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This collection contains records created or received by Suzanne Weaver, Nancy and Tim Hanely Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art until 2008. Records include Concentrations Series exhibition files, Texas and other contemporary artist files, correspondence, and acquisitions.

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This collection contains the extant records documenting the exhibition held at the DMFA during the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondnece and Centennial promotional or souvenier materials.

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This collection contains records created or received by Tom Livesay, Assistant Director for Administration 1980-1984. Livesay's records consist of correspondence files, a chronological series for 1981 and an alphabetical series of correspondence and subject files. Livesay was Assistant Director during the construction of and move to the New Museum and many files relate to that in some way. The collection also includes Board of Trustees and Board committee meeting files.

Scope and Contents This collection contains exhibition records transferred to archives from an exhibitions file room. The exhibitions department is the primary creator of the records in this collection, though they may also contain records created by the curator in charge of the exhibition. Records may include but are not limited to: attendance, checklists, contracts, planning, budget, funding and sponsorship, correspondence and memoranda, loans, insurance, shipping, tour venues, catalogue, programming, audio...

Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of records relating to an unpublished catalogue of the African art collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, titled "Nature, Belief, and Ritual: Art of Sub-Saharan Africa". The catalogue was to be comprised of essays written by outside scholars, with a number of contributions by Ramona Austin, as well as images of and related to objects in the African collection of the Dallas Museum of Art. Records include drafts essays, contributor correspondence, images and...

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This collection contains eight papers written on a DMA-remated topic by graduate students in the University of Texas at Dallas 2014 course on civic museums.

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This collection is an artifical collection created by the archives to contain reference material on the museum and people connected to it.

Abstract Victor Dada was an ensemble of writer/performers who worked in the medium of performance poetry or performance art active in Dallas from 1979-1986. They utilized music, poetry, theater, comedy and electronic sound constructs in performances. The collection documents these performances through scripts and poems, programs, promotion, correspondence, contracts, press coverage, and photographic, audio and video documentation of performances and appearaces. The collection also contains Victor...

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This collection contains various documents related to the DMA and its exhibitions and programs. It includes City of Dallas proclamations and letters of recognition from govenors and presidents. It also contains other significant items.

Scope and Contents This collection contains records created by Slide Library / Visual Resources Library staff from 1981-2001. Staff creators include Eileen W. Coffman, Mary H. Mills, Rita Lasater, Kevin ComerfordThe collection includes department policy and procedure manuals, VRL status and project reports, memoranda to staff regarding policy and procedures for usage of the slide library / VRL, project proposals and plans, slide library evaluation, ARCH, digital imaging, and Texas issue of VRA...