The Creative Artists Public Service Program was funded by the New York State Council on the Arts to support individual artists' work in a variety of disciplines. The information below concerns each of the program years CAPS operated beginning in 1970-71 and concluding in 1980-81. Support for media artists is listed for each program year. This information appeared in the annual reports for the New York State Council on the Arts and the Creative Artists Public Service Program. Complete citations for these sources can be found in the bibliography.

1970-71 A major Council grant [from the New York State Council on the Arts] for 1970-71 in the area of public service directly affected the creative artist: Cultural Council Foundation, New York City.

$325,000 to provide financial assistance through the Creative Artists Public Service Program to both new and established individual artists working in fields including choreography, music composition, poetry, prose, drama, film, video, painting, sculpture, photography, graphics, and multimedia. Awards ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 were made to a total of 123 artists who would make their activities more widely available through public services such as readings, lectures, workshops, residencies, performances, exhibitions, and donations of work to public institutions. Half of the services involved were for the benefit of upstate communities. Among the activities and projects generated by the grants are the donation of six pieces of sculpture for use in such public places as a highway rest area, a public plaza in Binghamton, and a mental health facility; the production of eight new music compositions, a jazz opera, and a musical theatre production; and the creation of films on the New York State abortion law, the Hudson River, and the black life style. -Arthur J. Kerr.

From the New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1970-1971

Other artists assisted in 1970-71 by the Cultural Council Foundation include (in choreography) Arthur Bauman, Trisha Brown, James Cunningham, Judith Dunn, Louis Faico, Laura Foreman, Carole Johnson, Billie Kirpich, Phyllis Lamhut, Carla Maxwell, Charles Moore, Clyde Morgan, Jay Norman, Ronald Pratt, Barbara Roan, Gus Solomons, Jr., Julio Torres, Charles Weidman, Mel Wong; (in film) Madeline Anderson, Lloyd Birdwell, Storm DeHirsch, Ed Emshwiller, Robert Frank, Red Grooms, Samuel Holmes, Jerry Jofen, Irving Kriesberg, Elliot Landy, Leroy Lucas, Danny Lyon, James Mannas, Taylor Mead, lane Stubbs; (in literature, for prose) Frank Conroy, Edward Dahlberg, James Farrell; {for poetry) A. R. Ammons, Nikki Giovanni, Erica long, Keorpetse Kgositsile, Clarence Major, Joel Oppenheimer, Pedro Pietri, Hugh Seidman, Diane Wakoski; (for playwriting) Julie Bovasso, Peter Copani, Alfred Davis, Albert Devereaux, James Caines, Maryat Lee, Ronald Ribman, Edgar White, Robert Wilson; (in multimedia) Hazel Bryant, Jo Butler, Lloyd Cross, Norman Daly, Douglas Davis, Dermot Harvey, Robert Israel, Anthony Martin, Pbill Niblock, Peter Nicholson, Parry Teasdale, Stan VanDerBeek, Bud Wirtscnarter, LaMonte Young, Marian Zazeela; (in music) Carla Bley, William Bolcorn, Joel Chadabe, James Fulkerson, Phillip Class, Carman Moore, Sunny Murray, Samuel Rivers, Stanley Silverman, Howard Swanson, Mary Lou Williams; (in video) Lee Ferguson, Phyllis Gershuny, Juan Garcia, Elliot Glass, Beryl Korot, Kenneth Marsh, Woody Vasulka; (in visual arts, for painting and sculpture) Benny Andrews, Vincent Baldassano, Miriam Beerman, Nicholas Carone, Francesco Copello, Iris Crump, Abigail Cerd, Bradford Craves, Alan Cussow, Peter Heineman, Catherine James, Golda Lewis, Algernon Miller, Thomas O'Conner, Leah Rhodes, Faith Ringgold, Francisco Sainz, Richard Serra, Vincent Smith, Joseph Stefanelli, Sylvia Stone, Tecla, Julius Tobias; (for photography) Charles Blackwell, Donald Blumberg, David Chalk, Charles Dawson, Leonard Freed, Marda Keegan, Leslie Krims, Philip Perkis, Herbert Randall, Leonard Soned, Max Waldman, Shawn Walker.

Panelists for Video: Raphael Abramowitz, George Stoney, Howard Wise

1971-72

New York State Council on the Arts Arts Resources Program: Arts Service Organizations Cultural Council Foundation, New York City. $400,000 for financial assistance to individual New York State artists through a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Program. Eighty-nine individuals received assistance averaging $2,700 to create new works and to perform such community services as readings and lectures, or to participate in workshops and residencies. Their projected works include neon sculpture; a video exploration of the underground slave railroad; a musical composition for computer-generated tape; and an experimental documentary film based on a Times Square resident.

