Eleven Years of Jolyon Hofsted [10/12/1973-11/18/1973], 1973

This series contains records pertaining to exhibitions organized by the Brooklyn Museum Art School. The files are generally small and contain limited information. Materials include letters and memos, artist submission forms, announcements, checklists, press releases, and the occassional flyer.

The Art School organized individual and group exhibitions to showcase the works of their faculty and students. From 1974 to 1984, these exhibitions occurred five to seventeen times per year and lasted a few weeks at a time. In previous years, exhibitions were less frequent. Faculty one-person shows included Daniel Serra-Baduè’s Paintings and Lithographs: Their Visual and Literary Antecedents (1984-1985) and a retrospective of Paintings and Drawings by Augustus Peck (1978). In addition to these exhibitions, the Art School also planned special exhibitions featuring contemporary artists, such as Attitudes (1970) that included the work of Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and Dale Chihuly and Contemporary Women: Consciousness & Content (1977), as well as exhibitions of works from their prison art program from 1974 to 1977.