JOEL SISSON:
An Inventory of His Green Chair Project Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
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OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Sisson, Joel, creator. | |
| Title: | Green Chair Project records. | |
| Dates: | 1991-2008. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Manuals, press clippings, brochures and flyers, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings relating to a Minneapolis-based nonprofit community project, founded by artist Joel Sisson and others, that worked with inner-city youth in the Twin Cities to construct and sell green Adirondack chairs. Project organizers sought to give young people a positive experience, centered in the arts, and to teach them manufacturing and entrepreneurial skills. | |
| Quantity: | 1.0 cubic feet (1 box), 8 master video files: MOV (115.9 GB), 8 user video files: MP4 (5 GB), 1 master audio file: WAV (158 MB), and 1 user audio file: MP3 (27.9 MB). | |
| Location: | 153.I.13.12F. |
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Access Restrictions:
The audio and video recordings in copyright in this collection are not available online, but can be accessed upon request for use in the Gale Family Library reading room. Please consult reference staff for more information.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Joel Sisson Green Chair Project Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,893
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters of the audiovisual material are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original audiocassette and videocassettes were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into wav and mov files.
Processing Information:
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, May 17, 2023.
Digital audiovisual transferred from the master audiocassette and videocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (May 2023).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 990079191580104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| 153.I.13.12F | 1 | Manuals, undated, 1995-1999. 2 folders. | |||||||||
| Big chair, 1995. | |||||||||||
| Brochures/flyers, undated, 1995-2002. | |||||||||||
| Photographs: | |||||||||||
| Snapshot photographs mostly housed in small packs as received from the processor. | |||||||||||
| Ackerberg/Calhoun, undated. | |||||||||||
| Chicago Avenue shop, miscellaneous van and meetings, undated. | |||||||||||
| Children's Hospital Management Retreat: Photograph album, October 28-29, 1998. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
| General Mills, undated. | |||||||||||
| Hennepin County, undated. | |||||||||||
| Humanities/St. Paul High Bridge, undated. | |||||||||||
| IDS Building, undated. | |||||||||||
| Photographs, undated. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
| Regular chair assembly, undated. | |||||||||||
| St. Paul - Capitol, undated. 2 packs. | |||||||||||
| Two or More open house, undated. 2 packs. | |||||||||||
| Walker, High Bridge, undated. | |||||||||||
| Washington, D.C., undated. | |||||||||||
| Internet | The Green Chair Project interview on KFAI, 1990s. 1 master audio file (31 minutes, 30 seconds): WAV (158 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (27.9 MB). | ||||||||||
| In copyright. | |||||||||||
| Part of the Community Art Circle program. | |||||||||||
| Note: Incomplete, ends abruptly. | |||||||||||
| Shelf Q-9-E (Room B-105.7) | Hi-8 videocassettes: | ||||||||||
| Chair show, geometry, kids in basement, opening night, 1992. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| First green chair in garden (was stolen) undated. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Green Chair, undated. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Green Chair, 1995. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Green Chair Project, undated. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Green Chair Project, Joel Sisson, Artist, Summer 1994. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Green Chair Project: Washington, D.C., 1997. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Kids painting first chair (eventually stolen), undated. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Pam's cut of chair, Minnesota Opera career opportunity, Summer 1993. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Video resume, undated. 1 videocassette (Hi-8). | |||||||||||
| Internet | Video recordings: | ||||||||||
| Lyndale Neighborhood Association and Team Achievers event, 1990s. 1 master video file (46 minutes, 43 seconds): MOV (10.6 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (464.9 MB). | |||||||||||
| Contains footage of neighborhood kids playing, behind the scenes at an MPR interview about the Art Start program, possible footage of the Lyndale Neighborhood Association building, and concludes with the Lyndale Team Achievers event. One section is fast forwarded, a characteristic of the recording. | |||||||||||
 Digital video | |||||||||||
| Original Green Chair giveaway story, approximately 1991. 1 master video file (18 minutes, 5 seconds): MOV (4.1 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (178.8 MB). | |||||||||||
| Contains interviews about the project, footage of project participants building the chairs, and chairs distributed around the neighborhood. | |||||||||||
| Digital video | |||||||||||
| Voices with Art Cunningham and special guest The Green Chair Project, 1994. 1 master video file (30 minutes, 51 seconds): MOV (7 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (306.7 MB). | |||||||||||
| In copyright. | |||||||||||
| Live recording that opens without a picture for almost a minute before the show starts. Mr. Cunningham interviews Joel Sisson and other project participants about the project's impact on them and their community. | |||||||||||
| Container note: Northwest Community Television. | |||||||||||
| Green Chair Project, July and August 1994. 1 master video file (1 hour, 33 minutes): MOV (21.2 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (1 GB). | |||||||||||
| Contains footage documenting the building process, interviews, and chairs on display at the Minnesota Capitol lawn. | |||||||||||
| Container note: Barb Pratt - videographer - raw footage. | |||||||||||
| Digital video | |||||||||||
| Green Chair project featured at the State Fair, NBC, August 26, 1995. 1 master video file (1 hour, 28 minutes): MOV (21.5 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (940.1 MB). | |||||||||||
| In copyright. | |||||||||||
| 01:10:08-01:13:04 clip 1 | |||||||||||
| 01:26:09-01:26:27 clip 2 | |||||||||||
| 01:31:49-01:32:53 clip 3 | |||||||||||
| Joel Sisson and other project participants describe the Green Chair project and demonstrate how to assemble the chair. | |||||||||||
| Green Chair clip, Friday Night TV show by NBC, 1996. 1 master video file (1 hour, 28 minutes): MOV (444 MB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (64 MB). | |||||||||||
| In copyright. | |||||||||||
| A brief clip starting at 0:45:00 involving the use of green chairs as part of a skit on the Friday Night TV series. | |||||||||||
| Green Chair Project Washington, D.C., October 1996. 1 master video file (1 hour, 50 minutes): MOV (25 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (926.9 MB). | |||||||||||
| Contains footage of speeches about the project, introduce the kit for building your own, and a view of the chairs on display near the Washington Monument. | |||||||||||
| Container note: Dub from Hi-8 original. | |||||||||||
| Digital video | |||||||||||
| The Power of one TV show, ABC, August 30, 1997. 1 master video file (58 minutes, 36 seconds): MOV (13.3 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (582.2 MB). | |||||||||||
| In copyright. | |||||||||||
| Contains a brief clip at 0:18:30 about the project. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Adirondack chairs.
- Nonprofit organizations--Minnesota.
- Urban teenagers--Minnesota.
- Document Types:
- Photographs.
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings (physical artifacts).
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