Arline M. Fisch papers, 1931-2015

This series contains awards and certificates from the Indonesian National Crafts Council, Internationale Handwerksmesse Munchen, San Diego State University, State of California, and other organizations.

Correspondence is with Edith Antunes; Skidmore College and other educational institutions regarding employment; and with students and colleagues thanking and congratulating Fisch on exhibitions, studio visits, and for her participation in various events. Along with professional correspondence, the chronological files contain printed material and business records that document Fisch's professional activities.

Files for exhibitions include correspondence, inventory and price lists, loan forms, shipping records, photographs, publicity and exhibition catalog material, and notes for Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch (2000), The Art of Arline Fisch (2003), Arline Fisch: Creatures from the Deep (2008), and a few files containing material for various exhibitions. Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch was a solo, retrospective exhibition that traveled to the San Diego Historical Society, the Oakland Museum, the Textile Museum, and the American Craft Museum from 2000 to 2002. Files for this exhibition also include a digital disk and a video recording of a documentary.

Gallery files consist of correspondence, invoices, sales records, price lists, sketches of jewelry, consignment agreements, and other documents for Fisch's works managed by Atrium, Electrum Gallery, Lee Nordness Galleries, and galleries in Germany and Switzerland.

This series includes project files for an advertising campaign for the Aluminum Company of America, writings and lectures, a cataloging project for Long House Reserve, commercial ventures, curriculum development at Boston University, grants, the installation of Hanging Gardens, the Nanette L. Laitman oral history project, a seminar on traditional Islamic crafts, and workshops for the Crafts Council of Australia and others.

Writing projects include published and unpublished drafts of articles and essays, correspondence and manuscripts for Fisch's book titled Textile Techniques in Metal for Jewelers, Sculptors, and Textile Artists, and her contributions to books for the Penland School of Crafts and the Object: USA book/exhibition project. Fisch received several grants from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Program to conduct metal workshops, to lecture and teach in Europe and South America, and to develop customs regulations for craft objects. The request to change customs regulations was sent to the Congressional Arts Caucus, but the project was terminated in 1983 with no actions taken.

Fisch's files from SDSU include correspondence, evaluations, exhibition material, grant programs and projects, university programs, a file for sabbatical paperwork submitted to SDSU in order for Fisch to pursue various projects, and recommendations written by Fisch for Nancy Worden, Maryann Scherr, Helen Shirk, Hiroko Pijanowski, Richard Mafond, Kathleen Browne, Marcia Lewis, Thelma Coles, Christina Smith, Randy Long, Brigid O'Hanrahan, Jeannie Keefer Bell, Gina Westergard, Eugene Pijanowski, Richard Mawdsley, Gyongy Laky, Billie Jean Theide, Wendy Maruyama, Paul Smith, David LaPlantz, Albert Paley, Bernard Kester, Kathleen Browne, Marcia Lewis, Thelma Coles, Christina Smith, Randy Long, Brigid O'Hanrahan, Jeannie Keefer Bell, Gina Westergard, and for the Penland School of Crafts. Recommendations for Fisch are by Bernard Kester, Robert Ebendorf, Gary Griffin, David Tisdale, Dennis Komac, and Howard Evans. Recommendation letters can also be found in the promotional review material.

Conference programs, notes, correspondence, itineraries, grant applications, membership lists, meeting minutes, budget and balance sheets, income statements, memos, and printed material document Fisch's membership in the American Craftsmen's Council (ACC), Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), and World Crafts Council (WCC). Because Fisch was a founding member of SNAG, the organization's early history is included in the files.

In this series are booklets, a calendar, clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, periodicals and posters, and chronological files of mixed printed material that feature Fisch's artwork and writings by and about Fisch.

Photographs, slides, and negatives are of Fisch, her family, traveling to Turkey, her studio, and works of art that include the Arline Fisch Slide Archive.

Photographs of Fisch include childhood photographs; Fisch wearing her jewelry; at events; with craftsmen Yasuki Hiramatsu, Boris Bally, Richard Mawdsley, Lois Moran, and Beth Pollock; with her siblings; with Jack Lenor Larsen, Paul Soldner, and Paul Smith in Turkey; and at the Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Skidmore College, Renwick Gallery. Also included are photographs of Fisch in China, Switzerland, and teaching in Italy. Many of the photographs are labeled.

Fisch's slide archive consists of 1574 numbered slides of artwork which are accompanied by spreadsheets that note the corresponding piece number, year, form, title, material, technique, and dimension of each work of art. Supplementary information about the slide archive, and Fisch's body of work, and additional images are included in digital format in ER01.