http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c81j9bj2 Online items available Preliminary Guide to the Daniel del Solar Papers CEMA 145 Finding aid prepared by Callie Bowdish UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Email: [email protected]; URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections March 2013 Preliminary Guide to the Daniel CEMA 145 1 del Solar Papers CEMA 145 Title: Daniel del Solar papers Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 145 Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections Language of Material: English Physical Description: 55.0 linear feet(55 paige boxes, that have been accessioned into other boxes. The papers include audio, video, photos, documents, digital files, self published books and Mexican antiquities.) Date (inclusive): 1950-2012 Abstract: Daniel del Solar (June 13, 1940 - January 13, 2012) was a prominent Latino media activist, photographer, videographer, documentarian, and poet. He worked with KQED-TV in San Francisco, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and WYBE-TV in Philadelphia. His papers document his life story using the media available during his lifetime. There are years of digital photos, video, self-printed books and audio files. They chronicle his life while documenting the use of emerging technologies used in social movements concerned with Latin America and the United States. Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile and Mexico are covered. His family life included artists such as Surrealist and Dynaton artists Lee Mullican, and Wolfgang Paalen who were his stepfathers. Fresco artist Lucienne Bloch and Stephen Pope Dimitroff, family friends, and his mother Luchita Hurtado have threads connecting his family to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Language of Materials: The collection is mostly in English with some Spanish language materials. Physical Location: There are digital files on the Special Collections server, posters in the CEMA map drawers, Mexican antiquities in the vault. The rest of the collection is at Annex II. Language of Materials: English and some Spanish Access Restrictions Collection is open for research. Service copies of audiovisual items may need to be made before viewing or listening. Please consult Special Collections staff for further information. Use Restrictions Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. Preferred Citation [Identification of Item], Daniel del Solar Papers, CEMA 145. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Acquisition Information Donated by estate executor Ana Luisa Cardona, October 2012 Biographical/Historical note Daniel del Solar (June 13, 1940 - January 13, 2012) was a prominent Latino media activist, photographer, videographer, documentarian, and poet who succeeded in contributing a remarkable amount to the Latino culture throughout his life. Born to the Venezuelan painter Luchita Hurtado Mullican and the Chilean Time Magazine journalist Daniel del Sorel Morel, del Solar grew up in Mexico, New York, Mill Valley, and Santa Monica, California, where he graduated from Santa Monica High School before attending Harvard University and going on to establish a career in public media. In the early 1970s, he joined the Berkeley KPFA-FM Comunicación Aztlán Collective. This was an offshoot of the Freedom Archives, an organization committed to the preservation and distribution of over 5,000 hours of audiotape recordings from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s focused on social and cultural transformation. By the mid-1970s, he became the National Director of Training and Development at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington D.C. He worked with KQED-TV as Community Resources Coordinator for “Open Studio,” an experiment giving more people access to the tools of media production, and served as General Manager of KALQ-FM in San Francisco from 1985 to 1992 as well as General Manager of WYBE-TV in Philadelphia from 1992 to 1995. He was also on the national board of Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting and was Development Director of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Settling in the Bay Area, del Solar actively participated for the next four decades in politics and art, writing poetry and documenting the movement towards progressive public media in the area. He co-produced a weekly radio program entitled “Reflecciónes de la Raza,” which aired on KPFA-FM, and contributed to the current KPFA weekly program “La Raza Chronicles,” which follows Latin political culture. He was a founding co-editor of “Tin-Tan,” a Chicano/Latino cultural magazine in San Francisco, contributed to the literary magazine El Tecolote Literario, and co-produced “Chile: Promise of Freedom,” an audio CD distributed on worldwide radio by the Freedom Archives. His photos have appeared online and in Preliminary Guide to the Daniel CEMA 145 2 del Solar Papers CEMA 145 books, including one entitled The “Woman Factor” in the Stepwells of Gujarat, written by his friend Purnima Bhatt. Perhaps one of del Solar’s most enduring legacies was his involvement in many Latin American social justice and solidarity movements. His involvement was on a somewhat personal level, as one of his cousins in Chile disappeared during the reign of military dictatorship following Allende, and the junta in Santiago had one of his friends killed in Washington. He traveled widely, reporting on events in Cuba, Chile, and Nicaragua in addition to the work of Venezuelan leftist leader Hugo Chavez. Del Solar died in Oakland, California at the age of 71 after a long battle with metastatic prostate cancer. His marriage to Diane Diamond ended in divorce, and his second wife, Susan Miriam Castellon, died November 22, 2003. He has four half-brothers, John and Matt Mullican and Jim and Rodrigo Gill. His mother resides in Santa Monica. Scope and Content Del Solar's papers cover Latin American interests in the political and artistic area from the 1950s to the 2000s. Public broadcasting, U.S. activities in Latin America, and Latin American politics are mixed in with his personal daily activities. Del Solar was part of the early vanguard of minorities involved with public broadcasting in the United States. Summits and conferences with African Americans involved in Public Broadcasting and writing are also recorded in his papers with videos, and photos. Del Solar's exploration of his life, his work and passions are expressed through the many media modes and creative avenues available during his lifetime. These papers are as yet unprocessed. The audio and video portions are processed. The audio files are organized by title. The video files have been organized first by media type and then by title. In the cases where Del Solar has given his audio and video files a catalog number we have put the number in the title to maintain his catalog order. The remainder of the collection has been reviewed and accessioned. There are many versions of photos in different media along with videos and audio files on CDs, and DVDs. Digital files on external hard drives and some of the CDs and DVDs have been saved on the Special Collections server. The series in this guide outline the contents of his collection. For the current location of the materials there is an accession report which gives first the date when the box was accessioned then a box number. Some items listed in the series outline can be located by doing searches through the accession list. The nine series are: Biographical, Subjects, Writings, Posters, Artwork, Mexican antiquities, Photography, Audio and Video. The Biographical Series lists some of the many significant family members and friends who are represented in his papers. His family was involved in collecting South west, indigenous, and Latin American art. Many friends and family members were artists, collectors, poets, writers and activists. The collection includes exhibit information, movies, and photos of family members’ artwork. Photos of his family’s homes over time are of interest in the context of a family who lived with and created art. Accession Report: Extent: 55 paige boxes, posters, artwork, Mexican antiquities, and boxes containing papers, books, albums, photographs, negatives, CDs, DVDs, Videos, U-Matic tapes and audio files CEMA.2012.08 82.5 linear feet Daniel del Solar Papers Inventory: Container Summary: 10/31/2012 36 posters (some doubles in the calendar grouping and one Rupert Garcia Poster titled "Calavera Crystal Ball." ) 6 art works including an etching by Carlos Hermosa, some by Rupert Garcia ----------------- 11/05/2012 (12 boxes) Mexican Antiquities These boxes contain possible Mexican antiquities that are currently in the vault. Box 1 There are five pieces in this box. Three are human shaped, one is canine shaped, and the other one is an abstract figure. Box 2 There are seven pieces in this box. Five of them are masks/faces, two are human shaped. Box 3 There are six pieces in this box. One is of a warrior, one is a small pottery pitcher, one is a stone mask, and the final three are beads. Box 4 There are seven pieces in this box. Six of them are small face shaped masks or human shaped figurines. The final figurine is a long thin cylinder with a face at the top. Box 5 This box contains beads of various sizes. There is also a long oval shaped figurine. Box 6 There are seven pieces, two of which are rings. One of the rings depicts a face on top and the other depicts a bird, possibly an eagle.