Bowling Green State University, Ethnic Cultural Arts Program records
Collection Overview
Abstract
Records of the Ethnic Cultural Arts Program (ECAP) at Bowling Green State University documenting the history of the organization and the variety of projects that have been funded by it.
Dates
- Creation: 1991-2016
Extent
1 Cubic Feet (3 letter size archive boxes)
Creator
- Bowling Green State University. Ethnic Cultural Arts Program (Organization)
Scope and Contents
The collection does not provide information regarding ECAP's first decade (the 1980s), rather the documentation that is available begins in the 1990s. Such documentation includes meeting minutes, annual reports, and copies of the ECAP newsletter. Later records include final reports for funded projects.
A listing of funded projects from 2000 to the present is available on the ECAP website.
The collection is roughly organized into three groupings - general organizational information (minutes, budgets, newsletters, annual reports, etc.); final reports for funded activities organized by year; and documentation of specific recurring events sponsored by ECAP, organized alphabetically.
Biographical / Historical
The Ethnic Cultural Arts Program (ECAP) was created in 1981 by the Bowling Green State University Department of Ethnic Studies and held its first programming in May 1982. Its mission at the time was to generate student interest in the arts and to inspire, perform, support, document, preserve and disseminate ethnic art at BGSU and around the world. Its focus was also to "train and provide an opportunity to BGSU ethnic students to participate in this important multi-cultural mission and responsibility of the Ethnic Studies Department and the University.”
A current description of ECAP's goals and mission can be found on the ECAP website.
ECAP achieves its goal through "grants funding through a competitive grant request procedure to support multi-ethnic and multicultural arts events that feature professional artists/performers. Endeavors that involve audiences across disciplines, age, class, and include a range of race and ethnic orientations are preferred."
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was transferred to the University Archives by ECAP.
Processing Information
This collection was arranged and described by Archivist Eric Honneffer in 2017.
- Title
- Guide to the Bowling Green State University, Ethnic Cultural Arts Program records
- Author
- Eric Honneffer, Cindy Radford
- Date
- 2017, November 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English