SoHo Artists Association
This site provides access to the records of the SoHo Artists Association in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2013. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 616 images.
Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Size: 0.4 Linear feet
Summary: The records of the New York City SoHo Artists Association measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1968 to 1978. They document the Association's lobbying efforts to change New York City zoning laws to allow artists to live and work in SoHo lofts. Found within the collection are correspondence, reports, founding documents, notes, publicity and printed material, photographs, and a sound recording of the first meeting of the Association in 1970.
The SoHo Artists Association was loosely formed in 1968 to centralize lobbying efforts to change New York City zoning laws to allow artists to live and work in SoHo loft spaces zoned for manufacturing. At that time, spaces that were vacated by manufacturers were being converted to studios by artists drawn by cheap rents, expansive spaces, and available natural lighting. Many artists also began to occupy their studio spaces, although zoning laws did not permit residency. The group voted to call itself the SoHo Artists Association at the same time they shortened the area designation on a city planning commission map from "South of Houston." The name for the neighborhood stuck and became a model for other neighborhood acronyms in New York City. Read More
The records were donated to the Archives of American Art by Gerhardt Liebmann, a member of the SoHo Artists Association, in 1979.
Collection is in English.
This site provides access to the records of the SoHo Artists Association in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2013. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 616 images.
Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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