Serie Project, Inc. Records

Financial and administrative documentation, reports, correspondence, printed and photographic materials, (1993-2007, 10 linear feet), record the functioning of the Serie Project in its efforts to support the artistic community of Austin, Texas, and to increase awareness for the work of Latino and Latina artists within this community and on the national stage.

Administrative records (1993-2005, 4 linear feet), primarily arranged chronologically by project year, chart the progress of the organization as it grew throughout the mid 1990s and early 2000s, receiving more funding, hiring more employees and selecting more artists to participate in the program. Each project year is divided into five subseries based on topic: General Financial, City of Austin, Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA), Artists, and Print Inventories except where there was no documentation for a particular aspect of a particular year (for example, in several of the later years there is no documentation of artist participation of print inventories and Seríe VI, 1998-99 does not have any information about grants from the TCA). The subseries concerning the City of Austin and the Texas Commission on the Arts are particularly illuminating, in that the documentation necessary to apply for grants from these organizations is quite revealing as to the functioning of the project. In recent years, The National Endowment for the Arts has supplied funds to the Serie Project and documentation of these grants can be found in the General Financial series of Seríe project years 2001-2005. Following the Administrative records arranged by Serie Project year are several subseries of General Administrative records that relate to projects which span several years, such as internships and logo design in addition to collected information on particular topics like copyright law. Much of this material is currently unprocessed.

Records relating to Exhibits and conferences (1994-2006, 2 linear feet) grouped by event and ordered chronologically, document the wide range of endeavors the Serie Project engaged in to promote their artists. Substantial Photographic Materials (1.5 linear feet) reveal the variety of style among the artists involved. Among the Printed Materials (1994-2005, 2 linear feet), particularly strong are the newspapers and clippings which cover not only the functioning of the Serie Project but also record interest in other local artistic endeavors. Strongest among these is a piece by McBride in Impressions: The Journal of the American Print Alliance, Volume 10, #1, which concerns the history and mission of the organization. Lastly, nine Audiotapes and five VHS tapes concern matters from exhibits to interviews with Coronado and other artists.

Additions to the archive are ongoing and more unprocessed materials may be available for research.