2017-05-11 Guide to the Ginny Lloyd Papers, 1967, 1978-1987 SPEC.RARE.CMS.0363 Finding aid prepared by Zoe MacLeod; David Mezick Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2017 April; 2023 June This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2023-09-22T17:03-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Ginny Lloyd Papers SPEC.RARE.CMS.0363 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 1.24 Cubic feet 1967, 1978-1987 As of 2017, Ginny Lloyd (born 1945) is an artist who has worked with mail art and copy art. In the late 1970s and 1980s, she organized several art events in the San Francisco Bay Area and toured Europe several times. The Ginny Lloyd Papers contain materials that relate to Ginny Lloyd’s artistic activities and areas of interest dated from 1967 and 1978-1987. These materials include zines, magazines, exhibition catalogs, and other publications. (4) oversize flat boxes (2) 5” letter document boxes English, French, German, Spanish Lloyd, Ginny, 1945- Arrangement of Materials

The Ginny Lloyd Papers are arranged into two series:

Series 1: Artistic Activities Series 2: Collected Publications

 Acquisitions Information

Source unknown, 2010 June

 Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Ginny Lloyd Papers, SPEC.RARE.CMS.0363, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University

 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Contains a flexi disc.

 Access to Materials

Audiovisual materials may need a use copy produced before access is allowed. The remainder of this collection is available for patron research, but may be used only in the Thompson Library Special Collections reading room.

 Use of Materials

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright, and are made available for research and educational purposes. In general, the OSU Libraries do not own the copyright for materials from our collections and cannot grant copyright permissions for these materials. The user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exceptions to the law. Works in the public domain are not protected by copyright and do not require permission to use.

 Processing Information

Processed by: David Mezick, 2023 June; Finding aid written by: Zoe MacLeod, 2017 April; David Mezick, 2023 June

 Biographical Note

As of 2017, Ginny Lloyd (born 1945) is an artist who has worked with mail art and copy art. Lloyd also has worked in photography and computer graphics. In the late 1970s and 1980s, she was active in the San Francisco Bay Area where she organized several art events, including the Copy Art Exhibition, 1980; Storefront: A Living Art Project, 1982-1983; and the Inter Dada ’84 festival. During the early 1980s, she also toured Europe several times, visiting and collaborating with artists she connected with through mail art networks.

 Scope and Contents

The Ginny Lloyd Papers contain materials that relate to Ginny Lloyd’s artistic activities and areas of interest dated from 1967 and 1978-1987. These materials include zines, other publications, fliers, exhibit catalogs, and photographs that were produced as part of her artistic projects or otherwise document her artistic activities. There are also zines and magazines that feature Lloyd’s work, especially her copy art and artist stamps. Lloyd also collected zines, magazines, exhibit catalogs and other publications that are included in this collection. These publications mostly focus on topics that related to her apparent areas of interest, such as art, design, poetry, punk and new wave music, and photography. This collection also contains a flexi disc.

 Related Materials Ginny Lloyd's Blitzkunst : 54 artists of our era portrayed and questioned = 54 Künstler von heute porträtiert und befragt Lloyd, Ginny, 1945- Artists' periodicals Artists--California--San Francisco--20th century Copy art--20th century Exhibition catalogs Fanzines Flexi discs Magazines (periodicals) Mail art--20th century Artistic Activities Series 1 1979-1986 Scope and Contents

The Artistic Activities series contains zines, other publications, fliers, exhibit catalogs, and photographs dated from 1979-1986 that were produced as part of Ginny Lloyd's artistic projects or otherwise document her artistic activities. There are also zines and magazines that feature Lloyd’s work, especially her copy art and artist stamps. Many of Lloyd’s activities were based in the San Francisco Bay Area during this period as were many of the publications that featured her work. The Artistic Activities series is arranged chronologically with materials from the same date arranged alphabetically.

 "Off the Wall: A National Exhibition of Off-beat and Humorous Photography," The Flash volume 2 number 1, The Catskill Center for Photography 3 1 1979 The Monthly: An Irregular Periodical number 1 1 1 1980 July The Monthly: An Irregular Periodical volume 1 number 2 1 2 1980 October L'ere du Copie-Art 1 3 1981 Soup number 2 1 4 1981 Vortex volume 1 number 2 3 2 1981 Vortex volume 1 number 4 3 3 1981 The Monthly: An Irregular Periodical volume 2 number 1 1 5 1981 March Tour of the United States and Europe 1981 July-November itinerary and articles 1 6 1981-1982 The Storefront: a living art project 1 7 1982 December-1983 November Inter Dada '84 San Francisco album 1 8 1984 Music Calendar volume 3 number 10 3 4 1984 September Frank Magazine number 9 3 5 1986 Collected Publications Series 2 1967, 1978-1987 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Contains a flexi disc.

