib.uh.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=396&q=
Shurtleff, Stella Hope
Collection Title: Stella Hope Shurtleff Papers
Collection Number: MS 01
Inclusive Dates: 1916-49, 1952
Repository: Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
http://fa.mfah.org/main.asp?target=eadidlist&action=1&id=68
Shurtleff, Stella Hope
Collection Title: Stella Hope Shurtleff Manuscript
Collection Number: MS 01
Inclusive Dates: 1935-1936
Repository: Woodson Research Center, Rice University
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00466/00466-P.html
Vander Lee, Jana
Collection Title: Jana Vander Lee Archive
Collection Number: MS 88
Inclusive Dates: 1970 - 1995
Repository: Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
http://fa.mfah.org/main.asp?target=eadidlist&action=1&id=174
DiverseWorks
Collection Title: DiverseWorks Records, 1982-2010
Collection Number: 08/2015-016
Inclusive Dates: 1982 - 2010
Repository: Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Houston Municipal Arts Commission
Collection Title: Houston Municipal Arts Commission Collection
Collection Number: RG.A.0033
Inclusive Dates: 1965-2005 [Bulk 1980-2000]
Repository: Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Rice University
Houston Women’s Caucus for Art
Collection Title: Houston Women’s Caucus for Art Records, 1972 - 2004
Collection Number: 02/1999-001
Inclusive Dates: 1972 - 2004
Repository: Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
https://archon.lib.uh.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=335&q=
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Houston Folk Music Archive
The Houston Folk Music Archive exists to save the history of this remarkable time. Through archival collections, oral histories, and this online exhibit, we are documenting the people, places, and music that made Houston a folk mecca. http://digitalprojects.rice.edu/houston-folk-music-archive/
Wild Dog Archive
“Countercultural documentarian, punk archivist, and sociologist, the late Henry ‘Wild Dog’ Weissborn (1955-2008) founded WILD DOG zine in April 1979. This publication has the distinction of being Houston’s first punk fanzine covering the emerging scene through the early 1980s.The intention of this blog is to enrich the collective history found in Henry Wild Dog’s private collection and to preserve the legacy of these cultural artifacts.” https://wilddogzine.com/