The artists are: working in choreography, Margaret Beals, Pepsi Bethel, Oleg Briansky, Syvilla Fort, Mary Fulkerson, Glennis J. Green, Joan Jonas, Kenneth King, Morocco, and Louis Marie Overman; working in fiction, George B. Davis, Edward Hoagland, Donald Honig, Alison Lurie, and Lore Segal; working in film, George S. Breidenbach, Tony Conrad, Bonnie Friedman, James E. Hinton, Kenneth M. Jacobs, and Don Lenzer; working in graphics, Harvey Breverman, Nancy Dahlstrom, Agnes Denes, Seymour Drumlevitch, Eleanor Magid, and Valerie Maynard; working in multimedia, Bill Beckley, Richard Foreman, Daniela Gioseffi, John Storyck, and Robert Whitman; working in music, Susan Ain, Stephen A. Chambers, Lucia DIugoszewski, Gil Evans, Ann McMHIan, Milford Graves, Gordon Mumma, Max Roach, FredericRzewski, Vladimir A. Ussachevsky, and Reginald D. Workman; working in painting, Nell Blaine, Rosemarie Castoro, Chung-Hsiang Chao, John Civitello, Miguel A. Guzman, Jim Maltese, JamesPhillips, Joseph Piccillo, Barbara Pingselli, MarilynReynolds, Alvin Smith, and Richard Waller; working in photography, Robert D'Alessandro, F. DavidFreund, Laurence B. Fink, William Gedney, William Suttle, and Alice C. Wells; working in playwriting, Anne Burr, Maria Irene Fornes, Paul Foster, J. E. Franklin, Israel Horovitz, Ronald Tavel, and Sandra Both Williams; working in poetry, Dugan Gilman, Allan Kaplan, Frank Lima, Audre Lorde, and Kathleen Norris; working in sculpture, Stephen Antonakos, Jacqueline Ferrara, Colin Greenly, Sue Irons, Louis Lieberman, Fred Sandback, Tomiyo Sasaki, David Seccombe, and Michael Singer; working in video, Peter Campus, Cary Fisher, Davidson Gigliotti, Philip Mallory Jones, FJeinz Pierre Jouchmans, Benedict Tatti, and Keiko Tsuno.

Panelists for Video: Wendy Appel, Grayson Mattingly, Ed Rosenfeld, Gerd Stern, Steina Vasulka

1972-73 New York State Council on the Arts Arts Resources Program: Arts Service Organizations Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS), New York City. $600,000 for financial assistance to individual New York State artists to create new work and participate in public service activities. From a total of 2,874 applicants 142 artists received fellowships enabling them to execute projects in twelve disciplines. The amounts awarded ranged from $1,500 to $5,000, the average amount being $2,700.

Working in choreography: Beverly Brown, Patricia Catterson, Jean Erdman, Beverly Fletcher, Micki Goodman, Miriam Greaves, Katherine Litz, Elina Mooney, Jennifer Mullet Michael Peters, Luis Rivera, Kei Takei, MortonWinston, and Mel Wong; working in fiction, Harold Brodkey, Edward Dahlberg, Ivan Gold, Hannah Green, Johanna Kaplan, Louise Meriwether, and Ursule Molinaro;

Working in film: Deborah Dickson, Ed Emshwiller, Linda Feferman, Ernie Gehr, Larry Cottheim, Alexis Krasilovsky, Leroy Lucas, Frank Mouris, Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler, Anita Thacher, and Larry Varas; working in graphics, Marsha Feigin, Bonnie Gordon, Marty Greenbaum, Richard Haas, Katherine Kadish, Seong Moy, Hiroshi Murata, Lois Rheingold, Aubrey Schwartz, and Jack Sonenberg; working in multimedia, Billy Apple, Paul Di Leila, Juan Downey, Dan Graham, Jim Hoberman and Bob Schneider, Patricia Oleszko, Yvonne Rainer, Don Snyder, Roger Welch, Benjamin Wigfall, and La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela; working in music composition, David Behrman, David Borden, Joseph Chambers, Norman Connors, Stanley Cowell, Charles Dodge, Julius Eastman, James Heath, Karel Husa, Charles Israels, Charles Morrow, Michael Sahl, Joseph Schwantner, and Marzette Watts; working in painting, Janet Ailing, Frances Barth, James Bohary, Stuart Diamond, Karen Dippold, George Grant, Palmer Hayden, Louis Jones, Joyce Kozloff, Harry Kramer, Robert Moskowitz, Yvonne Muller, Mary Parker, Stephen Posen, Harvey Quaytman, Kaare Rafoss, Stephen Rosenthal, James Starrett, and Lynton Wells; working in photography, James Carroll, Louis Draper, Rene Gelpi, Edward Grazda, Scott Hyde, Julio Mitchel, Lisette Model, Tetsu Okuhara, David Ruether, Joel Swartz, Ron Testa, and Carry Winogrand; working in playwriting, Ken Bernard, Julie Bovasso, Ed Bullins, Peter Copani, Murray Mednick, Rochelle Owens, Oyamo, and Megan Terry; working in poetry, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Bruchac III, Jayne Cortez, Dick Galiup, Shreela Ray, Armand Schwerner, Jean Valentine, and John Vernon; working in sculpture, Alice Adams, Rachel bas-Cohain, Melvin Edwards, Mary Frank, David Jacobs, Jack Krueger, Inverna Lockpez, Mary Miss, Robert Porter, Ushio Shinohara,Edwin Shostak, George Smith, Richard Van Buren, and Jacqueline Winsor; working in video, Nancy Cain, Joseph Chiara, Dimitri Devyatkin, Carl Geiger, John Keeler, Steven Kolpan, Joanna Milton, David Sasser, Brent Sharman, Barry Solomon, and Lance Wisniewski.

Panelists for Video: Dean Evenson, Philip Mallory Jones, Ken Marsh, Maurice McClelland, Carole Zeitlin

Consultant: Cy Griffin