 Scope and Contents

The Collected Publications series contains zines, magazines, exhibit catalogs and other publications dated from 1967 and 1978-1987 collected by Lloyd. These publications focus on topics that related to her areas of interest, such as art, design, poetry, punk and new wave music, and photography. In addition to publications from the San Francisco Bay Area, there are also publications from places in Europe that Lloyd visited during her tours. The Collected Publications series is arranged alphabetically by publication title with multiple issues of the same periodical arranged chronologically by publication date or issue number.

 Another Room Magazine volume 2 number 6 3 6 1981 June-July Another Room Magazine volume 2 number 7 3 7 circa 1981 September Another Room Magazine volume 2 number 8 3 8 circa 1981 Another Room Magazine volume 3 number 1 3 9 1982 Another Room Magazine volume 3 number 9 3 10 1987 Art Express volume 1 number 1 1 9 1981 May-June Art Express volume 1 number 3 1 10 1981 November-December Art Express volume 2 number 1 1 11 1982 January-February Art Express volume 2 number 2 1 12 1982 March-April Art New England volume 1 number 10 4 1 1980 November Art New England volume 3 number 3 4 2 1982 February Art Papers volume 5 number 3 4 3 1981 May-June Art Papers volume 5 number 4 4 4 1981 July-August Art Papers volume 5 number 6 4 5 1981 November-December Artists Newsletter 1 13 1981 August Beef Tabloid number 10 4 6 1983 Benzene volume 1 number 1 4 7 1980 CabArt volume 2 number 1 4 8 1981 Camerawork number 22 4 9 circa 1981 Creative Camera number 200 1 14 1981 August Fallout number 4 5 1-2 1981 FIAC 81 (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporaia) La Johnson Française 1 15 1981 Flexipop number 9 1 16 circa 1981 Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements Flexi disc; 7-inch; Vinyl; Approximate run time: 07:00 minutes Format volume 5 number 2 1 17 1983 From Bookworks to Mailworks exhibit program 5 3 1978 Impulse volume 8 number 2 5 4 1980 Impulse volume 8 number 4 5 5 1980 Invisible City number 28 5 6 1981 December Journal: A Contemporary Art Magazine number 31 1 18 1981 KPFA Folio volume 37 issue 9 5 7 1985 October Leipziger Messe Journal 1 19 1967 Ludd's Mill numbers 16/17 1 20 circa 1980 Modern Fashions 5 8 1979 December Nexus Press Books 1985 catalog 1 21 1985 NME (New Musical Express) 5 9 1982 September 25 Passion: The Magazine of Paris issue number 17 5 10 1982 September 17-October 15 Plasma 1 22 circa 1981 Presentense volume 1 number 1, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art 6 1 1981 February Presentense volume 2 number 2, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art 6 2 1982 June P.S. number 8 6 3 1981 May-June Rapports IRCAM, Stanley Haynes "The Computer as a Sound Processor" 1 23 1979 January Soviet Life number 12 6 4 1980 December Testtube volume 4 number 2 1 24 1983 November Transmissions number 1 6 5 1980 Video Guide volume 4 number 2 6 6 1981 Wet issue 16 6 7 1979 January-February Wet volume 3 number 5 6 8 1979 March-April Wet issue 18 6 9 1979 May-June Wet issue 19 6 10 1979 July-August Wet number 20 6 11 1979 September-October Wet number 21 6 12 1979 November-December Wet number 22 6 13 1980 January-February Wet number 23 6 14 1980 March-April Wet number 25 6 15 1980 July-August Wet issue 26 2 1 1980 September-October Wet issue 27 2 2 1980 November Wet issue 28 2 3 1980 December Wet issue 29 2 4 1981 January Wet issue 30 2 5 1981 March-April Wet issue 31 2 6 1981 May-June Wet issue 32 2 7 1981 July-August Wet issue 33 2 8 1981 September-October Wet issue 34 2 9 1981 November-December Women From Berlin 2 10 1980 Wordworks volume 3 number 2 6 16 1980 June Work & Pay 6 17 1981 ZG number 2 6 18 1981 ZG number 6 6 19 circa 1981 Zig Zag number 115 2 11 1981 July