Art Cart is an intergenerational arts legacy project that will connect aging professional artists with teams of graduate students to undertake the preparation and documentation of their creative work, offering both groups an educational experience that will help shape the future of our cultural legacy.
The RCAC's recent study, Above Ground: Information on Artists III: Special Focus New York City Aging Artists, revealed that artists are in many respects a model for society, maintaining strong social networks and an astonishing resilience as they age. Yet 61% of professional visual artists age 62+ have made no preparation for their work after their death; 95% have not archived their work; 97% have no estate plan; 3 out of every 4 artists have no will and 1 in 5 have no documentation of their work at all.
1. Research Center for Arts and Culture | Teachers College, Columbia University ART CART : Saving the Legacy Artist Introductions Documenting artistic expression of 20th century artists over a lifetime for the broader community
5. Winter in New York, Oil on Canvas, 58” x 70”, 1969 Astrodance, Oil and Collage on Canvas , 40” x Rd, 1969
6. Concentrated Energies, Oil and Collage on Canvas, 40” x Rd, 1969 Reaching for Center, Oil and Collage on Canvas, 58.5” x Rd, 1970 Forced Center Right, Oil and Collage on Canvas, 36” x Rd, 1975
11. Souls Transition, Multimedia and Oil on Canvas, 40” x Rd, 2005 Reluctant Reentry, Monoprint on Arches Paper, 18” x Rd, 2005 In Search of the Gap, Multimedia Acrylic on Canvas , 48” x Rd, 2007
30. FACES An un-masking of the perceptual possibilities of the face. Face 1, Oil on Canvas, 113/4” x 9 5/8”, 1995 Face 2, Oil on Canvas, 10” x 12”, 1995 Face 3, Oil on Canvas, 10” x 13”, 1995 Face 4, Oil and Sand on Canvas, 8” x 10”, 1995